Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-17
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Fatally Sltbb}d His Vile, Then
Hanged Himself.
WANDERED, AND HALF STARVED.


o! the u. A, Il, aged "a, committed
suicide on Monday, at Seattle, Wash
DgtoD, by taxing morphine. Dss.
poudency due TO sickness and poverty
csnseu him TO take his life.
Edward b. Rambo, Pacific coast
manager Tor the Winchester arms
company, died suddenly on Monday,
II his Cffice in San Franoisc), the
specific csuse being valauiar disease OF
the heart. He was SD years al age
and widoUer.
William Bell, longshoreman at
POr! B'aEelY, Washington, STABBED
anu morally wounded his wife on
Saturday, anu Sunjay night com.
mittUd suicide by hanging nimsslI TO
beopost in MS talIn. The bodies
were found Monday murning.
AT Lopg Bee cb, Cal. on Monday,
negro named George Waters, en-
pioysd in the Brauburs building in
Los Angeles, shot his wife ia the head
.Dd then urnet the pistol on himself.
no ditd In u iow minutee, hut the
woman may recover. Jealousy Of
mother negro named Joe MinLon
was he Gauss OF the tragedy.
X. q. Korn, president OF the Ameri-
caD Sugar Machinery company, anu
Freu w. BIIzlnoal, secretary AMI
treasurer OF the same company, are In
5tocktop,C Gal, looking over the ground
and discussing q beet.sugsr factory
with Stockton parties. Monday morn.
ing, In company with tue latter, they
Inspected the proposed site on the
BoggB tract Of land along the Stockton
channel. The ute complies 100 acres.
A three ysar.old child belonging TO
Captain Crosby, who lives near Liver.
more, Cal, Is the victim OF remark
able accident. The little girl with n
number Of playmates was making
merry Friday IN the shade oil large
Tree. One VI the boys had climbed
into the tree ma too lar out upon q
limb that would not sustain HE
weight. With Il crash the lag tumblod
to the ground, distance Of ten feet.
His fail was unbroken, and the full
force OF his weight struck the little
girl upon the right leg, breaking 1t just
above tue kuee joint.
The torti O cation work on the Puget
Sound Is at q standstiil. The laborers
em ployeu on the works have insti.
tuted strike against the contractors,
Owing to differences regarding wager.
The men were getting Sl.65 uby anu
were allowed to board themselves, but
the contractors have Issued orders that
the men employed on the works mu st
,ay the contractors $3.50 week for
their board. The men refused to WORK
unless they are paid 81 per DAY o.
sight hGurs, and employment agsn-
cirs will not or cannot supply the
iaborsrs for lss than So a dsr.
Omaha World-HersiG: The mov,-
mtnt Of the thousands and thousands
OF sheep from the great western camps
tV Omaha AMI Chiosgo has begun aad
the roa0s are seniing their dOubls-
Jeck sheep cara as rapidly as possible.
The frsig htmen and stookmsn do not
pretend to make even rough call
mate OF the number OF sheep that are
Ia the west anu along the Pacific
coast, but are only thinking of getting
oars lhere for their transportation east.
The Union PAeiho agents Ia Nevada
anu California and intermediate states
report thouB nus OF sheep aud say
here will be several special traius.
HI fuflinRto sveral trains
.ILnI 80 west a.. B,auu Inter
meaiRts points. L.. dave to Casper
anu other sheep ceniers along ths
Eikhoru viii be nesvy. The bulk OF
thess big sheep shipments will be into
the South Omaha yards, but num-
Der Of trains VIII 60 through to
the Chicago yards. The Missouri
river roaus have their stockmen now
vn the west anu every one reports that
there Will be unusually big shipments.
John FL. Stewart, an old soldier,
VINO mysteriously left his home IN
Mission valley, near San Diego, Cal,
ON tue evening OF July 2lst, In q de-
mented condition, was found Monday
night In u hay stack at Linda Vista,
only two miles from his home. The
privstions that the old ma q lad under
gons had 80 changed him that he was
not recognized. As he lay in the hay.
stack, lie looked up at the rsncher snd
askeu for something to eat. He was
plainly starving to death, and when he
told his name, The raLchtr fastened 10
the house for tool, returning with \
good supply. Stewart ale ravenOusly
anu between mouthiuls told his At
quaintance that he had had nothing
| 10 eat for week. Slewarps olUthes
were in rags, ana his face showed ter.
rlbie privaliuD, but his mind SCENT d
to be Gear. He had forgotten, how
ever, the manner ia which he had
lei: home, or what bad trapspiteo
,luce, except that he had walked q
| great zeal and was thoroughly tx.
| uausied. Tns old man wRp taken by
the rancher to Stewards home, but
Mr.. Stewart WAS 20 shocked OIL mis- up.
peArance that che was frsid to be loft
alone with him until, by his CONVEX.
, sntior, she became CONVINCED that he
wssk in In possession OF bis right
mimi. The little children, themselves
ssunt with the hunger and poverty
c iused, shrAnE from their father IN
fear, but MS sEtresties soon brought
thsm to bis neep.