Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-08
WESTERN NEWS ITEMS.
STRANGE Race OF Cliff DHellerS ir BGr-
Inc Sea.
o,rp on THE EVE OF MARRIAGE.
ysgetable PelrlIac'ion.-pcrlshed IN
n storm KILLED for
Cat.

A dIapntch from Rock Springs aaya
mai Antone Quick, the most PROM.
,nsnt Austrian among the large mum.
Ter Of q jal miners Of that nationality
tbete, has perished In a storm In the
wountaine. He and several others
vent hunting several days ago. They
did considerable drinking, when
stofm came Oh aud Quick eirayed from
,he camp. The authort es Of 70.
ele,ies OF which the missing man was
member are hunting fOr the remains.
lack Bonner engaged In a serious
ouarfel with Harry Jones, foreman OF
me- White Ash Coal mine, at Golden,
Colorado. Bonner, who was formerly
an employe OF the mine but was LAID
Off about week ago, has been feeling
very sore towards the foreman since
the occurrence. This feeling was
ouenly manifested Mt their casual
meeting on Saturday night, and soon
led TO a rough and tumble fight. Both
men received more or less iujuries,
mainly from teeth and scratches.
Homer had one ear nearly torn from
bis head, while Jones received large
cut under the eye and was also chewed
up around the neck.
The community OF Spanish Fork IL
thrown into a state OF gloom at present
owing to the death OF II young man
named Elins Lewis, who died ON
Saturday afternoon. He was twenty.
four years Of age AMI was about 10 be
married; in fact the arrangements for
his marriage with Miss Minnie
Thomas were all completed aud the
cards were out announcing the date OF
the event. The deceased was au
es,imablo and highly respected young
man. Miss Thomas, his intended
bride, IN well M his relatives are com.
pleteiy Frustrated with the blow. He
had been Riling about n month, hut no
one expected that death would clam
him. Heart ial ura was the cause Of
his death. The funeral tool place
yesterday.
There alighted from the south bound
Missouri, Kansas n Texas passenger
train at Nevada, Mo, the other day,
perhaps the oldest ma rled couple IN
Missouri. The were Mr.. aud Mr.. q.
W Quick OF Aspen City,and they were
on tneir way to Rich Hill with their
son, w. IL. Quick, their home, with
all its contents, Mt Aspen City, having
teen destroyed by fire last Friday. The
old gentleman was born ia Albemarle
county, Va, In 1894, and has voted
for every nominee OF the Democratic
party for President, his first vote being
for James Monroe. He came to
Missouri In his youth and was married
to his wife ON his twenty. first birthday.
She was born In Bowling Green, KY,
nirety-six years ngO, and came TO
Missouri with her parents when she
was two years OF age. Both MIR. and
Mts. q iicS have bsen members o. the
Methodist Episcopal church Of the
south nearly sixty years.-hdnsds Guy
Times.
At Telluride, Colo, on March sth,
crowd VI boys, among whom were
Ed Marmaduke anu Claude n chols,
were chasinga cat, endeavoriDg ~ XIII
1t, when Marin ,duke drew u 35.calibre
revolver anu Gred. Young Nichols
happened to be In the range Of the bull
let, which entered his left side above
the groin, passed through and lodged
under the skin In the small part Of the
back, iuflicting wound from which
he died the following Sunday morning.
George Lang,a young man Gun ployed
by the w. w. Il. outfit ON the
Bigger ranch, near Byers, Colorado,
met with painful accident Saturday
afternoon. While riding through the
pastures at rapid rate the horse
stumbled and fell heavily upon him,
before he could extricate himself, hnd
Laug's hip was dislOcated. In this
helpless situation he was stretched on
the prairie for over two hours, and
darkness had almost set In when at
last his cries for help, were heard by
Dick Price, ranchman In the neigh
borhoou, who went TO his assistar .
at once. IL II had not been for this lao
no doubt would have perished during
the night, ms no one else lives In the
vicinity. Strange TO say, about
eighteen months ago Price met with
similar accident himself and was out on
the prairie for nearly thirty.six hours.
lang was taken TO the county hospital.
One OF the finest specimens Of
vegetable petrifaction ever exhibited
In Helena was brou Oh. 20 town Friday
by Hector Cody. This specimen Is IA
carrot, little more than nine inches In
length, with about an inch Of the tip
broken of. The history Of the petri-
faction Is briefly this. In 1870, Hector
Cody, then lad ri ten years, planted
bed OF carrots In his mothers garden
patch near the BaXendale granite
quarry, about eight miles from town,
The crop was an excellent one, the
yield being large ut the autumn har.
vest. That WIS fourteen years ago.
Before the recent storm, there being
little II any frost In the ground, Hector
started out TO SPADE up some OF the old
garden spot, when n shovel full Of
loosened earth exposed the stone.
hardened vegetable, which proved
upon examination to be- M complete
ana handsome a Fertilization as
nature ever transformed from vege-
table life. In washing the soil
from II what once formed the skin
Of the carrot scaled oil, leaving q
cofnallan'ringed stone M clearas M cut
agate, through which the sunlight
shows every popularity OF Its growth
ana formation. Mr.. Cody has had the
offer OF horse for the unique speci.
men, but his mother Ia unwilling Ia
part with II. He has promised to leave
" Tor season M an exhibit In the
HtTdtd cabinet, and later to permit II
10 he taken TO the Worlds Fair Ms one
o' Tue specimens In the Ietrificntiou
exhibit Of MontGna.-Heioha Herald
Ben Il. Miller, Port Townsend boy
VINO was on the United States steam.
snip Bear during her recent al ht
honlhs cruise In the Northern seas,
mas many tales to relate OF his adven.
lures anu the sights he has setn n.
among other thugs he tells OF the
hthf'H visit To IL inUta iaIauu I'm naripn