Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Tho Wholesale Poisoning Of Hospital
Inmates In California.
A BOYS TRAVELLING ADVENTURES.
Suicide Of a Constable In n Justices
CUuriroom-A Mysterious
Plague, BIC.

The work Of Eilling wolves In the
northern part OF the state IL progress.
ing randy, says tho Laramie (Wyo.)
B00m,ron0.
II. l.. = enccr, constable for the
Oregon city district oi Oregon, shot
himself thr ugh the head IN tue Jus
tees court gu tuesday morning aud
died At noon. No reason Tor the deei
IL Known.
James Harris, fourteen. yeAr.old
boy, Ia In the care Of the police at
Sacramento, Cal. He says that HE
father IL n Chicago groccfymRu. james
has Travelled all over the country on
bratebeams aud Ia now heading ior
home.
The allotment of draft animals FOR
the various posts OF tue department u {
the Colorado for the year now entered
upon was announced yesterday, tays
the Denver AoBs. Each troop VI
cavalry IL SLOWED ten pack mules and
fourteen dfAft mules are ct apart for
use NJ department hsAuquariets. Fort
Logan gets siXty.eighI mules aud
hOfbes.
Laramie B0omcrdng Word from
Cripple Greek, COilfaIo, says that the
Ryan toys are selling about 81 worth
OF water there daily FROM their
aftesian well. They have Just puf-
chased large engine an1 boiler anu
viii dflll several wells for parties there.
One will be tor the electric iight works
there, rs II IL expected that the city
water works will freeze during the
winter as they did lasi year.
4. n. Beach, OF Evergreen, Colo
who had the contract 10 got out timber
for four new bridges on Bear creek,
was Instantly killed on ruesdty m rn-
ing. lie was unloading large timber
from the wagon whom II Tell across bic
bresst ana rolled over his head, crush.
ing him into n shapelcss mas. Mr.
Beach was the owner OF Que u tue
lArges, saw miils In Jefferson county.
Tue rush Of fruit 10 eastern markets
continues at an average u n little
over 100000 pounds weekly, says a
uispAtoh from san Jose, Cal. Canned
fruit has had An excellent run ard
Gamers have found markets Tor their
goods very easily. Last week 1893, 40
pounds went forward. Prunes are be-
Ing held, but an average OF "a million
pounds week Is shipped. The chip.
ments VI green fruits this year have
been heavier than ever before. pears
having this lead.
A mysterious plague has suddenly
broken out at hnd about Mafdner,
Idaho, 10 the Cmut d'Alene mining
country, aud within the last few days
several hundred people have teen
stricken, most Of whom ate miners.
The local physicians are bffll ~ a. TO
the origin or nature OF the epidemic,
aud local physicians have teen called
20 20 10 Wafdnor Tor consultation. The
people are greatly alarmed aud sur
rounding WINS are afraid that the
Ilngue will spread. No deaths are M
YET reported. The medical opinion IL
that the disease N not dangerous.
John Nicholson was killed ana
Paddy Mannix fatally Injured In an
accident In the Mountain Consolidated
mine at Butte, Mont, on Tuesday
afternoon. They were detcenuiug the
shalt, when the cage suddenly dropped
all nj 100 feet. The men were thrown
against tue sides Of ths shs't and were
caught IN the timbrIs. Nicnoisou's
luYs, neck, tkuil, aims anu ribs were
broken. MAnnix's right thigh anu leg
were crushed, anu u n not possible Tor
MN 10 recover. The ACCIDENT wac
caused by the engine getting beyond
the engineers control
Another mine to certainty has been
developed on Bull lat Cripple Greek,
Colo. The discovery was inside some
days ago, but for reasons best known to
the lesuerp, II has been kept quiet uu-
NJ now IL was made on the Wilson,
one Oi the Free Coinage conn auy's
group o claims, and Nc depth Of
twenty feet Ia the shaft. Tnu pay
streak II twelve inches In width, aud
by sample s,says Of quautity Of the
ore II will run sl.5 10 the ton. The
ore chute has been opened up also on
the Bison, which ellie lines the VIII
sou. Assays on the ore have run NJ
high As II ounces Ia gold anu 1875
ounces OF silver
Another death Ia likely to rcsult from
the Wholesale poisoning az the county
hospital, mentioned 10 these columns
last week. The discharged Chinese
cook, who Ia suspected OF having put
strythnine In tue coffee. has not yet
been oAught. Immediately alter the
news Of the deed had been received
officers made thorough search OF
Chinatown, but tbs suspect hau he'd.
IL was found that he had gone In the
direction Of Marysyiile, aud officers
started on the trail aud followed II IN
that town, They are still seaTohing.
RpWaFla hawa lnau altered far his
capture. The poisoned inmates Of the
hospital arc still suffering terribly,
though a majority Of them are believed
10 DO out VI Danger.