Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-25
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE WHILE IN JAIL


Billy Woods ana Mexican Pete Ever
EFT have signed articles for a 2g-round
bout at Cripple Creek. Colo, Feb. 18th,
FOR q purse of $500.
Colorado and Wyoming have been
benefited recently by heavy snow
storms, the same being accompanied by
"A very low temperature.
In consequence OF an order posted in
the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne,
Wyo.. Monday to the effect that all
work will be suspended till Feb.
LIST, the entire force of mechanics have
resigned.
A dispatch from Portland Ore.
says: The Oregon Central a Eastern
Railroad. 141 miles in length. extending
from the Yaqulna bay to the Cascade
muuntanins, has ben trarsrcsed to the
new corporation. the Corvallis Il East
ern. j. X. Weatherford of Albany Is
president of the new company. 1t IL
stated that mortgage has been exc
cuted bonding the road for the sum of
$4,000 per mile, and that this money
will be used in extending the road east
ward.
John La Rue of San Jose, Cal, at
tempted suicide in the county jail at
Santa Ana Friday night by taking NOR
phinc. He was arrested Mt Buena Park
Saturday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff
Lnndel, who went there in response TO
telephone message, where La Rue
had been acting strangely and fright
ening the residents. When arrested
the man was under the influence of Il
drug, and soon after being locked in
the cell took the dose that came near
proving fatal.
The Steamship Pelican. now out 1903
days from Port Townsend for Tagu.
haaff pi n n q
was never spoken after she passed
Cape Flattery. and no message has
come from any one of her complement
of So officers and men. The local
branch OF the United States Hydro
graphic Office received reports during
November of several large logs floating
in the path of vessels bound from Puget
Sound to the Orient. 1t is the opinion
of local ship masters that the Pelican
struck one of these logs at night and
sank before her boats could be
manned. As high as So guineas rein
surance has been paid on the missing
steamer.
The remains of the late Charles f..
White of Seattle, Wash, will be Gre
mated in the crematory of the ODD
Fellows cemetery at San Fran.
cisco today dan. 25). and their final
disposal will be marked by an impos-
ing ceremony, conducted under the
auspices of the Golden Gate lodge of
the Philosophical society, TO whom he
beQueathed his estate, said to be very
valuable consisting largely of real
estate in the city of Seattle and else
where in the northwest. According to
the terms of his will his estate is to be
used to defray the expenses OF trans
lating ancient Sanscrit and other ORR
entail works, and 1t has been decided to
convey the estate to the Indian sec
ton OF the society, whose headquarters
are in India.
Lau TAX Ying is under sentence OF
death decreed in the usual celestial
fashion by Chinese highlander So
ciety at San Francisco. The fact was
placarded Saturday morning on the
deadwalls of Chinatown. but before
evening the notices containing 1t had
all been torn down. The Chinatown
squad. under Sergeant Shea. as soon as
news OF the placard reached 1t, began
an investigation into the matter. Ow-
ing to the terror which the highbinders
have inspired. however, very little in
formation could be obtained. The po-
lice are now looking for Bau TAX Wing
to try and find out from him what he
has done to incur the enmity OF his
-highbinders, and to prevent his
murder or any murderous assault on
him.
A scandal which has for weeks been
the subject of much suppressed gossip
among the people of the Livermore
valley, Cal, has now become matter
of public notoriety through the arrest
on felony charge of James f. O'Brien
Jr. of Liverm5re. O'Brien. who en-
joys n certain reputation in the i'm
mediate vicinity OF Livermore, where
his father owns and conducts a hotel.
is charged with having committed n
felonious assault on Nina de Lopez,
daughter of II. u. de Lopez. on No
vember s, 1897. The complaint on
which he was arrested was drawn up
by Deputy District Attorney H. A. Mel
win Friday night and sworn to by de
Lopez. and O'Brien was taken into GUS
tody Saturday morning. He was taxi
en- before Justice j. IL. Taylor immedi-
ately after his Arrest and released on a
$1,000 bond, on which his father, James
+. O'Brien ST. and Peter Kennedy
qualified as sureties. The preliminary
hearing of the defendant has been set
for this week.