Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-05
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Extensive Forest PITss are RigIH5
Around Spokane, Wash,
BURIED AWE ron FIyE HOURS.
A Hobby Of President DiHz Of MrX'co.--
Shooting Scrape In Colorado
Accident In a Laundry.

Nina Smith, girl employed In the
Mnuituu steam laundry nj Colorado
Sprlngs, hRd her right hand crushed
toa Jelly this morning while working
ut the steam maugle.
Negotiations are pending between
the city cOunc uf LgiamiV, Wyo.i anu
the Uui0n Pacific RAILROAD nutIioii iu'
for the Iufchate by the city NJ hNt-
aero tract Of land lying along the bis
Laramie fivsf, above ihu eityi lur
site Tor water works.
The Ard club Of Boise cry, Idaho,
was attached ON Saturday ny uiticfehl
PARTIES for sums nggregnunr sou, anu
The club's property ~ now ia the hhh- =
Of n deputy. IL ~ not known WhW
action the members Of the club VIII
take ia the matter. The assete amount
to about 5000.
DR.. Robert Brown, who has beon
rosiug IA Rock Springs, Wyo., ns
graduate Vt Canada electric college,
u under arrest ior malpractice. MFG.
Carrie Torfey, 81 Cripple Creek, hiel
there suddenly the other day hnu u
was found that death resulted from
the effects Of an overdose VI morphine
administered by DR.. Brown.
President Diaz vi Mexico IS hard
worRer and has hobby Tor collecting
firearms Of oil ages and nations. He
isR practical mechanic, hsviug con.
.uuctud all tao furniture In his btd
room with implements Of his own
make, aud no mas recently vented
nud patented many implements iu'
Guiding uew.finglcd corkscrow.
The result OF the first analysis made
by the milk inspector VI the board "
health at san Ff,nci,co " Ataftling.
Out OF twenty-five Hamplca Of miiR
which he has seized he reports shat
eighteen are said 10 have been
agu .tefated and unfit for sale. They
are not only worthless and nm imposi.
ton upon those ~ whom they are sold,
Tut Ia several instances ab1ylul,ly
dangerous.
Extensive forest hfcs arc raging to
the east, south and north Of Spokane,
Wash, ami on Saturday tho smoke
was 90 dense 40 10 almost obscure the
sun. Thousands OF acres Of timber
have already been burned over anu IA
several instances houses and hatna
have been destroyed. Uuless rain
comes the damage will be beyond esii.
mate. SevtTalsmall towns ia the thu
Der along tho Spokane and Northern
railroads are threatened with dcslfuc.
ton.
A shooting scrape occurred about
mile below ~ Moro, Cob, on Fnday.
The shooting was done by joe FiOl,
nud the victim was William WHITE.
The young men have had trouble OF
late, growing Out VI jealousy over a
gifl, aud several times have thTeateroi
10 aunihilate each other. % FRIDAY
afternoon they met In the ROAD AMI
Floyd turned his gun loose. White
was shot In the leg and the horse he
was riding also received One Of the
bullets. Fortunately no serious results
will follow. The officers have gone
alter Lloyd.
Mrs. Jouc SlonebTakor,of Hoytsville,
met with a painful accident tue other
DAY, bTcaking her leg Ia three places
below the knee. While accompany.
log her husband TO the canyon 10
search Of berries, nnd seated upon the
running geaTs VI the wagon, holding
the horses and with her babe In her
arms, her husband got Oh tho wagon 10
shOot a biru. Al the crack Of the ride
tue hofcH made a start, which upsot
the lady's balance, anu while trying
81 regain II, put her foot IA the wheel
aul 10 the same instant pulled back on
tho team, which chustd thOm 20 back
mud break lhe limb while tho foot was
in the wheel. DR.. Hosmcr was sum.
moued and ret the les. The patient Is
doing well.
A man who gave his name ~ Charles
Andres aud who claimed 10 be ~ old
wet" came uear beating some Of the
q. A. II. men OF Boise CITY, Idaho, cut
Of several doliBts. He represented ho
came from Great Falls, Mont, aud
told pitiul tale. A purse was ~
once raised Tor him by local veterans,
but QuartcrmGster Campbell, OF Phil.
sheridan Post, quietly wired the post
Ht Great Falls concerning the man be.
fore tue money was turned over. This
proved flank move ON tho impOstOr,
M word camO back he was dead beat
o. the worst stamp. He evidently got
wind Of the Inquiry, Tor ne left Town
has "wUrkel" G.. a. II. p4sis Hll over
the country. Hu received assistance
from number OF old soldiers &C the
hhNahlAANAA hNlA AenA aANe ia "NA-
icl0,
James Bowen, gentleman living
near PuwniN, Ari2, was buried i've
hours recently, aud resurfectoi all
night. His burial occurred In n we'll
On tue Fitzpatrick ranch near the Rsy.
lum. lie was cleaning out the well
when something dropped nud lie
found himself thc foundation OF seven
ieet " rock and dirt. His voice from
the tomb was heard calling for release
hnd the work Of excavation was begun.
IN four hours tue TesCuors reached
MT BOwen's head, aud though he IL
not an unusual tall mau, II took two
hours more q get 20 his knees. Tho
Combined strength o. two moa was
required 10 pull him out. The rocks
had lodged Ia such q manner as g.
allow the mir % sift thrOu3h 10 him
Aud the only damage he suffered YVES
lhe ifightiui experience OF premature
burial and severe COMMISSIONS about the
head and shoulders.
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II Ia remarkable how virtu0usaud gon-
erously disposed every ono is ut play
uniformly applaud what Is righsand
condemn what 10 wrong when 1t costs
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