Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-23

Al Thorne formerly of Salt Lake. |
and aged about 60 years, died In De La !
Mar. New, Monday of hemorrhaee. |
Thorne was an actor and took part In |
early dramatic productions IN Salt |
Lake.
The steamer Elder, bound from Alas
ka to Portland, Oregon, rut In at Port
Townsend, Wash, Tuesday night, two
of her propeller blades being broken.
This will necessitatc a delay until re-
pairs are made.
At Butte, Mont, John w Coughlln
was convicted Monday OF robblng the
Anaconda Mining company and the
Jury recommended that he he given one
year in the penitentiary. He was for
merly cashier for the company
Under The impression that he was i'm
bibing sherry wine. Otto Eichholz, a
porter at the drug store of g. Leipnit2
& Co, on Suffer street, san Francisco.
swallowed a draught of wine OF colchi-
cum last Friday afternoon that cost
him his life.
The third 10-inch rife FOR the ballast
point Notifications has arrived at san
Diego, Cal. and will soon be mounted.
a large portion of the members of bat
terry ID. Third artillery, are now at the
works preparing to mount the guns and
get the battery into working condition
at the earliest possible date.
There are now at the Mare Island
yard, Vallejo, Cal, the Charleston,
| Yorktown, Philadelphia, Pensacola,
Hartford and Adams. A number of
| mechanics who have been at Port Or
chard have returned and will go to
work Monday and assist In rushing to
completion repairs to the various ships
| at the yards.
Monday the supreme court of Idaho
| decided the Anderson Lewis case in.
| favor of the auditor. A writ Of man
| date was ordered issued directing the
| secretary OF state to pay into the state
treasury by April list the amount re
ceived for transcriblng the laws and
| journals. The court threw off the pen
atty. requiring Mr. Lewis to pay the
$675.
Sunday morning Pablo Pareda,
| Mexican laborer of the Allen ranch.
| north of Pasadena. Cal, was found
| dead black in the face. and having the
appearance of death by strangling.
Pareda and his companions got beastly
drunk Saturday night on wine. Pareda
was lying on his back when found. and
1t is supposed that, being too drunk to
roll over he became sick, ruptured his
lungs and smothered.
Henry williams, a negro aged e5.
shot and killed Miss Ethel Gray short
ly after midnight at her residence, f62
East 10Th street, oakland Cal, and then
killed himself. The dead girl was -
years of age, n daughter of Mrs. U. S.
Gray and was employed as a clerk
The dead Niger was desperate char
acter, and had served q term in the
county Jail for theft. He is said to
have been infatuated with the girl.
Tired of life. a man supposed to be
John Sturrocke committed suicide some
time Saturday night in a lodging house
at the corner of Fourth and Howard
streets, San Francisco. by turning OF
the gas in his bedroom. He had en-
gagged the room two days before, anc
was not seen by any of the employees OF
the establishment until Sunday night
when Albert Douphin, bed maker, no
ticed the odor of gas, forced open tht
door of the dodgers room and came up
on him dead In bed.
Lieut.. Seyburn. commanding Camp
Pilot Buttes at Rock Springs, Wye.
has paid the Indebtedness of Lieut.
Drips to the merchants of that city
amounting to STA. He has also noti-
fled the public that in the future the
government will not be responsible fol
any debts contracted by any one con
nected with the post without writer
orders from the officers in command
The action of the officers of the Eight
infantry in paying the debts of the
missing lieutenant is highly commend
ed at Rock Springs.
At Wallace, Ida, Jessie. the 16-year.
old daughter of Charles Sears, Is deat
at her fathers home with a pistol bal
through her brain fired by her owf
hand. She had lived there for years
her father being pioneer. She hat
Just returned from school dressed in {
fancy dress, having participated in {
dialogue. She went to change hei
dress and n moment later a shot wa.
heard. Circumstances point to n sui
eide. but absence of any indications OF
dementia and the young lady's unblem
ished reputation incline many to be
lief that 1t was an accident.
A dispatch from Tacoma, wn.. say!
that two weeks ago two avalanche:
came laundering down the mountain
slopes at the south end OF Lake Ben
nett. An immense mass of ice ant
snow was deposited on the trail ant
200 tons of supplies We're buried many
feet deep. Their owners had stacked
them up together in what seemed Il
be sheltered spot while they Were
whip-sawing lumber for boat building
Now they have left only the whip-saw.
and are trying to dig out their outfits
So far as can he learned. no one wa.
1 injured by the avalanche. though peo
pie ants not far away had narrow
escs This news was brought dowr
by J Ohleghslager Of Puyallap, tina
state, who has just arrived from Alas