Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-19
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Terrible Accident 10 a Girl While
Making a Balloon Ascension.
A COATING Party DROWNED.
An Antl.Catholic Agliator Misslng.-An
Immense Mountain Liou
KILLED.

Tulnre, Cal, expects to soon have
diatilIery that will utilize the waste
products Of her vineyards.
Lizzie Nichols, aged ten years, was
fatally burned nj Ash F0fk, A. -
lew days ago, her CLOTHES ignltlus I,om
bonfire around which she was pin3
ing.
Miss Grace Patlen, OF the Colorado
agricultural college Is writinsa s.iios
OF pleasant personal skeIch.s OF We
pioneer residents OF The CAuhtIf
Poudre valley, which sre belhs pun
lished In the Fort Collins Courier
Fresno, Cal, with population Of
1900, has had thirteen muruets IA
three years, eight suicides anu Two
assassinstions. Not one Of the muir
dersr- has been hanged, anu VIII nor
be-, anu nearly ali OF the nloodhHhuel
villains have escaped win nominal
terms IN prisOn.
An irrigation district IL to be
formed TO furnish water for the San
Fernando anu Calhuenga districts IN
Los AngeleB county. Only the lack
VI water mas prevented the develop
ment OF the latter section, which ia
many respects II one VI the most fiv-
OTed In Southern California.
The largest orange yield yet recorded
ut Pomona, CAL, Is that ON IL, ~.
Houses seventeen year Oli trees. lie
got last week thiriy.tlvc boxes tIom
two trees, anu has tuus far sold anu
shipped 1910 boxes OF fruit. The Dix
acres ON his plac. arc estimated 10
yield $500 boxes Of oranges this year.
San Francisco Is again agitating the
question OF a new charter fOr that city.
AZ has been tried twice within ten or
twelve years, aud the people nave eaon
time rejected the document prepared.
IL is probable, however, tue sacfa-
mento Record Union thinks, that II
thiTd attempt might result differently.
A pleasure party, consisting Of
Henry Schroeder, his twelvs.yeAr-old
sister, Ann, George Reinfeidt anu his
wife, started out from Bay View, Cali
iornia, on SUNDAY morning TO ouJoy IA
days outing. A few hours later three
OIL them were slumDerlng beneath the
waters OF the bay, and the other, Mrs.
Reinfeldt, escaped with her life by the
mefeHt accident.
Those who have csnvassed the state
say that In Nebraska about l73,UOO
sheep were on feed for market this
spring. In point oil quality Nebraiki
sneep DO not compare with last year,
anu eighty-fivo per cent of the sheep
weigh less than 90 pounds. Nebraska
men are well Satisfied with pr.sent
prices, and most OF them believe that
the values will he much higher In
April and May.-Er,
The Denver Ne0s says: "About two
months ago Il. +. Lyon, who has
gained some nOtJri,ty as nm anti
Catholic agitstOr, lett his home nj
Twenty.fourth avenue TO 20 10 Lead.
Vile and u number Of other points on
lecturing tour. He has not since 70.
turned, ncr yet has he been filling he
lyceun engagements, ana those facts
have caused tho circulation Of a tensa-
tlOnal rumor suggesting that he has
been victim OF foul play.
Al Stranger shot n mountain lion
one day last week at Sandy Boh's
ranch. He had been troubled at night
with coyotes, which came around the
house anu carried of everything that
mad n taste 10 IL, and determined 10 lay
for them. He loaded gun with buck.
shot, and when one OF the supposed
coyotes Awoke him with its noise he
went 10 tho door and saw In the dark.
ness form OF some animal with his
pet dog down and Its teeth on it,
throat. He bltzei away at short range
aud found he had killed an immense
mountain llon.-Tombstone, Arizona,
irOspeo.or.
Governor Waite and State Englnter
Ctamer have made careful inspoc.
ton n the Monument reservoir IN
Colorado. The appropriation OF $4,000
for the completion If the work has
hung fire Tor some time, 70 the gov.
crnor concluded to Inspect the reser.
voir persona ly anu determine whether
the money WIS actually needed or not
Inc original appropriation for the
reservoir was $4,000. The contract
was awarded ~ David McShnne Tor
S26, 900, the remaining $4,000 being
used for preliminary work, such M
digging test hOles, surveyors fees, etc.
That amount has been consumed, and
as no provision was made 0rigina "
for riprapping or driveways The see
ond appropriation was asked for, nnd
the amount IL necessary In order TO
protect the work already done.
A young girl who flr the last four
Sundays has been making balloon
asceusions and parachute drops near
the Chi House Ut San FfauUisoo met
with a terrible accident last Sabbath.
Both her thighs were broken in such
manner that she will probably be
crippled for life, and the shock TO her
nervous system WAS 80 severe that
only the most shilliul attention will
save her life. Her balloon WIS released
before II was sufficiently inflated Rnd
the high wind carried II up the slope.
She was thrown with terrific force
against the side OF house, dragged
over the roof and across the road 10
another house, against the side OF
which she crashed ana femEined
hanging by one wfls, from the roof
while the balloon scared away through
the air. In tho profession tns youug
woman Ia known ~ Lillian Hagal, but
her true name Is LILLIAN Deau. she n
only novice In the business, yesteT-
uny's ascension being only the fourth
time she ever attempted H.. About
nve weeks ago she met II. z. Hagal,
the neronaut, aud he hnulng that she
was possessed OF extraordinary nerve
Tor woman, proposed that she become
hiR companion IN the balloon husiness,
which proposition she accepted. Hhe
In an orphan anu quit the drudgery
OF lie asa waitress In a restaurant 10
become m aerOnaut.