Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-15

O'Brien OF Victoria, b. G., anu OF or
lesser lights OF the sporting word.
rom Sbarkey, who gave his vertijn ui
the great FIGHT for local paper,
boarded the train al Port Costa. FIom
the statements OF Dan Stuart's renre-
sentatlves in this city nearly 5000
people will journey from this city TO
Carson to witness the championship
battle.
They base their conclusion on the fact
that 5000 tickets have already been
sold there.
NOT MUCH OF AN ATTENDANCE.
CARSON, New, March l6.--The
weather today is a decided improve.
ment over that Of yesterday md the
promote 8 of the fight are hoping Ut
win continue ns now until after the
18th. ESrly in the morning 1t was
zing cold but along towards noon,
after the sun is well up, 1t is 30 warm
as to make overcoRts superfluous.
Stuart is somewhat discouraged over
the outlook for the Attendance from
east OF Mississippi. According to tue
latest sdviCes there Will, perhaps, not
be a single special train from that Sec
ton from which hnd been expected at
least a thousand or fifteen hundred
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more lhin $50 visitors from east OF the
Missiasippl will come. The bulk OF
the crowd will come from San Fran
cisco aad there Will be moderate dele
cations from Denver, Salt Lake and
other cities west OF the Rockies. Ac-
cording to indications this morning
the attendance may not De over $500
unless there Ia larger outpouring
from Reno, Virginia City and other
Nevada towns than now anticipated.
Up to Saturday one Passenger coach
was all that was necessary to bring
visito from Reno where connections
nte made with the southern Pacific.
Sunday and today all trains had two
coaches. The cars were not crowded.
Atou. seventy people arrived this
morning. No one OF Prominence In
pugilistic circles came. The arrival.
consisted OF people from the east and
west who reached Reuo last night.
The train which LETT San Francisco
last night missed connection at Reno.
TELrAIR's ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF.
When AwakIng from Long Period
Of Forg"tiuluess
CLEAN, n. Y, March I5.-Davii J.
Teliair, VINO awose last night from
eight mouths lost identity told a start
ling story of assault and robbery.
To-Day he Ia much brighter AMI
stronger and talked freely at the
Emergency hospital. He told long
story OF his life up to the time he wae
sanlbagged near Jackson Park,
Chicago, since which time his mind 10
a blank.
He ia fifty years old and q member
Of an old Southern family ruined by
the War Of Rebellion. In December,
1891, he says, he organized a Company
at Atlanta, Ga, to operate In Sou h
Africa. They operated mines nm the
Rand near Johannesburg. Teliair
was the inventor OF a secret process by
which their profi.s were much larger
than those OF other operators. They
used chemicals nro II was sev1egl car.
loads oil this protected by cans OF nitro.
glycerine that caused the terrible
explosion al Johannesburg Just before
the Jameson raid. After the jameson
raid the members OF the company were
all imprisoned except Tel air, who
escaped. and alter three months
reacned the coast and got q passage on
Il boat for Lisbon, whence he came to
New York about the frat OF last
August. He was there told that James
O'Brien. one OF his companions, was
in Chicago, and went there In search
Of him. On the evening OF August 10
he was waylaid by three men who
sandbsggeu him. He had on bsll
containing Sl5,0 900 worth OF diamond de
which he HAD brought from Africa.
This was the first thing he asked When
he awoke. OF course IL was gone. He
then asked IL his sssailanls mad been
| caught. He thought he was in 8
Chicago hospital and that the assault
had occurred only few days before.
He said his company had severa
millions of dollars deposited with the
Holland Trust company OF New York
Inquiry has rs yet failed 10 discover
| whether this Is true. The hospita
| physlcians say Telfair is all RICH
| mentally,