Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-02


night at the request of the silver lead |
ers to confer with them Tor the purpose |
Of uniting all silver forces. Mr.. Dubois !
says the vote in the Senate in favor OF
the Teller resolution has convinced the
silver advocates that with close union
of the silver forces victory in 1909 is
certain. Under the contemplated ar
rangement, the Populists, Silver Re-
publicans and Democratic parties will
each maintain "a distinct organization.
An attempt was made to murder
Marco Kalasich, Il restaurant keeper
at 6S3 Mission street. san Francisco,
sunday night, by negro named Chas.
Ben, alias Robertson. cook well
known to the police. Robbery was the
motive. In the confusion succeeding
the murderous attack the negro es
capped, though pursued by Policeman
John Moriarty. Ben had been the re-
clpient of Kalasichs bounty for some
time and ten minutes before the as
| sault was made upon him Ben assured
kalasich that he was the best friend
he ever had.
Word reached Vallejo, Cal. Sunday
| afternoon that while Bert Thurber and
| James Armstrong were cunning on the
| Cordelia road. ten miles up the valley,
| Armstrong was killed by the accidental
| discharge Of his gun. IT appears to have
| been "A case of drawing The weapon
muzzle first out of wagon. Arm
| strong's son lost an arm some years
! ago by n hunting accident. Armstrong
was Civil War veteran and an early
resident of Vallejo. He has long held
a responsible position in the machine
| shops at Mare Island.
The demand for seeded raisins will
| have an important influence on the
| California output this year. Hitherto
| seedess raisins have been in great de-
| mand, hut now that a method has been
found for getting rid of the seeds in
| the regular raisins. the seeded raisin
promises to become Its rival in the near
future The Phoenix Packing COM
| pany of Fresno has just let "A contract
| to II. II. Smith for the erection of n
plant larger than any in Fresno The
| company will erect n seedinE-house and
packing building 40 by 20 feet and three
stories high. stemmng and packing
| building 40 by $50 feet and a drying
house 40 by 100 feet.
At Oakland, Cal, Tuesday. John w.
| Lynn shot his wife Martha five times.
| fatally wounding her. because she re-
fused to live with him. Lynn was ar
rested and placed in cell in the city
prison, which contained gas jet. He
tried to commit suicide by placing his
mouth over the tube, but was prevented
by the jailer. The only statement he
has made since the shooting is as fol-
lows: God commanded me to Kill
and so I shot my wife and would have
shot my boy. but could not find him.
Lynn was an attendant at the Agnew
asylum for the insane and had served
for eleven years in a similar capacity
at Ukiah. He is believed to be in
sane.
The Casey Stelzner glove contest at
Vallejo, Cal. Tuesday night did not
begin until late hour. Stezner won
in the 18th round. Lon Agnews was
l 81.
fight twenty rounds for a decision The
fight was very slow until the fourth
round when Casey became aggressive,
landing three times in quick succession
on Stelzner's jaw. This opened the
fighting. and in the fifth Steiner
brought his antagonist to his knees
with left on the neck. Casey Their
, assumed the aggressive, and up to the
ninth appeared to have little The bet
, ter of the contest Then Steiner
, changed his tactics and began to lead
, He landed hard on wind ribs and jaw
and Casey could not return the punish
= ment. The tenth round was all IL
Stelzners favor, and the eleventh 8
vicious right on the jaw put Casey tc
sleep.
, Omaha Stockman.1 II Is n well know
, factthat Kansas City people PRACTICAL,
, run the Denver Union stock yards an,
: try to make the Denver people throw
q their shipments to that market Dur
i ing the recent stock-grOwers' conven
. ton at Denver. however, little Incl
: dent occurred that Jared the Kansa
! City peoples nerve somewhat ant
opened the eyes of a good many Colo
RADIO cattlemen. II seems that a specu
y lator at Denver picked up several load
of pretty good Colorado cattle at tina
, point the fore part of the week an,
: decided to ship them to the Missouri
: river. The cattle were cut evenly witt
9 the exception of load OF good blacl
p polled steers which We're sent alonj
/ with the Kansas City shipment. TIL
cattle We're on both markets Thursda,
: and the Omaha end brought S4.4
y straight. AT Kansas City. however, tn
fancy black polled cattle had to he'll
sell the others and the price for all wa
4 only s4.35 while the shrink was 20 lbs
: more than at Omaha.