Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-10-24
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
A Record Of Occurrences In Neighbotrr
States and Territories.
AN ENGINEER CRUSHED 10 DEATH.
Tennessee soldier stabbed In the Back -
Tive sailors kidnapped Alleged
shortage -Ais,kan usri.hipa


the Interior. arrived IN San FranclscD
today Monday. HIS visit % ihc coast
j. partly Tor pleasure but chiefly Tor
business reasons.
The engine OF the caatb1und train on
ihe santa Barbara. cal. branch uf the
southern racnhc ran On she track near
IHmuluH station and Eurncor Davls
Wua caught under the cab and crushed
o. death. The fireman 1u Che engine
was seriously but not fatally Injured.
Richard Chctwood o. Company I.
First tennessee, was stabbed in the
| back this ttiuudayl morning while loo
q San Franchise saloon. Chctwc1I was
IN The provost guard and was trying 20
arrest 1n unknown Tennessee private
when the latter stabbed him with a
hayonct. Chetwood'a condition is critl-
cal
Major Guy l. Eddie has been chosen
/ hy the army medical department 10
succeed Major ". 3. MaituUau. 90 .nt
blal Iowa reg.ment az thu clmm.ndns
officer ~ the PruHldiu hospital He
viii eventually be placed as ne head ~
thc ucA hlTfltai which o. about 90 Doe
erected ai the Preside at "a cost W $40.
Ogu. Major Matthews has been granted
"a thirty days Through.
Near isadvllc. Colo.. sunday. Mrs
Clrn1iua shea and her nye-year-1id
/ daughter Margaret were struck aud
/ killed by a 100 Grando Western pas
Hcuger train The mother and child
| were returning home from church along
/ The railivad track The engineer blew
/ Che whistle and Mrs. shea lefi the track
l but returned 81 save hor daughter
I when both were Instantly killed.
\ dispatch from Seattle lys that the
I bark Highland Light. which has been
ipadinK rual at the suIth-CoNc bunkora.
ala not atil sunday fpr san Francisco
owing 90 an Unforeseen occurrence.
ACp0r9lrH SO the story " the captain
Two boats loaded Nltn mon came uut
~ the Highland Light hul boarded her.
They were armed with pistols and took
i've sailors away By force. The captain
would uut give any iNuml.ou ~ his
opinion as 90 the cause uf the alleged
kidnapping.
Tho nominating committees u the
Republican and auti.TcllUr Silver Re.
publican parties were in session, AZ
Denver the greater part 10 sunday AMI
until midnight. but failed g. agree on q
c0mbnatlun ticket Tho road commit
tee W.Ii meet aElin on Wednesday next
Tor tho purIsrc % framing an INDIE
pendent iickct which viii b. placed ~
the held. Several names are under cln-
sideration for che head " THIS ticket
/ but 81 definite selection Will Doe made
unill The meeting on Wednesday. There
nov seems TO be- no prospect " the tWu
furccn coming 10 an understanding on
the question of merging thc tickets.
4 detachment Of Captain Abcrcrom-
] hic'a surveying party, consisting u II
men under Lleut, Kelly u, =, \, ar
rived az seattle shls lMlndny1 morunE
from cook Inlet on tho steamer AK.
The schooner Woodbury. arrived from
C1uk Inlet with 80 mlurrf r. NJ, Stone
~ HOLSTER. Cal, . passenger. brings
news of the accidental shooting Of a
hrlther-in-law Of j. a. Jlfklna, OF
scranton. Pa. SEPT. .. The man was
kuown O. stone only by the name Of
Phi. While crossing a aver his pistol
fcli out Of his bolt ani VAS discharged.
Another passenger on che Woodbury.
waa Andrew Williamson who has been
IN she Cook Inlet c0uutry several years.
New gold strikes are reported about
forty miles % Atiln whore Il " said
frJn u 20 o. ~ she pan IL regularly
washed out
An ALLEGED shortage has been dlscov.
crud In the stores u The quartcmas;cr'a
department Of she Iowa regiment
amounting. IN the value Of the missing
hoods 10 several hundred dollars COL
Llper ommind.ug the Iowa regiment,
admitted that he feared che i1aa would
amount sEtl the hundreds OF dollars
though Go exact extent could only De
determined boy a careful survey, which
tcHmeuim QuarlcrmlHtcr Cady had al
ready undertaken. he said Il was his
tntDnuUu 90 pat some competent ac-
tIuutan.a at work upon the books and
stores of she department. The colonel
rtid that 70 was biz conviction that 10
loss through dishonesty could possibly
have occurred and whutuvcr It, eN-
tent he believed that 4 would be found
60 have arisen mrrrly through uarrlcsu-
mes or turNpeflrnpo % fhuae who had
charge OF me Issuing OF the supplies.
T. 4. Baker, VI Portland. Oregon, who
arrived from AArka sunday night says
he mot two mon and "a woman az ska
quay who had Just nnirhod a trlp VI
lncrcdible haTdahlps over The Edmonton
trail. They were Henry Mitchell aud
WIFE. OF Goldeniaic, and George te-
Fcvrc. OF Spokane. Who len Spokane
fourteen months ago FOR the klondiko
/ hy tho overland route. When they
F.atted they had 1000 pounds of pro.
| visions and q horses Now they have
nothing. An their supplies and animals
were lost, aud they consider themselves
fortunate in having escaped with their
lives. Thry saw provisions scattered
along the trail from the slime they were
we'll up lu the Interior until they left
for the coast and found several graves
of those who had pvrahed In attemTr-
Ing a. reach the gold fiolda several
| dimes they lost thrit way, and Il was
only by good fortune that the trail was
found again, After travelling several
hundred miles ali pcrcelylng thar 10
was useless 10 attempt to set through
~ keeping 90 the regular route. they
made directly Tor ihe coast, going down
one Of the rivers 20 tho south OF Ska
/ fFtiny.