Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-14
WESTERN NEWS liens.
Swiss Celebration.-A Giant Tree
For The Worlds Fair.-
Tramp Killed.


CALIFORNIA.
The Swiss residents OF the Pacific
Coast united last Sunday in cels..
brating the anniversary OF the taitI.
OF Sempach. 4 Procession with
music playing and eolors flying t.s-
FADED The streets u san Francisco
The various Cantons n Switzerland
were represented by twenty-.ws lit
te girls dressed in white, crowned
with green wreaths sashed with red
ribbons and bearing shields inscrib-
Ell with coats Of arms. William
Tell, with his crOss-bOw and culver
OF arrows, accompanied 10y his son.
anu Arnold Won Winkelried, the
patriot, who sacrificed his life with
cool deliberatiOn for the liberty OF
his oou try, had places Of honor.
There were about lu0) persons in
line.
NanDOOrman's great redwood
tree for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair has arrived in san Francisro
from Porterville. Three fat cars
were required 10 haul the exhibit 10
the city, as il weighs about 10000
pounds. IL will beexhibited at the
Mechanics Fair prior to being
shipped 10 Chicago. The section OF
the tree was taken from Mammoth
Forest, in Tulare County, Califor-
uia, within thirty-five miles Of the
thriving and rapidly growing town
OF POrterville. It was cut from a
NfHssaaaF HHHan -. 4.
ing at an altitude OF 65s5 feet, and
vas severed from the parent tree >
feet above the stump, at which
point the thee measures 60 feet in
circumference. OF c0unse the tree
was considerably larger at the
stump, but a section from the base
could not be cut for the purpose Of
transportation for the simple reason
that a solid cut was taken - feet dia-
metrically, and feet in height, and
that was the maximum Of the rail-
way freight limit on fiat ears. The
entire piece Of wood consists Of six
teen sections, n follows: The lower
section j. foot in height 10y % feet
in diameter, all in one solid cut,
weighing -. rs pounds. This will
Ice arranged a. a floor, placed on nine
elegantly carved and enormous pe-
d,-stals made Of wood Of the same
tree. The next Gu, i : feet i'm height
by % feet in diameter. which i hOl-
lowed out and will be placed on the
door cut. The whole Of this re-
markablc curiosity will form n sort
Of hall, and will accommodate about
100 people, and will he entered 10y
swinging door made out Of one OF
the portions OF the second section.
Two hundred and fifty incaniescent
lights will illuminate the section ill.,
side and out, and a number OF skilled
wood-carvers have been engaged 10
manufacture souvenirs for disiribu-
ton among the visit0rs.-ClTOEicic.
IDAHO.
Sheriff Robbins, who returned
yesterday noon from BlackfOOi,
where he had been in charge Of n
cnszy person, reports that white
waiting for the through train at Po-
catell0 Sunday morning, he wit
messed the untimely death Of poor
fellow who was trying 20 steal a ride
ON the Butte express. The Sheriff
had noticed n man Of the tramp spe-
cies standing around the platform Of
the station for some time, and heard
him ak OF some hystauder, which
Of The trains would 20 10 Butte, A.
he intended 10 90 there himself.
The unfortunate man was informed
that a train then standing on side
track was the Butte train, and
he was seen to start toward II.
Ia about five minutes the EN-
CINE that was 10 pull the train 10
Butte backed up, aud a. il struck
the cars, moved them some feet
backwards. At this moment the cry
went W, "a man underline whecls,'
aud the people on the platform on
rushing to the train found what
had been moment before n living
man. n manglci cOrIse- The man
w.s undoubtedly in the act Of climb
iug upon the breIkbe8m, favOTite
position FOR those who WORK" the
railroads. When the Sudden shock
caused 10y the engine striking the
cars. threw him under the wheels.
His death was instantaneous.
Nothing was found upon the body 30
identify il. Tine deceased was
man u some - year, large and
finely proportioued -.>hoSiOHc Jour
nat.