Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-21
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
INTEREST IN THE IACKsoN-JeFFRlEs FIGHT


Bell and Kent formerly of Council
Bluffs, "a, have been awarded the
contract TO furnish the plans OF the
Montana Capitol building to cost in
the neighborhood of S2I5,000 and to be
completed before 1900.
Messrs Reavis. Cownn and Edwards.
three of the convicts who recently es-
capped from the Idaho penitentiary
were captured near Nampa, Sunday
morning. out of the twelve that es-
capped only two are now at large.
David Murray general manager of
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company at Salt Lake. closed con-
tract Sunday with n mill at Heron.
Mont. for 1000 telephone poles. They
will be used between Missoula, Mont.
and Mullen, Ida.
The steamer schooner Scotia. en-
route from Seattle to Taiia with forty
passengers, is still at Port Townsend.
Wash, having made two Intellectual
attempts to cross the straits of Fuca.
Both times the schooner was forced
to put back on account of the high
wind and heavy sea.
Henry Long, II pioneer of Riverside,
Cal, 10 years of age. fell from a window
of the third story of the Holyrood Hotel
F'riday,and was almost Instantly killed.
Long was fitting a screen to one OF the
hotel windows, when he became dizzy,
missed his footing and fell to the pave
ment many feet below. No one saw the
accident, but the crash OF the fall soon
brought an excited crowd to the
scene.
The American ship Lewellyn ].
Morse is stuck In the mud in Oakland
creek. Cal. The ship is owned by the
Alaska Packers association, which is
getting ready big fleet of vessels to
send north in the Alaska salmon can
neries. She was run on the mud HAT
during "A very high tide. and thus far
the concerted efforts of the three larg-
est tugs in San Francisco harbor have
failed to pull her off.
The dlsengaged tonnage in San Fran
cisco is smaller that II has been for
years 1t IL question az to whether
since San Francisco has been port of
since San Francisco has beer port of
idle vessels In the harbor. The large
grain crop of last year cleaned the port
Of deep sea ships and the gold discov-
cries in Alaska and the CONSEQUENT rush
to the North have provided occupation
for all available vessels.
The most severe snowstorm of the
season Is prevailing in this section Of
Kalispel, Mont. At one o'clock Sun
day morning 1t began showing and at
six o'clock in the evening, eighteen
inches of snow had fallen. and at that
hour the wind changed to the north
and the snow Is drifting badly. The
storm " severe in the mountains, and
cuts and ravines are almost complete
ly impossible. making railroading very
difficult.
Ex-Street Commissioner Il. J. Croley
of Sacramento. Cal, was shot and
probably fatally wounded Sunday
night by one Of two burglars who We're
attempting to rob his house. Although
sixty years of age and entirely un-
armed, Croley grappled with one of the
men and was about to overcome him
when the burglar broke loose and fired
two shots Into Croleys breast. The
wounded man, who In not expected to
survive. is one of the most prominent
contractors in California.
Cheyenne Sun-Leader: Governor
Richards Is In receipt today of letters
from Jackson's Hole settlers demur-
ring to the unjust irnputation OF the
Salt Lake Herald that outlaws infest
their region. The letter stated that
the country was as free from this ele-
ment as any place in the state, and no
trouble whatever has been given the
in addition to being very unjust, do
great injury to community, and II is
unfortunate that such mistakes are
made.
At a meeting Of capitalists Interested
in the construction of a railroad to the
Yukon country, W. C. Albergcr pre-
scented a report based upon recent eN-
ploratlons and from observations made
during an exhaustive surveying trip to
Alaska. and showing that n route up
Copper river was not only feasible. but
practicable. 1t was decided to organ
ize a party OF surveyors which are to
start as soon as weather conditions will
permit, probably by May 10. The pro-
gram IL 10 start for Orca and proceed
up Copper river to its head and thence
across to the Yukon to its junction with
the American boundary line.
The Transcontinental freight bureau
will hold its first annual meeting at
Monterey, Cal. today (Monday). Rep
resentatives of nearly all the leading
railroads In the United States will be In
attendance. w. A. Bissell. who was
for years the general agent at the At
lantic ~ Pacific and who Is now assist
ant freight traffic manager of the San
ia Fe, reached San Francisco Sunday
evening. In reference to the meeting
he said: MY idea is that we shall
talk over tariff and line them up.
think that in some directions they could
he advanced, and I should be glad to
see them put up a little"
Skaguay has had another murder ac-
cording to the officers of the steamers
Al-Ki and Hucneme, which arrived at
Seattle, Wash, direct from Lynn canal
Sunday. ON last Monday night a labor
ing man was shot by a colored woman
of the lower class Mt the entrance of
her cabin in the saloon district of Ska
quay. He died shortly before the
steamers sailed Tuesday morning. The
murder was the result of trouble which
began early Monday evening over the
disappearance of the mans watch. 1t
was thought that the woman would be
released. as all the circumstances
seemd to justify her plea of self-de-
Tense.
a short time after noon Friday the
body of w. ID. Cole was found lying
upon the rear porch of his ranch house.
about two miles south OF San Jose, Cal.
The discovery was made by one of the
neighbors. who Immediately notified the
authorities. Upon investigation 1t was
found that deceased had undoubtedly
been seated upon the top step of the
porch. cleaning his forty-four caliber
rife, when, by a careless movement, the
gun was fired and the bullet penetrated
the heart. causing instant death. De
ceased was n battlefield veteran and
was well known Mt Mountain View, and
also in San Benito, having been resi-