Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-10-29
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
suBoNc PLAGUE on BOARD SHIP,


omaha St0Ckmnn, Oct 70. n. To-
ponce 81 ogden. Utah, had double
deck ear Of sheep on sale. y. a. Mat
BON " Park city. Utah. had six double
deck loads u sheep on sale today.
The whaling bark Charles W Morgan
has arrived nt San Francisco, being
the first ~ the Okhotak Htn fleet % re-
turn. She had rough trip down and
sustained some injuries. but her voyage
was fairly successful She brought
1900 barrels Of sperm Oh. 100 bafrCla
~ whale oil and 300 pounds ~ bone.
when the Morgan lcft the ukhothk
rea for San Francisco the bark Call
fornia had 40 barrels vi OIL. aud the
bark Horatlo $40 barrels
The vault In the First National bank
San Francisco. used by John Wolf OF
the Wolf Wooden company, who myH.
torlpusly disappeared two months ago.
was opened Friday. n was found %
BE- empty and money aud securities
amounting to 10000 belonging o. tho
Sarah NJ. Pearson estate, ~ which
Wolf was executor. ufu TOW missing.
Wolf was supposed ~ have mot with
seen In Chicago.
Tho Butte Miner say: Another mya-
tcriuuH murder has baot committed
man. who was evidently "a tramp.
ana whose Identity Will probably never
b. known. was shot ~ death In a box
car standing on the Great Northern
transfer tracks near the High ore No.
2 mine. The murdered man had been
dead ne least thlrty.siN hours before
his body was discovered shortly before
noon ycntrrday. No clue that VIII
lead tp the capture ~ the murderer
has yet been discovered.
The French bark Duchess Anne has
arrived la San Francisco from Hong
kong fiying the yellow mas. Roth tho
federal and state quarantine launches
put out 10 the vessel and soon the
news came back 90 port that there had
been two deaths ON board during tho
voyage from the bubOnlr plague. Capt
Ccrvnry, master u the ship. was tho
I nrut 60 Huccumb 60 the dread disease.
I lie was sick only few days and died
on August Goth. Nearly a month af-
/ ivrwnrd a sailor named Menler was
stricken with the plague. and on Sop
I tcmbrr 10Th he died and was buried az
sea. The bark was ordered into quar-
antinc.
About ESQ o'clock Friday evening u
was discovered that i've inmates OF the
county Jail at Boulder. Col, made their
escape BY tunnclInE under the wall.
] They were John =. Cassidy. who was
Just sentenced o. life imprisonment for
the murder Of William Rowe at Sugar
Loaf: George and Edward Rowe. sem
fenced FOR four and a half and six years
respectively for cattle stealing. Nick
boucher, awaiting trial for assault u
murder. and John Hnptiste. serving a
three months sentence for larceny,
. with case knives aud pieces OF wood
they had dug down six feet and tun'
nolcd eight feet 20 the outside OF tbs
wall. hiding the dirt taken out under
one " the cages. They had been az
/ work several days No trace of ths
escapes has been found.
Mrs. Cufdclla notkln was indicted
Friday evening hy the grand jury OF
tho city and county ~ San Francisco
Tor the murder ~ Mrs, John Il, Dun
ming. IN Dover. Oct, on August i2th
last Presiding Judge uclehef of thu
superior court. % whom the indictment
was presented declared from tho bench
that. according 90 the facts and cyi.
dcnce presented. the crime charged was
murder In the frst degree. lie therefor,
instructed the clerk u the court Co In.
dorHe the indictment with the state,
ment that bail Mould not be accepted
The case wnH then assigned for trial
g. the criminal department Of ths
court, which N presided over by Judge
Carroll Cook. 80 time for the open.
Ing 81 the case WIS set The prisoner
remains In the custody ~ chief Of 10.
lice Lees.
Late ndyices from Prairie city, ore,
the scene ~ the Indian trouble. show
that party NJ Indians. supposed q
BE- Columbus. camped on the south ForA
" the John Day river near lzee, lost
two N their horses. They accused a
rancher N stealing them. ana demand.
oil that he give them IN. on his Do,
Mai OF any knowledge OF tho horses
the Indians tried 20 enter his barn a.
sec n the horses were there. The
runcher opened nrc on the Indians. but
failed Co hit them They at once lrfI
and returned % their camp. Lar.
Tuesday John Hyde, while riding on
the range. was shot at by the Indians
| Wednesday posse OF citizens mum.
bering about twenty started out ii
nnd the Indians, and came on them
about ave miles from lace. which I.
about hfty-nye miles from Canyon
City. a nght took place. In which ons
Indian and a white man named George
Cutting we're killed. The night became
too warm for the Indians. and thcy
struck into the mountains Part Of
the posse followed them and yesterday
had fght with them, In which fiyt
Indians were killed.