| Show EVENTS IN 11 + WEST I A Record of Occurrences In Neichborlng Stales and Territories AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF A FORTUNE so for Copper JIIrCllt Out Its TonsalIod 01 a Suidldle hlacue r mllallo 1 Tho Untied States government today to-day Thursday opened a reirultliiB or lice at Portland Ore for tho enlistment ot men for the navy Mike McCornlck ot Pennujlvanla und Joe Kane of the Excelsior Athletic club fought an elghlrollnd draw Wednesday night In the Excelsior club room San Francisco Jlcv J Avery Shepherd one of the bent known Rplscopiil ministers In northern California died at Santa nora today Thursday aged S3 He nos In Montgomery Ala when the Col n federate congre en hd Its nl Res Ion and delivered tho opening prayer Ho Wll8 a prominent Mon Benjamin Smith a clerk woe round dead In tied at his home 207 Tlllmore street San rranclsco ot 2M oclock Monday morning lie had born killed by COM which escaped from the tube of an extension Baa amp At the con r office his tenth was considered I accidental Smith was 40 years i old a net ve of England and married 1 A tent of habeas corpus 1n the case I of Dr V I Forrest an alleged embezzler em-bezzler of Nw York has hn dented by Judge Shaw of Lou Angeles Cal Forrest attorneys announced that they gave up the case and he was turned over to Surgenl Price of the New York lOllee force who has given the doctor one day to dear UI his business affairs He will then he taken East to be tried The steamer Valencia which will nail from ban Frunclnco nest Sunday for the Copper river will take away three government expeditions with hr One expedition Is going north to survey the mouth of the Copier river another la I going to Cooks Inlet and the third In I to survey an AIlAmorlean route via the Valdei pass to the headn liters of Copper river A teteftmm I from Cap Lord of the Valencia save that the VIde VI-de pass Is I now In excellent condition and the gold hunters are coming and going over It continuously The news given In an Associated Preen dispatch from New York to the effect that the reorganization committee commit-tee of the Union ruclflc Denver St Gulf Hallood had secured control of the Colorllllo Central bonds and that nn ely reorganization It now probable was confirmed Wednesday at the general gen-eral omca 01 the road In Denver The assurance that the Unit roM will continue con-tinue to be operated as on Independent line Is I very gratifying to the people of Colorado who expel the estc m to 100 or great benefit to the Rocky Mountain region To the scandal of Santa Clara county Cal and In defiance of the laws of the state William O wald a wealthy and well kllnn butcher or sn Fran risen has mrld Ccllo Owllld his brothers daughter find Is I now living with hr an his mite at tann Clara In one 01 the IInel and mot expensive furnished houses 01 the little town Ills neighbors and not II few 01 his many relatives ore much wrought up over the matter hut Mr grid Mr Owld are not at all perturbed The marriage took place on March 16th on II tug outside out-side the leads and In I saId to boo hn solemnized by a clergyman A cult Involving the title of the Los Mgnoo ranch In Contra Costa eoun ty Cal one of the largest heat farms In file tate was begun at Martinez on Saturday against the Ravings and Loan Society of that city Susan 1 I Vllllarni Is I the nominal plaintiff although she represents other Interested Partlenand he makes the contention that the hank has held a mortgage on the property In the um 01 119000 since 1816bllt has held posseeion or the ranch since that date and has collected In rent and prom the um or > J7SOOOO in excess of the amount necessary to satUfy the mortgage mort-gage Indebtedness A mild series tion was created In the College of Physicians and Surgeons San Francisco Monday by a woman named Men Nellie Dregr the wile of Charles Ureger a foundryman Mrs Dredger attempted suicide by cutting hr throat with a rauor Inflicting a wound about four Inches In length but not very deep The blood was flowing freely from It and frightened neighbors carried the woman to the college where Dr a C Macdonald was delivering a stlches In the wound found that the wind pipe and jugular vein were not touched and sent the onion to St Marys hospital where she Is reported as doing well Mrs Sarah E Check of Oakland Cal Is I anxiously aWDltlng the arrival or a fortune due her from the government govern-ment or Slam She has urged her claim for the years through Washington am vial and United States Minister Bar rett stationed at Bangkok Within the past few days she has received word that has led her to believe that the for tune Is I near at hand Eighty thousand dollars Is I the mount of her claim 11 accrued 1 from the seizure nr the properly proper-ly of her late husband Dr M A Check The properly consisted of n number 01 immense rafts or teak logo end n herd 01 elephants While In Elam the doctor secured control of ex IcnsUo teak forests With Ito aid ot elephants he carried the timber to a navigable stream where It was coma cntetl by the government which had given him permission to cut It The suit of the Burke Land and LiveStock company vs the WrllPar go Co Involving the sum of JTOOO was called up at niatkfoot Ida Wed nrdy but continued for the term This Is I a ee growing out 01 a loon or 16000 10 the CIII company by the bank some years ago To secure this loan a mortgage was glen on the tock and other Property owned by the Cattle company The pllllnllte prays for a release 01 the mortgage alleging that same h already hen Ullod Th flank claims that the mDjor portion 01 the amount Is still unpaid and pending pend-ing tills action n receiver was appointed appoint-ed and Is I In posflcslon of the property mortgaged under direction ot the court It Z Johnson or liaise W T Reeves or Pocatello and City Attorney Halt 01 Salt rak represent the plaintiffs sere Dlrkon and Judge Marhall 01 Halt rAke and F H Dietrich ot Blackfoot are representing the defend ant antA A story from Hun Franoleo tens or the arrest of Jesse Roberts for the most shocking case of cruelty that has been recorded for years It appeam that last Tuesday Roberts who via driver for John Tuttle the contractor was haulIng haul-Ing a load of lime to tho Affiliated colleges col-leges On a steep grade paved l with bitumen where the horses could not gt u rooting he made a long nnd unsuccessful un-successful attempt to urge them hut foiling he got off and the Judo animals ani-mals hd n rest while he regaled himself him-self In n nlghborlng Mloon Then Hobert renewed his endeavor and be file IInueceIIII went up 10 the hoe which to his mind well the chief offender offend-er and grabbing his tongue sawed It acrom the teeth until It wan severed lie put the lace In his coat packet 1art of the load was finally taken art and n trail of blood marked the way to the top Tho badly decomposed body of a mn a bottle ot carbolic acid almost empty u pocket knife and twenty e lIla are all that Is hlt 10 tell the tale 01 a 0111 else near CtroI1 Cal From the condltloll or the body It mould seem that the man took his life fully three weeks alto The corp was Uncn nlsaLle and every possible mentis of Idenllflenuon on the clothing had ben destroyed be-n the nativity of the mnn could nol be established No one Ibo saw the body or learned the mtoo gee details ohalned could recall having ten the mm In Cut tror11Ie and therefore I there-fore the cause of death Is t still as deal > a myotery liS the name of tho dead The body mils found late Sunday evett Ing In the lIIows near th rivers bank at 1IIorooojo The suicide was a middle aged 1 mail weighing about 195 pounds bold headed andy complexion dressed In a brown check suit and blue shirt The mon In I supposed to be from Sal Francisco nnd from appearances mUll hole hen wU to do |
