Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-28
NEWS OF THE WEST.
4 Condemned Murderer Escapes from
Jail ia Arizona
A MINERS HANDS BLOWN OFF,
Fatal Stabbing ATrsy Cattle Rust
ling In Colorado
Items.

Counterfeit bills are In circulation
throughout Wyoming and is oiusing
good deal Of trouble.
william Wagner, Montana miner
and pfospectur, ia believed q have por.
isbei I'm the upper Gle Elum county,
10 Wrshinuton.
Greeley, Col, farmers are holding
back their potatoes I'm expectation M
realizing higher prices, and they are
confident that they will ret thom.
George Thornton. Cripple Greek
miner, had both hands blown % and
was seriously ~ lur,d about the face
ana stomach by Tho explosion n a box
~ caps hell In his hands How 10 all
happened the unfortunate man cannot
tell.
A messenger from tho mountains
above Raymond, Cal, reports the ar
resi Of Charlie Hari and Jim Haskell,
two ludians, for the murder Of PGs.
qunle Mileai, whose BODY was found "a
short time since horribly mutilatUd.
Evidence against them IL said 10 bo
convincing.
owing 10 % scarcity Of wood, and tho
mountain while the rt0uui continues
% tOft, saws the SpUcr BEL tArz
TIE Old Dominion Copper g.. hiss ueen
forced 70 suspend work In the mine
Tor ten days or two We. BE-. pumpiur
will continue, Of course, and o. soon as
the weather becomes settled wood will
be delivered iu quantity.
Several prisoners confined In tho
county lnil al PhWlix, Arizona, g.
capped at dusk on Tuesday evening.
Among the number was W lllam Price,
under conviction Tor murder an bun
fenced 10 be hanged In February next.
a arrange thing in connection with
the delivery Il that no one can give
the number Of prlsouea that got away,
aud, outside OF Ptce, no bamos are
given. The Ulcer who had charge Of
the jail Il IN pursuit.. a.
Slate Veterinarian Gftsswell lCois
otRdo) says that never la the hlst0ti, a,
OF the state was 40 much cattle Tubtliui.
going on o. al present. Reports aft.,
coming 90 from all over tho state that
this Il going on, and although the
cattle inspectors arc doing their Dtsi O.
stop II, u ntill exists. Tue fuit.ers arc
nothing more than cattle thieves, aud
their mHihoi Of operations TO separate
the cattle ne far from the herds ~ pos
tlble and then burn out the brands.
The day for delivering sentet &c and
deciding the motions In the arrest Of
ia igment fUr a new trial, Ia the case Of
the niato Of Nevada against Mrs. Alice
NJ. Hartley, was again postponed until
Saturday, Jan. o, says the Carson,
(NevAdA) IfHuHc. Affidavit Yves
made that Mrs. Hartley .ss 100 ~ 10
appear Tor sentence s1a,t allow
her to DO 80 she IN ia dang,rSusly III
rs long e5s ~ y ~ sv ID /. m, old
~ - y ''' $50 "-- '-"''' ''s'l' ''''
40 cattle industry. according y an
exchange, l. rovlying throughout
Colorado. IL seems 10 have received
an Impetus there greater than else
whsre. tt ~ claimed that this favor.
Hbli condition Of "nairs has resulted
n II the rush o! ~ ness OIL the Dem
yer stock yards. hover In the history
OF the yards, II Ia said, hos there boon
~ muCb business transacted rs now.
Omaha prices are being paid, the beef
cattle arc being shipped out among tue
inTmers for winter feeding aud stock
men are even going out to tho ranges
and buying Ia large numbers.
William THOMPSON stabbed and 10.
tally wounded James Ford nj Silver
CITY, Idaho, on Sunday, According
60 she story OF the ARRAY TnOmas,
n COrnishman, who has been prrsoh-
ing " HE cOuntTymen In that booli u,
cot drunk anu etarted 10 clean out the
town. He SSH no one could atfeit
him, aud Ford, who was present, fe-
Nd lac thought he was capable VI
'nt lob " he chose 10 undertake 10.
ehtne words passed, aud Thomas,
eiAglng long kuiie, plunged u into
FlrdIs ~ eide just above the hip. The
blade cut 1gSAr through Ford's body.
Ford died ntSt day. He Is said TO be
oephew OF IaE0E k5fd- q I9s-
Lrtsh World
Canon new 7ri5unG An Indian
known ~ Plxlry went into den Ia
Chinatown yesterday afternoon AND
wanted 10 chit he pipe" For some
unaceountabler reason probably because
no did not possess the necessary capt
tail he was refused. BY way Of argu-
ment and 10 show him tho error Of bis
ways, Pixley hit the Celestial over the
head with ohair. The Chinamau
meekly suhmitkSd until the chair was
broken. rMls Riliul distraction Of
property aroused his Ire, aud he relal-
ated by cracking Pixley over tne
ctApium with AN empty bottle. PiXluy
then IL said 10 have used a knife by
way OF conclusion, ami mounting HE
horse rode down Main street, shouting
that he could not DO arrested. The
ChinamRu is uoiug well aud tue Il-
dian " conspicuous by his absence,