Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-28
NEWS OF The WEST.
A Montana Prisoner Who Will Be
Brought Back 10 Utah.
SUICIDE OF A cnNnBFRMAID.
Tie uandlwyrk OF C,xeJlte - An
AImJ Of lop.plckers-for-
est Fires.

Mike Gallagher, a shespherder, at
tempted 10 or ~ the track Just ahead Of
q switch engine At Billipgs, Mont,
"wednesday evening. lie was n q
over aud both legs cut nsarly cou q
pletely n below the knee ami died a
few hOuis aiterwatd.
The Laramie boomerang Gays that
elOcknien are unanimous in the tN-
preFsIon that cattle Are fatter and in
letter condition now tnan at any time
for seven yuns. Shipping will begin
next week, and tue Wyoming iange
sieer will bring the top prices.
The Rooky Mountain CrR and Iron
cumpnny ips pos,e notices NJ RED
Ca y, n,tuear Evanston, notifying the
miusfs who have had no work slr cH
the strI Ike began, that the niue Won d
not be opened tor some tim, ana ausu
uusiutss IL ftsumei the force will 10
decreased considerably.
Ia one Of tho show windoas Of the
Nye Galbraiib Dug company II
Boise city, 1dRhp, Ia a miniature
shio, with ia rigging which was
O. Tvoi out Of railtOa tie by n
COxeyite at tho Snake River prison.
Tue only instruments used ~ the
wealsr were au ax AMI knife.
A special to tho Spokesman .RsuisU
irom Nelson, u. O., Fay: Tue iufest
hfte which have been raging la q q
b dCau mining country or the pnst w o
weeks were famed into cot lhgratil n
by the heavy gales yesterday anu
swept eastward. The towns OF rhfCe
FORKS and Wa non were comlle ely
ueslroyed, not n building icing let.
Lat Monday, says the Casper, Wyo.,
HDuis, John Hesgncy brought " the
city very large sOit-sheli turtle, which
was eau. ne uu hlH ranch. This IN tho
fret apecimsn Ot the Kind ever cap.
tured a. the Platte river near TINS
point, and John feels quite confident
that he came up from tue Missouri
nver, ostensib y Tot tho purpose u ~.
tending thu Republican convention,
and ho will ne kept for that occasion.
Governor Mcdonnell OF Idaho has
Increased the reward offered for the
mutdvrers Of X esbon,, tho Gem
blacksmith, from ~ 900 10 $1,000, he
having been informed by tue ilicials
oil Shoshono county that suou IN
creased reward would probably be
instrumental Ia bringing 10 light
evidence that would convict tho
parties who committed the daa,ardly
deed.
Dalles (Idaho) MouHidiHeor-It II
estimated that 10000 picEsfs Will be
required TO gather the Yakima hop
crop this season. With large acreal Q
wesi OF the mountains, the thousands
Of men employed In repairing rail.
ways, dykes, etc, as result OF Hood
damige aside from the regular sources
Of employing labor, there viii be
sufficient work for n real industrial
army In Washington this season.
william Zlrn, who with Otto Schulz,
oEns tho principal mine In the Pine
Nut district, came TO Carson Monday
morning, (says thn Carson, Nevada,
Tribune bringing with him S2s1 In
gold, tue proceeds OF seven days work.
The previous weeks returns were 1910,
and Zifn feels certain of doubling tue
amount the present week. The farther
the work proceeds the brighter are tho
pTosI ocls ana there In no doubt but the
iloay owners viii soon be illueut.
Florence Conway committed suicide
on Wednesday afternoon In the Nor
mandie hotOl, Cheyenne. she mad
for the past ten months been Engaged
as n ohambofmald and occasional
dining room girl In the Metropolitan
hotel. Last Sunday the proprietor die.
charged her and she went 10 the Nor.
maudie, staying there ever since.
The Helena (Mont.) INDEPENDENT OF
July 20lh says' Many people will 70.
mem Der the ease Of David Cunning.
ham, the young man who Just about q
year ago was convicted IN the district
court Of this county OF tho crime OF
burglary In the DAY time, and sentenced
10 imprisonment In the penitrntIaTy
for the term Of one year. The spt cine
On ArRe against Cunningham was that
on Angus, 7th, 1893, he entered room
iu tue Grand CentTsl hotel occupied
by Eugene y. WilsOn, the bank oI.
amiurT, aud took away sOins clothlug
ana revolver OF "A peculiar pattern.
Ths man told suOh a plauiible story a.
10 the possession OF this stolen property,
which WAS found In nis room, that
many were disposed 10 believe him.
His story was that he had met man
who sold HIM tho bundle Containing
this goods. lie was oouvlc cd,
however, and sent 10 the peniten
AIRY for one year. With glOd time
his sentence expired few uRyS Hgo.
AS Cunningham stepped rom the
doors OF the peniIentiaTy he was at
once arrested by the sheriff Of Deer
Lodge county ON the charge Of icing
fugitive from Justice. lie was want.
ed IN the Territory Of Utah 10 serve
out al uncHpifed sentence whioh lie
had sought TO shorten by breaking out
0i prison. +. G.. Wight, deputy
United States marshal, arrived In
Helena yesterday with rtauislllou
papers anu win take CUNNINGHAM
back 10 Utah. Unuer the name OF
John Mcdonald the man Cunning.
ham HAD been convicted OF grand
larceny IN Utah anu sentenced on July
~ 1891, ~ thres yeafs' imprisonment
He escaped from the Utah ptnilentis.
~ July IL, 1893, anu leas than n month
afterwards committed tho crime In
Helena Tor which he had 10 esrye "A
term At Deer Lodge.