Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-05

! be completed for several years.
After the surveys which are in
| progress are complete ,be Indians
have five year IN hiCh 10 select
I their RllOtments Of land. The
Indian agent is then given a years
time in which 10 give land to those
Indians who have made no seleC-
I tons for themselves. At lcls. seven
years viii intervene before the
whites will get n chance at any OF
the land.
CALIFORNIA.
Tulare, Aug. AT S O'Clock to-
night fire destroyed a dwelling
house IN West Iulare owned Ly
: Oscar Evans and occupied by two
iadieS, one Of whom was in Fresno
and the other il is feared was iuTuei.
The woman vas spen 10 enter the
house and light a lamp. 4 few
minutes later the house WAS in
I flames and the woman could not
he f0uni. The cause Of the
hre is supposed - he the ex-
plJsion 81 lamp. The loss and in
surauce are unknown.
Fresno, August "a special
messenger to the RcD,5licam from
I Fresno fiats, valley east Of here
in the mountains, brings wOrd that
on Thursday night a company Of
Indians rode up To n saloon kept hy
one 4, ok AMI demanded whisky.
This was refused them, and As they
grew Troublesome, they were driven
out. Fearing bodily injury. Cox
locked himself in until he thought
the Indians had leR. When lac
went out later ne was surrounded 10y
Indians who had lain in ambush
aud was nearly beaten TO death with
pickejs that were torn from fence.
COX's skull was broken Ouen, aud he
is not expected 10 live.
Learning Of the attack, posse Of
citizens summoned Samuel Ross. an
ex-cOnstable OF MERGED, and t.
gether surrounded the Indians.
One Indian started 10 run. \ sho.
was fired, which was unsuccessful.
The crowd then called on Ross 20
wound the Indian. Ross fired, the
bullet entering the groin. The
wound IS expected TO prove fatal.
Tacoma Aug. 2.-William Buck.
Of san Foiipe. Cal, who has been
spending n few DAYS in this city. To-
day had Z valise in each hand and
was about % board the train for
Portland when two strangers
brushed up against him and robbed
him Of so9BJ in stocks. notes and
cash which ne carried in an inside.
Taistcnat pocket. The Portland
police were given n description OF
one OF the men. Buck is % years
old and WAS on pleasure trip.
Redding, Aug. .. - The stock
holders Of the Eureka teIluriun
mine are quite elevated over a new
find in their incline shaft. After
pumping the shaft out and sinking |
five feet a fins ledge Of gold anu |
telluTium ore was discovered. The
experts Mad proclaimed tine mine no /
good, but this new discovery shows I
that 4 ledge rich in precious metal |
does exist. The mine is three miles |
from Redding and will help our |
city.
Eureka, Aug. 2.-It is reported |
and generally believed here that a
syndicate OF capitalists, supposed h.
be English, are attempting TO buy
up nj. the redwood numbering inter
e-ts OF this county. THE operators
are working very quietly, but the
Chronicle correspondent has Il on
good authority that most Of the
holders Of large timber tracts have
already either bonded To sell or
nameI prices at which thy are
willing to part with their hOl ings.
There is considerable uneasiness
among business men growing out
OF these reports, many thinking
that the REFRESHING now exercised
by the luml-er manufacturer COM
j. only a shadow compared
with what may occur II foreign
capitalists secure control OF the prin-
ciIal industry Of the country. Il
Others seem to think that q syndi I
cate with unlimited capital would
see the necessity Of constructing n
that their product might
reach a market.
Mrs. McCauley, a young woman
who Il employed at q cannery al I
Third and Townsend streets, called
1t the city receiving hospital yes
.erday TO be treated Tor an incised
In her neck inflicted by n
-azor In tine hands Of her husband,
John McCauley. The husband Is Il I
worthless sort Of fellow VINO sends
MS wife out TO work that be
nay remain in drunken idieness-
Early yesterday morning he went |
nome drunk as usual aud de- 5
handed his wife's daily earnings.
She refused to give them up, say
ng that there was nothing to eat
n the house and that herseli and
title baby were all but starving.
insisted on tue surrender {
'fthe money, and his wife refused {
rith increasing firmness- The
irunken fellow then bec. ne angry,
md seizing a nzor from 4 table !
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