Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-30
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A Released COnYICtS Romantic CaIsei:
lie Goes Home 10 DID,
A MAGNIFICENT ,oaN cnor.
Killed by Freight Irain.-Diabllical
Attempt at Train Wrscking.-
Other Items.

buggy on Muuuuy afternoon, thelt /
tuggy was struck by the engine and
I'm shed. The largest part Of
D0ughcrty's body found was foot.
Hammill was horribly mauglui AMI
will die.
a dinbolicnl attempt at ira n wreck.
ing was made on the u1aat givaiou VI /
the $ utueru Pacific road early on |
SUNDAY moruiur. 10 Jailed only Gee |
CAUSE the tfack.wnikcr discovered the !
ohstfuutions that the wfoCkvfa had 1
placed On tue track, anu removed |
them bsioro the neudish scheme was
contaminated.
Col. WIN. II. Root, the we'll known
live aninal shipper 4 Laramie, Wyop
has male contract with Sir Peter
Walker to deliver ~ the iatior's larki
O.masion manor, Deny, Elglhuu,
twenty head Of Wyoming elk. Cos
Root Will star. within nitvon days
with his vaiushic cargo.
a freight train going TO Sacramento
struck aud killed AN unknown man
four miles west Of ELK Grove ON SUM
Jay afternoon. The man evidently
was drunk, "a he was lying buiworn
The ttrlugtfs. Hia head was crushed
MNlU AlN NNNNllH NNAN NANhNk MUM 49,
tfostle. ono foot WAS mashed and the
bldy was funriully msnglnd. pocket
book wss founu containing letters ad-
dussoi 20 "Thumas Re Gel, ArnU,
CaL,n from San francisco, aud slguud
hy aatah I1leH; also two pictures ~
Mexican girls. n flask OF wuisky, a
valise, blankets and nhy cents were
found ty the bIuy. IL was tnii hc M
quirsd the fare g. Arno u Ia ranchtr az
McConncil's station, but had evidently
started 10 walk there.
Wide Of acreage and magnificent Of
yield IL the corn crop Of ihis ychr "
tue Sappa ant Beaver valleyp, says
nptuial from Beaver Ciiy, Nebraska.
List years corn yield u these Two
y, buskn great corn producing regions
was accounted almost phenomenal,
but this scNs ma harvest Is slill In ox'
cess anu increase. Spfiugiug thickiy
about Orleans, gathering closer us 1t
advances up the valley, heavily EN-.
@ muassing Stamford anu denpu around
Beaver Clty, this cora growth wui
average uttWorn tniuy anu forty uurh-
al. per acre, Hold after field of 10 return.
luz 10 the fortunate Sappn ana Beaver
iHrmers sixty aud seventy Lueh,ls per
acre. As tar ~ tho ego eau reach on
either side OF the iilfUad stretches The
unbroken corn row, u0ds the tnli ana
laden corr stalk, waves ihu silkcn corn
taesul, aud Tustlvs b. low bur sweetest
music to the husunndWaL's car the
broad corn leaf. rhii great uIrE crop
iu trietrasOn OF eastern ana western
drnuth !. uuu % the twU strong Itcipfh
1f agricultural success whicI hni
ariLing Illustration m The sippa nnI
Beaver valleys via: An enduring
capacity OF The fertile and deep soil g.
withitsud the vtit cts u Incidental ury'
itss, ans thu certainty, 10 some tine
during the iAruiug tg-sOu,ui d uuiaut
rainfall. IulH com coop WA made ai
late moment, tut II c.uld MT have ttut
batter made under any ciroums1snce.'
J. }. Smith, a convict Ia the Ar r'na
territorial Prison uuuOr twuu' y-nv4
year sentence, has just been ruivWtd
by the rnTdun OF Governor hugnts
Sniih was sent zap tour years nFu from
YHyauai county Tor compile ~ in tho
wfpCkiDg aud r.lblug ~ tho Atlanta
nnl Pacific UBin Nc Canyon Bnhlo,
AMI was one o, the four whO led Bucky
O'NeHl, tAel sheriff, sucu "a cha.r up
thu Grand canyon ami Into Utah,
where they were nu4lly taken. SJmO
trouble was experienced la getting nr
pll.1utra out, tut finally the uuss',
tearing 10 undertake. tie trip thr1ug
Auglna, took them into Colorado and
ttarted win thum by train ~ Prescott.
They were all looked upon ~ had
men, u every puc utiJu Was taken
10 prevent their escape. Each was
hautcuued gud suauklCd by the
nuklcz, but, Notwithstanding all this,
rear Ration Pass, la New Mexico,
smitu jumped through the window,
handouts anu all, aud rolled Out OF
sight down the mountain eide. Iht
train wac g0,ug down nHtoep grade
bui NJ soon rs pJssihlu II was stopped,
aud tho Jillcefs went back expecting
10 hnd tue mRugled bOIy Of the
escape, but no trace wha iOuud except
some bioOd stains on tho rgCks whore
lac hal fallen. They came ON win
tue Olhur prisoner, rad ut the next
tlatlCu the officers were notified uf CO..,
uscapo aud given Emitb's description
All the fact that $1,000 reward va.
offered Tor him, and hls supposed ln'
trutiOn Of go ug either 10 Texas "
Mexico. Two WetLs Later smith was
walkIug and leading his jaiod hoter,
which he had stolen alta ranch, aero rs
g.. ura.rip In the pauhan ne OF L Xas,
v hen he lumpe5 srom tho tr wit
tsu ne su ~ H-8 auNu hHu Is tue
pIass had cut him considerably, be-
sides thu bruises and Commissions he &C.
cuiyed rom the rocks. These were
tofe ami painful, hut b" was trying 10
Protect his horse aui ut the same time
avoid civiliz ton, for though he had
broken the chains from his buhoh iei
ana handouts, lac still hal the cS'
on ms legs anu arms aud feared uelot'
ton. When going across thr pralht
be- saw woman nile OF 80 away
who teemtd 10 be- IN distru8,, Mount
ing his horse he rode over T. her and
Rske her what was tho matter. Shu
told him that ahe was RclOUi tcacuei
in the town OF Vernon, ana lhhl wv.
days before, while ru,drnlnf from a
ltlIu way "a the COuutry, she h@I me-
come lost, her h0re uud uioksu away
mud for two days she mad wanJefrl
nimlrssly about without foot or wafer
Smith knew that he was wanted ipf q
crime lunishaple with death IN Afl'
Glua, that price was ne, on ms hchi
aud that the officers were IN clle'
pursuit. In hiB mind tbele WA
conflict between tie Impulse
n saylng tho woman or INN e!.
but the unseihsn feeling won, anu a
the risk OF his own neck he put nor ~
bic horse anu took her back TO the esS'
ola little town he had passed. stpp
wing az ranch he drew her iOh'
water and entering tho house-'A'
occupant being Rbsent-he prepare