Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-17
WESTERN NEWS ITEMS.
Another Mysterious Cave Discovery 10
Arizona.
AmAS FOUND DYING wirnTnInsr.
A Prescott Church burned, Some Of the
Congregation Narrowly Escape
the Flames.

ph0rir Gdrefts. - Last Friday,
whIl.two citizens Of Mesa were return.
inc home from the ella, they noticed
m, tracks OF A man out on the mesa
that showed he was wandering ain.
iessly about, 30 they followed the trail
n short distance when they found him
under a mesquIt tree asleep. They
took his uIstol on him aud then woke
him. and found that he was crazy
from thirst. lie had been digging In
m. ground beneath the tree with his
hands for water, and becoming ex-
hausied laid down 10 sleep, from which
he NAV never have aroused had
the men not found him when they
ana. He was taken ~ Mcsa and taken
care OF until he was all right Nothing
IA known Of him.
r.u,,, h,,,e.--A Nonday'e dlspatch
,,,n, p,..cott s.vs lust after the
.a,si... h.d commenced last night In
~. M.,has,I., chnrch mere. a coal oil
49, "r ~. ..on hurnlng Too hiRh, when
l,'I,.., ~ ~. rougr,gatlou at.
,.,ad ~ ,.gulat. The Name, In do.
M, ~ ,hc iamn of burning oil was
ut,sct unon IA. carpet, causing n con-
liberation. dsatfoylng the church build.
Inc Reiorr Tho lamp was discovered
Il hal become ~ heated that the top
VA. melted Oh, aud ovcrtufning, the
burning oil was split on the clothing OF
a man named Sharp who was sitting
Immediately under II. lie niuhcd
through the congregation WIN 10
Names running up hls Dack hisnsI
than his head. several laules nau =
~
clothing ignitei. hehIy hNans
member OF the church, ws consumer
ably burned In assisting SHARP 70 sc.
hi. Earning coat on. Tue lh,lvtr ohcN
and head were seriously burned; 30,
efal persons made their Escape tniousn
the Window, among them icing
soprano member Of tho choir, VINO was
slightly lnJurei. No casualty nap
p.ned, although panic occurfcn'
Egress through one door OF w. chufch
was prevented on account Of the lamp
falling In the aisle. The hameH spfe,iu
10 rapidly that only fcw seats IN Va.
rear 81 the church were saved. Al
the other furniture anu books were uc-
stroycd.
Sacramento Bee-George Anderson
Caar, "a fshem an, was accidentally
drowned near Courtland yesterday.
lie was crO-ainga plank leading from
the shore 10 his scow, when he slipped
and fell into the river, his head strik.
Ing against tho plank anu stunning
him.
7Oubaiono IropccfDr-Gco. kohlrr
who has been camping for month
past with John Waters, In the Hun.
al
that " worth Investigating. ON the
top Of the mountain between the head
OF saw MIN canyon aud Tanner can.
you, they found an opening about three
feet square with no bottom visible. A
stone WA. dropped down and seemed
TO be lost In space rs no sound came
up. A heavier boulder was then drop.
ed In and ms II struck the sides OF Tia,
cavern II produced tho most ominous
sounds, but II was not I'LL II reached II,
destination that the distinct thun.
dcring noise appalled, them by tho un.
earthly roar. Mr.. Kohler thinks tn,
bottom must be- 800 feet below
tho surface aud from tho sound
must bo Of large Dimensions M II
seemed 30 echo from side 10 side each
time the sides were hit by descending
rocks. The mountain h u lime. The
discovery IL worth investigating out o
curiosity " for nothing more Hubstan'
tial.
Los Angeles Express Chief OF Polio,
Glass this morning received n lottcl
from Mrs. Carl Schor OF San Fran
cisco, which, aside from requesting i'm
portant Information, contains quite
romantic story. II appears that OF
the morning of July 2ith Carl Rnhor
ACCOMPANIED by his wife, whom no Ia,
hut recently married, took n trip TO TN
Clin House. Soon after their afriva