Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-19
VENTS IN 7HE WEST.
CERTIFYING SAN FRANCISCO HARsoR'


farmers of Colorado are In great
1he - water famine the CONNIE
fe as owing to the light ia'' Va
snow. .,,u,,ou,
oa,,iIIe. Colo, Friday, william
Az snnrting man, was found Suii,y
Tate, a,,iing and conducting gafnbi-
OF Bai,,,a Nv the district court, judge
lng nresiding. This is result Oh ,ne
owens p,nai,gtlrated some time ago
dusaa, The sporting fraternity, an
againss ac,eon has created considerable
excitement .,
rc,eers of Fresno county, CAL,
SUR n,,,iatjng "A petition which VIII
are ~. ha forwarded to President NC
sno,us The unprecedented drought mas
h', a hard on stock. and IN tine petl-
W." ,be President will be asked TO pro
YAH u,o,m that the stock may craze on eer-
Gum nortjons of the Yosemite fark
,,sss se during the coming SEASON.
r,,,aen Chinese who were smuggled
40 his country from Ensenadn:
nv srer california, through the port OF
hyaheim, have been captured m sun
Ancisro. They were landed on Tues-
sirht nv an unknown vessel. the
uasst,aIs had n total sum OF s5.2o IN
eei U,s ','nssessIon. They have been taken
ine,' Angeles where they Will be ex-
amined.
r,,.,,t, three weeks San Francisco
y. m' ~ nne OF the most strongly forth
~ ~ horhors in the United States and
mn ini,i have n fleet of war vessels capable
Nt,,nid,np lis own with any country
H., has more ships than Spain can
lis S 10 The Golden Gate. The monitors
Nnu,erey and Monadnock have been
or5ared there. from the south; the bai-
,Irore is TO come from Honolulu; three
,o,redo boats will be sent from fuset
sound, and the cruisers Chaiieston anu
,.isa a, Mare Island as is the gunboat
Yorktown.
when Victor F.. Nelson sails next
,.ost 10 take his consulship at Bergen,
Soryay II will be with all the ardor
~ man who has been separated by
INN miles from the object of his affec-
I'm Tor behind the placing of this san
trarciscan in little eighteen hundred
doIIar n year commercial agency stands
vour Uncle Samuel. robbed of his ira
a,Ional long coat, short trousers. tall
hal and beard, posing instead as rosy
rod az love. In this case 1t Is politics
as we'll as love that makes the world
20 round, or makes the man go round
the world, Wnlcn IL tlc sunni INNS ~
L not every day that the consular SER
,,ce is used as Il matrimonial bureau.
From reports from the central part
Of california apricots, plums, almonds
and cherries have been completely
ruined by the heavy frosts of the past
law nights 1t has burnt the PITS till
they have turned black and will COM
mence dropping off the trees in day
or Two. The fruit which holds on to the
trees will not mature as 1t has been
frozen TIL II will eventually shrivel up.
The orchards In the vicinity of Linden.
Lodi and Acampo Will not produce
sufficient early fruit for the families of
the owners The apricots In these par
tIcular sections are very fine usually and
command good price. so the loss to
the orhariists will run up into the
Thousands Of dollars, The late fruit Is
not Affected.
Three weeks ago Ferdinand Mayer
and Eugenia Meyer were married.
Wednesday, morning Mayer committed
street, San Francisco. where Mayer
KEEP a butcher shop. Wednesday morn
Ing about G o'clock he arose and told
his wife that he was going out to
get some medicine, as he was feeling
III. She saw nothing in his man
rer Of actions to excite suspicion.
and went to sleep again. Half an hour
later she looked for him. and found that
he was not in the shop, as usual She
then searched for him upstairs, and
found his llfeless body in a closet with
bullet wound In the temple and re-
volyer in his hand with one chamber
empty Death must have been instan-
taneous. No one heard the report of the
pistol
Assistant United States District At
torney knight of San Francisco said
mat telegraphic Instructions had been
received from Washington to dismiss
me star route cases. These old suits
nined from the government by system
cover about half a million dollars. with
interest from the year 1882. The prin-
clpal sum was alleged to have been OBJ
hined from the governmnt by System.
auc frauds practiced in the charges
made by mail contractors and sub-con-
tractors for the carriage OF the mails
Ihese suits went to the United States
supreme Court in 1887 ON demurrer, and
numbered there three or four years
Mr. knight says II would he useless t.
prosecute them as the government has
no evidence on which n Judgment could
ee mad. The routes We're In Montana
Nevada and adjacent territory.
tuesday afternoon Charles Sextor
sI san Barbara, Cal, for Carpen.
VITA TO purchase gasoline engine
mtunesday morning he and his friend
,aui Higgins, went to the blacksmith
snop OF Higgins's father to make som,
,teded repairs to the engine. It wa,
.ouhd mat the boiler. wanted n new pip,
shn me men secured piece about foui
met long 1t was too long for the pur.
we and they proceeded to cut 1t. TIL,
p,pe was laid o n the anvil. Sexton helt
ae cutter and Higgins struck 1t will
aedge hammer. No sooner was tn,
Wv. wv struck than an explosion tool
.ase which hurled both men violentl,
wt ,he noor and wrecked the building
Mneh the neighbors reached the seen.
s.y found Higgins dead. his face ant
h,s MINUS irlghtfully mangled. and from
,s wounds 1t was evident that he die,
,s.huy; Sexton. though horribly in
;,su, sun possessed strength sufIlcien
ns,naple him to crawl away from tn,
sulng His feet were crushed, hi
ssrs We're blown from his hands an,
nece OF pipe was driven aimos
,.uEh MS body. Sexton lived an hon
NJ, tne disaster, utterlng heartrendin,
H.. Tor his mother. II seemed tina
ohiy earthly wish was TO see her