Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-10-17
WESTERN NEWS ITEMS
TO Try The Validity Of Tho Idaho
Test Oath Law.
, CURIOSITY IN pETRIFlED TREES
s,,gular Accident In Wyomins.--Inter'
c.ilag Notes on Mining aod
ether Matters.

laYi 10 organize permanent literary
ADD debating society
Hunters report game OF Ell kinds
scsrcof this year ihnn ever uelolo ,n
.snsistory OF this portion M Wyoming,
avs the Sheridan Ettcrprtso'
mandolin, guitar flute and
lii, elub il about ~ be organic d In
@sau. The proposed mumburship IL
about twenty-five.
~ Most Ferry LEFT Park City on
s.,u,day lRat for Golden, Col, TO at
and Inc Colorado state School Of
N,1nea during the winter term. He
.,neets 10 return sometime In May.
Edgar Alden, member Of an
s,istocratiu Bottom family, fell dead
rom heart disease IN Los Angeles
.sloou law days ago. lie hAu been
drinking heavily for some time.
The new uniform for the Agrlcul.
iural College cadets II very hard.ome,
and great improvement on ths Chi
nese iaundryman'r livery they wore
last year. logan Journal
A carload OF copper bullion from tho
Dixie smelter, nj - George owned
aud operated by Woolley, Lund anu
Judd, weai east on Saturday over the
Union Pacific, having been sold AZ a
good price. The smelter and mines
are now running nj full blast
JamtB VanBupkirk came in today
(Saturday, OCT. l5th) from Bull noun
tair, where they have been getting out
wood. lie says tho snow was very
deep out there and that II took four
trEma TO move n wagon anu thu horses
were nearly out Of sight In the snow.
Laramie boomerang.
while Deputy Sheriff Tom Casana-
10 and Special Omcur Charles Winston
were attempting to arrest three drunken
Yaqui Inuians near CalRbaBss, An
coma, the latter opened fire on their
pursuers, shooting Winston through
the iieshy part Of the loft leg. Tho
Indians escaped TO the hills.
Challis Grophio: Custer county
(Idaho) has curiosity In thu shape Of
n group OF petriiied trees, Rboat fifteen
miles from Challia, first found by
Sheriff Horsfori. These trees have
been seen but by few persons aBd are
said TO be strange 10 look upon. Trunks
from stumps 10 thirty feet in height
bearing out from the nAturalnOss Of
trees, and from two TO fifteen feet In
diameter.
Owing to the cave in the MAyhower
mine, ore has not been coming up a.
lively ns usual and the driver OF the
first team to the mlno has been enabled
TO get through his days work several
hours sooner than those who came
later, and there has been no much riv-
airy between Farrell's and Ivsr's team.
fters that some of them havs the trip
u the mine as early rs . O'Clock In the
uorning.-Pdrk City Record.
Justice Sullivan OF tho Idaho nu.
preme court said yesterday that tic
case Of Sheperd vs.. Grlmmoll, instl-
tuted 10 test the validity Of the Idaho
test oath law, was on Monday last
argued and submitted. A decision will
be rendered some timo next week, and
then the Mormons OF Idaho viii know
whether or not they may register i'm.
mediately, md vote at the forthcoming
general slection.-Idaho Daily States.
man October l5l.
Tho Chalk Creek Mine Company has
now penetrated their coal vein and
hnd II about eight feet thick aud as
clear OF faults or foreign material as
ever vein OF coal was. The coal Il
the hardest ever found In this basin.
Tho company say that they will try
transportation over tho U. z. for a
time, but II they attempt the freeze out
game with them that they shall Gee
that another road goes through Goal
yille.--CoaiUiiie Chronicle.
Fish Commissioner Mills f. having
tho State Fish Hatchery repaired
throughout and getting It In shspe for
the fall take OF spawn, saya the Carson
(Nov.) Appeai. Tho closo OF this sen.
sons work was the end OF r.ost sue
cessiul year, inasmuch "a young trout
had been successfully planted In H.
most inaccessible waters throughout
tho eastern part OF the state. Cali.
iornia anglers are rapidly getting on to
the fact that Nevada can fhise the
hardest AMI gamest brook trout on
earth.
The Plnneer Canal company have
let the contract for the reconstruction
OF their large flume near the Ssdsr-
green ranch, twenty-five miles south.
west OF tho city, to Victor BrRumier.
Mr.. Beaumier will commence tho work
at once. The flume Is about 500 feet
long and viii be twenty feet wide and
Blk ieet high, being four feet wider
imam the present ilume and two feet
higher. The high line canal which
mas been surveyed by the land com.
pany may DO constructed during the
coming season. The contractors Wh6'
arc constructing the big ditch in Colo.
RADIO, diyortlng tho headwaterJ of tho
Laramie river, now have 200 men ut
work. Laramie boomerang.
Harry Shields was instantly killed
IN the Frisco mine a few days ago. Ho
was head timberman In the mine. Al
the time Of tue accident Shields was
engaged putting In timbers In an OLD
arm on the second level. He had put
IN two sets anu In preparing to put In
the last set next TO the face he
found rock projecting from
above which had to be moved.
He told his associates to wait
n minute and, taklnga hammer, struck
the projecting rock a few blows. The
drift was following the lead and the
formation was not hard. A few bl0ws
loosenei the rock, which seemed to be
the Keystone, and its fall was followed
fundamentally by seven or eight tons
OF broken rock and ledge matter. The
mass came down without warning, aud
shields was crushed beneath II. The
rock was removed as speedily as pOssl.
bic, but the unfortunate man showed
no Sign Of lite.-W Wallace (idaho) Miner.
A singular accident lost valuable
horse for Jim WestmRn OF Buffalo,
wyoming, q few dayB ago. WesLman
ma some Others were on hunt in the