Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-07
NEWS OF THE WEST.
4 Cable Car al Sacramento H.ld Up
by HlghwaYmen.
A mosrREMApKlBLr COINCIDENCE
T,phus Fever at American Fork.-A
Prosp,cior's Terrible Experience.
II Bookketper Disappears.

There are several cases OF Vih"e
fever ia a metican Fork
A petsiumH hunter recently BILLED
wildcat measuring i've feet 'on inoh's
ia length.
Spokane, wash, hHs 23J electric arc
lights al present, Tor when the olJ
pays 8 per month each
Crepe shipments from sonoma co .i...
~, Cal, to the Eastern market 'u'e
year net,cd go ton.
The once prosperous mining camp o.
Triton, Arizona 10 .0W .e'ei'eN'
owing 10 the low price OF silver
An English gardner hgiug mar
Tacoma, Wash, has successfully tflru
the experiment OF ouitNaung Tue
licorice plant
Mro. Brosnoar, OF Bellevue, Idaho,
cut her finger with a piece u glAss'
blood poisoning onsued aud her conul'
tlou IL said to bo quite pfecnfious.
On WE. pennebaher's ranch uaer
Traver, Cal, there is nu almond Tree,
nvo years OLD, that measures Jour feet
three and. 1ne-hali inches an oircum'
ference one foot from The ground.
The monster weir that tue land com
rany ~ building IN the river four mice
above Bakchflrld, Cal, Will bs com
pletod In tue course VI three WEEKS ~
Is over 400 feet long.
The postal authCrilies at Sacramento,
Cal, are making An ,iiyrt o. proven
certain class OF doctors from uslng the
malls Illegally. AoA result Two men
and one woman have been arrested
w. Gus smith, prominent citizen
NJ Fairplay, Col, while working upon
the roof Of the Karen store buiiilns GA
Saturday, lost his footing ana irl 10
tine street, distance Of over i0tty itcii
anu was severely ipluted'
Don Campbell, n trusted bookkeoper
and collector iof the Bestgmvr lruuing
company, at Pueblo, Colo, has disnp'
pearud aud tue company Onrr re-
ward u SO for his afrstt. lie wa o.
young man well known ana popular
nnd WAS fully uuutUi by his en-
pluyers.
John Osborn, OF South Rlveraide,
Cal, was bitten on the hand by b
rlulesnnke ~ few days sgO. lie im-
medintciy sucked tue poison ifOm the
wound, swallowed a quantity OF To-
hacco aud pouiuced the wound with
clay aud tobacco. He recovered.
The q. 3. marshal, says the San
frnnoieco Chronicle Of SATURDAY, solo
DsUO c1ntmbaLd Manila cigar-, which
came from MoxirO,at Sl3 per thousand.
iucluding the - iJf internal revenue,
nnd fity pounus OF opium from NlctU.
Iis at s5.75 pound, The opium brirgs
iii the market about $40 a pound, the
duty being sl2.
DIR. John Finir0ck, who recently NJ
rived from Wyoming, was Quad dead
his room nt Boise, idaho, on 3aiur-
lay. Deceased was pTOmintnt ply
rciRu and had served with dihuuctiOu
Nuriug the war, anu at itH close WA
discharged NJ assistant surgeon In an
Uuio regiment He was member Of
me Wyoming legislature ami one VI
lac regents OF the state university.
J. Nj. wa,erhouse, says the Nampns
Idaho, Lcadcr, hss oue OF the hnss,
young orchards IN tbs county, aud
has gathered his crop and disposed Of
1. His pear trees Immediately bios.
iOmed again after the fret crop was
taken Oh, and now the trees are loaded
hfWN WIN "a hhNNhh CROP Aut lthlH
bsiug about tho size Of hens' egps
rhis muy sound little "h.hy" ioF
southern Idaho, but II Is fact, ana
'the trees are only two AMI hail yeafs
Old.
A strange case Of mistaken identity
has occurred AZ Butte, Montana. Lat
week man committed suicide In tho
city jail by taking a big dose OF NOR.
phinr. Since thtn the body has been
positively ideuiitied as eight different
men, anu upon investigation cacn case
- identity mas proved n mistake. The
BODY has been eInbhlmed ana 10 still
Vt the morguo. Photographs have
been taken OF tho dead man and these
will be sent all over the country wher.
ever II Is supposed that any one knew
him.
A singular coincidence was the pc.
cullnr accidout In which Lou Cleve.
land was killed at Telluride, Colo, Oh
Saturday, occurring same place, Rhme
day and seine hour that one Mcdonald
lost his life four weeks ago. While
bonding over listening 10 his partner
giving uTdefn concerning the cfIsl or
he lost his equilibrium Rnd I. Into tho
fly wheel Of the Pandora mi 3, vac tYi
Uf his head striking the timber, sn-
knocked Oh, brains nyiug IN every "a.
rrctiOn, anu ovefy bone In hts BODY
broken. He leaves a young wife and
child.
Alcablo car ON the cemelEry branch
Of the consolidated Piedmont Cable
company Mt Sacramento, Cal was held
up by three highwaymen the other
night, and the road agents, after bat.
tering the conductor into lusonsiblhty.
rfird his pockets and extracted s.
thereiroin. The robbers, hoyev,r
failed 10 take so or 81, which tho con.
uuctof carried IN his coat pocket i0r
the purpose Of making change. They
also loft gold watch anu chain. While
the conductor was being robbed at the
rear end OF the car by two men, tho
third TObber covered the gripmAn with
revolver to prevent his giving an
cutlery. The rohhers, who wore maskp.
made tteir escape.
News has reached Telluride, Colo.
Of the finding OF the body OF Gror.p
shaw, an old prUHpectOr, who had been
wOihng on Sunshine mountain, near
Ophir, the past summon. Shaw lett
Amrs on tue evening Of the g5lh o,
ln-t month, a cold ami snowy uRv, f0f
ais prospect ON Sunshine, anu Tins wa.
the last ,een OF MIN alive, Hispatintt
getting anxious regariiug his security,
went 10 the prospect day or two slnc'
AMI on opening the cahin duof. saw
that SHAW had not been there lie
"a once came down anu gave thenlarm.
A searching party etnFtpu our the nrxt