Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-05
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
A Record Of Occurrences in Neigllboring
States and Territories. h
WILL Be IMPRISONED FOR LIFE,
Shooting Gallery Man Found Dead-Miii-
tary Reservation surveycd-To In
surance Asents-Ni ceilaneous.

| AT COLORADO Springs, Colo, Herbert
| Il. Mum was arrested Tuesday morn
ing charged with jumping his board
| bill and obtaining money under false
| pretenses. Num- Is an Englishman
| and Is said to have gone to Leadvllle
| from Salt Lake.
Michael Shutti, employed in the
Alice mill at Butte, Mont. died Tues
day from the effects of being scalded
Sunday. He was engaged arranging
the hot pulp on the floor of the mill.
when some water was let onto the
mass. 1t generated into steam which
burned Shutti about the face and body.
oscar Schwab. once bright young
man, with friends and Il good future,
was taken to the receiving hospital,
l Oakland, Cal, Sunday night, at the
direction of his aged father and locked
up in cell. He is n raving maniac.
| Schwab's mind has been failing him for
some time. and once before he was
taken to the hospital for examination.
The Randsburg Railroad company
has elected the following directors
Edgar Van Etten, j. N Beckley, A. a.
Dougherty, Charles Wer, Walter Roso.
Mr.. Warren of Rochester, N. ";
Messrs. Crowley and Leonard of Ari-
IONA and Albert Smith of Rochester.
Edgar Van Etten, the general manager
of the New York Central was elected
president of the new company.
| kingiro Shomera, a mysterious Jap
anese. who has for the past week been
running wild in the vicinity of San
Francisco, is becoming will-o'-the-
wisp to the members of the police de-
partment there. lie Is playing the
part of red herring. to the especial
detriment of Detectives Gibson and
Wren in their efforts to track down
George TAUGHT, the japanese murderer
of Mary Castillo.
The work of surveying the old Fort
Mckinley military reservation near
Sheridan, Wyo, which has been in
progress for the past month, has been
completed, and the reservation will
now be offered for sale. II comprises
thirty-eight sections Of land most of
which is susceptible of agricultural de-
velopment. Two sections on which the
fort buildings stand, have been donated
by the general government to the state.
John II. Dow, proprietor of shoot
ing gallery at S15 Kearny street, san
Francisco, was found dead Sunday
night on a cot in that place, the sur
roundings indicating that he had been
murdered as he slept, There were
three holes in his head, made by as
many bullets on their way to his brain,
any one of which, according to Coro-
ner Hawkins must have proved fatal,
thus precludlng the idea that the man
had taken his own life. Mrs. r. b.
Dozell an employe at the place, has
been taken into custody, pending an
investigation.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Belgic. which reached San Francisco
from the Orient late Friday night, was
j. Sloat Fassett, late collector OF the
port of New York. and one OF the most
prominent Republican politicians of
the metropolis at the present time.
Mr.. Fassett has been in the Orient for
several months past, whittier he went
| ,.,;t 4, l,t fo, iIx.f n, ha nf
sons health. He is now on his way
home. alone and unattended, and dur
ing his stay in that city is the guest of
friends at 1912 Cough street. He will
leave for the East in few days.
Insurance commissioner Clunnie of
San Francisco has sent a letter to
agents of all foreign insurance COM
panies doing business in that state in
regard to the act of 1885 requiring every
fire insurance company not Incorporate
ed, to pay annually to each county in
which said company does business a
sum equal to per centum upon the
amount earned in the county. This
tax is for thu benefit of the flremans'
relief funds in the various counties. The
American companies pay the tax, but
the foreign companies have refused to
pay.
The annual report of the passenger
business of the Pacific Mail Steamship
HAS bttll Ilth Will tHt b'N
eminent officials It shows an increase
in travel between this country and the
Orient which is little less than phe-
nomenal. The approximate number
of passengers carried both to and from
China during the year was 10000 which
is an increase of over % per cent on
the previous year and 40 per cent more
than the number handled for the cor
responding trips during the same sea-
sons of the year 1895. Though the re-
Iictin,~Iticb hptxvpap H.
in and steerage and white and mon
golian passengers. yet 1t is n fact that
the bulk of the increase has been In
the cabin and consists of the very best
class OF tourist travel.
James Hopkins was convicted re-
Gently at Bridgeport, Mono county,
CAL for the murder of his partner,
Peter Hayes. The jury found him
guilty of murder in the first degree and
fixed the penalty at imprisonment for
life. Hopkins and Hayes were both old
men. Hopkins being 81 and Hayes near
" so. They We're partners in two min
ing claims and a mill site at Copper
Mountain, on which was cabin in
which they lived. Sunday afternoon
October Bird, about o'clock the report
of a shotgun was heard In the vicinity
of the cabin. About an hour later
Hopkins appeared at TIVE Copper Noun
tain store with a shotgun and said
that he had shot Hayes. He declared
that Hayes had attacked him and he
had to shoot him in self-defense.
Gen. Rosencrans, of Los Angeles, Cal.
in response to request for his opinion
on the Dreyfus case has given out the
| following. "The case of Captain Drey-
fus is one that appeals to the sympa-
thy of every true American, re-
hearing of the case under impartial
influences would certainly do no harm
were he guilty or innocent. II guilty.
q second conviction would accentuate
the majesty of the law more forclbly.
His gallant and patriotic conduct when
his sword and insignia of rank We're
torn from him when his sentence OF
dismissal from the army was being
carried out his devotion for his coun-
try manifested by his cheers and the
cry of "Vive la France" in the midst
of this scene of obloquy and degrade
ton appeal to every loyal soldier and
certainly do not bear the marks OF
treason to his country