Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-15
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
SHOCKING TRAGEDY NEAR clARKSBuRe.
Died from Wounds Received \ tempt at
Suicide Ii.ghwnyman surrcnders
Fortune for a Convict.

nexntion OF Hawaii signed by 100 sugar
beet raisera of Ventura county. Cal. has
been forwarded to Washington.
Frank A. Leach, superintendent of
the mint nv SAN Francisco, has been
elected by the Oakland board of trade
as their delegate to the monetary con-
ference to he held In indianapolis on
January 25th. Mr. Leach Is now in
Washington.
A six-round boxing exhibition oc-
Cured at Seattle, wash. Friday night
between Dial Hawkins of San Francisco
and Jack Green of that city. The con-
test was fast and scientific. but Green
was clearly outpUinted. Several pre-
| lirinary events preceded the Hawkins
Green bout.
Robert Pithie, bridge contractor.
has discovered a deposit of natural ce-
ment near st. Helena, Cal. which he
says liz much superior to the imported
article ana which can he procured at a
| much smaller cost. Mr.. Pithie says
that the deposit Is found in large guam
titles and can be easily prepared for
| shipment.
The steamer Alice Blanchard is to
be Withdrawn from the Portland trade
on the completion Of her next trip. She
VIII then go to Los Angeles and Will
carry miners from that point to Copper
river. She VIII leave on the first voy-
age on February 10th, and will be kept
in the business during the summer.
The Pacific Steam Whaling COM
pany's Excelsior viii get away for ITALIA
and Skaguay on Monday next More
freight Is offered than the vessel can
carry and the passenger accommoda-
ton from San Francisco is almost
filled. The Excelsior will stop at Sc
attic to take on passengers and freight
already contracted for.
The schooner Wahlberg, which be-
came famous several years ago through
an attempted landing of filibusters'
supplies near Honolulu. lies a wreck at
Laguna heads. Lower California, 800
miles south of San Diego. She was
driven ashore In heavy gale on the
night of December 10th, and her crew
forced to take to the land.
a highwayman named John Garry
surrendered to the officers near Lead
vile. Colo. Friday evening. after they
had located his hiding place. and COM
menced Kidding 1t with bullets. Garry
was found in cabin occupied by Am
brose Thomas. 20 miles from Leadville.
and threw up his shotgun when the
officers made their attacks.
fortune has come to C. NJ. Oliver,
convict in the Deer Louge peniten-
tiar&- Montana. Friday he received a
letter Informing him that he had fallen
heir to S150,O0o through the death of
an uncle. Oliver has been granted a
new trial and his early release is con-
hdently looked for. as there are no
witnesses in the state to testify against
him.
A shocking tragedy occurred Tues
day morning near the little village of
Clarksburg, on the Yolo side of the
river, some fifteen miles south of Sac
ramento, Cal Jefiie Cave, a young
son OF one of the most prominent of
Yolos old-time farmers, shot and killed
his brother in-law, Louis Isham, in a
quarrel over load of cinders.
Progress is slow in the Uber lynch
ing case, at Genoa. New, and efforts
TO secure states evidence have proved
futile. Two persons accused of par
ticipation of the lynching, Mason
Crummas and Ollie Hogener, were
placed on the stand, but firmly pro-
tested their innocence. Minor EVIL
dence was given against a number and
patch of subpoenas was sent Friday
TO Dayton and to Diamond valley mills
News has reached Portland, Ore,
that Richard Thomas and Richard
Murray We're killed. and Louis Rnsh
badly injured by the explosion of 100
pounds of dynamite in the Eureka
ana Excelsior mine near Bourne Baker
county. The men were in an upper
level in the mine, close to the place
where the dynamite is stored, when the
explosion occurred
Garrett Cochran. the famous Prince
ton end, Will coach the University of
California football team next season
kilograms just received announce that
Cochran has promised to go to Cali
fornia. 1t is probable that Cochran
viii come to the coast in the spring to
take charge of the preliminary work.
n f1t
Cochran is senior at Princeton uni
versity.
Peter Piers, mining engineer at
tempted to kill himself in front of coo
Pine street. San Francisco, where he
rooms, at $40 o'clock "Wednesday
morning by firing revolver bullet in
to his right temple. The bullet, which
was OF 22-caliber, detected ON the skull
bone and found an exit at the back OF
ilerss mead doing him but little in
jury.
Jack Adams. in an alteration with
a. Lompey near Beckwith, Cal. last
Monday, shot the latter, who died Tues
day from the effects of the wounds re-
eeived Word reached Reno, New.
Wednesday evening that the friends of
the murdered man will avenge his
death by hanging his assailant, who |
has been under arrest at Beckwith |
since the day of the hsooting. The case |
OF the shooting was an alteration over
the ownership of some hay.
BY order of Governor Budd of Calf |
fornia copies of all documents bearing |
on Salter u. Worden's mental condition. 1
are being prepared. They will he sent |
TO Dr. Hatch of the state lunacy COM |
DIR. Gardner of Napa and Or. |
clark of the Stockton asylum, who viii |
make separate examinations of the |
facts set forth, and they may make |
personal tests to determine the condi-
'ion OF Worden's mind. They will |
make Independent reports of the pris-
oner's mental condition now and his
probable condition at the time of the
commission of the crime of train
The Pacific Coast Steamship COM
lany anticipates a rush of travel from
san francisco and Seattle to Alaska
when the northern country opens up
mat VIII be beyond the ability of ex-
sting transportation companies to han
lie. They viii have their three big
stamers the Walla Walla. Umatilla and
city OF Pueblo running between s. Il,
and Puget Sound, and from Puget
SOUND north fleet OF fourteen vessels,
The company has officially notified
western roads that 1t viii not guaran-
Zee passengers against delays at any
IF the ports at which its vessels touch.
md that II cannot promise to carry
on any particular steamer.
as 1t Will be practically impossible To
handle the rush without some of these