Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-16
EVENTS IN TIN WEST.
BIG CONTRACT FOR CALIFORNIA FRUITS.
A FIunkey Commits Suicide--Arrcst of u
Ships Captain-Eatai Shooting At
y-Miscel laneous.


GRAFTON Of Miners to be held in Salt
Lake commencing May 9th, the Colo
RADIO Terminal Lines Passenger asso-
citation has voted rate of one and
one-ffth fare from all Colorado points.
George Smith. funkey on the
steamer Excelsior, committed suicide
early this "wednesday morning by
drowning himself in the bay at
Seattle, Wash. For a long time Smith
had exhibited signs Of mental de-
rangement especially on the subject of
splritualism.
The Wyoming Republican committee.
at a meeting held in Cheyenne Tues
day, decided that 1t would he best for
the party to abandon the advocacy of
the free coinage of silver and adopt
the ST Louis platform. Action to this
end will be taken at the party's forth
coming convention.
The American steamer Valencia.
Capt. Lord, has arrived at San Fran
cisco from Baltimore. She will he put
on the Copper River route by the Pa
cifc Steam Whaling company. The
Valencia is an iron screw steamer OF
about 1000 tons, and will start on her
first trip north March 1.
The Keystone company, made up
| principally Of people of Braddock and
| Beaver Falls. Pa, left on the ALI
L
River country. The party numbers
| twelve and is in charge OF Col.
| Creighton, who took party of miners
| into the interior Of Alaska eleven
| years ago.
An ARRAY in which two men were
killed took place at Sorrento, fifteen
| miles north of San Diego Cal. sun
| day night. From all accounts it appears
| that the parties to the ARRAY We're Ital-
| ian ranchers. During quarrel one of
| them shot and killed another, where's
| upon a friend of the victim shot the
slayer dead. officers have started for
| the scene.
l.. st. Dennis Roylance an electrical
| engineer, fired Ave shots at F. j. Dyer
| Sunday afternoon at $50 Mission street,
| San Francisco. Three of the shots took
effect, one in the chin. the second in the
right hand and the third in the chest,
| just over the heart. The last did not
| penetrate the body and inflicted a
slight wound. Neither of the other
wounds are necessarily dangerous.
Captain Murphy of the ship George
Stetson has been arrested on the
charge of maltreating an apprentice
named Amos stone, who Is now In
the Good Samaritan hospital at Port
land. Ore. Captain Murphys first
officer Harvey was arrested two weeks
ago on the same charge and both cases
will soon come up for hearing in the
| United States district court.
John Rogers, respected and pros
porous Portuguese rancher residing
with his wife and family about one
mile east of Gilroy, Cal. committed
suicide Sunday morning by terribly
hacking his head with an ax and com
pleting the job by cutting his throat
| several times with an ordinary pocket
knife. Rogers has been in the best
of spirits of late and no cause is known
| for the deed.
Captain A. M. Hunt. superintendent
of construction of the Ward ship yards
at Jacksonville, Ind, has arrived ir
San Francisco from the East. He Is
on his way to Oonalaska to complete
the building of the four steamboats,
for the Alaska Steamship Co., to be
employed on the Yukon. He was pre-.
ceded n few hours by Captain Fore.
man j. Godfrey and liz skilled work
men for the same point.
Collector of the San Francisco port
Jackson, and United States Appraiser
Dare have addressed r letter to TIL,
| secretary of the treasury for the pur.
pose of soliciting his aid in checkinl
the flood of cheap Oriental goods thai
are being shipped to this country un.
der stamps which give them the APP
pearance of having been manufac
tured In European centers and which
are sold at prices which are drivinl
the genuine articles out of the mar
ket.
Heinrich Haas. representing one o.
the largest mercantile houses In Ham
burg, Germany has closed Il contrac
for California dried fruits to be de
livered during the coming season. TIT
price to be paid will exceed $500, 900
making 1t the largest single sale o
California products ever made by {
European firm. Hamburg. being
free port of entry. is n distributing
center, and the fruit which goes Their,
will be sent throughout Germany
Denmark and Norway and Sweden.
The Klondike boom has done NOR,
for San Francisco than merely to in
crease the volume of business and di
rect Alaska-bound travel through thai
port. 1t has, directly ala ID by the po
lice department, sent as fine a lot o.
crooks as ever jointed n jimmy oil
cyacked crib to other fields, where
while the piclSings may not be so rich
the chances of capture are considerably
lessened Seattle is now the hunting
ground of any number of these thugs
while the rest are scattered in Tacoma
and Victoria, Il. c.
An Oregonian special from Pendleton
Ore, under date of Tuesday, the 18th
| Northwest Cattle-Growers' association
met here this afternoon. Many wei
known stock growers from the Middl,
West and the Pacific coast We're in at,
tendance. Gov. w. p. Lord welcomed
the delegates In behalf of the state OF
Oregon. Prof. w. j. Spillman of Pull,
man. Wash, was elected temporary
chairman and j. j. French OF TIL,
Dalles, Ore. secretary. The address OF
the afternoon was delivered by Prof
Spillman on the subject of range
| grasses.
The News of White Pine, New.
chronicles the death from a paralytit
stroke of Mrs. William stephens ant
says Mrs. Stephens wash orn in Edin.
burgh, Scotland. about seventy years
ago. She came to this country in 1873
During the winter Of iS90-91, Mr. anc
Mrs. Stephens moved to the Rhodes
| ranch at Warm creek. on the Utah sid,
of the line. where, In January. 1891
Mr.. Stephens became involved In dis
pute over n water right with the Deutr,
boys. which resulted in his murder b,
Trfile Deutre, who Is now serving al
eighteen-year term in the Utah peni
tertiary. After her husbands death
which affected her very deply. Mrs
stephens was given a home in tn,
families of her former neighbors. d. A
Gender and w. II. Gregory. where sh,
earned ready welcome by her kindly
genial nature and helpful ways. It Il
SAYS: Mrs. Stephens was born in Edln.