Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-25
EVENTS IN THU WEST.
SAN FRANCISCO WHEAT MARKET EXCITED
"De Rotty" on the Pacific Const--Desper-
ate Fight with Prisoner Expectancy
in CALIFORNIA; Misc ellancous.

Indian Agent Fuller of the Blackfoot
agency fears an outbreak there, be-
cause of the removal of the troops.
A Red Cross society. $50 strong. has
been formed at Berkeley, Cal. Its MEM
beers will tender their services to the
government
At the naval recruiting office in San
Francisco there is an average of forty
applicants a day, of which about %
per cent are chosen. There Is an
urgent demand for machinists, seamen
and ordinary seamen.
At Kemmerer. Wyo.. Sunday. Charles
Estes fell dead from rheumatism of tho
heart. For three years Mr.. Estes filled
the position of state deputy game
warden In Jacksons Hole. He was q
single man, 35 years of age.
The dead body of James Spear was
found in the basement Of the new hotel
at Kemmerer, Wyo., Sunday morning.
Spear had been employed as a plaster
er on the unfinished building, and 1t is
believed that he fell through an open
ing in the floor. His neck was broken.
He leaves n wife and family in Poca-
tello, Idaho.
The San Francisco wheat market is
greatly excited Although yesterday
met at the Merchants Exchange and
transacted business. Dec. wheat sold
at Sink. At this price the market
hesitated, that being the price asked
when the brokers dispersed for their
homes. Barley was traded In at s1.3Ssi
for December.
A local Alaskan transportation COM
pany at Seattle, Wash, wired Secretary
of the Navy Long Sunday for six gat-
Itt,er an. he ale aaI nf hat
steamers as protection against any
Spanish war ship or privateer that
may be In the North Pacific ocean
when the first steamers start on their
return trip from St Michaels with
passengers and gold from the Klon-
dixie.
Prince Albert OF Flanders, nephew OF
King Leopold of Belgium and heir pre-
sumptive of theBelgian throne,is in San
Francisco. He reached town Sunday
after n trip of several weeks through
the east and south. and registered at
the Palace hotel simply as DE Rotty.'
The prince is accompanied by Col II.
Jungbluth of the Belgian army, his
aide de camp. NJ. Joostens. secretary
of the Belgian legation at Washington,
and his physician, DIR. L. Melis.
II. c. st. Clair. convicted OF the MUIR
der of John Decker, made a daring at
tempt Friday at Idaho City, Idaho, to
escape from the county Jail. When
discovered, the prisoner was in front
of the jail with n double-b arreled shot
gun, from which he fired three shots at
Guard McQulllin. who attempted to
thwart his escape, The shots went
wide of the mark however. and the
guard. advancing towards the prisoner
with a knife stabbed him nine times,
twice in the lungs, and also recovered
the gun and shot him through the
face. st. Clair is in a critical condi-
ton.
Charles Froid, lneman in the en-
ploy of the Pacific Telephone and Tele.
graph company met spectacular
death Friday afternoon while work.
ing on the top crosstree of a telephone
pole at Eddy and Taylor streets. San
Francisco. He was repairing one OF
the company's wires and took hold OF
another across which live fire alarm
wire had fallen As he did so he
received the full VOLTAGE of the fire
alarm wire. The shock killed him
almost instantly. He was thrown
back across the other telephone wires
and there. fifty feet in the air, his dead
body lay for fully twenty minutes. while
his fellowworkmen. James Fulton
James Lorimer and James Mckinley
prepared ropes with which to lower II
to the ground.
All is expectancy at the headquar-
tiers of the national guard of California
While San Francisco will undoubtedly
be the point of concentration and thf
Preside probably the camp for the
troops until actually ordered to the
front, It is understood that mixed regi-
ments of companies from several regi-
ments will be the choice of Gov. Budt
in making up the quota demanded
with $500 men as Callfornia's share Of
the volunteers on the first call. tw,
regiments might he organized OF LOO
men each, and one of 800. Alread,
| 10000 citizens Of California have signi
fled to Adjutant General Barrett theiI
desire to be allowed to fight In defens,
| of the nation. The Irish women o
San Francisco have organized a societ,
to equip corps of their sex as aux
| iliarles to the Irish regiment OF volun
teers now forming.
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