Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-06
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Two Boys Drowned While Out on q
Fishing Excursion in California.
KILLING OF A RAIILESNAKE
Melbourne, the Rain King, Keeps Very
QuieL-Caplurc Of Large
Wild Cat, etc.
KILLING OF A RA1ILEsNAKE

ArapAhoe county will pay the Den.
yer d South Park 100000 bonus
bonds falling due August 4ih'
The Indians are holding a big IAN
dango ut Marshall canyon, NeVeuA,
this week aud the dance VIII continue
for several days longer.
w. J. Booth, n Montana man, was
recently sfrested In the north part OI
Lander county and fined 500 for kill'
Log big game out OF season.
The Rock Springs twyol Lumber
company has been incorporated with
$4,000 capital and will engage In the
wholesale and retail lumber business
There have been shipped from Raw.
Inns tMyo) In rOunu numbers this
season, over 100000 POUNDS OF wool.
The northern clip IL arriving daily
nj the present time, aud about 100000
pounds Il stored tn, re- at present.
lorenzo Harper, aged eixtoen years,
was drowned ON Monday ut Stockton,
Cal, near the California paper Mill,
white boating. He owned a treachCi.
Gus boat which went over easily, ami
while attempting to mlko q quick turn
was thrown into the water. He SWAN
TOT shore apparently exhausted. The
body was recovered.
J. w. Montague, q young druggist
ufSAnta Anna, Cat, brought In lar o
wildcat from baguna canyon ON SUI.
day night. He was hunting rabbits
ina large patch Of cactus aud came on
the cat suddenly IN a clear place the
animal kyuu ssFnnTklnfr Ia aUFIH 10 ~.
the young hunter, but y wsll-iiTected
shot dispatched 1t before the leap
could be- iakon. The animal weighed
over sixty pounds.
The Cheyenne sun thus soliloqulsos:
Poor Melb0utu,l The Fourth Oi July
and kindred attractions have com.
pletely eclipsed him. Very little II
said about him ~ anybody. A re-.
porter saw Flank Jones yesterday and
hc said; "Melboutuu has very little
10 say. He does say, however, that
he conditions are peculiar. Rain Will
come up within a few miles Of Chcy.
snuo but II always slips away, withUt {
giviug drop Of rain mere" The rain
King hEs not yet come down from the
capitol dome where he has been
nearly three weeks.
A distressing accident occurred at
Grafton, California, on Monday In
which Erby and Richard Mcintosh,
nged twelve Rud ten ycnrH usgoclivsly
were drowned ia the Grafton reservoir.
The boys had lett home In the morning
l0r the pufpOse OF tlshing In the resor-
vOif. They ala not return during the
dny, aud early Ia the evening their
father began a search for them. Going
TO tue reservoir about two miles rom
tho house. ho was horriiicd to lind
their hats floating ON the surface Of the
water. Help was Ut once secured and
The resefvolr was dragged, and at
1880 O'clock the same night the body OF
the elder boy was recovered. Tho body
Of the other was not found until 1870
O'Clock the next afternoon.
b. +. Hoy few days since killed a
rattlesnake on a. Is. RObinson's place,
near Ban EmigdiO, says the Bakcrtirlu
californian, which measured seven
lutt IN length. The reptile was very
prettily marked upon In black upon an
Uld-gold background, anu, dead, was
much more TO be admired than living.
He was exceedingly ferOciOus aud
showed fight hs soon M discovered, bot
we'll applied ride shot carried away
his head with LII dangerous iangs, anu
Mr. Rather became quiet ami innocent
Mr.. Hoy says that fattlesnakcs are
very numerous Ia his vicinity, hut II
IA very rare that no large n one Is seen.
He melted out Of the body large
bottle Of oil which he sold In town foi
medicinal purposes, II being highly
esteemed by some. who fey ard II as au
uniaillnK specific for rheumatism.