Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-03
NEWS OF The WEST.
4 Heavy and Most Destructive Hail
storm Occurs in IDAHO
FIGHTING cRIcKErs wIrHOlLCASs
usorsa,ionp In Orcgon.-De LAmai's
(Colorado) First burglary
The Crop, Etc.

waterway company WIN NAll'ei "l
"a OOO, OOj, has been incorporated az
Seattle. The company proposes o. con
meet Elliott bay with LAKE WashlnB'
ton by canal
says the HALEY Idaho TtpieG The
ranchera down the valley anu their
families fought the crickets Tor Two
davs. with empty oil cans, and succcec-
sIin Vetting raj OF them by steering
them 70 the hllif.
Iudge 1, n. Ruck has just died nj
uouIder, Mont, Mt the use OF ~ years
~ general debility and old age. io
mad resided In Jefferson county Tor
over filty years ami was well known
throughout the state.
The fret burglary ever recorded In
ID, Lamar, IdauO, Was committed
few nights ago, when some onu bfoke
ia nj the back door OF the Owyuto
Meat companyie shop, broke open the
mi under the meat counter and eN'
tracted its contents, amounting 10 the
huge sum u $3.50.
All the bridges In Custer county
ffdahol that crossod the salmon river
are gone with one exception--thato Of
tbeloid bridge about Tour milts above
ChaIlis, The mail between Salmon
CIV and the latter place has TO To
carried four miles further TO got across
tho riyoL
The Alamosa LndcIeEdeHt Journal
fColo.l says the condition ut crops IL
better at this time than at the Same
period In any year since crops have
been grown In San Luis valley. The
low stage Of water may bring some in'
Jury 10 crops later on, but the proba'
bility /, that rains will be- sufficient 10
carry them through " harvest.
10. Baker has Ia bis ON SO bundle
Of rye that measures seven feet IA
length, says the Haily OdahV) THlss
IL was taken from "a lU.acru paiun o.
ground owned 10y John Kali, sown Ia
the hills Ia sight OF Boise aud grown
without irrigation. The grains are
well formed anu the crop IN good. IL
viii not be many years before all the
hin sloprs near towu will 10 waving
with grain.
Advices from Granada (Col.) state
that grasshupperp have appeared IA
large uumbrra TO the south Aud east OF
there. Rupotls from Bsca county say
thai the hOppcrs are destroying every
thing Ia that county, especially IN tue
nbfth. Southern Prowers II thiClly
covered with young hOppofs. Those
sho have been near Wilde report en-
lire destruction OF crops aud range, but
Nhia occurs only Ia sIteAkA
The Albion (Idaho) Bee ahys that
one day last wees Rock creek and Vi
entity were visited by u TERRIBLE hall
storm, which ruined all the small iruit
and alfalfa. The latter was nearly
ready 10 cut anu now all the storm LETT
IA from two TO four iuchuh nigh without
a leaf. some OF tne hRiialones moa.
Hursd "a inches In circumference. IL
cut the iimbe oil Of trees and knocked
Oh what fruit was not Killed Ny the
frost. The frost about two weeks ago
killed nearly all the irult, ami now
tho hail has ruined everything that
remained.
Mt. Byron Sessions, receiver Of the
Wm. Crawford estate IN Utah, sold a
lot OF horses belonging TO said estate,i In
Evanston, last Saturday, remarks the
Evanston (Wyo.) Herald Twenty.
seven horses were sold AZ auction, and
brought an average price, Of sl27S per
head. Some few sold as low Hs from
three IN i've dollats, and some really
good horses sold as low as ffom ten 10
hueen dollap. Verify these are cheap
timts and hard times. IL 10 harder
work q got the three dollars TO buy
horse with nov than It WAS 10 get
thirty when tunes were good anu
horses valuable.
Many immigrants are beginning TO
arrive from Utah, ljEho ami other
pUints, says the Otto (Wyo.l Courier.
One man who hau Just come IN from
Utah Gays theirs are $50 teams on ths
road that he knows Oi anu probably
great many others. Times arc very
close there which 10 the cause Of
great many people moving that would
not otherwise. Everybody In that
part OF Utah In anxious 10 hear
iiom the Basin, aud II tie reports sent
back there by persons who have come
out here ars satisfactory, n e,ill larger
colony will start.
DR.. Morrison, the notorious quaok,
had n hearing before PROBATE Judge
Ryala on Saturday, ut Boise CITY,
Idaho, on charge OF kidnapping
Charles Browne children. When
court opened, Brown, this complaining
witness, did not appear, anu Judge
Ryals sent subj "a ia after him. When
Brown camo into curt he asked that
the case be dismissed, Which was done.
The charge OF practlciug medicine
illegally was all ready 10 bring against
Mufria0n, but he was allowed TO do.
part. When turned loose he remarked
that he guessed he would leave town,
and took the frat train out. The Daiy
Statesman thinks the town Is we'll riI
OF MIN.
An Exchange slates that Sweet
Home, Oregon, has o ssnEation. For
n goou many years Otto Lubker anu
another German have been "baohing"
together Ia a small house at that city,
living In peace and harmony. a few
days ago Mr. Lubkef's partner diNd,
when the TACT was learned for the moi
time that the man was not man but
woman, who mad been living ns a man
for years without detection, anu DOING
the work OF u man anu believed by all
10 be- one. Even Mf. Lubker declares
that he was absolutely ignorant OF the
fact that hi, companion was "A woman.
Her history N not known. she was
buried at sweet Homo, leaving mys.
terry surrounding nor strange NE.