Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-20
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
THREATENED COAL FAMINE ON THE COAST


Ed Harris. coiored, is in jnil at Poca-
tello. Ida. charged with arson. 1t being
alleged that he set fire to trestle-worlS
near Collinston ON the Utah and
Northern.
A telegram received at San Francis
co states that the schooner Christiana
Stefens, Capt. Vogel OF that city, has
gone ashore on the rocks south Of
Timber Cove chute. The captain and
crew reached the shore in safety.
A marriage occurred at Cheyenne,
Wyo., Wednesday, the contracting
parties being Lieut.. l.. p. Simonds,
Eighth u. $. Infantry, and Miss Louise
Marshall, a belle of Cheyenne. The
young couple left for Salt Lake after
the ceremony.
While fighting fire in the Fairview
tunnel near Williams, Ariz.. Monday,
two men named Matthews and Lyons
were caught by falling earth and
buried for n time. When extricated II
was found that both We're very seri-
ously injured and Lyons died in less
than an hour. while 1t IL not expected
that his companion Will recover.
A dispatch from Wallace, Ida, says
that Mullane is following the footsteps
of Canyon creek, In the Couer d'Alene,
a miner whose presence was undesir-
able having been waited upon by
with the memory of Fred w. Whitney
fresh in mind, he hastily complied with
the Invitation. The cause of dislike for
him was the allegation that he had
worked for the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van company.
A Chinese convict by the name of
All Sam was shot and almost instantly
killed by the guards at Folsom. CAL.
prison Monday. while making a break
%. rt..
from Sacramento last Saturday to
serve two years for assault with
deadly weapon, making the third time
he had been sent to state prison for a
similar offensc. He was vicious
man. and was held to be mentally ir-
responsible by most Of those who
knew him.
The following telephone message was
received at San Jose. Cal. "Wednesday
night from Director Schaeberle of Lick
observatory: The very unusual phe-
nomenon of bright meteor In broad
daylight was observed here today by
Il. F. Coddington, fellow In astronomy
at the observatory. 1t was seen In the
west shortly after | o'clock this after
noon at an elevation of about degrees
above the horizon. moving very rapidly
toward the north in path slightly in
clined toward the earth. 1t Increased
in brightness along Its course and dis
appeared suddenly in a clear sky, with
out any explosion being heard.
j. p. Collins, of Alexander Valley.
near Healdsburg, Cal, committed sui
eide Monday by shooting himself
through the heart. The young man
filled n sack with rocks and tied a
rope around it. attaching the other end
of the rope to the trigger of Il shot
gun. He then lay down. and. placing
the muzzle of the gun to his heart
pushed the sack away with his foot
discharging the contents of the gun in>
to his heart. His parents were away
from home at the time, and on their
return were Mortified to discover the
body Of their son lying in front of their
home. Collins was about ~ years old.
The cause of the suicide was melan-
cholia.
While momentarily crazed, after long
months of sickness and contempla-
ton of the death that would result
from his complaint, John w. Lawhorn
hurled himself from a third-story win
dow at the East Bay sanitarium on
Telegraph avenue, Oakland Cal, Mon
day afternoon, and was almost Instant
" killed. He was found upon cement
sidewalk that runs along the south slde
OF the building by some nurses as he
lay in a pool of his own blood. He was
carried quickly into the sanitarium
and n doctor called, but 1t was all over
within five minutes and the next sum
mons was for the coroner Lawhorn
had dropped fully forty. feet, strik-
ing on the top of his head, and braun
ing himself.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the territorial secretary OF New
Mexico Wednesday evening or the
White Oaks & Kansas CITY railway
The incorporators are: j. a. Eddy, w.
A. Hawkins, II. A. Connor. G. l.. Chris
tie and w. II. Austin. The directors
are C. ID. Simpson, Scranton. Pa; u.
8. Harmon and G. C. w. Lowry. New
York: John A. Eddy. Denver; G. b.
Eddy. w. A. Hawkins, Max Frost, New
Mexico. The capital stock is s4,0o0.0oo.
The road runs from near White Oaks,
Lincoln county. N. NJ, to point on
the New Mexico Texas line. In Union
county, about $50 miles north, connect
ing with a road of the same name, to
be chartered under the laws of the
state of Texas. Surveyors will be put
in the field Immediately.
The government Alaska relief expe-
dition, under the immediate charge or
Gen Merriam, commander of the de-
partment of the Columbia, Is fully
euuipped to leave Portland Oregon, in
February by the steamer George w.
Elder The personnel of the expedition
consists of total of eighty-seven Off
GERS and men as follows: Capt. George
Buhlen. In charge OF transportation
and quartermaster of the expedition;
Capt. ID. l.. Brainard. commissary of
subsistence, In charge of distribution
OF supplies: Capt. d. Eldredge, Four
teenth infantry, In charge OF escort,
with Lieut.. f., w. Clark. Fourteenth
infantry, his subordinate; First Lieut..
Guy II. Preston. Ninth cavalry. in
charge of the pack train. with First
Lieut.. j. a. Ryan. Ninth cavalry, his
assistant. and Lieut.. F. NJ. Kemp. as
sistant surgeon. There are l01 mules
and nine horses in the pack train.
Miss Mildred Amidon Clark. well
known in San Francisco musical cir
cles. committed suicide Monday after
noon by shooting herself in the mouth.
at her home, 221S Webster street, tho
bullet passing into the base of the
brain. She had been indisposed for
two or three days. suffering from a
cold, and Monday and the day before
was abed, though not thought to be
seriously III. Monday afternoon about
5 o'clock her mother left the room to
be gone n few minutes. She had
scarcely got outside the room when
she heard n pistol shot. and hurriedly
returning, found her daughter dead,
the still smoking revolver by her side
showing whence the report had come.
Death had been instantaneous. A
physician was Immediately summoned,
but the deceased had too well chosen
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