Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-27
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Rats Build a Rest 10 d Fireplace aud
Load II With Giant Cops
A PRETTY SLICK PRISONER.
Highlander Outrage In frospo, CAL
A Mother Steals Her own
CHILD, Rte.

Joel HUI, living sb1u. mile south.
west OF santa Aus, Cal, started ducA
hunting ana was iOuna dead IN q
swamp next morning. IL ia ~"rtt
that bis Uoath was caused by heat.
tack Of a vicious bull. Tho boz v q
badly mutilatoJ.
The Carson (Nsvadsl Tribune says
Dorsey N0towAfo filed application
butufday morning for the purchase VI
nearly 10000 acres OF land In Eiku
county. Tns laud will be- purchaser
by company who Will doubtless i'm.
prove the same.
An Indian named Plxley stabbed q
Chinese on MOuuay ut Carson, Nov,
becausn the latter refused " give him
opium on credit. The Indian mount.
cd horse after committing tho dUo1
and rode up Carson street, shouting
that he could not be taken. lie IL sIlll
at large.
The nurdorsrs Of Paiquale hliloil,
whose mutilated fumaiua we're found
near bis home In Raymond, Madsra
county, Cal,, about three wBut8 So,
Two naii-brced Indians are suspected
of having committed the murder
Another freight car burned at Lsrn.
mie, Wy0., Sunday, ami the greater
portion Oi tho contents, includinE =
quantity OF household goods, wstr
destroyed. This makes the fourth car
to 20 W 10 tmsks Of late, and the Etu.
efal belief 10 that the trouble IL being
caused BY "a flrsbug.
In San Frsuoltoo Oh Saturday morn.
Ing car on tue Finn bifuet line
dropped about ten feet nt the inter.
section Of Howard. Tho ground gave
way and car, driver and h0rse al went
down. No one was hurt, but ali were
smearei With mud and traffic was
blocked several hours.
Chin Wan Sian, a Chinese metchant
doing butinets In Fresno CITY, CsL.
was assaulted and robbed late sunday
evening by four hishbiuderr, who are
thought 10 DO tue same men who have
been committing OuttAgea IN China
town Tor thu pat two weeks. He wAs
robbed OF S34j.
A Chrl,lmna tree ut the Pfsabytsrlaa
church, San Beruardiuo, Gal, took IRE
on Monday evening and hundreds Ut
chiluTeu crowded In tue church STAN.
pudei, some jumping Out OF the
windows anu others fushoi for the
doors. Several were more or less bruised,
but none were fatally b. Jured. The IRE
was Promptly extiuguiHheJ, bur tha
audience disportod without thsit Christ
mas offerings.
10 IL stated that Cheyenne shopmeu
will make an effort 20 have tue OTucr
closing tue shops January lst resoindod.
The plan that the men intend 10
adopt 10 10 sign m agreement 10 HcCept
the Denver schedule AID nppUiUt a
committee Of three or I'VE mechanics
20 20 20 Omaha ana walt u, on General
Manager Dickinson aud General super.
iEtendent Mcdonnell.
/. J. Roifo received letter a few
days aso which was dated January IL,
1875, says the Nevada City Herald IL
was written at San Juan and was VI
importance and requested an imme-
diAte hnswoT. In sOme manner II was
mislaid, and II hAI Ia n all these yshrs
hidden IN some recess OF the furniture
In the pOslgtilc0. In moving the fur.
nitufe MUnuHy II dropped out anu WAs
delivered TO Mr.. Role. The letter was
written by D. -. Swan, who was At
the time p0t,mAuter at San Juan.
Mrs. Thompson, the divorced wife Of
Charles Thompson, formerly a ticket
broker Of 81. Louis, arrived 10 Butte,
Mont, on Monday, In company with a
detective, stole her lOur.y sar-Uld
daughter from the rooms Of her ex.
husband anu got out Oi the slate before
II was learned that thB had been ia
town. The child was awarded the
mother by the 81. Louis courts, but the
father took 10 away before the cOuTt
OrIer could be served on him, Mrs,
Thompson has been following him aud
the child for nearly yeAL
A prisoner bearing tho name OF
.Coorer, according TO tho Tacoma
Led0sT, IL Hm0ug those who inhabiG
the jail there. Ho 10 sickly looking
young uan, aud created disturbance
the other day by going Into what Ap.
peared 10 DO a III ami fr0thipE NJ the
mouth. This jail officials were Effaid
that he was going 10 die In their house,
20 DT. ShaisT was cent for, lie die.
covered that the irolh from Co1peT's
mouth smsllod s0Epy. Then uo com.
mencod heroic treatment, IL consisted
chiefly OF rubbing the patients ears.
Cooper stood IL few minutet, and
then gave In, and acknowledged that
he was shammlng, hoping thereby 10
obtain more liberty. "H0u're pretty
slick, Doctor" said he. "l'ye worked
the trick lots OF Iimes IN otuer jails,
RuL ips llwGya gone, YOU'RE the 1nt
man 10 call me down"
RaA are the cause Of great deal Of
annoyance 20 those who live In the
mountains, says the BOzrma MONTY
Chronicle, anu many stories could be-
told VI their deviltfy, The latest
comes TO uh by letter from Red Lodge.
John Andrews, VI DilWOrlh, accom-
panied by n cowboy, on their way 10
the mines OF the Clafk's Fork, slsptsd
OF n cabin owned aud formerly used by
Shelby Ell Dillard, the Journalistic
miner. In the fireplace was nsuu-
tain rata neat. Fire was applied to
THIS and In moment terrific OK.
plosiOn took place. Beth men were
knocked down, and when assistance
came soon after from man following
them they were unable 20 move.
Surgical and medical assistance war
Immediately procured aud II 10 hs.
seems that the rats had procured from
some source or other number OF eX-
plosiye cape, such ~ arc used by
miners, anu deposited them IN the
nest ~ they are wont TO do with every