Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-04
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
MURDERED HIS BROTHER AND SISTER,
Killed Ills wife with nm Axc-Fort Hall
Treaty Completed Trying to
starve to Death.

w. j. Stevens of Victoria, b. c., has
purchased the stern wheel steamer
Elwood of the Lewis River Transport
tation company. The Elwood Will be
taken to Victoria and placed in the
Alaska trade.
j. II. Brandt and George Baum. em-
ployed at the smelter of the Montana
ore Purchasing company at Butte, got
into dispute early Thursday morning
at the works. Brandt called Baum ii
vile name and Baum struck his ad-
versary In the temple with u shovel
Brandt died in the afternoon. Baum
Is under arrest.
The Southern Pacific company has
| obtained the privilege of selling through
tickets to Dawson and all other points
In ALASKA from any city in the United
| States over the route of the Alaska
| Commercial company, while the Pa
| cificMail company has placed its steam
ers at the disposal of the Commercial
company.
The new fast passenger train which
! is to be put on by the Gulf, Union Pa
| cine and Northwestern roads between
| Denver and Chicago next Sunday is to
| be one of the most modern in use ON
any American road. The buffet cars to
| be used are equipped with well stocked
| libraries. and also contain barber shops
and bathrooms.
Oriey w. Durham, while prospecting
on the estate of Joseph Blow, an eccen-
trio miser who was removed by death
| some weeks ago, was rewarded by
| finding an earthen vessel containing
| $1,000 in gold coin. Durham was en-
ployed by public administrator Frank
| NJ. Kelsey, and will be amply remun-
Grated for his find.
Three hundred and thirty of the Ban
treaty for the sale of the lower end OF
the Fort Hall reservation. This Is
ten more than a majority of all the
males on the reservation. Commits
| sioner Hoyt expects to get forty more
| signatures before Saturday, when he
| will send the treaty on to Washington
for ratification.
John W. Lynn, a keeper at the Ag-
news insane asylum, Cal, tried to kill
his wife, Martha Lynn, at 9 o'clock
Tuesday morning by firing five shots
at her The woman Is in a precarious
| condition and may die. Immediately
after the shooting Lynn threw off the
brutal demeanor which he had worn
when the crime was committed, and
became apparently simpering idiot.
The executive committee of the Dem
yer Civil Service Reform association
has adopted resolutions urging the Col
| orado senators and representatives in
Congress to use every effort in thelr
power to prevent the passage of any
bill designed to abridge or retard the
progress of civil service reform. a
resolution has been also adopted favor
ing the classification of the census
bureau under civil service rules.
Word has been received at Cheyenne
| from Butte, Montana, that John Bres-
nahen, recently at Cheyenne, who tried
to commit suicide by drowning himself
In n creek near Anaconda, would re-
cover but that his feet had both been
amputated as result of freezing.
Bresnahen attempted to end his life
by throwing himself into the water,
which was too shallow to cover him,
and then laid out in freezing weather
until he was badly frost bitten.
At the olympic club, San Francisco,
Thursday night, the first of a series of
professional boxing contests was given.
The first fight was ten-round
feather weight contest between Lawler
of San Francisco and Cocker" Twee-
die of Australia. Tweedie was favor
lite at 10 to s. and had quite the bet
ter of the contest in the first round.
He was over-confident, however, and
in an unguarded moment in the second
round, II well-directed blow on the jaw
knocked him out. and Lawler was an
unexpected victor.
Frank Mcconnell of San Francisco, a
practically unknown man in the boxing
world,and who recently graduated from
the amateur ranks, outpointed and out
fought Young Critic, the celebrated
Australian boxer. before the Olympic
club, San Francisco Thursday night.
The contest was fifteen-round affair
and the big gymnasium was packed
with 5000 spectators. Mcconnell is a
wonderful specimen of muscular devel-
opment, Weighing about 1i3 rounds. He
| ic nj hA n no fsN
punch with either hand andya splendid
guard
Disappointed by his inability to solve
the problem of aerial navigation, Max
Pauly. a machinist employed by the
| Union Iron works. San Francisco. put q
bullet through his heart Thursday.
Pauly, who was born In Saxony forty
years ago, had travelled extensively all
over the world, and wherever he went
he carried with him models and plans
of an air ship which he declared he was
able to navigate through the air. In
many places he succeeded in enliSting
the help of capitalists, but he was un-
able to solve the problem. and those
who knew him came to look upon him
as an eccentric character.
In a padded cell at he San Francisco
receiving hospital C. Dordano,a nephew
of Francisco Duensk. ex-president OF
Salvador, is trying to starve himself to
death. For two days he has stood fac
ing the wall in his cell in an attitude
of prayer. During the time he has no,
tasted food or drink The hospital sur
geons believe that he Is insane, his
mania being religious. DIR. Eustorio
Calderon. consul of the Greater Re
public of Central America, induced him
TO take n little food Thursday night
An effort will be made to have the
young man return to his parents In
Salvador, or to place him in an asylum
in California.
The contest between Joe Choynslt
and Tut Ryan. set to come off before
the Empire club. San Francisco, next
Thursday evening, is off as far as the
Empire club Is concerned. as that or
Fanization has gone out of existence
ChoynslSi. on being Informed of the de-
cision of the club, Immediately tele-
graphed challenge to Kid Mccoy fol
contest In that city for $4,000. Choyns
XII named George silver as referee. IN
case Mccoy refuses to accept the chal-
lenge 1t is open to Maher, Sharkey oil
Fitzsimmons. Choynski sent tele-
gram to Tom O'Rourke, in New York
authorizing him to act for him in max
ing the match with Mccoy.
murderous assault was made upor
Thomas Maloney. saloon keeper ant