Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-28
WESTERN MEMS ITEMS.
A Day Of Tragedies in The State Of
Arizona Placed on Record.
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
Partial Destruction Of a lam In Ari'
yona.-Claim Against the Z. y.
Government, Etc.

The Colorado Magazine has just made
lie appearance. IL Is monthly, ani
IL understood to have strong nnancihl
hacking.
There IA complaint from many Sec
tions OF New Mexico that rain ~ now
needed TO put the range In good con-
ditlon and repleuish the water supply
Sixteen thousand sheep, making
nearly four train loads, have lately
been shipped from Las Cruces, We"
Mexico, 10 the Maxwell lnnd grant,
Judee Henry Layton Ot Grand
Junctiop. Colo, has disappeared.
Whon last seen he had q large sum OF
money, aud IL is feared he has been
murdered.
The ella flood In Arizona IL another
warning In regard 10 the necessity OF
care ia the construction OF dame, par
ticulsrly for irrigation reservoir puf'
poses, Gays the Denver Neps.
Christopher Allen has been fined
800 and costs ut Winnomuccl, New
for selling whisky TO Indians. He paii
costs amounting 10 $50, aud g0ee 10
Jail TO pay the fiue at the rate Of - per
day.
Mrs. May Pushmnn, convicted at
Butte, M0nt.,of granddaughter la caus'
ing the death OF her iuiaut through
cruelty and neglect has been sem
fenced to one year In the pcnitentiary.
This week =. 4. smith. NJ. l.. Ensign
and others shipped carload OF some
10000 POUNDS VI potatoes To knnhaa
City. They received 65 cents Oushol
for them, which II considered a very
fair price. -Brighdm Bugier.
One of the lively fights now looming
up In tn. California Legislature, SAYS
the AOfthweaCrn Liuo Stock journal
~ the effort VI tue sheepmeu To repeal
the law providing 'or q tax OF five cents
per mead IN the counties through when
the iiOcks arc driven IN passing back
aud forth between the hin aud valley
pastures. The footnill representatives
are stronP for the tax, but fear big
Eight against II.
The mail rider between Aqua Cali
enta anu Palomas, on the ella river,
reports his experience In ride for life
In advance Of the flood last Thursday
between the above points, also the
narrow escape OF children attending
school NJ PslomAs. He arrived at
Palomas, n distance Of Twelve NIL =, 10
give warning 10 the inhabitants, par
ticularly those In the school, the chill
dren having only time to mount
horses, Ienier thr race for life anu
escape after run Of six miles.
Cassia County Qdaho) Times J. IL.
wise will start the mill nj the Domiu-
ion Mine as soon as the weather will
permit and with the present outlook
Will have plenty OF ore 10 keep the
mill running. Mr.. Wise II supefin.
tendent and general manager and has
iull control Of the Dominion property,
on which We understand he will spare
no pains in placing In n condition to
pay the owners handsome profit on
the investment.
Governor Prince OF Now Mexico has
received United States treasury war.
rant for S62, O4S In payment Of New
MexicO's prof. portion Of the direct tax.
In n few days more the various terri.
tOrlal Institutions to which this money
has been allotted will come into con-
troll OF their shares aa follows: To
insane asylum, $4,000; school OF
mines, $4,000; WORLDS Colombian
exposition, 1000; agricultural oxper-
mental station 10 san Juan county,
$4,000; deaf, dumb and blind asylum,
$4,000.
A day or two ago n head OF water
nine 10 eleven feet high struck the
dam under construction by the South
ella Canal company, near Sentinel,
Arizona, said 10 be the secsnd largest
In the world when completed, with
such force M TO carry away part Of the
masonry work, piliug, pumps aud pile
drivers. The loss II estimated at $4,000,
but II ~ believed the amount Will be
much greater on further investigation.
The dam Is situated on the ella river
ten miles north OF Sentinel. Work
was commenced on II last month, nnd
owing not to receiving animals and
tools promptly which were ordered the
working force is limited 10 about 200
men. The loss, therefore, was light.
Caroline Smell has petitioued for
letters Of administration on the estate
OF her husband. Bichard II. Smell, who
died In Stockton, California, August
18th, 1870. An estate OF more doubtful
value has never found its way into the
probate court II consists Of claim
Tor s2676, which the United States
government has been asked to pay out
OF the tribal fund Of the Sioux lnuianB.
The money IA claimed 10 DO due for
certain live stock Of which Smell was
robbed by a rowing band Of Sioux, while
on route to this city from Luaven-
worth, Kas, with his family, In 1864.
He Travelled overland, and the stealing
OF the stock took place near Fort Lara
mie, In Wyoming.
Judging from appearances, says the
San francisco Cal, this year Will be- al
unusually prosperous one for NUT
growers in California. The over
production OF last years crop maze
taisingrowing Improbable; the quail
" OF the fruit was ~ good, II not
better, than IN previous yeats, but the
Increased quantity had not been ex-
pecteu and dealers were not prepared
TO handle II. But nov satisfactory
arrangements have been maze "a
dispose OF the crop at profitable
hgurc TO Eastern mercants. At pres
ent very healthy condition prevail.
In the dried iruit market, and also for
canned fruit. These goods can bo
shipped east ut big proiit, much more
~ than green fruit.
The city OF Great Falls MONTY has
never allowed Chinamsn to remnin
within its municipal limits. One came
In from Helena on Friday af,ernoOn,s