The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-03
Floods in wasatch County.

| The heaviest rain that was ever wit
messed by the people of this valley oc-
Cured Sunday afternoon. Crops were
destroyed, chickens drowned, bridges
swept away and travelling made impos-
| sible for a time.
The storm passed along the foothills
on the east of the valley, Heber escap-
ling with only a sprinkle-not enough to
lay the dust. 1t lasted about an hour
and a half and the rain came down in
| torrents.
Down each ravine came rushing,
roaring river that swept everything be-
fore it.
On Daniels creek the road was wash
| ed full of gravel in places. the canal
was filed with debris and considerable
grain was damaged, j. j. Howe had
about two acres of grain washed down
and buried up in sand and gravel He
also lost a good many chickens.
! At Center creek the storm was worse
than on Daniels creek. Much grain was
washed away and many chickens were
drowned. 1t is reported that Joseph
Sessions lost ten acres of grain. The
water rushed through Polesons house
nearly knee deep. Lewis Sweat lost
quite number of turkeys but saved his
gobbler by plunging into the water
waist deep.
Judge Watson and a wagon load of
IPCOplC. 1lIOoIly NOiHGI dHu CullUIGu
were out in Daniels canyon and COM
ing home he got swamped in Center
icreek. The bridge was swept away, his
wagon stranded and the team nearly
| drowned. Luckily no one was hurt and
a gentleman took the unlucky pleasure
seekers nome on hay wagon.
Just south of Heber the bridges were
carried away and people from the south
| found it difficult in getting home-Wa-
satch Mail.
Wright Gauthier and Myrtle Lane
yesterday morning made a second at
| tempt at elopement Their first trial
was made a week ago and was frus-
! trated by the girls father, who over
took the young couple at the train
and dtSsuaded his daughter from en-
| tering too rashly into matrimony.
| Yesterday morning Gauthier and the
| girl attempted to board the Denver
| train. but Officer Deitrick spoiled the
romance by taking both into custody.
He then placed them in the city jail
Gauthier is a painter and has been in
town only short time. His reputation
| is none of the best from all accounts
and his remarks with reference to the
| girl are not at all those to be expected
| from a prospective husband. Miss
Lane was released from custody and
taken home last evening. It was then
the intention of the officers to let
Gauthier go later in the evening, as no
charge could be preferred against him.
Cheyenne Leader.
A cloud burst in the hills east of the
Big Horn hot springs on the 14th inst
set things afioat at that popular re-
sort. Several tents were blown down
and their contents washed around on
the flats quite promiscuously. No dam
age was done, says the Rustler, how
ever. beyond general shaking up
among the occupants, who good-na-
turediy but damply put things together
again and continued on in the even
tenor of their way.
A gentleman who passed through
Bonanza on Saturday said that he
came over the mountains from Sheri-
dan to Hyattville on the new road laid
out by Scout Frank Grouard, remarks
the Big Horn Rustler. The contract
to put it in good shape for public ira
vel has been let for 81, 400, a sum which
is regarded as far too small to do the
work properly. Grourard trailed the
road this past winter when the snow
was deep, acting under orders from
the government to find a practicable
daily mail route, and he thought it
could be kept open the year round, no
matter how severe the winter.
OUR EASTERN NEIGRBORS.
The Democrats of Uinta county met
in convention last week and nominated |
the following excellent county ticket:
Sheriff, John H. Ward; attorney, J. |
c. Hamm; clerk of district court, J. w. |
Sammon; clerk, James Brown; treas |
urer, John R. Arnold; assessor, John |
Reeves; commissioners. Thomas Blythe, |
James Price and j. Van A. Carter; |
ooronar II Coda. c11narint andeut Of |
schools, Mrs. NJ. J. Young; surveyor,
William Newbrough; state senator, A. |
J. Reed: justices, precinct No. /, C. e. |
Castle; No 3 John OHara; lower house
of legisla ture. James Edward Burton
and Mark Manley. Delegates to the
state convention to be held at Cheyenne
August S-Robert Calverly, r. NJ
Friend, Robert Miller, DR.. Hooker, w.
W. Miles, S. T. Corn J. w. Sammon,
j. H Ward, William Bowen, Thomas
Snebden and ]. Van A. Carter.-Boom-
erang.
President Cleveland yesterday nom
mated Judge Gibson Clark, of the SUI
preme bench, for the position of dis
trict attorney of Wyoming, and John A.
McDermott, of Inez, for United States
marshal, to succeed Joseph Rankin.
These are two appointments which
have been expected for long time,
and 1t is pleasing to know that they /
give general satisfaction, not alone
among Democrats but the members of
all parties. McDermott was in Douglas
yesterday when the news arrived there
and he was carried about the streets Il
on the shoulders of friends both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. McDermott is
an old-time, Woodworking citizen The |,
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