Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-08
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
A Record Of Occurrences in Neghboring
States and Territories.
TRAMP KILLED BY A SECTION BOSS.
.'Captnin" Mahoncy Fraud-Oid Com
stocker Dead-iiurt In IA Rhine EN-
plosion-M isee iianeous.


The school lands ON the Nee Perez
! reservation, Idaho. are about to be APP
| praised by the state land board, the |
| tract embracing about $4,000 acres.
The report of the Boise assay office
| shows that the amount of gold bullion
| haudled during the year 1887 was 81
4sI 1i6.2S, an Increos of sl2s,l3I.i3 over
| 1896.
Martha Wren Gill, wife of e. S. Gill.
| district clerk at Phoenix, Ariz., Is
dead. Mrs. Gill was formerly Miss
Wren, an actress of prominence ON the
eastern stage.
In the case OF George Nagle VS. W, "A.
Robins. his guardian, the court mas
taken the matter under adNlsement.
This case has been on trial before Judge
Stolls at Cheyenne, Wyo., 1or the past
ten days.
At the Union Pacific shops, Cheyenne,
Wyo., thirty employees were laid on
Friday ON account OF depressed pusl-
ness. couple of tram crews on me
Wyoming division We're also served
with a similar order
4. Estrada Palma of the Cuban junta,
| New York, writes to Robert q. black,
of Cascade Locks, Oregon, STATING that
| Captain" Il. l.. Mahoney, VINO was IN
| Oregon a few days ago soliciting AID
for the cuban insurgents, has no con-
, nection with the junta and is not au-
thorized to collect money for the insur-
gent cause.
Charles M. Copp, of 569 Fifth street,
| Oakland Cal, wniie on his way nome
Tuesday night was accosted by TWO
footpads, VINO demanded his money
lie had none and this seemed To ihiuri-
ate the robbers. They set upon MN
with short clubs and beat him In
fearful maner about the head and
shoulders, leaving him for dead upon
the sidewalk at the corner OF flSn'h
and Clay streets.
An unknown tramp who at the point
of a revolver robbed W. r.. Myers, sta
ton agent of the Kansas Pacinc ran
road, at Weskan Thursday night, ana
subsequently set fire to the snow shed
| near sharon Springs, was Killed by
Section Foreman Forseberg at Chey-
enne Wells Colo. Friday morning.
The tramp refused to surrender ana
opened fire upon the section gang be-
fore he was shot down.
The health and license committee of
the board of supervisors OF San Fran
cisco has unanimously recommended
for passage an ordinance prohibiting
race track speculation and all other
forms of gambling, which IL II passes
the board, as some think possible, VIII
have the effect OF closing the lngieside
race track as well as the doors of
every pool room in the city. The pen
atty for violation of the order is n
fine of not more than $500 or irnprson-
ment not to exceed six months, or both
Late Friday evening the British tor
pedo destroyer, Sparrowhawk, ran
away from her convoy, the cruiser
Phaeton, and arrived in Port at San
Francisco unexpectedly. She made the
run from San Diego in twenty-nine
hours, and then covered the 49, miles
at only half speed. The sparrow
hawk and Phaeton Will remain at san
Francisco for few days, and then
proceed north to Join the rest of the
Pacific squadron now gathered at Els
quimault.
Tom Parsons and John II. Colds
worth, two well known employees of the
Smuggle Union Mining company at
Telluride, Colo, We're badly injured by
the explosion of missed hole" and
the latter may not recover. Colds
worthy had several ribs crushed in, and
his right arm and left hand broken.
| He also sustained internal injuries, and
II is these which It is thought will
prove fatal. Parsons received the full
force of the shot in his face and breast.
and was badly burned. He Will lose
the sight of one eye and perhaps both.
Isaac L. Thompson, the old Comstock
| engineer, well known as an inventor
and miner, died at the residence of c..
Il. Finney, Berkeley, Cal, at an early
| hour Wednesday morning AFTER an Ill
ness of several weeks. The cause OF
death was spinal meningitis and a
|
eleven years Thompson was consulting
engineer on the Comstock and took
several trips to Europe on mining busl-
ness. When his active participation in
mining ceased he attracted the atten-
ton of engineers all over the world by
his invention and improvements of
mining machinery.
Robert Clark. u middle-aged farmer
living near Tomales. Cal, met with n
serious if not fatal accident Tuesday
while out shooting. Clark started out
early in the morning with q friend. He
had gone but a short way from his
home when ne saw flock of birds In
a neighboring field. He crawled
through the fence, dragging the gun
after him. The gun was accidentally
exploded. the charge entering Clark
right side. tearing large hole. Sew
eral arteries We're cut. Clark is a large
landowner in Tomales and is consid-
cred one OF the wealthiest men In that
section of the country.
Acknowledgement r. Allyn Lewis,
National Guard of Arizona, has re-
turned TO Phoenix from northern Arl-
IONA, whittier he was sent by Governor
McCord to investigate charges against
the sheriff of Coconino county. The
charges. Endorsed by United States
Indian Inspector ]. c. Upton, We're for
warded to the governor from Washing
ton. They recited how sheriff Cameron
and posse had descended upon the
peaceful Navajo Indians. grasping their
flocks in the neighborhoods OF the
Grand canyon Of the Colorado and had
endeavored to force the payment of
Illegal and exorbitant taxes: that the
Indians, unable to pay, were
driven from grazing grounds occupied
by them from time immemoral; that
their tepees were burned and that they
and their focks were compelled, In the
worst OF winter weather, to journey
across the Little Colorado and into the
more barren district of the Navajo res
ervation. The report of the adjutant-
general wholly sustans the sheriff, who
II Is found was acting under competent
legal advice and wholly within his
powers.