Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-22
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Ing E-tate-Coai Miners VIII
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Idaho insane asylum. has been hon
orably acquitted from the sensational
charges preferred against him. not one
of them having been verified. The
asylum directors have been Investigate
ing the case for several days.
The Y. NJ. c. A., under whose aus
pices Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer,
was to have lectured in Denver Colo.
January %, received the following tele-
gram from his managers, Hathaway e
Herd: "Nansen positively refuses to
give any more LECTURES. Gone east"
Rudolph Bollingcr young rancher
living about eight miles from Stock
ton, Cal, died Wednesday evening
from the effects of fall from a wind
mill few days ago. He was fearfully
bruised, was almost scalped and sus-
tanned compound fracture of the
thigh besides having internal in
Jurles.
Two of the officers of the British
ship Pyrenees, Robert Mcmillan, the
chief mate, and David Monroe, next in
command, attacked the vessels stew
ard. Charles Chapman, at San Fran
cisco Friday night while he lay asleep
In his berth and so brutally beat and
kicked him that he now lies at the
point of death. Chapman is accused
OF bearing tales to the captain of the
vessel. hence the ire of the mates.
Leona Suckert Of Oakland, Cal. fol-
lowed an attempt to kill herself on
Saturday night with vicious attack
upon her nephew. Julius Evers, and
Wednesday the members of her fami-
ly had her committed to Agnews asy-
lum. Her attempt at suicide was with
n razor, with which she slashed her
wrist, and she would have succeeded
In her purpose but for the prompt and
courageous interference of her rela-
tives.
At o'clock Wednesday morning
Mrs. John Hess of Tracy Cal, shot
herself in the mouth With revolver,
inhicting a wound pronounced fatal
| The deed is supposed to have been
committed in fit of insanity. Mrs.
Hess Is 30 years of age and the wife
| of a wel-known citizen of the town.
| She has been i'll for some time and at
| intervals complained of her head
| troubling her She feared that she would
| become insane. and wednesday morn
| ing stated that her head felt very
! strange.
Among the operators of the Northern
Colorado coal mines it Is reported In
| Denver that the miners strike had
| been declared of and that the men Will
return to work on Monday morning.
| This Is believed to be the result of
| conference of the miners held at Louis
vile, at which the forces formerly en-
ployed in the Industrial, Leader and
| Imperial properties at that place were
represented. 1t is also stated that,
by q unanimous vote, the miners win
return to work upon the terms offered
by the operators of the northern Colo
RADIO properties.
Shinzero Matamoto, a Japanese of
| Oakland, Cal, has proved an assertion
which he was often heard to make
that he preferred death to life
L.. rAI t.gatr
| o'clock Tuesday morning he visited
the home of Mrs. Tama Yuwaoko Mt
| 67g Fifth street and after pleading In
| vain for the latter's hand In marriage.
| shot her three times and then turned
the weapon upon himself Matamoto
| lies upon slab at the morgue and the
woman Is at the receiving hospital,
where the physicians state that she
will recover from the three wounds
her lover inflicted upon her.
For more than an hour Wednesday
afternoon Gaitano Lanterni, an Italian
fisherman, battled desperately for his
| life in the boiling breakers opposite the
Oceanside House, and that he Is alive
| is due to a strength and courage al
most unrivaled, His elder brother
| Antonio, although considered the
| stronger man physically, was unable
to swim against the rough seas and
was drowned. Their boat lies at the
| bottom OF the ocean, Inc hCClupnt
took place about 1 O'Clock, and was the
result of the swapping of the gasoline
launch, Two Sisters. owned by the
| Lanterni brothers and operated Jointly
by them in the catching of crabs for
the San Francisco market.
For years past Fresno. Cal, has en-
joyed the unenviable notoriety In Fres-
no county for the number of large
dogs roaming promiscuously through
| h.a ctr utI nf
ownership in the shape of n police tag.
Within the past few days all these dogs
have disappeared and only the pet ter
riers, poodles and pugs remain. The
Kiondike WY claim at least 300 of the
vagabond CANNES of Fresno If the
present reports are reliable. 1t was
accidentally revealed Wednesday that
dogs are being systematically bought
or stolen to be conveyed TO training
quarters in the country, and shipped to
San Francisco. en- route for the Klon-
dixie.
The governor of Idaho has COM
menced mandamus suit In the state
supreme court at Boise TO compel the
state treasurer to transfer to the gem
eral fund the moneys held In the capit-
oil building fund. When the construc-
ton of the capitol building was au-
thoriZed, loan of $4,000 was author
lied for the purpose of meeting the
| cost. For this loan bonds were issued.
On September !, 1896, all the capitol
building bonds were taken up and paid
Since that time the fund has been ac-
cumulating, but 1t is no longer invested
in state warrants, but lies idle in the
treasury. The position of the treasurer
has been that there is no authority of
law for investing the fund since
the payment of the bonds.
While mentally deraneed Wednes-
day morning. Hugh N. Lund. lessee of
the Pearl house, IS Ninth street,
San Francisco, leaped or fell OFF the
roof of that building into the back
yard and died within an hour. He
was n native of Boston. Mass. and a
resident of San Francisco over thirty
years. During the greater part of this
period he was engaged In real estate
transactions and the management OF
apartment hotels, At the time OF his
death he was In his Gath year. About
eight weeks ago Mr.. Lund sustained
n fractured clavicle and other injuries
by falling Off street car This ac-
cident caused him to be confened to
his bed. Recently his sufferings We're
aggravated by attacks of delirium. 1t
is supposed that he met his death dur
n n nf