Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Horrible Story Of a NIssr and Ills
wife from Mission City, B. c.
SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.
Another Death on tho Devastating
Rink Tor Park City
Gambling.


ordinance during the week. lie flied
the proprietor u the house where the
game was played $40, aud aasessed SO
each 10 the parties accused.
The Reno (Nevsda) Journal says
that man named Robinson, Ut Reno,
has discovered a way TO evolve eleo-
tfioity from heat In 40 thorough a man
ner that every house can be tupplieI
with incandtscent lamps ne cheaply a.
they are now supplied with kerosene.
A few nights since q general store at
Castle Rock was robbed VI about 81 900
worth Of goods by three men. The men
stole a team Of horses from one man,
anu a platform wagon from snotner,
aud loaded II up with blankets, ready
made clothing, cutlery, tobacco, etc.
A reservoir scheme 10 under way al
Boulder, Colo, Tue SlK.Mile Ditch q
Reservoir G ImpaBy mas purchased go
acres q land about four miles north
auu two mil,s tnst Of town. PfepaTa-
tons TO tuiid An limmonse dam have
been made anu WORK will soon hegin.
Tue uam will hold about Il, 128, 800
cubic feet Of water.
The board Of county commissioners
Of Mesa county, Colo, has begun SUIT
In the district court against the
propHetors OF tho Arcade gambling
mouse Of Denver 10 recover $3.50,
alleged to have heen lost IN their place
~ faro and other gambling wsya by
W. J. Quinn, then county treasurer Of
Mesa ounty. The money, IL Ia
claimed, was county funds.
h. q. Kidder and Lee Wight are
actively engaged ia constructing a
skating rink on the ground iotmerly
occupied ~ lumber yard by KidIer
q Bro., spys the Park City htcOrd
rue pond Will be 100 $50 feet aud
90 arranged that II can be flooded
every night anu smooth ioe made Tor
the following day. They expect 10
have the pond ready Tor patronage
early next week anu will make the
charges reasonable.
On the ffst Of the coming month
Gays the Laramie boomerang the
Clover Valley Land anu Cattle com.
Iauy, whose fyuchra are in Nevada,
tut whose slooKholiorB are all Ut IA
and Wyoming people, will ship 10 TIE
thictgO market 800 head OF lat we.
Notwithstanding tue heavy ship.
ments Of cattle which have been made
- hAAH NNAAI VIVA ~ NAN NeNhNA -
Aud wts ern markets, the ranches are
becoming overlooked.
Jose GAroia,a desert peddlef, returned
irom a long rip through the COcopSh
county on Fuday, Gays dispatch
from san Diego, Cal. IL was ho VINO
reported the lad ing OF the skeleton Of
~ American on tho shore Of C0copah
lake some weeks ago. He said that he
met Henry Holland, James H.. Mason
Ane Otsufs on this last trip, anu that
they hAd told him they had buried tbs
skeleton where II lay, They reported
i've miles east Of the lake, this victim
Of tho desert being also unknown.
Navajo Charlie, with half dozen
braves aud thtee aquaws, made an iu-
tgTtsting little group OF lnuiauH about
the uulOn depot yestorduy, says the
Denver heigs. The party came In from
Oklahoma, where Charlie has some
relations aud where he goes every
year 10 spend month 0rto. They are
on their way homo anu leit for Cncy.
oune last evening, from which place
they will 10 on ~ Shushone rssetva.
tlou, tho home Of the band. Charlie IL
rather au eKceIt ton TO the usual Indian
aud thinks he 10 some goJd, even
though alive. For years he has been a
horse trader among the different bands
Il Indians And has shown himself 10
be well up Ia trading, 90 well, IN TACT,
that ho has quite sum Of money 10
his credit At government heAuquHttefs
at the shoahone Egoucy,
Mn. Amelia Evans, wife Of Alex.
der Evan, who resides on the NAysft
ranch, south OF PeIaluma, Cal, com.
mitled suicide on FfilAy morning by
satur ting her clothing with coal oil anu
settling IRE ~ H. Her husband was
absent from home VI tho time. Her
sou, n boy about 10 years OF age, was
working In huld near tho hOuso
when his attention was attracted by n
volume VI smoke rlsiug from the Of
ohArd. lilo rushed to the suene aud
found his mother lying on the ground
IN exoruoiating agony. The clothing
was nearly all burned away ana her
body was badly chaTred. An empty
yoRl.0il eau lay beslue her. Medical
attendance was NJ once summoned, but
ugthing could be- done, anu she soon
uiud. Mrs. Evans WAS at one time an
Inmate OF the insane asylum NJ Napa,
aud had on several occasions attempted
u take her lie.
Mrs. Marcus Cox died In Westmln.
aicr Il. o., recently under peculiar
circumstances. Marcus Cox lisa misef
living ~ Mission city, Is. O., having
sutlled there come twelve yea6 ago
wllh his newly married wife, vino old.
umers say was apparently happy anu
Certainly was beautiful ana accom-.
pllshed, In recent years Mrs. Cox
vas dressed 90 sunUbily tnat on several
occasions ohaiitabiy disposed pefsuus
visited her asking her II she wanted
assistance. Mrs, Cox told them that
her husband was fioh but too mean 10
give her money Tor clothes, And gave
her barely enough food TO su,.
tain lie, II Gently chance vie.
itor called on Mrs. Cox on soms
GRAND aud was hufrlnrd Mt tue
picture Of squAlor, decay and dealt.
that preseu ten itseli. la one room was
Murous Cox IN tne act Ot counting HE
golhi and another 70 m, Amos, uare
iutultufo, stretched on tome bJarls
covered with a cheap torn hianket,wAs
Nlfs. Cox barely Aiye, Through her
huubAu . neglect aud mufderous
tuuliA cue wa IN the last s.agss Of
s'atVbtun, Receiving n help from
h't inhumrn husband anu beng 1 a
weak l. hell hertsi size had lain there
lof muhlhs, SICK, uuattt nusu, un.
"aehed' Vrlmiu hGd partly eaten tho
poor womuu's bouy, wuilo tho tur.
t,uhdlnga were too horrible to detail.