Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-25
WESTERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Brave Women Of the San Bruno
Mountains.
HOW THEY SAVED THEIR HOMES
FROM FIRE.
A Young Mother without a Wedding
Ring Hunting for Frank Posvar,
Of Bessemcr.


San Irdnci.co Chronicle Perhaps no
prettier real picture could have been
found In all California week ago
than that presented by the old Bernal
rancho, covering the San Bru no
mountains from Baden station on the
south 10 the county line on the north,
and from the Southern Pacific railroad
track on the west to the San Francis
co bay on the east, embracing ten
square miles OF emerald hills and
BEAUTIFUL valleys, dotted with cory
farinhOuses, barns and outbuildlnRs.
Today the farmhouscs AMI barns, soiled
by smoke and soorched by heat. stand
In the midst Of Wide stretch OF black
ened country, The dcs0lation IA awful,
and the dismal waste IL terrible con
trast 10 the beauty OF the scene n week
ago.
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,bcir nerll' and within nn hour avery
man woman aud child on the
ranches able TO thrcsh tho grass
with wet gunny sack, carry
water or do any other service, had
turned out and we're working rs they
had never worked before. While men
rushed toward the fire line, which con-
tlnued TO spread Ia every direction,
and fought with the desperation bora
Of tho knowledge that all they had
galned by years of toll would he wiped
from the face Of the earth unless the
fiames were checked; while they, with
scorchud and blnokcned faces, yielded
inch by Inch 10 the tlimca, thu women
NJ home not this horses from the pas.
ture or barn, harnoased them as best
they knew how b plows, and then,
with bilstefed hands aud strained aud
aching muscles, strove 10 pluw fur
row after furrow around their little
homes, 40 that II the fathers, husbands
and brothers were defeated last
stand might be made against the fire
a, the very gateway OF the home.
tleads.
The men were defeated, bcatcN aud
driven back, burned and half.bllnded,
aud TO the brave wives aud daughters
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Denver hcps-C Casper, wyO., August
22.-A young woman with blue eyes,
blond, hair, 0.months.old baby aud
no wedding ring, giving her nams ~
Mary Seclcny from Fremont, Neb.,
arrived In town last night aud In.
quired at once for the sheriff, To him
she told n sad story Of woman,
trust aud mans perfidy, ard
warrant was at once sworn
out for Frank Posvar, who lives mt
Bessomcr, n small town fifteen miles
west Of Casper, for seduction ON pro.
mise OF marriage. The Sheriff arrived
this afternoon with the prisoner. He
had hearing nj once before Justice
Butler, anu some very spicy testimony
was given aud an interesting letter was
read, after which he was bound over
10 appear at the term Of court 10 be
held here next week. In default Of
bail he was scnt TO jail. The girl n
but eighteen years old, n bohemian,