Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-29
Securing The Country Around AIbu-
QueTQue, for a HlghWayman.
POISONING AT MONROE. SEWER co.
Chinese aud Opium smoking.-A Lacy
and her Daughter Accidentally
Drowned.


The Pacific Coast association OF
fire chiefs has issued circular GAZING
uuon iremen TO observe special pre-
cautions against free on July 4ih' Ihe
ns,ooIation advises that no fire appaf-
atus be used In public parades'
John X. Clawson, n 5wedo, on the
weatbound passenger trainon luesleyi
while nearing Mountain Home, ldaho,
s,.pped into the toilet room OF the
gents, SIN. ker and blow his btains out
He held a tccond.ciass ticket tton
Wahoo, Nebraska. No cause 10 known
Tor tho suicide.
On sunday afternoon John Dean,
who ~ employed at tn. PntOio (OoLJ
steel works, caught his leg Ia some
machinery and had II baily efusneu'
He was removed 10 the hospital Wheto
amputation Of the limb was iOuui
necessary. AT last reports lie was rest
ing eAsily.
Mrs. II. r. Harris and daughter ten
yearp of age, were drowned SUNNY
while cronsing the Rio Granite TlNet
about six miles west Of LEI Not.e'
Colorado. Harris, wife, child ana
Young man named Tinker were IN
lumber wagon drawn by bronchvs.
After crossing the team baked atd
finally began TO back, throwing the
occupants into the stream.
Papago Indians, while observing the
Catholic festival OF San Juan, on the
Ban Xavier reservation, partook freely
OF mescal. In the ffacRs one amod
Vicente stabbed anu killed another,
Manuel. Strong efforts will be made
to learn where the mesoal came from.
The murderer Is In all nj tucson,
Arizona.
J. X. Laisen, a Swede, committed
suicide on a train near Mounlnin
Home, Idaho, on Monday, by shooting
himself with revolver. lie was
going TO Portland, Or, from 'WahOo,
Neb. He tiled TO Jump from tbs train
but was prevented. He then put the
gun TO his mouth and fired, dying Ill
most instantly. He was thought TO be
defanged.
HAties are now epidemic among
animals Of all kinds 1T QuiiOtob, ARE.
Several persons have had narrow es-
capes, one man saving himself from a
frenzled horse by knocking IL down
with u large stone. This cause Ia lack Of
water on the mesa, whereby the coyotes
10 mad. Papago Indians says lhe cpl
demic ragged three years ago, when II
was unsafe TO leave doors open ut night,
for mad coyotes.
NJ. q. Taylor, a resident Of Grass
Valley, has forwarded n communIca.
ton 10 the board of supervisors IN
which he suggests a new plan for Ban
Francisco to supply herself with the
water needed by her citizens. His
idea IL that the city should ME right
10 water at tho forks OF the middle ana
north fuba rivofe, a point about lao
miles distant. Water could be brought
from that point, where an electric
plant could also be established.
The little three-year.old son OF
Robert Doxford OF Monroe, Is Just re-
covering from what IL thought 10 be- a
severe case Of poisoning, says tho
Riohfcld advocate. About fifteen min
utes alter eating some oolored candy
the boy began quivering and frothing
nj the mouth exactly the same as II In
ne produced by strychnine. An
emotio was shortly after administered
and vomiting was produced, which also
Indicated the presence OF strychnine.
hN llNAlt ANAluM uhr lhAu AON Ilhnl
days since IN sleepy state anu II Ia
recover. Mr.. Doxford thinks that tho
colorinR In candy Ia no particular bone-
inland may be very injurious.
Msssrs. Van Lone, from the SEWER
rlning camp, and Ira huntsman, u
blacksmith Of Riohnsld, became on
tangled In dispute last Monday night
Ia the Palace Saloon, about which
should treat the crowd, on account OF
not being able 10 stand before tue other
ina pugilistic exhibition. or course
the participants started In good humoT,
but before long Huntsman had lost,
not enough Of his beard ~ cushion "A
buggy seat, anu Van Lone resembleu
elbow that had stood before Jim VIII
llama about fifteen mlnutes. They
were taken before his hon. lhe next
day, VINO charged them ten dollais
each IN delinquent admission lee 10
tho ce.-Ricigeid AduCcato
The recent arrest and imprisonment
OF several Chinese Will result In n test
Of the validity OF the act passed by the
last legislature prohibiting Chinese
from smoking opium, says the Boise,
(ldaho) Statesman. w. II. Boran anu
=. L.. Upton have been retained to
test the matter, anu they are bound a.
20 TO the bottom Of It, They hold, In
fact, that while II is constitutional 10
enact laws TO prohibit the sale OF opium
and tOempOwer the authorities 10 close
houses where opium issOld anu smoked,
declaring them 10 be nulsAnoes, my
law that provides for the punishment
OF person who smokes opium that
might have been give TO him, or who
happens TO DO In u place where opium
being smoked, In unconstitutional.
goes lurther, they th,nk, than any
Jaw eau 20. They claim to have a
precedent Tor the stand they are taking
~ Tue lest OF anti-whisky laws Ia pro-
hibltion states.
On Tuesday morning the Harvey
eatlng'house at COOlidge,o on the A tlah.
NC anu Pacific, was entered by iUue
eandll anu robbed OF nearly $500. Tne
hlghWayman rode up TO Tue station on
h"oow pony" dismOunteu auu tied his
morse 10 n post. As he entered the
ealing house he put on Mis- mask anu
went through the dining room TO the
rear. There he iolud Manager &,
Johklns sitting on the back porch
tuoklng, anu he compelled him 10 turn
over what money he had In his pOckets,
amounting two about S25, at the point
" pistol, Jenkins was marched into
lhe house and compelled TO OMEN thu
sue sue The highwayman secured over
s-V more. AZ no passed out OF tho
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