Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-11
EVENTS IN THE WEST.
ACTIVE SPECULATION IN BARLEY,


The output at the C. p. mines at
Almy. Wyo., has been limited to four
teen cars day instead of fifty.
Arrangements were made ut Sc
attic. Wash, Thursday, to transport
the remaining detachment of the gov
eminent relief expedition on the steam
er Lucille which sails from there next
Saturday.
The Bedrock Dredging company, a
West Virginia corporation, has just
completed the purchase of $50 acres
of placer land in the vicinity of Pla-
cerville. Ida. A dredging plant win he
put in Immediately.
Information from ogden telling of
the critical condition of Al Smith, who
was shot at Evanston, Wye, Sunday.
by William Anderson. resulted in the
latter's re-arrest Thursday, while he
was enjoying his freedom ON n $3.50
bond Later Anderson put up u $500
bond and was released. He will have II
preliminary hearing February 10th,
At San Francisco barley is now oc-
cupying a prominent place in the minds
of those Interested in the grain, owing
to the uncertainty of the supply.
Choice No. l brewing barley now COM
mands Sl.20. and fancy feed Sll0 Hat.
while the May options have advanced
since the opening of the year from sos
to 96iR cents GENITAL, or over 50 a ton
in six weeks. Speculation In barley
futures is therefore becoming very ac-
tive.
The police of San Francisco are in
vestigating the disappearance OF sew
eral hundred dollars which Samuel
Martinovich is said to have had on his
person when he went to his room in
the Europen hotel on February 9TH.
He was found dead in his bed at
O'Clock on the next afternoon, and
when his clothing was searched In the
presence of three witnesses by deputy
coroner. no coin was found. There was
"a check for $1,000, a promissory note
for 500 but no metal money. Martino-
vich was Il miner and arrived from
Butte, Mont. on the day before his
death which was attributed to gas
asphyxiation.
A receiver has been asked for to set
tie the affairs of the Rocky Mountain
OH company at Denver. Colo, the Ma
tional bank of Cleveland, o., making
the application. The bank claims that
soon after the organization of the COM
pany in 1890. Its directors executed
mortgage to the Central Trust com
pany of New York upon substantially all
of Its property. including its rights,
interests and franchises. to secure
bonds of the company amounting to
$500, 900. on February s, 1897, the com
pany borrowed of the bank the sum Of
$4,000, executing its note for the
amount. secured by thirty bonds of n
face value of $1,000, each of which the
directors stated was good and suf-
ficent security. The plaintiff asserts
that these representations were wholly
untrue, and that gross misrepresenta-
tons were made to secure the loan. 1t
is also alleged that the company is ut
terly and hopelessly insolvent.
Among the papers found in the room
of Baron Harden Hickey. who COM
mitted suicide at the Pearson hotel, Ell
Paso, Tex. Thursday was letter
which evidently refers to some plan of
operations in the Hawaiian islands. The
letter is signed by Ralston J.-Markoe,
who alleges that he is the duly author
lied agent of the royalist party in so
far as 1t is possible for any one to
occupy that position under existing cir
cumstances. and he makes "A PROPOSE
stion looking to the placing of Harden
Hickey on the island of Kauni as an
Independent sovereign. The news that
Baron Hickey had committed suicide at
FL Paso reached Riverside, Cal, by
private telegram addressed to the bar
oness, who residing at her home on
Brockton Square. The baroness can
give no reason that could have caused
her husband to have taken his life. The
couple had had no quarrels and were
exceedingly happy when together
Plans had been made for the baron to
spend the remainder of the winter with
his wife In Riverside. AS soon as the
news was received by Mrs. Hickey
telegram was sent to the chief of police
of FL Paso, directing that the personal
effects of the baron be forwarded to
that city at once. and that the body he
embalmed and forwarded to San Fran
cisco where interment will take place
in the family tomb. Baron Harden
Hickey and his wife arrived in Los
Angeles. Cal, about four years ago and
for n time entertained elegantly among
their circle Of friends They purchased
a handsome residence on Pico Heights,
and there the baron held bachelors
hall during visit his wife paid to her
father In the East. They also invested
rather extensively at Santa Monica,
and during the past two or three sea-
seasons Baroness Harden Hickey has
passed much of her time there. Latter
iy the baron has lived much alone.
and for year or more past spent most
of his time in San Francisco. His de-
parture from Los Angeles was not gem
orally known and the news of the sui
eide at FL Paso was the first intimation
that local people generally had of his