| Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS the hearing of charles erswell brewell for murder now in progress at cheyenne wyo is producing evidence tending to show the innocence of the accused omaha stockman nov 14 george moody C H hale and H fratt were all here from echo utah with two cars of cattle each A court martial will convene at port fort bayard N M november in accordance cor dance with orders from general otis department commander at denver colo the trial of H C st clair for the murder of john decker terminated at idaho city wednesday and the jury has returned a verdict of murder in the first degree he will be sentenced saturday patrick sullivan formerly of eureka utah whose wife left for butte mont some time ago to join her recreant ehouse has again deserted his wife and left her in that city penniless with four children to look after the following races have been announced for butte and anaconda mont next season butte thirty one I 1 i dayd day 0 d J uly 2nd and to august J ath anaconda to stakes nev seventeen enteen in number aggregating charles erswell a Weste Wester mUnion nUnion telegraph operator at cheyenne wyo is being tried in that city for the murder of private daniel mccrimlisk of the eighth infantry on june last the trial was commenced tuesday and will continue for several days the miners union has made mad e itself nani manifest fest in butte mont by objecting to a football game to have been given by leadville coa team some there of the members of which belong to the militia and took part in the recent state strike there the game is now om the evening denver post has a damage suit on its hands the plaintiff in the case being margaret E cody who alleges dedam defamation aaion of character I 1 in with the having her name connected denver enver end of th the e great gould con exposed by that paper a couple of months ago A frightful accident occurred at the mont at 2 smelter anaconda low lower r k tuesday morning which may result in two deaths michael crogan and a man named kelly were at work to in a pit under the calcine furnaces to torch ach holding in some maner a a gallon of oil was upset and the av were so badly burned before they 8 could be rescued that death seems lire an alleged german nobleman giving r the name nam L of count otto wech elen disi disappeared suddenly from san v zone jose county cal about a month ago leaving many creditors and a fair bride the bride however ap young pears to be the only person who does the story of not regret his departure the alleged counts experience in that county partakes considerably of the romantic romant fe harry is arnet who killed his girl wife in a brutal manner at angels camp cal may last has been convie convicted ted of murder in the first degree and the jury fixed the penalty at life tor for some hours the jint stood seven for the death penalty ad and flap for life the verdict Is unsatisfactory is factory ra as his crime was a cold blooded one armets wife was 16 years id an all attempt was made sunday night teet to et fire to the building occupied by the capital gas company at sacra mento cal two employed emp loyes of the company entered the place at the conclusion of their nights work along the companas comp anys lines and discovered a blaze in the rear they saw two men running into the alley but could not overtake them the fire was extinguished without loss mrs mary A monroe who lived alone in a little cottage at san diago cal was killed by an electric car at national avenue and thirtieth street sunday evening at 6 the accident was due to her deafness without noticing the approaching car she stepped upon the track directly in front of it her limbs were horribly mangled she was a widow 68 years old clara fallmer held at the county jail oakland cal to await trial for the murder of charles ladue has professed Christ christianity anity her profession of faith and acknowledgment of penitence were made sunday afternoon to a party of christian from alameda who held special services for her in the ward of the jail she participated in the services and prayed with the little group that came to offer her the consolation of in all probability brown alias neely the burglar who was arrested several nights ago by detectives ryan and odea of san francisco will have to stand trial for participation in the ukiah stage robbery in which J R barnett was killed sheriff johnson of mendocino county with the aas assistance istance of ryan and odea have already obtained sufficient evidence against them to warrant them in charging them with being a party to the crime I 1 I 1 by the explosion of a missed shot in the big six mine at leadville colo tuesday thomas cassidy had his right arm blown off his left hand mutilated and one if not both of his eyes destroyed william gallagher was badly cut in the face and both eyes were seriously injured cassidy can hardly recover the men were alone in the place when the accident occurred and in spite of their injuries dragged themselves feet to the shaft where they signaled the engineer the cause of the failure of the delta county bank which closed its doors at delta colo tuesday is said to have been poor collections and the fact that J E mcclure president of the bank of montrose which failed recently was at one time vice president of the delta county bank although he is at present but a small stockholder in this bank th delta county bank also had some money tied up in the montrose county bank the assets are stated to be and the liabilities captain emil a mariner and resident of oakland cal has enlisted the aid of the society for the prevention of cruelty to children in an effort to locate his wife bena christl tl ti ansen whom he says has left his home to fly by with a handsomer man the individual whom Chrt accuses of wrecking his home and happiness is named lief Eric brickeen keen and was employed in a powerhouse power house there but the only evidence the mariner holds against him is the fact that he too is mf ml alaire aire row ard cannot be found mayor snyder of los angeles cal with a small army of policemen at his back intercepted an attempt by the pasadena and pacific electric railway company to laya lay a track on octavia street sunday morning the company has no franchise covering this street but for some time the owners of the road have been endeavoring to reach the wholesale portion of the city without running over portions of other companies tracks in order to be able to put on a line of express cars a number of which have already been built and delivered to the company gov of idaho evidently believes in brevity as witness the following thanksgiving proclamation issued tuesday the president of the united states having by proclamation designated a day of thanksgiving and prayer to almighty god for fop manifold blessings I 1 prank frank steinen burg governor of the state of idaho do hereby proclaim thursday the day of november A D 1897 to be observed by the people of the state of idaho with such services as will best beat carry out the spirit of this hallowed and time honored custom al hayman Is as good fas as his word he has disposed of all of his theatrical interests in san francisco and arranged to turn into cash every bit of property he has in the west he arrived there on thursday last attended to everything to his satisfaction and left monday eining for the east there was a short decisive meeting of the stockholders monday afternoon and as aa a result the al hayman corporation organized in 1891 will soon be something of the past and if be read the firm of friedlander gottlob co will soon control the theatrical interests of san francisco J W moss a well known real es estate tats dealer who has lived at oakland cal for years and become widely known is missing under circumstances that beadi his friends to believe that he left because he was hopelessly in debt andl and because he loved a woman he could not win moss owed mrs H dark clark of ninth street and to others various sums aggregating his financial troubles worried him of f late and he had been drinking he confided the fact to a friend that he loved a woman who had rejected him and that he was hopelessly in debt no trace of him can be found it to is believed he has gone to some distance to retrieve his losses the knife of the highbinder has agaid flashed on its mission of death in ilk chinatown san francisco and as the result its victim lies dying from nearly a dozen ghastly stabs in marking markine its prey for slaughter the hatchet man this time selected one of the highest in rank of his enemies A priest was waa chosen chow kung sang is the victim one of the highest priests of phd see cups a man who had been marked for death once before but who escaped escape by leaving the state the priest llam in two small rooms the room of the ning yung company at at 1018 stockton street sharing hla bin dwell ing with an assistant who slept in ft small room above thomas W wright one of the best known residents of santa crux cal died monday afternoon aged 73 years he went to santi santa cruz crua county in 1849 and resided there continuously until his death he was elected county surveyor in 1850 and served for thirty two years prior to going to mr wrights life was an eventful one when the mexican war broke out he h enlisted and served throughout the war as sergeant in a company of arkansas volunteers ve he was in general urals brals command and fired the first american Amp rican gun at the battle of buena vista during the closIng of the sargeant served in the quartermasters department murderers corner san ban francisco has had another homicide added to its already long list at ocl oCIC monday morning william austin stabbed and almost instantly killed james fannon in the saloon known a aa the city of guttenberg at the northeast corner of jackson and I 1 streets a locality which the police annals show has a bloodier bloodser blo odier ree rec cord co than any other in the city george follmer a companion and friend of fannon was also a victim of austins akstins Aus tins rage and received five knife wounds none of which have proved serious all three of the men and the woman maggie odea who is known as butchertown Butcher town mag among her companions of the barbary coast bear liard hard characters in the st claire murder trial at boise ida tuesday a number of witnesses were examined their evidence brought out the fact that st claere had clothing belonging to decker in his possession after the murder also the team a watch and purse partially identified as belonging to decker st claire spent money lavishly the testimony showed that decker was shot in the head while he slept the body was then wrapped in a blanket and a rope tied around the neck this was attached to the axle of the wagon and the body dragged out into the hills the rope wits was then cut and the murderer drove back A piece of the rope has As still hanging from the wagon when st claere was arrested sacramento and courtland cal will be shocked to hear of the fate that has overtaken mr and mrs harry crouch who are members of two of the best families in the state both the crouches are now being treated at an institute for fop the morphine habit but it is doubtful it if either will be able to break the bonds that hold them though they are tooth both quite young the crouches have been indulging in morphine and cocaine for over two years mrs crouch underwent a surgical operation some time agnand fell under the power of morphine at the time she taught the use of the deadly drug to her husband and leo him into taking it until now his condition is rather the worse of the two both husband and wife axe are shocking chocking to look upon and are physical and mental wrecks chinatown san francisco is apparently on the verge of another outbreak similar to the one that terminated in the murder of little pete within a week two of the leading members of the see yup tup company have received letters warning them that unless they divide with their fellow mem bers a sum of money said to have been vace received ived from the sam yup society in consideration of calling off the old boycott death would be their lot the two joon so marked are lee king chow of wah WiLh tune Lu lung ngKee igee co commercial street and chan mon wal wai of woo on lal lai company sacramento street while both men inen outwardly profess to have no fears regarding their personal aers onal safety they axe are taking morel more than the usual precautions to in boute joute their personal property the main winery at the celebrated nj el quito faavi near Saxa saratoga toga cal and one of the residences there was destroyed by firle fire early wednesday morning the property belonged to E B E goodrich Goo orich who resides on the ranch with the winery was destroyed gallons orwine of wine of the vintage of 1895 valued at SO 50 cents per gallon the machinery for crushing olives and converting them into commercial shape was also destroyed some of this was imported from italy the origin of the fire fife to is not known the total loss is placed at between and 15 with only insurance the family residence and a smaller winery escaped there are some suggestions suggestion of spontaneous combustion several italian fan families dales who occupied the burned burne d residence lost everything they had JH 8 a bakery baker chile delivering bread monday morning between 4 and 5 near the water front santa barbara cal was startled by a blinding light that flashed out of the sky and which lost itself with a hissing sound in santa barbara channel he says that the light was so brilliant as to frighten his horses the meteor made a roaring sound as it went through space some who did not see the phenomenon claim to have heard it although not knowing at the time what it was the baker said it sounded bounded like an electric car going at high speed maglio a fisherman who was tending his nets claims also to have seen two meteors the first falling at 3 and the second after 4 he said the second seemed to break into two parts descending into the ocean with a great splash suit was wag instituted at san francisco wednesday afternoon by nellie odonnell against henry ii byrne cecil byrne daisy B byrne maria S murphy and eugene P murphy heirs of J M byrne a late well known capitalist there to recover the value of fifty shares of spring valley water company and other stocks and bonds not given in complaint miss odonnell was for years the trusted housekeeper of J M byrne and the stocks mentioned she maintains were placed in the safe of her employer for her use after byrnes death a will was found which disposed of his property to his relatives she maintains that the stocks and bonds were in an envelope addressed to her and that henry T byrne obtained possession of them and converted them to his own use hence the suit an unknown man was caught between the wheels of a broad gauge train monday night as it passed broadway oakland cal in its busiest hour and was torn to pieces in sight of many people the man left san francisco at arriving at seventh and broadway at no one saw him when he fell but the presumption is that he tried to rush through the gates when the train was in motion and lost his footing his body was dragged nearly to franklin street the head was crushed and both legs were mangled the man was clad in a plain cheap suit and wore a brown straw hat he was evidently 45 years of age and a laborer he wore chiri chin whiskers A police whistle and 50 60 cents were found upon his person but nothing that could lead to his identification policeman jack murphy of oakland cal was tossed fifteen feet in the air by the berkeley local train monday night and acid escaped with a cut on his elbow and a bruise on his left side murphy in company with sergeant john morrison Morr lson went to the sixteenth street station to arrest four runaway boys wanted in san franoisca Franois Francl sep cp they located them on a freight train |
