Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-03
EVENTS IN THIN WEST.
POLICEMAN RoBs A POOR PRINTER


Stage coaches are to be run regular
ly from Rawlins, Wyo.. to Grand En-
campment-a move instituted by
Rawlins merchants to catch business.
At Butte. Mont. Thursday. j. Il.
Harmon was arrested for burglary. the
act alleged to have been committed at
Anaconda. Harmon claims to have
come to Utah in 1S47. and protests his
innocence of the crime charged.
Dead in the snow was the condition
In which the body of Herbert w. Herr
man of Butte was found Thursday just
below his cabin in Madison county.
Herman had been working his claims
there, and, becoming lost In binding
snowstorm, laid down and persisted.
with big butcher-knife, Mary
Pushman of Butte Mont, attempted
Tuesday to carve her 13-months -old
child. She was seen by u nelghbor,
however, and stopped. but not until the
child had received three bad gashes
In the back. Mrs. Pushman served Il
term in the Montana state prison for
numbering another child by feeding
pins to II, but this time she Will be
examined as to her sanity, as the asy-
lum is thought to be the best place
for her.
No tldings have yet been received of
Andrew l. Sweetser, the Cordella, Cal,
wine merchant, who disappeared Sat
urday afternoon while fishing near
Lime Point in small boat. Az
o'clock Tuesday morning the tug Sea
Witch, with the missing mans brother,
j. II. Swetser, William Anterior and
several others on board, started to
search by water for the lost merchant,
but their efforts during the day proved
fruitless, as no tidings were received
of the !alssing man.
Special Policeman Cornelius It. KEEL
ly. who PATROLS n portion of Market
street, San Francisco, may be relieved
of his badge of authority by the board
of police commissioners for having
used his trusty pistol to induce hard
working printer to part with his cash.
In short, Kelly will have to answer
to the governing body of the police de-
partment for that species of "unoln-
cerlike" conduct which is known to
the criminal laws of California as
robbery. he having entered a saloon
and robbed the printer of $3.50 in
cold cash.
A dispatch from Victoria, r. c..
says: News has reached here that n
party. composed of j. Robinson. can
merry man, and several employees who
left Inverness on the northern coast of
British Columbia. to journey to ClaN-
ton, and who were given up as lost,
are safe. So strong was the belief
that they had been drowned that the
people of Claxton mourned for them
and resident minister preached their
funeral sermon. While their funeral
was being conducted the men were
comfortably ensconced in an old fish
ing station, unable to proceed on ac-
COUNT VI nus" "'''N'
A dispatch from Butte, Mont,
! Thursday, says that ID. N. Dickinson,
who professed to represent the "Veno"
cures of Pittsburg. was convicted In
court of swindling. The testi-
mony showed he had operated under
diiterent names in Baltimore, Md, An
sonia, Conn. Omaha and Colorado
| Springs. He furnished written guar
antees TO cure. When he had got
| sIOOO together. the woman who was
travelling with him,took the money ana
ieft Dickinson attempted to follow,
but was caught IN Idaho. HIS pun
ishment was liked at two years in the
penitentiary.
Pocatello Tribune: w. w. Sterling
can now write himself the chamnion
of FISHERMEN and no one viii rise IN
to dispute his claim. on Sunday. Nov.
eth. he caught the king of ali the
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