Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-10
EVENTS IN TIN WEST.
CLAIMS TO Be suTRo's CONTRACT WIFE.


GOV. RlCnlruS OF wyoming, ON re- D
quest, has granted permission for the I
OF wyoming cowboy
cavalry for service in the prospective /
war with Spain.
Mark Feeney. an old Comstocker, is
dead at Virginia. New. He was at one
time prominent In politics and served
for some years as accountant for X
Noce Mr. Feeney was native of
Antrim county, Ireland. aged Ga years,
and leaves two sons and daughter.
The parents OF 17-year-old Edward
Austin have asked the police OF oak
land. Cal, to assist in search for
him. The boy was seized with the
Klondike fever some months ago, and
on Monday last purchased ticket for
Seattle. Austin took with him Si5 In
cash which he found In his mothers
purse.
The three-masted schooner Beulah
arrived in san Francisco Wednesday
night breaking the record for the round
trip to Gray's Harbor by . days Two
weeks ago she left that port in ballast.
She ran up in about three days before
a gale of wind. The next week was
spent in loading 100000 feet of lumber.
She made the run down in less than
four days.
NJ. Mohiro, a quicksilver miner llv-
ing on a homestead "a few miles from
New 1dria, WAS found burned in his
cabin Tuesday, near Fresno. cal. 1t Is
not known whether he was killed and
his cabin burned, or whether the fatal
ity was the result of mn accident. Mo-
hire was n Mexican and about 80 years
old and unmarried. He has had trouble
in regard to his claim.
James Orr. a resident of Hespera,
Cal, was killed Tuesday while ON his
way to San Bernardno. He was coming
through the Cajon pass with load OF
wood when he fell from his seat and
was instantly killed, one wheel of the
wagon passing over him. Orr was
Frenchman IS years old. and was well
known in San Bernardino. He leaves
a widow and child.
A lamp exploded in the home Of Mrs.
! James Tyrrell, on Church street, Grass
| Valley, Cal. Monday night, just as she
| was about to retire. The flames ignited
her clothing. and her screams attracted
the neighhors. The doors all being
| locked they had to break In. The
woman's clothing was still on fire. and
| she was horribly burned before the
flames were extlnguished. The build
Ing was Quilted.
| a woman giving her name as Miss
| Alice Sherman, and her home as Wash
ington Ind. arrived at Pocatello, Ida,
Wednesday. on her way to Montana.
!
pltiful story concerning her long walk
| from her place OF abode. Butte is her
| destination, and on hearing her sad
tale thu kind-hearted people of Poca-
tello set to work and secured her trans
portation for the rest of her journey
A horrible discovery was made in
Dixon, Cal, Tuesday afternoon al
the home of William Wet2el. who lived
| alone WetZel had not been seen fol
| 10 tun 90 fri
house to investigate. A sickening sigh
met the visitors gaze. The lifeless
form of Wetzel was found in n chaii
and an examination showed he had blec
to death from wound inflicted by tins
evidently accidental discharge of pts
tol. the bullet severing an artery ir
his left thigh.
While patrolling his beat in the vicin
ity of Sunnyside, Cal, Monday after
noon, Mounted PutrOiman Wilkensor
of the Seventeenth street station, can't
upon a woman lying with her heat
across the railroad track. Upon in
vestigation Wilkinson found that thu
woman's name was Johnson. and sh'
resided with five children at Sunnyside
She had been drinking heavily and wa
only partly clothed. Mrs johnson
vouchsafed no explanation for her &C
ton other than that she desired to die
ing force at the Mare Island nav,
yard, Vallejo, Cal, has been increased
about 100, but II is still far below
what the officers need. The enlistmen
OF ablebodied seamen is being pushe'
vigorously on the receiving ship, an'
large supplies OF provisions are beini
laid In. Ammunition is being assem-
bled to be taken to Honolulu by TIL
Mohican. to be kept there for use II
case of emergency. 1t is understood
that Admiral Kirkland has received or
ders to place the Philadelphia an
Yorktown in readiness for sea.
A dispatch from San Francisco say
that the United States circuit court o
appeals for the Ninth circuit has JUS
rendered an opinion that Is Of grea
Interest to seamen and owners of YES
sells. In the case of William Grosset
vs. II. C. Townsend, the court holds Il
cases of shipment of seamen before
/ United States shipping commissioner
allotments of wages in the coastin
trade and in trade between the Unite
States and the Dominion of Canada o
, Newfoundland or the West Indies o
!, Mexico. are illegal and should not b
allowed.
> Jackson Deering. the proprietor of
furnishing goods store at 81 San Pabl
avenue, Oakland, Cal, committed sui
eide at u late hour Sunday night b
taking laudanum and stabbing himsel
with common plate knife just belo'
the heart His body was dscovere
Monday morning by two of HIS EN-
ployes, who notified the coroner an
: chief OF police at once. Deering wa
troubled with pains in his head. whic
seemed to grow so severe at times a
to rob him of reason. He was we
enough sunday 20 call upon some O
his relatives, but toward night the pal
returned and in desperation he ende
his life.
Those on duty in the sherin's ofic
at Salinas, Cal. were given surpris
Monday afternoon when NJ. Long,
man well known in that city, wake
in and asserted that he was crazy an
that he wished TO be taken into Gus
tody at once. claiming that II the OH
GERS did not lock him UP he would In
lure somebody. Longs story Ia rattle
peculiar one. Only few months ag
his wife was found to be mentally de
ranged, and Is now in San Francisc
undergoing treatment. The cause wa
reported to be cruel treatment by he
husband. Long denied this. Soon afte
his wifes departure he drank Yer,
heavily, but about two days ag
stopped suddenly. The reaction is sup
posed to be the cause OF the derange
ment
The San Francisco Cali says: Tn
NEaxgcop government will attempt o.