Show DEVOURED BY SHARKS horrible details of cf the do don n 0 juan tua n mai dasas ter or at ij 1 I 1 11 OTHER AND casualties desperadoes in denver rob eol and ana murder without rear fear of arrest another S if sheep war j SA SAN FRANCISCO aur aug 0 lo 10 further rf part particulars of th the e burn burning illg of the steamer don juan ot off tire the chinese coast are received th the d sp spanish alilis sh steamer don juan lei left hong kong for manila with a full crew arid and all the chinese th that a ri clotild be stowed away it in i the thirty miles off point fire was discovered in in between 1 decks it soon FOOD spread to 1000 cases of petroleum and then all hope of saving the ship was aban abana 1 I boned two life boal boats were destroyed by tile the flames arid and the others were cpa sized by the chinese and 11 sharks made short work of these and in this manner the second engineer quartermaster steward and second officer lost their lives 4 on oil the fire bein being discovered at al most all the chinese ran up thi the rigging and other high places As ag a the fir fire c increased in intensity the poor pool wretches dropped on deck deila arid into the fire others T overboard and were devoured by sharks those who reaal reached I 1 ed one oneus 1 I the boats fillet filled it to excess and 1111 the sharks leaped into the air air ta snatch their prey the panic wil wati fearful 11 1 tho chinese huddled aa kosiw os el iW t and filled th air with their moans the foro fore and after parts para of the burning vessel were full of people imploring assistance and the central portion of the vessel was like the c rater crater of a volcano sharks came in droves drove s and ana hundreds of them could ba seen around the steamer A fite nian succeeded in reaching ono one of tile the overturned boats and righting her lie he then went to the others und and managed to get two more of them on an even keel they were all kept at a distance and every everybody bod who wanted to get into them b had liti to run the gauntlet of sharks in this way ninety eight persons escaped and reached the shore after six sixteen lell hours of hard rowing they at once telegraphed for assistance si stance and the steamer san an tonii onil t was sent out when she reached the derelict three chinese more dead than alive were found in the ri rigging c ging the masts were of steel ai and id this made the total saved including the officers a and nd crew there were 3 people on board so that the sharks and flames must have devoured the don juan was towed into manila still on oil fire TOUGHS IN COLORADO DENVER colorado an aug 15 special to triine tribune A telegram was received at police headquarters hea quarters today stating that two men believed to be the murderers of john scanlan were at laramie city wyo ally 0 no effort will be made to go for the men the excuse being is no reward offered for their capture the inefficiency or of the police department part ment of this city has become notorious about two weeks ago scanlan was murdered by hobos the purpose being robbery two nights ago il II B on entering his drug store was murdered by two burglars who were in the act of cracking his safe sandbagging Sand bagging is a nightly occurrence even in the principal parts of the city from froin ten tell to fifteen burglaries are nightly itly and have been so common that the police department us use every endeavor to keep the cases from tile the reporters dissolute women swarm swarin the streets and beguile men from their business houses at night while their accomplices loot the stories in not a single eingle instance of murder or robbery have the police effected an arrest this state of affairs hus has existed since bince the hard times camo came and compelled the closing down of the mines tho the situ 4 aaion is so EO depolo rable that the citizens threaten to organize nn an old time vigilance committee and take the matter 1 in n their own hands hand 3 i THE WAR JACKSON ali 15 the trouble with the mites is at an all end the file posse has disbanded and quiet aci reigns ns babe burke jim jordan M and mack burke three of the worst men in the gang and the acknowledged leaders leader escaped by taking refuge 0 in salapa swamp kirk j james ames was killed fridia lie ile was captured in his bis field and put in chaice of a guard of eight Z i men to bo be lod lodged 0 ed in jail A mob of took him from the guard tied his hands behind him placed him in fi ont of an all oak tree and riddled his body with bullets lie ile makes the third man killed A plot to whip to death several leading adin ne 0 docs rocs who voted for jones in in the jones kolb gubernatorial nat orial contest lias has been unearthed hed the citizens of I 1 Mca are L panic nie stricken many have sold 0 put ut and those who could not find purchasers have abandoned their property and left it is reported that yeal sims brother of the notorious bob sims has joined with the mites and if this be C so further bloodshed will follow ayi TIIE STATEHOOD QUESTION special from washington says that the question of statehood for utah is likely to be held afi m abeyance until the regular se ses S 2 bian 1 on of congress there is no expectation pec tation that action will bo be taken it b y the territories committee upon th the various bills introduced looking towards the assumption by the territories of the full statehood rights until after the financial question has been disposed of the probability Kob ability is that any measure J king towards unconditional 60 for utah will be bitterly as wired in ill these dispatches ago al mays further n provid 7 ing no for the annexation of nevada ditl will meet with considerable favor and of course the tribune favors that move its reporter says says further your correspondent is informed that the subject is still being aping actively discussed among the senators as the best solution of the problem and that many mady of tile the most prominent citizens of utah among the gentiles as well as a among the members of the church favor this outcome judge Ifer II enderson iderson has bas held beld several talks with senator faulkner chairman of the committee on oil territories upon the subject ile he favors a strai straight alit statehood bill but holds bolds out no pr promise ornise of action upon the matter until the financial question is disposed of judge II lI enderson lunched today with delegate rawlins in the louse restaurant senator shoup of idalio idaho judge Good goodkin Nin of salt lake and mr mckintosh mackintosh a odthe of the same saile I 1 city left tonight for fort monr Monroe oe t to 0 spend a Sund sunday ayat at old point comfort secretary hoke smith has announced that on next tuesday morning 0 at 11 he will give a hearing 0 to all persons int interested crested in mining leases on oil the uintah indian reservation in utah WAR ON sheepherders colo aug 13 special to tribune Tri bunc at daylight 0 t this h is n morning bior nin g a body of armed an and d masked men went arent to the sheep slice camp of brown lynn co on oil the head of Pira parachute chute creek while the herders gerders were at breakfast and put a rope around the neol of one and at the muzzles of six shooters forced the others to turn back the sheep baing driven out of garfield into rio blanco county great excitement prevailed and of glenwood has been telegraphed to come and quiet the disturbance the scene of the trouble is in garfield county ten miles north of parachute and fifteen miles from debeque and is not in the same locality as the plateau sheep trub les tile the settlers arid and catt cattlemen lomen are excited and the trouble may yet have a serious termination as tile alie sheep men are arc collecting their forces and arming to go to the rescue of the brown lynn co |