Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEST.
ELECTRIC CABLE EXPERIMENT
A Hunting Ground Tor Buried Treasure.
"A Chlid's Narrow Escape from
observation-disclosures Officials.

The Rock SPRING.. wyo., Lumber
company has IN course Of cOnstruc'
lion FIVE dwelling houses nj Green
River.
Thousands Of fat cattle are roaming
upOn tbs range ~ Newcastle cOun'3'
Wyo., that will be- marketed wlthIh
tne next sixty days.
soren Anderson, Of RlchheI1, wa
rlling Droucho horse In front OF wv
bank tue other day, when tne sh.A'
became frnctiUus and rearei up, tntVN
Inc MIN on the ground and badly In.
juriug his uose.
The mail driver from Lander states
that he ia. lust seen wiid buuhloi
hull. apparently about Jour years Olu,ht
Buli Springs, tnitty mice uoftn" west o.
N,wiins. Ii IL believed ~ be Que D the
ANAL bat de that sill ranges ON tue red
dc OFT.
Liubtuinf fred a barn belonging g.
X. J. Gully, twenty miles HOuthwest0f
Reatrlce. Neb., Burning u, with con.
tents, To the ground. -Four valuable
hyists teTishei iu the hamee. Lyss,
$1,000; insurance, $1,000.
James Lltnn,ex collector Of customp,
aud n. q. Paddock, hight Inspector
during LDtan's adam stfatlOn, have
been arrested nt Portland, Ore, by thu
fed raj autl orities. Both men have been
iuJtrtra for D.uppIung 10 land Chinese
on frau uitnt teltiticales anu ~ Snug.
ne u ium.
The l5.monlhSold child Of Ed Ry.
an, Landlord OF ihp Zig Horn, mad a
uaf,0w escape from uoltn st Green
River the other night. ltsppvat, that
tho little tot uh covered u suHli wise
COL tUal oil And drank ron itu COutut e..
Bat Tor the timely arrival Of u doctor
tuu child would have reached the dsrk
beyond.
Quite serious accident occurred at
the GarsOn Valley Creamery, Nevada,
on Mondoy. rhe employees were "a.
du.tfi lusly laboring when james Mur.
pny, the fireman, hearing "a loud 10.
port. fnu 10 learn the cause, when 10
uis di may be saw ht engine had
bars. Operations were brought 10 u
close, ~ nothing N the butter line cat
be done tili a new engine arrives. In
the meantime they Will ruplOy thVir
time by making ia ] cream cuetse.
Milton DamTon Jr. has met with n
very painful accident, says the Millard
county Made. While breaking u
i. rso Tor Mr.. CahOon the animal COM
m need tuGkiug ami jumping AMI Ia
some manner got both itH fore feet
GOWN into hole, falling 10 the grOunu
auu rviilbg over upon tbs riuer The
DO ~ Of the horse came down upon tho
ri yht foot OF M. Damrou with It's fuii
weight, crushing that member biuly.
lilo was taken to his homv In Deiefet
and proper ait, ntion given his hurt.
Two men wont b the house Of Chss
CouTtols In Reno, New, ana called
him out. When lie opened the door
they placed a s.x.sbOOtvr under his
nose and demanded his money.
COurt0is grapp,ed with one Of the I, ].
lows AMI Mrs. COurtois took the o.nrr.
After a fierce struggle with tho rObOer.
they were put 10 flight, but not ull
after they hurt Mr.. anu Mrs. Courtois
badly by hammerins them over tins
head with their guns. CourlOis had y
safe Ia the house, and from the TACT
hat they left brace, chiicl and sledge-
hammer, It Ia supposed that they IN.
fenced 10 open n. Mr.. COurt0is fec0g-
nizvu one OF the men and search is
being made for them.
At Astoria, Oregon, on Tuesday,
alter a few weeks OF fishing unbrOkeu
by a calamity, there was q heartreud.
ing scene at the mouth Of the river,
when iivo men without moments
warning were dragged into the break.
cra anu drowned. At little after .
O'Clock that morning thick log came
up over the bar, and the westerly wind
changed the smooth water Into very
dangerous ohoppy sea. Nearly four
hundred boats were out near the lefty
anu Republic spit, and only n few OF
Thorn came in ut thu first sign Of dan.
yer. About an hour afterwsri, when
the fog lifted, the lookout at Fort
Candy saw three overturned boals,
and the signal gun Immediately called
out the liie-savinR crew. They went
out at once and found that i've men
had gone down and that n dozen boats
had been overturned. All ths assist
ance possible was given, and the cap.
tain Of the crew thought II best to lay
out among ths fish boats during the
balance OF the day aud DO in readiness
for further disasters.
Davis Clifton, once n messenger boy,
has been arrested by detectives on the
charge OF false ptelensrs. Clifton
worked a very clever game on Mrs.
Jennie Gill OF Seventeenth avenue.
lie appeared nj Mrs. CUPS with this
telegram made out In uue form: "Chi.
cagO-Jennie was taken dtathly sick
last night | Will pay all kilograms.
CHARLIE" Now, NJ .. GIN hasa son
nuu daughter In Chicago at present
named respectively Charles aud JtR.
ME, and much alarmed she paid at
once the boys demand Tor 81. On the
next evening the same small Toy ap.
peaTed with n yellow euv0lOp bearing
,nis message: "Aleet ms at depot at
night viii arrive $3.50 train. CHAR.
LIZ" For this telegram Clifton re-.
uulyed B5 cents, and ON lat night he
lrlnd the game again aud gave this
message TO Mrs. Gill; "Jeunie was
delayed last night; meet me sure 10.
night, CHARLIE" This aroused
Mrs. dll's susploious and she notified
the police, anu after an Investigation
the bogua messenger boy was arrested.
A party Of Eastern capitalists, said
TO have some connection with tue
santa Fe RiilrOa1 system, has boon
visiting the Grand Canyon OF the
Colorado river for the purpose of In
vestlgating the feasibility OF laying an
electric oable 500 miles In Length along
the river, win which 10 uriys small
boats through the Black canyon and
other ecenio points, where cliffs Ov,ra