Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-03

they Will not be sent to the Philippines
are counting upon being ordered to
Hawaii as c place of second choice.
Gen Merritt IL arranging the details OF
the second expedition to the Philip
pines, but has not yet made public the
assignments Of troops for the expedi-
ton and he will not make the order
public until the date Of the sailing OF
the heet has been determined.
Philip welton Stanford. San Fran
cisco, Is dead from pneumonia In Now
York. after an Illness of only three
days. Mr.. Stanford was the son Of
Colonel a. =. Stanford and nephew
OF the late LELAND s'-~fo~r with his
mother sister and father, Philip w.
stanford spent his carly boyhood in
London, but on the death Of the mother.
the family returned to America and
Mr.. Stanford entered the RiverVlew
Academy where he obtained cap
taincy and was graduated with honor
Having a mechanical turn Of mind he
entered the Institute OF technology in
Boston. He afterwaTd studied law at
Harvard and on his graduation MARI
Miss Helen West Of Boston They went
to California whore he was admitted
to the bar and practiced for about
seven years. About year ago he re .
turned 10 New York. where he had been
attending to legal matters in connec-
funeral VIII be held this friday af-
ternoon at st. James church, New
York.
William Vaunlng, a san Rafael. Cal,
mllkman Of considerable means plead
ed guilty Thursday to tearing the
tongue out Of a horse. Sentence was
postponed until today (Friday). Eye
witnesses Of the fendish act state that
Vauning, while ascending grade,
i,f.
cause the horses could not extrlcate It.
tied piece Of rope around the tongue
OF one of the animals and tore IL out
by the roots, The suffering animal
fell 10 the ground, but by beating 1t
Nauning forced It to rise, and drove to
a marsh. where 1t bled to death. There
were threats OF lynchlug Vaunlng
Thursday, hut 1t was finally deter
mined TO give him notice to leave
town. He was forced to fly for safety
and seek the protection Of an officer
some time ago he was charged with
poisoning milk at the residence Of
Prison Director Wilkins and others be-
cause they would not patronlze him.
He has also been in trouble at other
times.
The schooner Brixam brings news
to Seattle, Wash, that the revenue
Bear conveying relief to the imprisoned
Imprisoned whalers. is at Dutch Har-
Dor The officers Of the Bear recently
attempted to form n connection with
the overland party under Lieut.. Jarvis.
but got only 200 miles north of Dutch
Harbor. There the ice was found
packed solid across Boring sea. and all
further plans had to be abandoned. No
news has been received from Jarvis.
A hurricane which seriously threatened
the entire shipping of that locality
swept over Dutch Harbor and Una
laska on May %. During the storm
the schooner Helen was driven ashore,
though not seriously injured; the ship
Massachusetts, dragged her anchor, ana
but for the timely assistance of the
Bear and bark Harry Morris would
have been hurled on the banks and
broken to pieces. According to the
officers of the Brixam the schooner
Fischer Brothers had arrived at Una
laskh after an exciting experience in
Bering sea. She tried to rush her way
through the ice pack some 300 miles
north of UnalaslaN and for time II
looked as If she would never get out.
For nearly a week she was in the ice
pack, unable to get either way. A
sudden change in the wind opened up
the channel and released her
The San Francisco Chronicle of today
friday says: After taps had been
sounded at Camp Merritt last night,
Major General Otis issued an order di-
recting the First Colorado and the
Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers to em-
bark on transports for the Philippines