Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-21
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A Landslide which Might Have
PROVED Very Disastrous,
rIopED wirHA GIRL or FIFTEEN.
An Important Case, Involving The
validity Of Claim, Against the
S,att Of California.


where grass an Inch high from good
rains nre reported. Tie cattlemen's
woes are eulcd. So writes thv Tucson
CitHsH
IS. +. Fontou and wife, Of Salt Lake,
arp M the city, says the Idaho Iuty
Sidtteman. MIR. Fputou represent
tue tutetmouniaiu Electric company
and viii oud, avor 10 secure Tor his
company the c0utrac. Tor putting Hu
electric light At the Idaho asylum TOT
the insane.
Hazel Bacon, granddaughter u G.
a. Bragg, died AZ Reno, Nchrasba,
ofdiphtncrin. While gazing into tho
c0fiin GA rnufslsy afternoon, Mr..
Bragg fell back ueaI. He WAS riD'
neer OF Nevada and was among tht
nrst heavy lumbtfmnn 90 the IruckUo
river and the iatror OF Allen &. Bragg
Of the Reno Ga; 90.
The 0lh was tu uulucky day fl Mr,
T.. Horton, VI Oakley. Ouu 0i his
small boys uuilt o fte in the manger o.
the barn, cnusiug the destruction Of
the came and almost oil Of tho corral
The people hnd hard work 10 save the
guinpry, which was badly burned.
On one side the Rtainary contained
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would nave been SAD Inss Tor Air.
Horton.-SDmmt county CHRONICLE.
A special from Caldwell, I.Rbo,
aayes Coroner MlNey this evening re-
reived word that the body of tho mau
taken from the Snake river August
lgih, tear Ontario, was that OF John
Echpnget. Hu had been engaged IN
placer mining on an island ncar Nys.
sia, Or, and his drowning was prob.
ably accidental. His boat and tools
woro found net iur from the ISLAND.
Marcus DE Lafayette Folts, man Of
90, tlOped with the daughter Of Henry
Friend Of Huyf0fk, Cal. Tue
girl IA only fifteen years old. They
took the stage and hlud themselves 70
Rcd Bluff Tho enragcd father OF the
girl went 10 Weavcryille and tolU.
grAphed tho sheriff ut Red Blul 10
uetain the tuuawhys. An answer was
received stating that the couple had
been caught.
Sidney Prior, second comedian Of
the Robert MRutell troupe, had n mar
row escape Mt Stockton, Cal. ,ou Friday
night. A paint frame In the rear Of
the stage Of the Yosemite thehter was
being lowered, when the cable broke,
and six counter weights, Weighing
forty pounda each, fell a distance Of
thirty feet, smashing trunk on which
PEior was sitting when the frame was
being lowered. He heard the noise Of
the break and leapod from his seat
Just In time 10 save his lie.
The case Of w. II. Sawyer against
~. Il. COlgan, controller, involving the
liability OF the state for the payment OF
certain indian war bonds ana coupons
Issued under the acts Of February 10,
1901, aud May 3, 1859, together with
legal Interest thereon from the date OF
maturity, has been decided by the
supreme court OF California In favor Ol
the controller. This Ia n very Import.
ant case 10 the state, involving ~ n
does the validity Of claims against the
state Aggregating between 100000
aud 100000.
Daylight issurely dawning in New
Mexico ana Arizona, says the MJA
Grover, and before another summer
passes the cattlomen Of tho Southwest
will Bee their way clear 10 regain the
vast amount OF money Lost 10 them
through the dTUuth Of the past i've
ycars, and the low prices paid for
cattle. During the past four wCeks
more rain has fallen throughout thu
ranges OF the Southwest than In any
one year since 1885, and there II no
reason 10 believe that the long drOuth
that has prevailed will again visit this
section ior some years,
A landslide camo down from the
hin Just back of NJ. a. JOrgensen's
place at PO0a last week ana nlled his
stack yard with mud and brush, says
the Summit county Chronicle, About
twenty-five chickens were covered up
with the debris. Some Of the children
who we're sleeping In tho yard got out
Of the way Just In time or they would |
have been covered up. They were
asleep, but the noise Of the slide awOke |
them, ana they only had just time |
enough TO got out Of the way, The |
slide came down between the house |
aud the hay stack; MS few ieot each |
way from the course Of the slide would |
nave taken the house or hay stack, |
Fortunately none Of the family were |
hurt.
1t Is underotood that an English |
company representing parties who own |
iand at present In Estos park ia Colo. |
rnd0, Just south Of the Wyoming line, |
and capitalists from England have |
obtained charter for the purpose OF |
making reservoir Of Willow park, A |
lhfge dam Ut solid masunnty viii be |
huilt from the mountain on the west /
side Of the Big Thompson 10 the
mountain on the enHi. The depth Of |
me water In the reservoir 10 20 DO about
100 feet aud viii cover hundreds VI
acres. The object IL to store the water
curing the winter, AMI during tho irb-
cation seAsOn to conduct II on lands
about Greeley. The estimated cost iB
nearly 81 10000
William $. Taylor Of Pasadenn, Cali
u spending "a lew days in Denver, says
lhe AcWs lie struck the plRius whep
o young man anu was Tor many years
identified with the Overland stage line.
IA the sixties he kept the "HOme sta
uon' At Virginia Dale and subsequent
y at LapOrte, Rhd no place between
Denver anu salt Lake WIS mora pJpu-
lht with frontier travellers, When the
coaches gave way b the Pulimgn car,
Mr. Taylor removed TO a iinu farm ln
we CRche.la.P oudre valley, near Font
Colina. Some four years ago he locut.
ed at PRsadenu. lie has not los. his
VIu love Tor Colorado, and he IL never
happier than when talking over those
nlFIlng days when the indiana rliduu
we Laramie plainsj ana swept down
nh The lonesome stage stations; whom
pou spotawood, now Of LittlclOu, ruled