Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-08
EVENTS IN Tim WEST.
SALOON MAN sHtT HIMSELF IN TIE HEAD


Joseph Hatcherrecently arrived from
| Gainesville. Mo, was. fatally injured
| In the chip mine. LeaAfille. colo. sum
/ day morning. He Is 4 partner in the
] lease and was m an upraist. when ne
/ made a misstep and fell down a chute
a distance OF so feet He cannot live.
p. Il. smith, proprietor OF the Wedge
! saloon Mt Randshure, Cal, committed
suicide at S o'clock Friday morning
! by shooting himself In the mouth with
! 2S-caliber revolver He seemed in
the hes, OF spirits up to the time OF
! the suicide and no cause Is known for
the act.
The body of George w Ward, who,
| with Al Kretchner, one Of the crew Of
the schooner j. Eppinger, is supposed
to have been drowned while pleasure
sailing in the San Francisco bay. was
| found floating in the water off Goat
island Friday afternoon by Captain
Tlchworth of the tug Annie.
DIN. Dickinson. better known "a the
Veno healer, who is now in jail at
| Butte, Mont. is making third at
tempt to regain his liberty through
hnbeas corpus proceedings, Neno IL
said 10 have defrauded peo-'le r'~ht
and left in that section by selling them
bogus patent medicines.
Two important gold discoveries are
reported from Idaho. One is placer
deposit near Elk tllN, luu., WneIe u
number of Butte men recently made
locations, and the other report Is that
of a quartz strike on Gage creek near
the town of Utica, in the Ferguson
country, Montana. Both are said to
be rich disclosures.
John r. Miner who was convicted
Of the murder of S. j. Darrah in the
superior court OF California last week,
WAS granted n new trial Friday by
Judge Noyes on the ground that the
district attorney alleged in his plea
that Miner was a liar and there was
no evidence to establish the assertion
District Attorney GIN will appeal the
matter to the Supreme court.
John seitz, prosperous farmer
aged as years. residing near Buena
Park, Cal, was found dead in his field
late Friday night He fell dead while
burning cornstalks His legs were
badly BURNED below the knees but not
bad enoASh to cause his death. Coro-
ner Clark held an inquest at noon Fri
day, and the tury's verdict was death
from natural causes.
\ tragedy occurred at The Grove,
1875 miles from Vale. Ore. last Monday
evening about $3.50 O'Clock when J. ID.
Osborn, an oregon pioneer, aged 10
years shot and killed w IL. RAIDER.
better known as Hank RAIDER. The
killing was the result of quarrel over
RAIDER being Oshorn's tenant. After
the shooting Osborn rode to Vale and
surrendered
a dispatch from Baker City, Ore,
says that on Friday ]. d. Osborne, n
pioneer OF Malhuer county, aged 10
years, shot and killed n former named
years, shot and killed farmer named
twelve miles from Vale. RAIDER lived
with his wife and five children on Os-
borne's ranch. A dispute arose over
certain rights and RAIDER drew knife,
but before he had time to use 1t he re-
ceived three bullets. osborne went to
Vale and gave himself up.
Thomas Blair and an unknown man
died at bakersfield, Cal, Friday morn
ing from the effects of debauch.
They were workingmen recently from
Fresno, and for the past several days
had been drinking heavily winding
up with a few bottles of wood alcohol.
Blair was taken to the county hospi-
tai Thursday night. His partner re-
manned around town, but during the
morning both were taken violently Ill.
dying within the same half hour.
Frank Johnson and John Golden,
two house painters engaged on a
three STORY residence ON Fourteenth
and Guerrero streets, San Francisco,
Friday. were thrown from a scaffuld to
the ground n distance of over forty
L..
iured The men were employed by y.
Burrell, n painter at III Hill street.
and were almost at the end of their
days work. The scaffOld on which
they were working was suspended by
I hooks, one of which gave way and
men and scaffold went to the ground.
Charles r. Hosmer of Montreal, Cam
= ada, general manager of the Canadian
Pacific Telegraph. general manager of
lao Do rtf al 1ai nj dtltfN nn f, "
and vice president of the Commercial
| Gable company, arrived in san Fran
cisco Sunday and Is the guest at the
Palace Hotel of John w. Mackay. He
says that within the next year the
Canadian government will undoubted-
~ construct and complete a telegraph
line to Dawson City, and by the iden-
teal route originally surveyed thirty
years ago by George KEENAN,, the ST.
berian traveller.
Acting Warden ]. C. Edgar of San
Quentin prison was fined 5000 Friday
by Judge Torrance in the superior
court at San Diego, Cal, for con-
tempt in not obeying the order direct
ing him to execute the murderer. j. j.
Ebanks, on Oct. Sth. The decision COW
cred sixty-three typewrittten pages,
equal to twenty columns OF news
court room was crowded. Fifty attor-
nearly two hours in its delivery. The
neys were present, and the decision las
n legal opinion.was highly compliment
ed by prominent attorneys.
a dispatch from Denver Sunday says
that Edward Boyce, pesident OF the
Western Federation of Miners. has
gone to California. where he will spend
the winter in organizing work. Mr..
Boyce is opposed to the miners taking
any part in the meeting of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor at Nashville
and Is opposed to anything with which
Mr.. Gompers is closely connected. He
believes that the Western labor or
ganzations should stand together and
stop sending money East for the sup
port of organizations which, he says
never lend helping hand to the toilers
OF the West.
Jake Werner OF Genoa was taken tc
Gardnerville, Cal, Friday in a very
precarious condition, the result of in
iuries sustained in a runaway accident
Werner started from Genoa with q
large empty wagon drawn by foui
horses. and was picked up on the road
some hours later in an unconscious
condition, having been thrown under
the horses heels. The wagon passed
over his body, paralyzing his lower
limbs and breaking his spine. Werner
Is the party who Is suing Harry Cor
bett, the pool dealer of san Francisco
for money forwarded TO bet on the
Sharkey- Maher fight. After the con
test the money was drawn down by
nnuthnr marty N.lO elkippe1 the gplln.