Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-08
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
DlSGUsTED KLoNDlKERs RETURNING,
Secured Diamonds Under False Pre-
tonses--An Estate Heavily Assessed.


Francisco has matched Choynski and
Tom Sharkey to box 2D-rounds at
Woodward's Pavilion on March II.
The stores of Pocatello. Ida. have IN
augurated an early closing movement,
and hereafter Will bolt the doors at $3.50
o'clock. except on special occasions.
The Clifford Gaiety company which
presented In Gay Paris at Portland.
Ore, Monday night. was attached by
eastern creditors, whose claims aggre-
gate 5000.
At Rawlins, Wyo.. Saturday. j. T.
Bentley, sheepherder. threatened to
shoot II. l.. Brodt. merchant. and
Monday he was tried on the charge and
fined in the sum of s25 and costs.
Pier Carlson. a Swede. is charged at
criminal assault upon the ten-year-old
daughter of I'eter johnson. The feel
ing against him is quite high in that
locality.
A shooting occurred at Evanston.
Wyo.. Monday night, William Ander-
son sending a bullet into the left breast
of AL Smith. a fireman. Smith is not
dangerously wounded, but was removed
to the hospital at Ogden today tTues-
day..
A half-breed Indian named Thomas
Mont. of murder In the second degree,
was removed to the state penitentlary
Monday. WEIGH was implicated In the
murder OF Winnie Brown, Tongue
river rancher.
A young man named John Norton
went into the First National bank at
Butte. Mont, Monday, and demanded
Money Of the cashier. His actions ere
ated much excitement. and ne was ar
rested. Hunger. he said, had driven
him to desperation.
Ira N. Tooke of Denver, Colo. is In
custody In San Francisco charged with
having obtained two rings, diamond
and topaz valued at 5000 from Schuma-
cher & CO., under the Palace Hotel
under false pretenses. 1t is alleged that
on January q Tooke induced the jewell
ers to allow him to take the rings to
the Baldwin Hotel, in order that his
wife might see them. but he failed TO
return with them and upon investiga-
ton 1t was found that he had no wife
there.
Monroe Salisbury. the well known
owner of race horses, Is about to start
in the freghng business in Alaska.
He will leave San Francisco in a short
time for Montana, where he intends
to purchase several hundred pack ami
mails. which he will take to the gold
fields of the Klondike. He will also
take up a large quantity of general
supplies for the miners. He expects to
reach st. Michaels in time to catch the
first boats up the Yukon in the spring.
Then he will begin the business of
freighting to the mining camps.
Forrest Davis. freight conductor on
the Redding train, bound for Sacra.
mento. Cal, was killed at Woodland
Friday afternoon. Nobody saw the
accident, and it is not known just how
1t occurred. The train was standing
in the depot, and the engine was switch
ing empty cars on n side track. Davis
was last seen alive standing on cross
ing, signaling the engineer to back up.
His mangled remains were discovered
by Engineer Maginnis after several
cars and the engine had passed over his
body. The remains were scattered for
thirty feet. and were unrecognizable.
The deceased was very popular and
married. lie lived in Sacramento.
A dispatch from Victoria, r. c., says:
a special from Nanamo states that
the steamer Noyo has arrived there
from Skaguay. She had % disguised
passengers aboard, tired of the coun-
try after their first experience. and
severely denouncing the Klondike rush.
The treasure on board was $4,000. One
of the passengers said that 200 men
could do all the work offered at Ska
quay, and that there were at least 500
men there who had nothing to do but
drink and gamble. When the Noyo
passed. the position of the Corona was
more critical than heretofore reported
The Noyo had no communication with
the wrecked passengers on Lewis
Island.
Major Edward p. Stonehill. attorney
and politician. died suddenly at his
home. 292S Sacramento street. San
Francisco. Saturday morning. He had
just taken bath and was returning
to his room. when he was stricken with
apoplexy and died before medical aid
could reach him. He. leaves a widow
and step-daughter. Stonehill was for
many years prominently Identified
with the Democratic party In Califor-
mia. In 1882 he was appointed assistant
district attorney and served one term
He was afterwards elected to the office
of district attornev under the Buck
ley regime and held the office for two
years. He was native of Germany
and at the time of his death was Go
years Of age. having been burn In
1929.
The Barton estate vineyard. one Of
the largest in Fresno county, Cal, has
been very heavily assessed by the
United States government for irregu-
larities in the matter of distilling. the
penalty fixed being the unusually heavy
fine of si5,2i0. The report upon which
the big assessment was placed was
made by Revenue Agent b. NJ. Thomas
who visited the vineyard last Novem-
Der In company with Al Griffin. the
local revenue officer. In. addition to
the heavy penalty imposed on the own
ers of the property. the United States
gauger stationed there, Mr.. Lamplsin,
was suspended and about n week ago
he received word of his dismissal from
the service. Ex-Deputy Collector of
Internal Revenue Youngberger has
been retained by the Barton estate to
endeavor to secure reduction OF the
penalty imposed.
c. S. Hanson, wei known through
out California. as contractor and
prospector. Is dying at his home. 1913
Brush street, Oakland The end Is not
far of now, the physicians state. and
the relatives and friends of the afflicted
man have been summoned to his bed
side. Hanson. who is Gf years of age.
contracted n cold several weeks ago,
which has developed n series of COM
.plications and which win doubtless
cause his death. He swent to oakland
46 years ago from Maine. and struck
into the interior of the state. where he
worked as a prospector in the mining
districts. He located the famous May
flower mine, in Calaveras county. and
later discovered the Maine Tunnel
mine. which proved bonanza. He re-
tanned stock In the Mayfiower. and