Show I VENTS IN TilE WEST A Record or Occurrences In Neighboring States and Territories SAN FRANCISCO THE BASE OF OPERATOINS Work on the nIIIhll WIopln Vrerked In fapnnrhlgVolunteers 0 the aiarehRhacking Death Wednesday night the Santa Fe railroad rail-road took from Prescott Arl 200 volunteers who have hn I ordered to report nt ann Antonio Tex The new steamer Senator made 1370 knots on the course assigned for her trial trip The Pacific Coast Steamship company accepted her and soiled for Seattle Another little eastern fishing schooner schoon-er with a company of gold hunter nn hoard ha reached San Francisco The Charles LevI Woodbury from Oloucen tr Maes ham arrived there having made the voYage In 135 days She nnr raw Iy escaped being wreck Id In the straits or Magellan Work at the Union Iron works San Francisco on the U S battleship Vt consln Is I delayed by the non arrUal of hr armor plates Otherwise the completion com-pletion of the vessel Is being rushed with all possible speed There area 3000 men employed In the yard workIng work-Ing day and night shirts The Untied States goernment has completed arrangement rOt burrowing the electric searchlight at Mount Lowe Cal It w111 he used ot night to sweep the bat and the Golden Ot This searchlight Wa et the time Of It construction the largest In the world It wa used at the Worlds Fair at Chicago The Nevada volunteer mounted riflemen rifle-men hove ben ordered to unite with the Second United States cavalry under < un-der Col Torrcy The point of nioblll Ing will be Carson City Volunteers are pouring In from all sections of the state and went Into encampment this Thursday morning Italian troops are rendezvousing at Boise as fast nn It Is I possible to do so Wednesday Capt I Iowmen company lea Market Lake while sixty men from Bingham and Fremont counties left Idaho rails and Thomas n Ilamer with a company of twentythree departed de-parted from St Anthony All were cheered vociferously on their departure depart-ure Historic Union Hall on Howard street near Third Ban Francisco event up In flames late Monday night furnishing the III department with as difficult and dangerous a task as has been set to Its hands this long time nut for the skill and energy of Chief Sulllnn and his men the story would have bn sorrowful telling Seldom have they done better work Charley Dean a Californiaborn Chinese will probably not be hanged for the murder or Ah Oow n young sfaveshVot 1 his own race on last Sf Valentines day lie Is I sure to escape conviction at the present trial because two jurors have taken his youth Into consideration and refused to concur In the Mews of the majority and the majority are unwilling to consent to a Ute sentence The ndvot or the death sentence agree with the mar darer who want to be hanged The to battalions or Infantry which are to make UI the complement or California foot soldiers which hate not yet been npPO1ol1Pd will be mad e up of two companies from Sacramento one from Gram Valley I two from rok ft VnI Stockton and from tlakeraflekl and one from Fresno Possibly to companies may be taken from the Second regl meat commanded by Col Ialrbnnk hilt It he can arrange It the governor will try to keep the Second Intact for mustering In Ali nn organization when the expected second call cornea from Washington The steamer City of I > awson built at North leach San Francisco ban been shipwrecked before she reached th water She wn to have hen launched Wednesday and towed around to 101 som street wharf to receive her M chlnerj 1 1v erythlm was ready for the launching the last obstruction In her way was knocked out and the boat began to slide toward the water Her stern just touched etl lay when the ways broke down and the City of Dawson Daw-son ended he first brier voyage In shipwreck She now lies with her stern In the water and her bow badly damaged dam-aged high and dry on the rocks The Colorado Federation or Labor In conwntlon assembled nt Colorado Springs has pledged the services of the 60000 labor unionists In that flat to the President of the United States In came of need In the existing war The resolution declare strongly for Cuban Independence and seconded everything that the government had done In the Interests of that country The convention decided against the contemplated bond Issue and called on Congress to cola the slllr or the treasury and If that Is not sufficient 11 to Issue legal 1 tender direct to the people I peo-ple The present war with Spain has Impressed rp pressed upon the people of San Francisco Fran-cisco the necessity of a telegraphic cable between that city and the Fnnl Ion IsInd which are located 23 mies wet of the Golden date A signal station sta-tion there could give early Informs then of the approach of a hostile fleet and would be of great Blue In time of pence n Incoming vessels 1 couldbe sighted much easier than Is I now possible pos-sible Governor lludd has wired to Senator White asking him to call tho attention of the administration to the matter A cattle would not cot mora than 35000 and i could be laid within a month D J Nelson an nd peddler mt with a shocking death on the Seventh street broad gauge trestle Oakland Cal I Monday afternoon while attempting attempt-ing to cross ahead of a local train The old man had evidently started fort for-t mole when he uses overtaken by the 130 oclock train The engineer In charge of the train thought that the old man would step to one side am the engine drew near and blew the nhlstle only once After that no further at tntlon was paid to him Some time after the train had passed the man Bled and bllnK body or Nelson was found In the mud where It hal fallen from the trestle As he was still breathing he ryas taken to the receiv Ing hospital but died almost immediately immedi-ately lie was terribly crushed about the hip and cheat lend his head was crushed A wall on the lot adjoining the chamber or commerce Lus Angeles Cat fell Monday morning killing C IlaloMch almost Instantly crippling Anton IusUh and Injuring several other laborers more or less severely The man killed wa a Sluvonlnn am were also those Injured A gang nr laborers under the direction or Foremen Fore-men Iuslch were back filling the wall with dirt from the Inside < excavation for the building being erected i by Henry Mortz To facllltat the work a staging about six feet high had been erected between the walls which here pinned together by heavy side beams Foreman Puslch was stand Jug between i the rails about 30 orlok when he noticed the staging begin to way Ile gavethe alarm but before the mn could gecape the wall fell In ward heavy steel bam crashing down with bricks and mortar Ceo Whlttell one of Ban Francisco leading business met and cannot left has been surd In tin superior court for more than n million dollars The plain tilt U Oscar Liming a son of the Into Nicholas lining and a brother lnlaw of hlttell Nicholas Lunlng died In HOC leaving an estate which was souse fluently appraised at morn than J7000 tiw fly his will he bequeathed the mil hut which he owned to his rive dill ilivn share and share alike No dlstrlb uUon or the estate line ever been nd Under the will Gen Whllt1I and M IL lnnKhorn were named executors On hlttill s advice the chll Iren unite their Interests In a corporation known as the boning company of w blow Whit tell war mad naillent DM Lang home the secretary The original In terest of Oscar T Lunlng In the corporation cor-poration was worth In the neighborhood of 11 TOO 000 This Is I held by Uhlttcll under two trusts which tuning now asserts he was Induced In execute UtfOUbl1 fraud and mtsrepresen letlon at a time when he wu Incapable nr transacting trans-acting business on account or his over Indulgence In liquor Th case takes the form Of a Putt In equity Andrew D Parker a prominent member Of the Nw York bar is I one or Luning attorney at-torney It Is I obvious now In the light of Commodore Peweys triumph at Manila that Ran Francisco will at once become the base of Important mllltery and Mal operations Before many das COOO aimed men will be encamped en-camped on the Presidia reservation It transpires that orders were Issue Wednesday directing the Fourteenth U S Infantry now stationed In the department of the Columbia to take station Immediately at Sin Francisco It Is I believed that further orders will bo promulgated to resemble all the or ganlzatlons of the Fourth United states cavalry at the Presidia Orders were received Wednesday from Major General II C lIlrrlam commanding the detriments of California and the Columbia Instructing Col Louis T Mori commanding tha pot nt the Presllio to select locations for the I encampment or six thousand volunteer troop from the states or Oregon Washington And California About lm men It Is I said 1 can be cared for on Angel An-gel Island It Is the opinion of Col Morris that some or the mn mnnning the batteries of heavy artillery there will be sent to Manila to man light batteries and that their places will to filled from among the California volunteers vol-unteers recently enlisted and about to le mustered Into the service of the United States At Rn Francisco much Interest Is I being manifested In local shipping and commercial circles regarding the ves eels available for the purpose of transporting trans-porting troops from the coast to the Philippines For seieral days past government officials have been quietly making Inquiries and Interviewing representatives of the Pacific Mall Steamship company J D Hprkol Do Co OoodII Perkins Co and other atoen a hip companies While no definite action has so far resulted It Ie I evident that noIIUon are under way for the aqulremnt hI the government or some or the finest vet sets 1 sailing from that port In addll lion to the City of Pekln which It Is I understood has already been cured the Australia which ran for years be tween Fan Francisco and Honolulu Is I most easily available as she has been laid up for over a month past She could easllj be fitted up to accommo date at least 1 COO troops TIle Marl Wen which arrived Wednesday night from Sydney could also be turned over tn the government at short notice The City or Sydney now on rout from Panama Is I due there on the 9th and 1 Is regarded as one of the most probable charters by the government WI she has room for ot least 150o troop |