Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-06
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
WY0MlNG'S COAL YIELD FOR THE YEAR


| is critically Iii, at santa re, N. NJ, ana
little hopes are felt for his recovery.
He suffers from uremic poison.
All the men that can conveniently
work on the Japanese war vessel
| Chitos, now in course of construction
at the Union Iron Works, San Fran
cisco. are busy putting the finishing
touches on her huge body. The vessel
will be launched Feb. goth
Abraham Gear was prevented from
drowning himself in the bay at Seattle,
| WASH, Wednesday night by q United
States custom official. Gear, with his
wife and five children, arrived there
Tuesday from Japan. AS they only
had sixty dollars between them Col
lector of Customs Hustls refused them
entrance and ordered them returned to
Japan.
The board of directors of the cham
Der OF commerce, Los Angeles, Cal, In
common with similar organizations,
passed resolutions extending to Presi-
dent Mckinley an invitation to attend
the Transmississippi Commercial Con-
gress to be held at Wichita, Kansas.
In the fall of 1898 Senators White and
Perkins were appointed II committee
to extend the invitation to the Presi-
dent in person.
President Burt of the Union Pacific.
with General Manager Dickinson and
other general officers of the company.
spent a few hours in Cheyenne. Wyo.,
yesterday and after inspection of the
shops and other company property
proceeded to Laramie. Mr.. Burt eN-
pressed himself as pleased with the
physical condition of the road, and was
confident that 1t would do satisfac-
tory amount of business.
At Boise, Ida, Wednesday, o. S.
Herbert and William Dougherty were
! pradoned from the state prison. Her.
! hort '''rgxh n he ig known. n
victed at Blackfoot, January. 1892. for
the murder of John Andrews, alias
Dutch John" He was serving 3d.
year term. Dougherty was serving
twelve years for the murder of Ed.
Young. a saloon-keeper, who was sent
up in 1891. from Shoshone.
Sourwine and Geyser Jack are having
preliminary examination at Pocatello.
Ida. on the charge of assaulting Frank
Mckeon, who was so roughly dealt
with in his cabin about two weeks ago.
Twenty-four witnesses have been al
ready examined and the evidence ad-
duced has tended strongly to show the
guilt of the defendants. Mr.. Mckeon
| has recovered sufficiently to be in the
court room. but he is still in u feeble
condition.
Andrew jacobson and Harry Chris
Jensen, two sailors, slowed away on the
steamship Umatilla shortly before she
left Seattle. In the attempt to make
their hiding n complete success they
got into an apartment in the lower
hold used for cold storage and baggage.
The hatch over their place of refuge
was battened down and sealed by Gus
toms officials at Port Townsend. The
stowaways, without food or water and
not too much air, remained in their
prison for exactly sixty hours, when,
their cries and hammerings being
heard, they were rescued.
Not a little anxiety Is being felt for
the safety of n number OF coasting YES
sells that should have arrived at San
Francisco from Puget Sound some days
ago. Those arriving In the past few
days report terrible weather all along
the coast, and while II is not thought
that any of the missing vessels have
gone down, their continued absence Is
worrying owners and the relatives of
those on board. Among those overdue
Is the bark Gatherer, now nineteen
days out from Tacoma, the ship Yo-
semitic. twenty days out from the same
port and the ship Harry Morse. twenty
four days out from Seattle.
The new Rapdsburs railway, running
from Kramer, Cal, on the line of the
Santa Fe Pacific railroad to Johannes
burg, in the heart of the new mining
district in the Mojave desert, is COM
pleted and in operation, and the
Southern Pacific company has Joined
with the new line and the Santa Fe
in a joint freight tariff. The opening
of the road has caused the abandon
ment of the stage lines from Kramer
and Mojave, by which all supplies have
been carried to the new mining dis
trict since the gold excitement started
a little over a year ago.
d. Alexander, n merchant of Watson
vile. Cal, was surprised a few days
ago when notified by the Bank of Wat
. H. 40 tl,,.,
several hundred dollars, which had been
sent from New York for collection.
Not having authorized any one to draw
upon him. Alexander declined to honor
the drafts. Upon investigation he
learned that a youth, who had repre-
scented himself to be his son travelling
through the Eastern states upon n
bridal tour, had drawn the drafts and
purchased n large stock of goods. which
had been shipped to Alexander. 1t is
presumed that upon the strength of
this order he drew various sums of
money in Alexander's name from the
Wholesale merchants of whom he pur-
chased the goods. Upon the arrival of
the goods Alexander Will ship them
back to New York. The exact amount
drawn upon the jacksonville merchant
by his unknown representative has not
yet been ascertained.
A communication has been received
at headquarters of the department OF
Colorado, Denver, from General Miles.
requesting Information In regard to the
needs OF the miners In mining regions.
In pursuance of an act OF Congress,
approved December Is. 1897, General
Miles has begun the work of preparing
a relief force to be sent into the mining
regions OF Alaska. Tie troops de-
tailed on this duty will take plentiful
supply OF provisions, clothing and all
articles needed by the miners Gencr-
al Otis department commander, will
gather and send to Washington the
information desired. 1t Is probable
that some OF the posts in that depart
ment, perhaps Fort Logan, will be
called upon to furnish part of the force
to be sent to the Elondike country in
the spring. That is the general inn
preston about army headquarters and
preparations are being made that
everything may be in readiness when
the order to that effect Is received.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
says that Governor Richards has re-
ceived the annual report of Noah
Young, state coal mine Inspector for
Wyoming for the year ending Sep
TENDER 30, 1897. Inspector Young re-
ports that the coal mines of the state
are generally in good condition; that
they are adequately supplied with all
of the proper appliances for working
safely, and that the mine-owners are
using diigent efforts for the care and
aafaty of their pmpipvps He rnparta