Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-05
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
LARGEST SHELTER ON THE CONTINENT.


Daniel Meyer has commenced suit
against Sacramento, Col. to recover
the value of 1903 bonds Of 1859. due
February /, 1898, and amounting to $751;
200.
The American bark, Alex. Mcneil.
which has cleared for Nanalme to load
coal for the san Francisco port. re-
celvcd the highest charter rate paid on
the coast for ten years. on her last
trip she got $l.15 ton. She is now
chartered by George Fritch to carry
a cargo of fuel at s3.25 ton.
Chief of Police Reed of Seattle, Wash,
has been teleEraphcd to by Chief Lloyd
of Oakland Cal. asking him to arrest
j. S. Colburn. the fugitive real estate
dealer OF that city who Is charged
with embezZling certain small sums
from clients, and who is known to have
purchased "A travelling ticket to the
northern city
Mesa county. Colorado, has the start
of most localities in sending men to
Klondise. Forty citizens have already
left for the frozen north, and next week
the following citizens start for the
Elondlkc by the all-land route. via
Edgemont, Canada John Hays. T. Il.
Duclkett, Sam Norton, Fred Moeser,
Charles Anderson and ex-County
Treasurer II. II. Fletcher,
A Hope, Ida, special to the Spokane
Spokesman Review reports the drown
ing in the Pen d'Orelllc river of Carl
Hagan, r. Randall and o. Hawkland,
The three were in boat which be-
came founled in thin ice. Il. j. sage,
who lives down the river, heard the
men shouting about o'clock at night.
and tried to get to them, but found 1t
impossible. The empty boat was after
ward recovered, with some letters and
tel, A n
been recovered.
The revenue cutter. Corwin. Is he
ing prepared for her trip north, where
she goes in few weeks TO supplement
the review work of the Bear. Her
engines are being overhauled and oflic-
ers' and mems quarters are undergoing
alterations to make them more comfort
able in the cold regions. II Is expect
ed that within few days she will be
placed on the dry dock at San Fran
cisco and sheathed with wood in prep
aration for her expected battle with the
ice. Her stem will be provided with
steel ice cutter. and she in every way
will be fitted for all possible emery
encies.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron company
and the Philadelphia Smelling & Rein
ing company, whose works are situated
within "A mile of each other in Pueblo,
Colo. are spending 100000 in i'm
provements. which will be complete be-
fore next fall The net result of this
expenditure will be the location in Col
orado of the largest smelter on the
continent and probably the second larg
est In the world The other industry
expects to secure control of nearly the
entire iron and steel business west of
the Mississippl river, and viii compete
with the Illinois Steel company. and
the Carnegie concern at Pittsburg, in
manufacturing projectiles, heavy guns
and armament for the navy.
James q. Bennett. of San Francisco.
the man who nearly murdered his
wife, nearly killed himself, escaped
from the Receiving hospital and was
only recaptured after long chase,
which took the officers of the law rs far
nor as British Columbia. had hte hardi-
hood to beseech Judge Wallace Friday
morning not to make n convict OF him.
Judge Wallace emphatically denied the
request. He said that Justice had not
been satisfied by such a verdict as that
rendered by the jury-guilty of assault
with a deadly weapon. 1t was absurd
that man should receive only two
years imprisonment for nearly murder
ing his wife. He therefore ordered that
Bennett received the maximum penalty
and he imprisoned at San Quentin for
the term OF two years.
Tests of artillery ammunition have
been resumed Mt the Preside. Cal. A
gun belonging to Captain Potts's Light
Battery f, Third Artillery, was used
by Lieutenant Rabbit OF the ord nance
corps. Two rounds Of Shrapnel We're
fired and both shells were found to he
defective. The San Francisco Call says:
THE shells are not old. The ammuni-
ton was anufactured by contractors to
supply the ne W 3.2 inch breechloading
rified cannon with which the light bat
teries of the u. 5. army were recently
equipped. All the ammunition for the
breechloading artillery is new. There
has been sufficient time since the new
guns We're introduced for the powder
to lose its strength by age" Continu-
ing, the paper suEgcats that the test
ing officer of the department may have
condemned the shells Ind that an in
vestigation may show that his report
WAS tempered with or defective am-
munition substituted for the accepted
article after the test.
A dispatch form Sinsln. Cal, Fri
day, says: The arrest of Frank Be
lew for the murder of his brother and
sister, Louis and Susie, came as a
great surprise this morning. The of
ficers had been pursuing their investi-
cations so closely and quietly that not
the least attention was paid to their
movements. Before and after the in
quest the finger of suspicion was point
ed to Frank Below, and that he would
be arrested on the terrible charge of
the double murder was expected sooner
or later. ns he was the only person
against whom any dangerous evidence
had been adduced. Still, so secretly did
the officers work that Frank Below evil
IDENTIFY thought that the matter had
been dropped. District Attorney Dew
lin was interviewed this morning and
stated that the confession was correct
In junction with Sheriff Rush he had
been working on the case and they had
secured strong evidence against Below
1t was the Intention OF the officers to
arrest the accused man within week
and he did not wish to have him ar
rested Immediately on account of pro-
curing other testimony which would
make almost complete chain of evil
dence. The district attorney would not
divulge the nature of the evidence In
his possession. Below will be defended
by Attorneys Reese, Clark and George
evidenced much nervousness, but still
protests his innocence. He has refused
to talk to any one excepting his attor-
neys. He was visited this morning by
his brother, Tom, and other friends
from Dixon. Tom Below believes his
brother Is Innocent. He. however, as
serts that II his brother is proven guilty
he would like to see him punished nc
cordingly. The reason given by the
officers who arrested Belew for taking
the step so suddenly was ON account OF
an iplsling they had secured as to tho