Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-07
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
LAWLEss ELEMENT IN EUREKA, WASH.


San Marrinorotch. miner from
Butte, Mont. was found dead in his
room at the Europe hotel, San Francis
co, Sunday morning, having been as
phyxiated by gas. A draft for $1,000
was found In one of his pockets and
there is no reason to suspect that death
was not accidental.
G. Walburn, the owner OF the famous
Guttenburg race track and also the
track at Saratoga, New York, Is in
Los Angeles, Cal. and in company with
Tom Williams, president of the Cali
fornia Jockey club. went to Agricul-
tural park. Their visit has revived ru-
mors regarding the Inauguration of
winter racing there.
The postofice department has award
ell to the Klondilse, Yukon 81 Copper
River Co. contract for carrying the
mails for four years from Seattle.
Washington, to Taiia, Alaska, includ-
ing Juneau Sitka, and Sknguay and
other intermediate points. There are to
be five round trips each month
throughout the year, and the compensa-
tion is to be Sl5.25O per annum.
The conductors and grlpmen of the
Front Street Gable railway. Seattle,
Wash, about twenty in number. struck
Sunday afternoon. The roads are COM
pletely tied up. Receiver Colvin is out
of the city and no steps will be taken
to resume until his return. The train
men ask for an advance In wages from
the present scale Of Is. 10 and 20 cents
an hour to fat rate OF 22h cents.
Seward N. Sawyer known in oak
land. Cal. for thirty years, as the
prophet of the water front" was found
dead in bed at an early hour Thurs
day morning in shack at $50 East
Fourteenth street, where he had re-
sided for many years, and II Is believed
that heart disease took him Off. Sawyer
was discovered sitting bolt upright in
his bed in which position he had gone
to sleep.
Ex-State Senator Jos. REUTER- of Cali
fornia died at his home near Sacrament
to Sunday. He went there from France
In 1858 and was the pioneer orchardist.
He belonged to noble family in
France, his fun name being Charles
Marie Joseph Timoleon Reuter- de Bull
lemont. When youth In 1851 he Joined
the revolutionists in France and was
wounded in an engagement with the
royalist troops.
Hitherto the sugar crop from Ha-
wall has been shipped on sailing ves-
sells around the Horn to New York
City, but recently an agreement has
been made with the Southern Pacific
company whereby the plan is changed
and the sugar will now be brought in
vessels to San Francisco and shipped
to New York by rail There were
eighty carloads Saturday at Long
wharf. Oakland. awaiting shipment.
If terms are satisfactory. the Rev, r..
II. Sawyer of Missoula, Mont, will be
called TO fill the pulpit of the Central
Christian church, Oakland. Cal. A
committee was appointed Friday to
make the necessary arrangements. Rev.
Sawyer Is at present pastor of the First
Christian church of Missouia, and has
for the past five years acted as organic
err and lecturer of the Christian Wo-
mems board of Missions in the north
west.
1t is reported from New York that a
syndicate has been formed In that city
for the purpose of attempting to wrest
from Mrs. Florence Blythe-IIinckley a
portion OF her millionaire fathers
estate. The plan is said to he the re-
opening of the estate of Alice Edith
Dickinson. the alleged widow of Thos.
Blythe. 1t is said that Robert c. In
gersoll has been engaged as one of the
counsel by the syndicate. Gen. Hart.
attorney for Mrs. Blythe Hinckley.
says there is nothing In the scheme.
and n final settlement was made with
Alice Dickinson over two years ago.
The arrival at Butte, Mont. of M.
u. Mann, VINO nus Dten awarded con-
tracts by the Dominion government for
the construction of railway along
Stlckeen river to Teslin lake, brings out
the information that part of the plant
to be used in the construction of the
road VIII arrive soon and work will be
started Immediately. According to the
contract, the road has to be built by
September LIST, and IL completed on
| time viii be one of the fastest pieces
of. railway building ever done. About
| 1000 men will he put to work at the
start. and the number viii he increased
to 1000 as soon as navigation opens.
Captain c. l.. Hooper of the United
States revenue service, now stationed
ut San Francisco. has received a COM
munication from the treasury depart
| ment to advertise for bids for new
revenue cutter which is to do service
exclusively In the waters OF the Yukon
river. The craft was ordered some time
ago by the navy department, but II
was not known what kind of a boa,
would be built. The new cutter will be
'osirned for the shallow waters of tn,
Yukon. where she will guardsAmericar
| interests with a crew of about fort,
men. She will be $50 feet long, with Z
draught OF only two feet and must bs
completed within three months.
sweeping change was made Sunda,
| In the management of the Colo. stat
| Industrial school for girls, Capt. r. G.
Smithers, being placed in charge a.
superintendent, with his wife as ma
tron, by Gov. Adams. on recommends
ton of the state board of charities ant
corrections. which is investigating tn,
condition of the affairs at the institu
tion. The Investigation has alread,
made It plain that the old management
utterly failed to control the incorrigi
BILE inmates, although 1t had employed
such drastic measures MS locking then
In dark dungeons, donsing them Will
cold water diet. and stringing them Il
the wall with their hands behind them
These methods of discipline will now b.
| dropped.
From Lethbridge on the Canadian
boundary. word comes to the effect thai
great excitement has been caused Their,
by orders received from the Dominion
| government that every man of tho
mounted police holds himself In readi.
ness to proceed to the Yukon at mo.
ments' notice, for temporary duty
Superintendent Dean has received
notice to go to Mcleod to relieve Mai
| Steele, who was ordered to the Yukon
and has left for that place. Five
men We're also ordered to the Yukon
| and left Saturday. The orders are
| said IN the ba dine IN the aviStanoa %,