Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-01
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
STREET RAILWAY PRESIDENT ARRESTED,
bilts In Honduras ARRESTED for Muir
der-kion,like business HusliinE.


and good will Monday to a. G. Mann,
who Will continue the business.
II. L. Huntington. president of the
Market Street Railway company. San
Francisco. was arrested today Crues-
day. for violating the city ordinance
providing for the equipment of cable
and trolley cars with proper life saving
tenders. A. NJ. Lawrence swore to the
complaint and Police Judge G.. +. Con-
Ian issued the warrant. 1t is proposed
to make this test case.
Amos stone, the son of q Boston
jeweler living at AZ Main street
Charestown, Mass, shipped on the
American ship Geo. Stetson at Balti-
more as an ordinary seaman and ar
rived at Astoria, Ore, a few days ago.
He was taken to the hospital in Il par
TALLY demented condition. 1t is said
that his mind became affected while
he was ON the United States training
ship Enterprise.
A party of thirty-four from stamford,
Conn, have arrived at Seattle. Wash,
and have purchased the schooner,
Moonlight. on which the viii sail
next Thursday for the mouth of Cop
per river. They have with them n
snowsled. with n twenty horse power
engine. The sleigh weighs about seven
tons and is propelled by stern wheel,
fitted with spikes to stick in the Ice
and with paddles for snow.
A special from New York to the San
ia Fe New Mexican says j. j. Hager-
man of Colorado Springs and II. O.
Faulkner, receiver of the Pecos Valley
railroad, have succeeded in securing
81, 500 900 for the extension of the Pecos
| Valley road from Roswell, n. NJ, to
| Washburn, Tex, where 1t will connect
with the Santa Fe system and Union
| Pacific, Denver & Gulf the extension
viii be 2l5 miles in length.
News has just been received from
Vance, co miles from Chehalis. Wash.
| that j. II. McVicker shot and fatally
wounded Lou stump in quarrel about
| some hay. stump had n lien on the
hay and went to McVickers with Con-
stable Skinner to sell 1t. McVicker or
| dered them off his premises and when
they refused to go, shot six times at
| stump INJECTING four wounds, stump
was also armed and fired one shot
| McVicker gave himself up to Constable
Skinner.
| Alfred Raymond Ockerman. alias
| Raymond. who is wanted In Portland
| Or, for the embezzlement of $1,000 from
| the Order of Elks, was arrested Mon
| day morning at Hastings, "a suburb of
| Vancouver. h. C. Raymond has been
| in the neighborhood for about fort
night. but till Monday succeeded in
was formerly n druggist in Portland
agrees TO go back. and he states that
| he can make good the shortage, which
he claims only amounts to $500.
T. d. Stimson, one of the Wealth.
| est business men of southern Califor.
mia, died at his Figuero street resi-
dence In Los Angeles Monday morning
of heart disease. He had been sick for
| several weeks. but was expected to
recover until Sunday night. when his
| condition changed for the worst. The
| deceased capitalist had large and vari-
| Gus interests in southern California,
| where he had lived since 1890 Immedl-
ately after going there he built the
| costliest residence on Figuero the
| fashionable street, and also the slim
| son block ON the corner Of Spring and
| Third streets. which cost 1850, 900. He
was large dealer in lumber.
Juan orosco has been arrested at Los
| Angeles, Cal, charged with the muir
| der on last Tuesday of Modesto, his
| bride OF seventeen days. Mrs. Orosco's
body was found in the bedroom of her
home on Aliens ranch with bullet
hole In her breast The coroner's Jury
returned verdict of death from Il self
inflicted wound but left the question of
suicide or accident an open one. Pedro
Lenares, brother OF the dead woman,
learned that the husband was seen to
| go into the house on the morning of the
| wifes death and remain there ten min
utes. While he was there the woman
who saw him go in heard n shot and
| later she saw him go away Lenares
swore to the complaint, charging Oros-
| co with murder.
The Alaska Exploration company has
| announced three of its vessels and the
dates of their sailing for the coming
season. The Bonanza will sail April
18th for kotzebue Sound, the Coleman
May list, for st. Michael, and Leelanwa
June l, Tor Dawson. Each of these ves-
seis VIII make from one to three round
trips during the season. The steamer
Humboldt, which win sail this CTues-
day. afternoon at five O'Clock from the
| washington street wharf was almost
entirely engaged for passengers and
| freight Monday and by the time she
will sail It is probably there will be no
vacant space for either. The Humboldt
will go direct from San Francisco to
Taiia and Skagway. The Alaska
| Transportation, Trading & Mining Co
| Will soon have on the run between San
| Francisco and Alaska the big ocean
steamer Santuit.
Prof Edward II. Coffey OF San Diego
| Cal, has just returned from a trip to
| Honduras. He declares that syndi-
cate, popularity supposed to include the
!
for almost everything in Honduras that
| Is worth having. He says "As nearly
as i could learn the Honduran govern
ment has made an arrangement with
these American capitalists whereby the
debt of Honduras. amounting to $780,
900 pounds will be refunded In low rate
bonds purchased by this American
syndicate and secured by the customs
receipts, Internal revenues and so on,
with the added benefits of valuable ex-
elusive concessions. But It appears that
the deal has not been actually consum-
mated, from the fact that the Hondur-
an government has not consulted its
European creditors as to this proposed
refunding OF the debt.
There ls pending In the u. s. circuit
court In San Francisco an action which
involves nearly 100000 concerning
which the majority of the 60D0 defend
ants have never heard n word as no
effort have been made to serve them
with copies of the complaint. The liti-
cation comes up In the form of hill
In equity, and Is entitled Jacob Slchel
AGAINST the city and county of san
Francisco and others. the object being
to compel the supervisors to levy q
special tax on all the property adja-
cent to Montgomery avenue in order
to pay the outstanding Montgomery
avenue bonds, issued in 1873, which
have have been declared illegal by the
California supreme court Mr.. Sichel
resides at Frankfort on the Main, and
I, n ripht n II, t,aif