Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-07-04
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mittcd suicide Mt Boise. Idaho, Satur-
day. by shooting.
Train service on the Wood river
branch Of the Oregon Short Line Is to
be cut to two or three trains week.
Battery a. Wyoming volunteer light
artillery. known Ms the Alger battery,
IN command ~ Captain Palmcr.nrrived
at San Francisco sunday from Chey-
cnnc and went into camp at Camp
Miller. at the Preside.
Howard Brewer. In an exciting con-
test nj San Francisco. has beaten the
worlds amateur swimming record Tor
$40 yards. his time being 9 minutes 1917
seconds. The previous record was g
minutes 23ih seconds, and was held
By Blum Of Chicago.
The California Eastern railway Il Ia
said. " to be extended from Marvel.
San Bernardino county. 20 Goode
Springs, New, distance OF seventy
miles. n IL said the Campbolls Of salt
Lake city. who own valuable lead
mines at GOOde Syringe. have Euaun.
tccd an average freight Of 900 tons Of
lead ore per week
Logan stair. n fourteen ycar-old boy,
was drowned In the tank at the Nat
at0rium on broadway. Los Angeles,
Cal Thursday afternoon. 4 dozen com.
rndcH were IN the tank at the time.
but they had not the slightest idea
Of young Stairs danger and left him
with cramp, The parents are from
Akron. o.. and have lived In Los An
gelcs three years.
Second Lieut. Horace T. Dcvereaux.
reported wounded among RoOsevcitH
rough riders NJ Santiago. ~ promin-
Ont club man OF Colorado Springs AMI
Denver. He enlisted with the rough
riders as a private. later becoming a
sergeant. Two weeks ago he was COM
missionod second lieutenant upon the
recommendation Of Licut-Col Rooso-
Welt DcvereauN n graduate ~
Princeton and played quarter back
with the Tigers for several years. He
IA 20 years Of age and unmarried.
Two companies OF tho Second rogl-
ment ~ volunteer engineers went
into camp AZ san Francisco Sunday
on the Preside plain north Of Camp
Miller ono company Ia from Color
ado under Captain Draper. the other
II n California company under Captain
wrcken. Major LnnFnt II In COM
mnnd NJ this battalion. The colonel
" the regiment II willard Young
Two more companies are expected in
week. one IL coming from Salt
Lake and the other from Portland.
South Dakota needs forty moro re-
cruliH az San Francisco. Kansas wants
several more and the Eighteenth
United States infantry IL short two
men. The United States signal corps
detachment at Camp Merritt wants
sixty or more recruits In addition TO
twonty reported 90 be on the way there
from the east. and the United states
hospital corps. attached to the field
hospital. desires 200 recruits 60 COM
a - n.
tlcnlly no other vacancies exist among
the different commands destined for or
on the way TO the Philippines.
The steamer Pennsylvania has
brought 60 San Francisco nine gold
seekers from Boston. who sailed ON mo
schooner Stowell sherman and VERY
stranded at Montcvidlo. Their vessel
was pronounced unaeaworthy at that
port. Captain ~ 4. Cuibort and First
Oiilcer ltoonc remained TO look after
the schooner. The men who have
reached thcrc report that the Kion-
dikers who left New York In Febru-
airy on the schooner Actaca. under
Captain Mccarthy. are at Buenoa
Ayrca without money 10 pay Tor
necessary repairs 60 their craft.
II was learned at Sacramento. Cal,
Thursday night that field mr. started
near llockllg, Placer county, In the
forenoon, ana, driven by the fierce
nurthcr, the IRE HWopt aouthwari
burning almost everything In It's path.
u reached the American river, Jumped
the river and swept over the hills clear
10 the Consumes river ana how Tar
eastward u not known. Houses, barns.
fences. grain and hay ncldH, coriwood.
etc, were wiped out. ana II Il said that
considerable live stock persisted. Sey.
oral persons are said 20 have been In.
jured, but 30 far as nown no lives
were lost
correspondent Of the Sacramento
Zee, writing from Long Canyon,
Placer county, Cal, says that Monday
evening all the miners employed In that
locality went into the boarding house,
ana during the meal one OF tho mon re-.
marked that some Chinese were going
10 work on road which In being built
from Long Canyon 10 Soda Springs. All
OF the miners except one went 10 the
Mongolian's camp and told them they
could not work. ana compelled them
10 decamp, The miners returned. de-
claring they would not work for people
employing Chinese ana were paid on,
and the mine II Idle Tho man who
would not go on strike ran away and
hid In the bushes, but was caught and
narrowly escaped lynching The
Chinese were driven away with guns,
being forced down the canyon Tor two
mlleH.
II now seems possible that the next
expedition TO the Philippines may sail
within ten days. Although only two
transports. the Peru and the city Of
Puehla. ARE available. the pcnnFyl-
vanla, which arrived Sunday. and the
city OF Rio dc Ianelru, due on Tues
day are likely TO he chartered or Inn
pressed by the government. There
were l43 patients In the field hospital
ON sunday. 10 being afflicted with
measles, About thirty more soldiers
are In private hospitals. Private sa-
voy. company n. Twenty-third Unit
ed states Infantry, IN dead OF pneu-
monia. The Kansas and South pa
kota and other regiments which have
received "ahoddy" uniforms, are being
outhtted anew. the unaerViconhle gar
mentH having been recalled and suits
OF good quality substituted.
The races open at Butte. Mont, Sat
urday with good attendance, ForFlde
won the Montana derby handliy
Weather pleasant; track slow Re-
suits. First race. three-eirhths OF a
mlle-Lou Watkins won. Dutch second,
Enzy third. Time 95is seconds. Second
race, four and a hair furiongs-Rey
Hooker won, ocorona second, Ballistra
third, Time. 90 seconds. Third race.
one mlle-Pat Morrssey won. Lady
Hurt second. Poet Scout third. Time,
l;I. Fourth race, Montana derby,