Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-19
WESTERN NEWS NOTES.
Items or Interest culied From
Various Exchanges.
MONTANA.

Various Exchanges
MONTANA.
The pioneers Of Montana are anti.
cipating a pleasant time next week
when theIf annual meeting win be
held. All who came 10 Montana
during the early period Of its settle.
ment is urged 10 attend and large
gathering Is expected a.s-
At the anatomical museum on
Main Street, above Quartz, there
are quite n number Of articles
worthy the attention Of students Of
nature. Among them Is a calf, born
in Leadville seven weeks ago. Ii
has eight legs, three bodies, three
ears, a double nose and two mouths.
IL only lived two days and is surely
n cnriOsity.-Butte Mining Journal.
The number Of divorces suits com.
menced during the present month
l. something remarkable Already
nine complaints have been flied
since August LIST In each case ez-
cept one, the woman Is the COM
piainant, and in that case the wo-
man has commenced counter action.
The story Of abuse and ill-.reaiment
applies in each case. The number
exceeds all the suits filled last
month.-HeleRd Journal. -f-
a group Of mining men were dis
cussing the past yesterday afternoon
in front Of the Cosmopolitan when
one Of them told about n dispute
two men had over a mining claim.
"They washed out a pan Of dirt
that made a fine showing, and n
dispute ut once arose over the right
TO the claim They went 10 law
and the man that won the suit paid
out $1,000 in court costs and attor-
ney fees, but when he went 10 work
his claim, he learned to his sorrow
and bitter disapI iintment that al
the gold was contained in that one
pln.-HeleRd Journal.
Butte, Mt, August lS.-Nearly
three thousand / sople gathered at
the race track this afternoon 20 wit
ness 4 wrestling match, Greco
Roman style, for $500 and so per
cent Of the gate receipts, between
the Jap, Matsada Serakichi, and
Pelre Schumacher, Of Anaconda.
The match was for blood, Shu-
macher winning the first fall in 22l
minutes. At the close Of the second
round the Jap secured the siran-
gler's hold on Schumacher and
threw him with such violence that
he was unable TO respond TO the
call Of time. The Jap wSs given the
match, winning at least $500.
Quinn, the California wonder, has
challenged the winner. ami time
and stake will be fixed later.
IDAHO.
Idaho City, Idaho, Aug. Is
Mrs. Prickett, widow Of III. T.,
Prickett, who was for many years
chief Justice Of Idaho, died at the
Warm Springs, two miles below
here, at s:l5 O'Clock this morning.
wori was received here last
Thursday that W. r. Sommercamp,
Sr-, had fallen down the shaft Of his
mine near DE Lamar and b.fore
help could arrive drowned in the
water at the foot Of the shaft. His
son was with him at the time Of the
fall and Immediately ran TO the De
Lamar mine for assistance, which
arrived too late. Mr.. S0mmercamp
was pioneer Of the Owyhee mining
country, having been Identified
with Silver City since the place
was started. He was known every
where in Southern Idaho. and his
death will be deplored by the entire
country.-Cd'd,0eN Tribune.
WYOMING.
4 kiln Of $4,000 brick is being
built at the rate Of 1000 a day al
the Newcastle, Wyoming, mines for |
Use in constructing coke ovens.
w.O. Owen hos taken a harome,.
ric measurment OF Laramie Peak |
aud found Il 10 he 9. $50 feet. This |
Is slii 10 lie the first exact me. sur
ment Of the mountain ever made.
a PARTY OF miners who have been
on Sheep mountain.
near the Colorado aud Wyoming
line, have discovered an immense
lead Of gold bearing ore, with some
silver and lead. The vein i 5 feet
thick and is shaftei for n depth Of
twenty teet.-SUiddHoe Republican.
Mr.. Frank FOo,e has the boss bear
skin. IL is big enough 20 cover the
'lOor Of a good sized room. His
1earship that furnished the skin was
1f the grizzly variety and mus; have
weighed at lels: 1000 pounds when
he strobe in ursaline majS .ty, the
iorgsis Of Jackson's hole.-Erdaston
IticftdiH.
Cheyenne, Aug. l5.-The body Of
a man was found on Tuesday near
.he Hopkins mine at Rock Springs.
The body was badly decOmpased.
4 letter found in one Of the rocket
showed that the deceased was
Christian Hansen, a gell-to-Jo
miner who disappeared from his
home near Carbon five weeks ago.
A knife was found near The body
Ind 1t is believed that the mau was
murdered,
Cheyenne, WEo., Aug. lS.-Ed.
ward Happy, a green cow-puhcher.
Sas lost in n snowstorm on the
Sweetwater River range last Feb
-uAry. Against the advice Of ex-
lerienced men he undertook a trim u
u ten miles and Couldn't make il.
I he remains Of horse and rider
we're discovered by hunter yester-
lay, twenty miles from any road.
Happy's body was in a fair state Of
and will lie SHIPPED 10
iis cid home in Ohio. II
CALIFORNIA.
Keenan, & Sons last circular FINN
he Chicago market SAYS: Some
ew Colorado andwyomiEg natives.
hin in flesh, sold as low as S2.75. h
should not come 10 market rs long ,
: there Is an ear Of corn inNebraska
o feed them on. No one makes ,
ny money by shipping anything
ut fat cattle 10 this market.-Lire
lOok Journal.
Several very rich specimens Of
old quartz have been received at !
he museum Of the State Mining
bureau from the counties Of Butte.
'lumas and Tehama. They We're Z
AIKEN frUm the Pala Alto, Rainbow. !
American Eagle, TullOch and Lowe
ND Feather River mines. Those :
rom the last named are Of esgecial
eauty and value aud were given by !
lexander Cameron. Two inter .