Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-19
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
TO GUARD THE SAN FRANCISCO HARBoR.
Thomas ID. stinson's wiii-Fairvicw Tun-
mel Fire - Respect for Dead Sailors
sykes's Mysterious Disappearance.

sykes's Mysterious Disappearance.
Rock Springs, Wyo., has received in
that the missing Lieut..
Dripps of the Eighth u. S. infantry,
has been seen at Mercur, Utah.
The bursting of an air compressor in
the shafthouse of the Parker and Gard
ner lease on the orphan Belle mine,
Cripple Creek, Colo, Friday, caused the
of the building and the mar
row escape from death of several mi
neIs.
His failure to appear for trial at
Butte Mont, Friday cost the bonds
men of Baron Fegonbush $1,000. The
defendant was charged with defraud-
ing John l.. Woods of Joliet. Ill, of
n certain sum of money through the
sale of worthless mining stock. Fegen-
bush Is now in Denver.
In view Of the disaster to the battle.
ship Maine, Governor Budd of Call
fornla has requested all citizens and di-
rected officers in charge of state build
ings and armories to place the nag at
half-mast on Monday, February 81, out
OF respect to the officers and men who
lost their lives.
A dispatch from Tucson. Ariz., says
that troops of American and Mexican
cavalry are operating ON both sides of
the national line. gathering the Papa
COS into their villages. Tho purpose Is
unde ,.itood to he an intention to fix
the blame of late depredations made
by the Indians upon cattle near the
border.
orders have been received at Fort
Sherman, Ida. for the transfer of com
pany III of that post, commanded by Cap
tain Whitehall and Lieut.. Irwin, 70
Fort Stevens, Oregon. 1t is expected
that the company will be ready to
start within forty-eight hours. The
order to reoccupy the abandoned Fort
Sherman post is taken TO mean that
the government is DESTROYS of manning
Its seacoast forts.
Peter Christensen, an aged farmer
and capitalist. who lived like a hermit
on ranch eight miles from Stockton
Cal, was found dead in his bed sun
day. He left an estate worth abou
Sl50,000. A sister came out from Den
mark about two years ago to keel
house for the old man, but she died
| and since then he has lived alone. II,
was a large stakeholder In the Farmers
| Union, the Union Transportation com
| pany and one OF the local banks.
The San Francisco chamber of com
merce has completed Its arrangement
| for public reception to Presiden
| Sanford Il. Dole OF Hawaii, on Mon
| day afternoon, the date having beei
| approved by the guest of honor. Invita-
tions have been issued to various mill
tary and civic organizations and I
federal, state and civic officials. TIL
reception ia designed to afford an op
portunity for meeting between Pres
ldent Dole and leading citizens.
Late Sunday evening the remains O
| William j. Murray were found under
! railroad Bird ge at Waterford, near Nc
desto, Cal. His right thigh and ankl
and four ribs We're broken, and deaf
is supposed to have beein almost In
Simultaneous. He was wood choppe
and formerly lived at Stockton, wher
his mother and brother reside, an
where the remains will be taken fC
interment. At present it Is not know
whether he jumped OF fell of I'll
bridge.
The police of San Francisco hay
been asked to investigate the myster
Gus disappearance of l.. A. Sykes, we
known in business circles In Ne
York City. Sykes arrived there la.
week 1t was his intention to leay
for Dawson City on the steamer Alic
Blanchard, which sailed on Monda
evening He left his apartments 9
the Baldwin hotel last Monday morn
ing and has not been seen or hear
| from since. His Dawson outfit is sti
at the Baldwin hotel
News has reached Pomona, Cal, Thu
Clarence d. Ambrose, one Of the for
most Masons In that region and r.
publican of state reputation, was acc
deutally shot and killed near Hermi
slllo. Mexico, on the 10th inst, Mr.
Ambrose, the widow. has received IL
formation that Mr.. Ambrose was oil
prospecting with several friends, wht
his revolver slipped from the holste
and. falling on some rocks, was so di
charged that a ball entered Mr.. An
brose's intestines and pierced a kidne
Death resulted in two hours.
Friends of George EnGellSy and Pet
Edmiston, who left Riverside, Ca
some months ago on n prospecting to-
ON the desert, are fearful that the "
men have met with the same fate tn
has befallen so many on the burnil
sands. Since they left not one wo
has been received from either of thel
and Engelky's brother, who resides
Ogden, and who wires the marshal
Riverside for information, states tn
his brother always wrote weekly, b
since leaving on the desert trip no le
tiers have ben received from him.
News was received in Riverside. Ca
Monday, that Robert Wood, the S-yea
old son of Watson Wood. prospero
farmer of Temecula, had been bragg
TO death by horse early that mornin
J The boy. in company with Andre
Warren and Bransford Nichols W
out gathering flowers on II hillside,
short distance from Temecula. The la
found two horses and resolved to tn
a ride. Young Wood was thrown fro
, the horse and rendered unconscio,
after which the animal took frigl
running away and dragging the d
with him.
Two thousand Ave hundred carloa
OF freight side-tracked on account
the Fairview tunnel fire passed throul
Ashfork, AriZ.. last week, and neai
$4,000 men employed in their reiuoy
Of the blockade have been paid off n
discharged. The tunnel Itself has n
= only been the cause of enormous G
penditure. but nearly n million has be
lost in diverted traffic and in the pa
|. ment OF mileage for trains over {
Southern Pacific system. In the q
count, too. are charged the dread
Z items of seven men killed and 81
jured In the work of restoring the tn
mel. The blockade lasted 30 days.
The will of the late Thomas d. stii
son. which disposes of an estate valu
at 81, 900, 900, has been filed for prohf
In Los Angeles, Cal. He bequeaths
Miss Mary II. Spencer OF Los Ange
= 100000 Martha f. Kennedy of a
Arbor, Mich. $4,000: olive ]. Fay
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