Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-09-15
NEWS OF THE WEST.
An Experiment 10 b Made With
Padded Stock Cars.
lrao1nlr1rD rnosprCIiSG TnIr.


A band OF wild mountain goats,
some forty la number, are occasionally
seen on the high mountain peaks near
Kennedy, Nevada.
The voting In Butte, Mont, for
state flower has closed with the follow
ing result; Bitter root, l7O; dogtOoth
violet, g; wild iHque Hover, Z; MAIL
posa lily, 8; evening primrose, ..
The cass Of ex.Chief Of Police Emil
Harris and G. ID. Piatt, charged with
unlawful use OF tho malls In sendlng
lettofa demanding hush money ~ Il.
H.. CrAndall, retired hardware
merchant, In connection with his d.
vorce from his wife, 10 under inyobii'
CATION al Los Angeles, Cal.
The Butte (Mont.) Miner sny'! I'D
OiDonneli anu an unknown engaged
In rough ami tumble nght last night
In Main street, near tho cOtnerOi PArt,
and for few minutes rolled each
other In the mud until they had lost
about all eemblance 90 human boings.
Oiiicet Forest arrested them. Both
were pretty badly used up.
The trustees Of the AgHew Insane
Agylun at San joe, Cal, want an
appropriation Of g277, 400 rom the next
legislature, aud IA the biennial report
to the governor, whiuN w.s adopted nj
the meeting On Tuesday, II IL raid that
this Ia the least the Asy lum can be Goa.
Quoted for IN the next two Year,, It
being ON a basis Of 10 ceuts per capita
per day Tor each Of the $50 patients.
A number oiresidcnts In aud around
Fort Laramie about 100 miles north VI
Cheyenne, near the junction OF the
Laramie and North Platte rivers, 10.
port great devastation by Rrnsshopprts.
They have eaten the grass Tor nilee,
Hnu the crop Of hay will be very short.
They appear, however, to he gradually
leaving the neighbothOod, but tbs
damage already done - very great.
II has leaked out that Oregon Officers
are at Seattle, Wash, alter W. ii.
Knowlton, alias "llpbel George" alias
"Robert Rae,n once IN Folsom prison.
In case Of which he Ia acquitted a
swindnBg Banker wooding Of Abot-
deon cut Oi $4,000 by the "gold brlcR
game. II IN claimed that kuovllon
played the same trick for n like amount
on J. w. 5hute, president Of tue First
National Bank OF Hillsbyro, o.
Pat Rock, says the Boise, Idaho,
Statesman, who IL In the capital from
Silver CITY, tells Of n rich strike made
few days ago at Silver CITY by AZ.
thur Neal, tho diHcOyeter Of Neal die
trlct, aud his partner. They discovered
n large ledge Of free milling gold ore,
Assays from which run into the thOus-
hnds. Tho strike created no little ok
element In Silver CITY, oil the avail.
able ground In the Vicinity Of the dis.
covery being located with rush.
The Chief, located on Raven hill q,
Cripple Creek, Colo, was sold on
Wednesday by the owners, Cohen a
Robinson, OF Canon City, ~ a. A.
Mcknight, l. n. Storey aud Charles
Morrick. The consideration II $40. 900.
A large cash payment was made ana
tho balance IL ON one years time.
Considerable ore has been shipped
from this property, ami II IL equipped
with commOdiOus shaith0use aud a
good steam hoisting plant. The new
owners will work the mine vigorously.
A potato warehouse is being erected
ut Benhoud, Colo. The building will
be n substantial pressed brick structure,
with stone foundation and basement
walls, 3uAbu feet IN ulinenHlouri anu
built expressly for the handling OF the
potato product OF that section Of e0un.
Try. Work will DO rapidly pushed aud
II IL hoped 10 have the building com
pleted by October Let at iaTthsst. The
enterprise is IN the hands OF stock
company.
l., ]. Bell, Of Laramie, Wyoming,
will try an experiment with padded
stock cars. The scheme proposed IN
Tor the protection Of fat cattle, and
consists Ia the padding Of the cars %
tuat the cattle will not become bruised
by contact with the sides OF tue cars
Incident 10 their transit to market. The
Union Pacific railway company has
gwen Mr.. Bell forty cars with which
TO experiment, ana force OF men are
now at WORK fitting them up. stock
men believe that tho experiment will
prove u success.