Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-16
EVENTS IN THIN WEST.
COMPILED LIST OF cplLCooT DEAD.
Mines Mt Omaha attlemcu Leasing
Swamp Lands sceiianeous.


The faculty OF the University of Cal
ifornia has adopted stringent resolu-
tons declaring that no student whose
scholastic record is other than good
shall be permitted to take part in any
inter- collegiate contest.
The First regiment of the League Of
the Cross Cadets. Col w. p. Sullivan
commanding, has rendered Its services
to Governor Budd of California in case
of war. The regiment is well equipped
and drilled and has u total strength of
100
The mechanics lien law of Idaho has
been held to be unconstitutional by
Judge Beatty. In a case brought by c.
C. Tautphaus of Pocatello to foreclose
mechanics Hen for 100000 on the
Bruneau canal owned by the Owyhee
Land and Irrigation company.
Armor, the train robber under
twenty years sentence. and Arnott.
the life term murderer, who escaped
Monday from the Arizona pententiary.
have been recaptured. Armor's treat
ment in the future will be rigorous,
for this was his third attempt to es-
cape.
A portion of the Blackfoot reserva-
ton, Mont, was thrown open to set
tlement at noon Friday and q thou
sand or more people, mostly prospect
ors. rushed in to locate mining claims.
A troop of cavalry was present and
kept all persons off until the noon
hour. The reservation is rich i'm min
eral, especially in copper.
on the person of Albert Anderson.
who accidentally shot himself near
Boulder. Colo, few weeks ago. was
found bundle of charred papers,
which, on being sent to the treasury
| department at Washington. revealed
the fact that they We're government
| bills aggregating in value something
over $1,000 Anderson made money in
mining.
The death Of Martin Pickinich. at st.
Mays hospital, San Francisco, on
| Monday was reported to the coroner
and the police. Plckinich was Il waiter
| In restaurant on Brannan street, near
| First. A short time ago an unknown
man left the restaurant without paying
| for his meal Plckinich followed him. a
| fight took place. and the man hit the
! waiter on the head with stone, frac-
| turing his skull. The fracture proved
fatal. There is no clew to the identity
OF the murderer
The wells along a defined line to the
| south and west of Phoenix, Ari., have
within week become producers of hot
water, and ar0"ehension Is felt by
many of the residents OF the region af-
| fected that they are about to become
! participants in grand volcanic
drama. In some of the wells the tenn
| perAture of the well water rose twenty
degrees in a single night. In few the
| phenomenon disappeared soon after Its
| appearance. In majority of the cases.
however. the wells fairly steam from
their newly acquired heat.
Word has been brought to Basin
City, wyo., from the Otto Franc ranch
that Mrs. Alice Mitchell. wife of James
b. Mitchell, while laboring under an
attack of temporary insanity, gave
her six-months old child dose of
strychnine and then committed sui
| eide by taking some of the same pol
son. Mrs. Mitchell had been addicted
for several years to the morphine
habit and while temporarily deprived
of supply of the drug became in
sane. The child died almost imme-
diately after the poison was given 1t
and the mother lived several hours
At Evanston. wyo.. Friday, Judge
Craig adjourned the April term after
passing sentences on the following
prisoners: Henry Edmondson, for the
killing Of George Richards, imprison-
ment for life, Louis T. Palmer, man
slaughter, ten years hard labor; Thos.
Barremand and Frank Pearsley, grand
larceny, each eight years hard labor;
Charles Adams. burglary. seven years
hard labor; Howard Contree, three
years Imprisonment; Morrill, Reilly.
cattle stealing. five years hard labor;
| Charles Dow. harness stealing. four
years hard labor: George Downer, cat
tie stealing. one year.
i. Giovanni, an Italian laborer rcsid-
| ing at 622 Broadway, Oakland Cal, at
tempted to commit suicide Wednesday
| by jumping overheard from the ferry
boat Bay City on her $3.50 trip from
| the ether aide. He was rescued. and,
| on the arrival OF the boat, taken to the
harbor receiving hospital, where Drs.
| Hill and Znbaia restored him to con-
seriousness. Giovanni declared at first
that he was tired of life. but. after a
good sleep, said that he had become
| suddenly insane. Instead OF going to his
work he had taken the boat at San
| Francisco. and when passing Goat
island was seized with a frantic desire
to jump overheard.
| Owing to the dread OF drouth the
stockmen of central and sothern Cal
| ifornia are leasing swamp and over
| flowed lands in the river bottoms with
the hope of securing pasturage later
| in the season than they can hope for
| in more elevated sections The aver
| age rental paid IL so cents an acre, al
though for some choice pieces 1t is
reported that in one instance SO an
hcIt bttH ptiu. ISfth
| present under water has been leased
| as In the case OF Venice island. on
| the San Joaquin. The single firm of
Miller G. Lux has leased no less than
| 10000 acres. sheep men are trying to
find pasturage In the mountains.
William B. Day, of the United States
geological survey. who has been placed
| in charge OF the department of mines
and mining at the Transmfssissippi
and International exposition. which
| opens at Omaha in June, is in San
| Francisco. He said today: From
| present Indications l think / am safe
In saying that California will have the
| best mining exhibit at Omaha that II
has ever had at any exposition. have
nsked NJ. II. De Young to accept the
| office of honorary commissioner OF
mines and mining for the United States
Mt the Omaha exposition and he has
| accepted Charles G.. Yale and TREY
| Il. Ford have been selected as mining
| commissioners from this state and /
| feel satisfied that these three gentle
| men VIII see that n credltable mining
exhibit will be sent from California. +"
II Is expected that on Monday Gov.
Budd Will appoint commissioners TO
| represent the state.
The steamer Queen arrived at Port
Townsend, Wash. Friday night with
| the latest advices from the Chilooot
| avalanche. The report as to the num-
| her of people who We're killed ara DON.