Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEST.
rJsck The Hslsur,T" Doin6 Strange
Work in California
An INTERESTING LEGAL BATTLE
A Peculiar writ Of llab'a' Corpus
Attempted SuIeide.-Mlscei'
lancous Joli,ngs.

canton, n. ~, built over 100 sub.
,,antiai houses during She past year.
Butte, Mont, merchants I,fori a
better holiday trade than ucy had one
year ago.
The Rio NrAndo Southern railroad
has reduced passeuger rates from ~
cents 10 0 ceuta per mills.
Deep snow In the south park Of
Colorado inaufeA ahuu1nuuu 81 water
Tor irrigation Ia the Pla.to valley LoAt
summer
Greeley. Colo, pipefs announce
plentiful fall Of snow along lHu hchl-
waters Of the Cache Ia Poulrc. Water
will he plentiful.
New Mexico college Of agriculture
NJ LIE Cruces has issued a valuable
pamphlet ON insect pesla Vi tue Rocky
mountain region.
At EDDY, y. NJ, the great dam
which was washed out lntt August
causing lota OF $4,000, has been re-
s.ofud.
Golden, Cool, clays have recently
been tested IN eastern glass Rnu pot
terry works aud pronounced 10 bo the
finest aud pufest known for making
glass ana pottery.
The Helena land office has received
from the surveyor general plaiA u re-
GENTLY surveyed lauuH located Ia Cas-
cadeand Meaghuf counties. The land
will be- open ~ entry February Cad.
KIT Carson county. Col,., contains
A. Il mi
whigh tho settlers Of that county de-
Aru occupied before spring crop plant
log.
White o AXE, n. NJ, Indignantly denies
that miuerH arc starving ~ that har u
times prevail there. Toe ColJrad o
papers arc requested 10 revise their
alaudelous statements.
Marloora county, Arizona, schools
cost $4,000 last year, SO, 900 Of which
went 10 improvements aud nav school
houses. THIS h significant ana igv0r'
able slgnin the coming new state.
sheridan. wyo., has just finished a
handsome new brick CiIy hall. IL co..
talus IRE department, mtyof's uihgc
1uI uucil chamber. IL Il said 20 be
the finest municipal building IA WyO'
ming.
In white Oaks, y. NJ, last week NJ.
tesinn water was struck NJ depth Of
no feet. The water Immediately rose
Bu icet Va tho tube. The water problem
has besu solved IN White Oaks.
sheridan, wyo., has Just finished a
handsome brick CITY Hal. ltconiAius
IRE Department, mayors office and
council chnmber. II isalid - bn the
finest municipal building In Wy0m.
log.
Las Vegas, n. A., has enjoyed cum
mefliko weather this winter while ice
has frozen niteen inches thick seven
0f eight miles away. The Las Vegas
iee crop viii DO very valuable one
this year.
AZ Cheyenne, Wyo., there Is u mag
nlhcrnt display OF native grasses on
exhibition In the state capitol. There
are 100 varieties, anu among them blus
stem grass five feet long aud buffalo
grass hulf that length.
A Missoula, Mont, man has perfect.
ed a plan Tor "corTaling an avalanche"
lie has found an Immense gorge Of
snow which never mclts, aud he pro-
poses 10 eNoayite II ani usu II Tor cold
storage for dressed meat Tor shipment
East.
A Observation-Disclosures iou nd In
the rocks Of tue Wind river region OF
Wyoming ~ on exhibition at Pniladel-
phia. lt said 10 be the firat III hoOicd
animals, is about the elge OF calf and
lived about 100000 Year, ago, more or
less. Il Is valued at $4,000.
NT,,tr... ff.fa A.. H.t.......... .
have creamery la operation through
1884. a meeting was held last week
aud committee appointed TO canvass
among the farmers aud formulate "A
plan for u permanent butter manufgc-
Tory At Montruse.
Governor Hughes and Territorial
SuctetpIy Bruce have been TO Yuma,
Arlzonn, Ia communication with the
authorities In regard 10 the San Diego,
Yuma and Phmiix railroad, the great
desert canal IN California anu the i'm.
proyement Of the Colorado river, mat.
toIs Of great Interest to southwestern
Arizona.
There IL destined 10 be- an Interest.
ing legal battle over the new charter nj
Sacramento, Cal. A number ~ officials
who failed OF reelection last November
claim that tho instrument In not worth
the paper IL IN written on, aud IRE de-
lttmluUd not TO surrender their offices
10 the successful candidates until the
Legality OF tho charter Is passed upon
" lhesupIcme court
Emma 8. Douglass has procured
from Judge Hubbard, At San Fan.
cisco, writ Of habeas corpus, ny which
she seeks % gain the outtldy Of hcr
niuo.yearold son, Dudley Douglass,
The bOy'a lather Is dead and no hgh
been living with his grandfather, who
has refused 10 surrender the child. lie
Chains that the mother deserted her
offspring ELK years ago anu bas since
laid but litliu attention 70 its welfare.
Tho mother Is dtessuaiser, and, on
lhe grandfather claims, has not tu-
helent mrans to support her child.
A young man by the name Of
Thomas Mcdonald un crtlok 10
'thulle Oh this mortal coll" last oven.
lux by the aid ui penkui'c. ltfctmo
lhbt hohGd taken young lazy 10 the
Catholic ball at the opera hguao on
New feAJ'a night, aud after esCOrlirg
her home he learned that she regardoJ
another young man with more favor
Than size bestowed upon him, Thsiu-
l9rmali1n 40 worked upon his ceiling