Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-12
EVENTS IN THU WEST.
AN lRATE MAN KILLS HIS TENANT


Friday night at Tacoma. WASH,
Frank Graham. young railroad man,
shot William Parkhill. "A waterfront
character. The ball took effect in
Parkhills leg, but has been removed,
and he will probabaly recover. Both
had been drinking and quarreling
earlier in the day.
Charles II. Lindemann. for the past
twenty years one Of the leading manu-
featuring Jewelers. in san Francisco, has
disappeared He has left behind long
list of local and eastern creditors, the
aggregate amount OF his Indebtedness
being about $1,000. His place of bust
ness at 1903 Post street, Is now In charge
of the sheriff, having been attached by
a. Eisenberg & Co, to whom Linde-
mann owed S225. Not more than $500
can be realized in Lindemann's prop
erty. and his creditors have no hope of
getting any of their money.
Frank Hitchcock, who accidentally
shot himself while hunting at Joyce
Island, near Suisun. Cal. Sunday, died
Wednesday morning at o'clock. When
found he had been exposed to the cold
for five hours and three hours more
passed before he could be removed to
his home. DR.. ]. A. Ostrander amputat-
ed the injured mans arm Monday, but
he considered the case critical from the
first. The dece sed was the second son
of Rev. a. i. Hitchcock, for twenty
years grand chaplain of the Grand
Lodge Of odd Fellows OF California.
The steamer National City win sail
from San Francisco tonight ,saturday)
for Taila and Skaguay. taking about
100 passengers and u large amount Of
freight. More applications for passage
have been received than the vessel can
accommodate. The National city will
carry away more dogs than any other
vessel which has yet sailed for the gold
fields from that point. An immense
dog house has been constructed on the
forward deck and and 40 dogs will be
confined In II until the vessel reaches
her destination. Besides the dogs. sew
eral horses and mules have been put
on board
The first of the new river steamers
and barges for use on the Yukon are
now being loaded into the ship Sintram
at San Francisco. There are four
steamers and six barges In all, and
their building has not taken much over
seven weeks. The steamers and barges
have been built in sections, and 100
machinests, carpenters and painters
will go up on the Sitram to put ,hem
together at Dutch harbor IT, ;,ltram
will be towed north by the tug Fear
less. Three of the steamers are 1872 feet
long. and will carry $50 tons OF freight
on a four-foot drift. while the barges
are las feet long and will each carry
400 tons of freight
The sawmills of Santa Cruz county,
Cal, are preparing to resume opera
lions the coming spring. Most of them
have been closed down for several years
owing to scarcity OF demand for
lumber. but Indications FOR a big de-
mand, owing to improvements in con-
temptation in various parts of the
state. are such as to give encourage
ment to millmen. Around Bowlder
creek and at Aptos especially, there Is
rejoicing over the resumption of oper-
atoms. with the mills running. en-
ployment will be afforded to about 600
men. Iona Prieta mills, which has
only run once in six years will alone
give employment to about $50 men.
This includes millmen, loEgers and
teamsters.
The Republicans of Idaho have been
called upon to assemble at Boise March
4th next, Chairman Perrault of the
state committee having issued an adj
dress in which appears the following:
THE responsibility is now upon us. Re
publicans of Idaho. to so conduct the
approaching state campaign as to bring
our noble and prosperous young state
safely and permanently into the Re-
publican column. With this accom-
plished. Idaho will enter upon an era
of prosperity all her own and will rise
triumphant from the depressing ten
denotes which n Populistic administra-
ton has inflicted upon her. Capital,
which instinctively shrlnks from con-
tact with the elements of disorder and
lawlessness Will come naturally and
gladly to assist in the development of
the magnificent resources of the
state"
Frederick Al Brown. until recently a
deputy sheriff in Alameda county, Cal.
and resident of Berkeley, has deserted
mis- wife and gone north with another
woman, to whom he was married in
san Francisco last Friday evening. The
first Mrs. Brown lies helpless and III
at private hospital ON Thirteenth
street. 1t was thought that Brown
mad taken passage for Seattle, and on
tuesday a telegram was sent to the
chief of police there to arrest him for
bigamy and to warn his companion
that he had wife in San Francisco,
Mrs. Emma Gerhow. with whom Brown
has left. often visited him In Berkeley.
and her visits accustomed no little Cos-
sip. She is said to have some money,
saved from her earnings as n mounter
of photographs, and many who know
the laxative deputy believe he married
the woman for her money
Lee HILL rancher on the Los Posas.
seven miles from Saticoy, Ventura
county, Cal, killed Theodore Paryin,
his tenant. by a terrific blow on the
temple with a piece of scantllng. The
crime was committed at 1880 %. m.
Tuesday. Tile victim fingered till
o'clock Wednesday morning when he
died from conclusion of the brain. The
assault was the result OF u quar-
rel over n business matter. HIN had
leased the ranch to Parvin to accept q
position with the Union oil company
of Santa Paula. A few days ago he
was discharged. Tuesday he went to
the ranch. demanding that his tenant
give up possession. Parvin refused I'M
less Hill would reimburse him for time
lost and services rendered. Angry
words passed between them, when Hin
suddenly grasped a stick of timber and
delivered the fatal blow. There were
only two witnesses to the crime, the
widow Of the dead man and the father
of the murderer.
The police OF San Francisco are at
last on the track OF the negro, who has
been robbing storekeepers in various
parts of the city, first knocking down
his victims with cobble-stones. He is
said to have been identified as Frank
Johnson. mulatto. who has already
served time In prison for highway rob-
berry. His method of disabling those he
had decided to despoil makes the sup
posed Johnson unique character in
san Francisco criminal annals. The
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