Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEST.
PiiteeH-Ysar Old Boy Finds a Watery
Grave.
FELL FROM a ear AND Is snor
Confessed tn Mnrder-L quDr Drinking
Led 10 suicide-A Womau's
Disappearance.

Postmaster Endorly OF Thermopolie,
| Wyoming, WISE prevented from Killing
his vile last week by the intervention
OF friend who, it 10 claimed, was
forced to "run rom IT" to Keep from
being ann hilatCd by the ", man whom
he mud rescued.
Mrs. TAYLOR. wife o. Harry Taylor OF
| EHeusburg, WASH, disappeared In h
very mysterious way last w, d lcsday
night about O'clock. She put htr
bIhy to sleep, wrote uOte ana left II
on the table, stating that she intended
| drowning hetsnlf.
Sam Wilkes, who was charged with
| tho killing Of William Wiley ut Mount
| Echo, Cal, on December 2l4t, was tx.
amiasr Thursday before Judge Gold.
ner. He confessed, stating mat he
wns drunk and did not know what he
was doing. Wilkes was held Tor
sentence.
Thursday forenoon Flank w. Coop.
feri, a butcher OF Redwood City, Cal,
died from the effects OF dose OF
strychnine edmlnielered by his own
bspds short time previous. The
suicide had been induipinQ very freely
IN liquor and consequently neglected
his cuty at the shop.
A young man, giving the namr q
G. Il. Smith, wae sentenced to $50
rays in the San jose, Cal, county jail
Thursday, pleading guilty TO n charge
nf petit larceny. He says this Ia not
hia true name and that he is con Of
fuperior Judge. Evidently he has
teen well raised aud educated.
Az Dutch Flat station, Cal, ON
Thundoy, Heury Wiliis, young
msn, willie jumping from raSsenger
train fell IN tuch manner that pistol
on his person struck a rail OF the SIDE.
track, causing II to discharge. Willis
wac shot In the groin and leG. The
wounf lie dangerous, being from q a..
ca iber pistol.
Six days ago Professor w. S. Jamep,
professor OF penmanehip ssd tescher
conrectoG with the Portland, Ore,
business college, disappeared. His
irfeHds quietly Instituted search, but
could not locate him, mud rc thinv was
stid OF lis disoprearsucF. Thursday
mts'a DESC body was difcovered ia a
little annex rom in the 6. A. r. hall,
where he had shot hiuself with
target pistol.
Cat and hog raising again on
lbE TO be an important Industry OF
Lewis county, Wash. Ten yoars a o
1t took good start, but other thlnls
appeared more profitable, and theie
zane lime when farmers brought 10
market hardly enough ist stock to
supply the homu demaui for fresh
meat. This year OF leset 800 It'll
VIII be shipped out and probably 5000
Of 5000 hogs.
N unF
composed OF ahoet thirty Migrants
rretteu on suspic:on OF SurgIafy and
high"ay robbery, after going on
strike, curing which time they were
led ON breaG nHd water for five dgyp.
Made desperate attempt to escape
Inursday. While come made noise
~ singing others tore up the hali.de.
csyed boards of the tumble.dDwn
c2ckelsheli of city Jail, and but for
tue timely arrival OF the police would
have been free to torrorize the public.
Ihere are more determined touEhs In
vancouver than the present police
loree can lock after, and serious trouble
10 feared uniess more active measures
are taken by the authorities, 1t said
that Pinkerton detectives Will be cent
Ion.
{ Word has been received from Gar
oerville, Cal, that the south fork of the
Eel river had clalujed another victim.
This time 1t was Johnnie, the l5.year. |
0Iu con OF George Sometville of |
Bticsland, Cal. the accident hap.
pened on New Years Day, when the |
hoytwith two companions went out on |
The river In rowboat. AS usual at
THIS time OF the year the river Is |
very high and swift, and, getting cur
into the current, the boys lost control |
o. the boat and 1t was upset. Two Of |
the boys managed TO cling to the boat,
which was eventually carried to shore. !
but young somerville was swept down |
the stream. He was seen TO swim
with the current about 200 yards, when,
throwing up his hsnus, he cried.
Walt for me 9' and lthen sank. Up
10 lhnHday the body had not been
recovered.