Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-11
EVENTS IN THIN WEST.
COUNTERFEIT PLANT IN FOLSOM PRISON.


dicate very little damage to fruit trees
through the recent severe cold spell.
c. A. Hensie has purchased the inter-
est of Howard Russell In the Grand
Junction Star. Russell is an old news
paper man and Is now conducting the
Delta Independent.
The veterans of the civil war living
in Oakland, Cal, have decided to offer
the services of full company to the
government In the event of war with
Spain. a company of 100, with C. X.
King as captain, is being organized.
At midnight Thursday the condition
| of Gen Rosecrans of Los Angeles. Cal,
was unchanged. He has been un-
conscious for the past twelve hours.
The physicians say he may live several
days or the end may be within few
| hours
The supreme court of wyoming has
| decided that Otto Gramm. formerly
state treasurer, is not liable for missing
| funds that came into his hands, but
which, however, he failed to pay over
| to his successor, the same amounting
to SAL, 900, and having been deposited by
| Gramm with n banker named Kent
who later became insolvent Justice
| Cora dissented from the opinion
Afr twenty-five years of separation.
| r. r. Spuhn of Elmhurst, Cal, has been
reunited to his son Alfred Spuhn. now
| n prosperous merchant of Chicago.
! The reunion Is not without romantic
features. inasmuch as the father Is
poor gardener. who believed his boy
long since dead. Far from being so.
the latter by his own exertion, has be-
come wealthy. cultured and prominent.
C. NJ. Favorite one OF the managers
for the Armour Packing company, Is
authority for the statement that there
| is great scarcity of beef cattle in the
West. He says that California Color
ado and Nevada have almost been
swept clean of steers and that the
| price Is so per head more than was
the market quotation a year ago. In
| Texas, he says, cattle breeders have
begun to trade on future generations.
The mortgage or the issue OF first
mortgage bonds of the Corvallis and
Eastern Railway Co. has been filed for
| record in Benton county, Oregon, In
favor of the Central Trust Co. of New
| York. 1t covers the 14i miles OF road
between Yaquina bay and Detroit, and
also all railroad lines to be constructed
or acquired until such railway shall
amount in the aggregate to $50 miles.
The aggregate amount to be Issued, 1t
is stipulated, shall not exceed Sll,25O,OOO
In first mortgage bonds.
Bernard ]. Hildebrand, son of
Alexander Hildebrand. well-known
architect. and the trusted clerk of the
firm of Montealegre & Co, committed
suicide some time between midnight and
an early hour Tuesday morning in
Sausalito Cal, at Caudinos' hotel
When news of the suicide first reached
San Francisco, Hildebrand's best
friends were at loss to assign cause
for his act but they soon learned that
for the past few years he had been
leading a double and troubled exist
ence. He was the tenderest of lovers to
Miss Gussie Gericke, but at the same
time permitted himself to become hope
lessly involved with woman who has
demanded of him every farthing he
could earn or borrow.
Frederick, better known as Fritz"
Hartman. was killed Tuesday by cave
in the Mount Shasta mine, about ten
miles west of Redding, Cal. The young
man was working his first shift at the
mine on the floor of the southeast stope
ut the time of the accident. He was
engaged In breaking rock when large
piece of quartz, estimated to weigh
100 pounds, fell from the ledge above.
Striking the unfortunate miner on the
back 1t crushed him to the earth.
breN<ing his back and both legs. His
two companions vainly tried to remove
the rock from the unfortunate man,
who begged piteously to be killed and
put out of his misery. outside assist
from his position, however, and he died
a few minutes after being taken to the
surface. Hartman was resident of
Shasta, being the eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. w. p. Hartman, and leaves Ii
widow and two children.
The battleship Oregon at San Fran
cisco Is to receive at once 400 tons of
ammunition. This quantity will prove
full complement for the forty-two
I ,i, 81 10 n
the powder. shot and shell will be
brought from Mare Island to the Ore
CONS anchorage In Mission Bay. Off
GERS of the navy comment on the fact
that the ammunition must be brought
to the ship, because the vessel cannot
go to the naval station at Mare Island
TO receive supplies, owing to the shall
low water in the channel there. Esti-
mates are on file in the navy depart
ment showing that the sum of s250,00O
would enlarge the dock at Mare
Island SO as TO accommodate n big bat
tleshlp and deepen the channel 1t is
believed by naval officers that the Ore
gon will remain for considerable
length Of time near San Francisco.
The report that the ship will go to
!, China is not credited.
A counterfeiting plant has been dis
covered within thewalls of the state
prison at Folsom, Cal. The work
| WAS done IN tnt tntint TooHi ny CON
victs II. l.. Coyne and James Brown
and so far as known only nickels were
coined. presumably no precious metals
could be obtained. The men We're dis
covered in the act of manufacturing
bogus coins by guards who had been
told of what was going on. When the
officers rushed in, Coyne and Brown
| leaped through window and threw
their dies and crucible into canal
leading to the American river. a large
| number of well executed five cent
pieces We're found, They We're made
of babbitt metal. taken from the en-
gines which run through the prison
grounds for the purpose of hauling
rock from the quarries 1t Is thought
that the dies or mouds were not made
by the men who coined the money but
by some of the expert counterfeiters In
the prison. The impression prevails
among the officers that It was the in
tention of the convicts to coin n great
quartlty OF nickels. and then slip them
out on the freight cars, where their
friends on the outside could receive
them in exchange for opium. Several
OF the bogus coins have been found in
circulation In the town OF Folsom.
The fact that no referee was agreed
upon Thursday night by Tom Sharkey
and Ed Graney, representing Joe
ChoynsSi. was n disappointment to the
sporting community. 1t is believed,