Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-28
NEWS OF THE WEST.
The End Of a Twenty-Five Years Old
Bankruptcy Case.
KILLED ny FALLING ADOBE WALL
Distressing and Fatal Fire. jail
Breaktrs.-Nulcldr Of an TX.
"Siar" with Morphine.
KILLED DYArALLlSG ADOBE WALL

The school ards ~ Pueblo, Col,
after laborlng noveral weeks with the
question OF an unusual shortage o.
funda, have decided 70 poltpOne the
opening Of all grades below the eighth
to October ..
Mollie Cameron died on Saturday at
Del Nurte, Colo, from the effects OF
morphine anu HtrOpia, administered
with auicidEl Intent. SHE had lived
rt Del N0rte since 1879, md it those
days w0s u star In Afbouf's dance
la !.
The United States land court nj
SANTA H., y. NJ, confirmed the Pledta
Lumber grant, IS 900 ucTcF, covering
the Chama river pistors. Al this I'm
the cour. has confirmed 221,OpO nctea
oi gran .auds, anu tn behalf o. the
Unite 3 ates government has juuted
olaime Tor 400, 0DJ ncrrs.
On Fnday afternoon two coiorod
mincth ni RJusr, Colo, wet Instantly
krlri iu q mine there. They hau
touched on charge NJ powder nud
a.. mur iar "a uvh away, "A portion
ui he ioni ~ h IN le fell IN on mem.
Ju, zee 1000 ,eJ from Tho dsbTis
ihottly ait-t. b b th r dcad, NE
having been o,usheu out vf them.
The body Of man, dressed In n
knitted wool undBtshirt and cotton
drawers, has been found partially
embeddtd In saud bar on the NUrih
Platte river about thirty miles west NJ
gorinF, Nch. The bones Visible were
entirely b. hre and have hron exposed TO
the suH Tor some time. This Is suppU cd
10 bc the hUIy u y man who WIS !. NJ
while fordiag herd Of Texas cattle
some i've miles above this spot In
June, 1892.
Early Saturday morning the vito NJ
ex.refrit0tlnl Auditor Thomas Hug @
~ Tucson, Arizona, was killed by tn
falling OF an adobe wall, death bciug
almost instantaneous. She WIS Ovur.
seeing milking uud s'OOu atuut ak feet
nut from damp adobe wall twelve
feet high. Without an instaups warm
ing anu almost without sound the
wali fell on her, breaking apart over
her form. The momentum was ioar-
iul when struck her, the wall weigh.
inr mary tons. She was picked VI uud
It was found that her back aud one leg
were broken. Shc died while being
carried g. the house. Tue deceased WAS
the mother OF niue children, the Oldest
being sixteen year,.
a chicken Tancher living near
Milton, wash, WAS brought to the
verge Of rum by great quantities Of
tnukes that emigtaJed 10 his noignbor.
hood ami ewnllowcd hls evgs and
young chicltns. He tried many plans
designed 10 disperso the reptilts and
save his stock aul fortune, but unAvhll.
ilngy. a happy thought struck him
two or three DAYS ago, anu he bought n
ing lot Of poTcciBiu nest eggs hud scat.
tered them prUniscuOusly over his
premises. Tho snRkvs were marvel
ously fooled, and hhvs been ewn,i0w-
Ing them with Bvi1ity aud with fatal
results ever since. II 10 assumed that
they die o. Ind gcstlOn, though Il may
bc chegrin.
Information from Hot Geek, Rye
county, Nevada, Ia ihst Richard
Gluyas, superintendent Of tue Hot
Greek aud Rattlesnake Mining anu
Milling company, an eastern corpora.
tiun, has Clmmiticd suiriIr alter two
months Of apparent deiiberajion. He
LETT his huuEo ami loit letter telling
where he had gone aud for what pur.
1850. HI went 10 the mill and set lire
10 ihifty cords Uf WOOL, climbed on TO
ituni eh0t himself. He was entirely
oicmalei, only two smsll pieces Of
hone auu the fragments oi "a pistol
lciug found. Flo hSi ufo0led over
dIGlpyO.utmcuts Hud the tow phi e. Of
silver. hu personally Ow el consider.
ah.u mining property. lie lett will
Hud about twenty letters dspOslng u
hi iOssOssiOlB.
Dennis Collins, bounu over for
shooting Section Foreman Coleman
and another man ~ Hauser junction,
wash, last June, broke all on Fdduy
hght by digging out through tho wall
mar the window easing. AZ sOOn ~
the escape becsme known Sher n
Cos .ello offered $50 reward Iot Coihut's
capture. a large number Of 10 u
started out In every direction. dill
overlook the fugitive aud he sur.
rendered without resistance. The
prisoner was put on horse and all
three started for RAthirun, when
Clilins threw himsili froii the horse
anu tried 10 escape In the brush. lie
refused to obey command 10 hnla
when both his cAptJfs fired and
C5ilins fell with his thigh shat ertd
ihyHiCians pronounce the wound lana,
AAN FNNllA AlNN NANAFAhANA khh lANh
who did the shooting, as no had
cautioned them that COllins was a
desperate man.
A most distressing Ore occurred at
Cheyerne, Wyu., on Saturday nighL
Tho GR0nizcd screams Of couple VI
women called the attention Of the
neighbOrhpOd TO the fact that "A litlie
hOuee In the rear Of Capitol avenue
was on tire. At this moment George
Thompson rushed up 90 the blazing
house, ana regardless u the roaring
nnmes, dated aside and or gged from
10 tne chRTre1 remains Of his aged aud
paraly zed father, J, H.. Thompson. The
Old mRn was terribly burned nnd was
dead long before the tirc was discovered,
The son was also badly burned about
the face anu hands, but viii recover
us thought the dead man, who was
10 years age, sot fire 10 the hedclothes
Ia lighting his piee and, being help.
less the lifs got beyond his control.
Inc deceased was an old real lent hnN-
lug gone 20 Cheyenne Ia 1857. lie
leaves two sons, two daughters AMI an
aged wife.
In 1871 John Slime & 90. and b, f..
Hastings OF san Francisco, were do
clared bankTupls. The creditors Of the
hrm decided ON November 49, laIl
10 have the affairs OF the firm wOuUd
up by a trustee. Mrs. Mary j.. slime
hnd hastings ASKED for a settlement