Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-15
WESTERN NEWS ITEMS.
Tho Severe Winter Causes Heavy
Cattle Losses in Montana
As ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SUICIDE.
nil, B,llalIndiaus ON the War Path
ACaso OF Canlue Friendship
General Notes.

, .'nns,,hweat Of Flagstail, which will be-
.Snr,ly commenced and will require
s-,,,i mnnths OF time 10 complete.
n hammond will likewise gurvey
"a 0ll acres In ApEche anu C0cOnino
.noti,s. aud phlilip COnlzen viii
.,-vsy $4,000 east and northeast Of
p,,,co,t, nearly all being railroad
lands
The sielmer Coquitlam arrived ut
vsre5uyeT, Is. g., on Sunday, from %
s.blpg cruise In the north, bringing
80 thai the Bella Bella Indiana had
'mnenced hostilitles ns n result Of
tbe recent massacre ON Sorrow iHlaud.
ono battle hat already taken place, Ia
which two Indians were BILLED aud
,svrrai wounded. Most VI the Bella
urlIa Indians have Winchester rifles
And further trouble ia feared. the
Indian agent Mt ForiSimpson hns gone
out 10 Investigate, but was not spoken
10 by the crew Of the C0quitiam.
Stove Stanley, the lame man who g.
% iamiliaT % every old timer Ia this
valley, says tho Phonix, Arizona,
Ga.ctt6, IL near unto happiness ut the
present writing. Eighteen years ago
he suffered heavy loss by reason Of
Indian depredati,nH Va New Mexico.
He instituted suit IN The court OF
clalms q number OF wears ago Tor IN.
domuity, claiming $4,000. He 70.
colvoi wnri yesterday 10 come ON TO
Washington, that tho court had award.
Ell him indemnity in the sum OF H., 800,
with Interest Tor the whole eighteen
yoars. THIS will make the oil man
Independently wealthy, state ~
Allaifa that 10 pleasing Indeed to tho
many who know him.
A Mexican by the name Of Salvador
Armijo shot anu killed his wife 1t Ash
Fork, Arizona, lost "Wednesday. They
had been married Only about throe or
four months. II appear says the Flag
tiau Democrat, that the wife was
nvere 60 living ON ranch, which the
husband dusilCi her 90 No. Size had
lpIt him and gone TO Ash FORK, He
csne to that Town Wednesday with e
wagon anu team, presumably to take
her out TO the ranch. He took ono OF
the horses from che wagon and
hitched IL to q telegraph pole down the
railroad track, n short distance from
town. Armed with Winchester he
met his vile on the street hud shot her
twice, killing her dcnl. He thea made
for his horse anu rode Oh.
]. II. Bowman, president Of the
Arizona Live stock comm sslOn, Inns
rent the following petition to the new
iy appointed secretary Of the INTERIOR
"Sir-We most respectfully petition
ANU ask that you give the northern
PORTION Of our territory relief from the
cOnpinut Invasion and cnCr0nchment
OF the Navajo tribe Of Indians, more
than one-half " whom constantly run
about with their herds Of sheep anu
horses outside the lines Of their rtssr-
walton, erecting no improvements,
paying no taxes, Ignorant and inuliirr-
eut TO our laws Rnd constant menace
and annoyance ~ the sottlefs, thereby
preventing the Advancement OF that
portion Of our territory. We therefore
pay that you will Ht an early date
investigate the cause OF our complaint,
feeling assured that you VIII then
adopt such measures rs viii AFFORD tho
needed relief"
About two weeks ago several miners
came into Williams, Arizona, from the
San Juan county, remaining In town
several daya and then going on west.
since then one Of them, snys the
Williams NeWs, returned 10 the city
with the following story: Ia travelling
through the country one OF them start.
Ell after q deer which they IN at a
distance. Reoru leaving he was told
that the remainder would continue on,
aui, IN order that the hunter could
al
would leave all manner OF marks tie.
hind them. After travelling TIL night
aud the hunter not putting In an
appearance, dres were lighted No Gle.
waited points. guns fired aud "A general
search Instituted, hut without result.
It's thought that tho hunter either
was killed by an Indian or lost his
way, and telling to see the signal OF
his cOmpnniOue, wandered OIL and
dled OF starvation.
Sunday nights Southern Pacific
train took into Los Angeles the btdy
Of q fanchman who committed suicide
BY blowing out his brains with IA big
iOrly -iOur.ualiher revolver while ON
Route to that city from Tombstone, A.
T. 10 IL supposed that the man was
mentally deranged. The train hal
ll1' pulled out from Spadra, a little
station near Pomona, when the
fauoher, who had been impor,uning
his fellow passengers TO DRINK VITA
HIN, walked out 10 the car platform,
RAu placing a pistol Ia his right temple
pulled the trigger. The bullet passed
entirely through his head aud the
suicide fell Oh tho steps. The train
was Immediately stopped aud run
back, anu the man was found gasping
DIS last breath. He died shortly after.
ward. In his pockets at the murpue
were found Sl05 Ia money and several
letters aud receipts. The latter were
unlei at Tombstone anu bore the name
Of II. 3. Backus.
G. w. Price OF Fort Benton, Mon.
lana, who Is one Of the principal
cattle owners on the Milk river range,
lnlofms ua TINT the outlook from
Ohiuook east Is almost Rs hai na stated
ln the worst rep0rts, Gays the Hclena
Herd'd. Three weeks ngO Mr.. Pfice
received word from his men near
Chinook 10 the effect that his losses
might reach 80 per cent, and last week
ne went 10 that point to investigate for
nlmseli Asa result ol his lnyestigR.
non Mr.. Price finds that tho loss OF
eutle up 10 the present time IA quito
nttavy, aud this, added to the fact that
NlhIrh IL the worst month In the year
On cattle thut have suffered from
hhld winter will, he thinks, ran the
hVelage loss of cattle along Milk river
w 10 az least rs per cent. Then there
I'VE many range cattle oi proper ngo
market that viii not be IN condition
l,' ehlpmeut this fall. Ia clnseuuencs