Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-24
NEWS OF The WEST.
A GAY DEcElyER CONVICTED.



Ban JUsr, Cal.
A great big building boom l. develop.
ing at la Plata cry, the now gold
camp near Durango.
The construction NJ new cattle feed.
itg yards Vt Grand Junction, Cat, ~
regarded as a practical certainty.
A socorro, n. NJ, merchant proposes
10 build the much needed bridge over
The Rio Grande At that point u the city
Will raise 5000.
The Pho nix aud Prescott railway IL
expected 10 roach PnwuiX next August
IL l. anid 10 be opening ~ a riCn min
ing country along H. route.
The salmon season which will open
Anil 10Th promises 10 bo more than
usually active ON the Columbia river.
Seattle, wash, police few days ago
arrested man having In his p0ists-
zion some $500 worth OF sealshin
wrap.
At Covclo, Wash, says an exchange,
they are drinking "Dcmocfatio
coiiee.n 10 IL made Of a mixture OF
Drowned wheat, rye aud barley, with
atfilc Of tho geuuinebef Tor sunday
Capitalists have a scheme 10 furnish
electricity 10 Stockton for manulaotur.
ing purposes. It's proposed TO gen
crate ths power " the Stanislaus uycf
above knighps Ferry.
Terrill Thompson was badly hurt at
Santa Bafbaru, Cab, by the bursting Of
a carboy OF sulphurio acid that hs was
handling. The fluid was thrown over
his face and neck, causing severe
burns.
Now that Spokane, wash, has a
new lail, new rules have been maho
TOT prisoners. Ouu Of these is that each
must take bath twice a week. An'
other provides that no knives or iorAs
shall be allowed.
Reports from the vast side Of the
San joaquin valley say tnat tue sheep
men in that section ARE confronted ~
ruin because Of long continued drouih.
Tuete ~ Alm0st uo food, anu many OF
the lambs have dlcd.
While cxcavating In the Courthouse
tauars at Reading, Cal, woTkmen
have Uncovered four human skulls anu
one sktN,ton. There were also Indian
beads aud shells. The site was form.
erly covered by an iudiau village.
Thomas Mogurr, a Montana cowboy,
went into Great Fails pawnshop,
pointed gun ~ thu pfOptietoi's head
aud was In the act u fObbing the place
whtnA police officer entered behlnu
him anu ordered him ~ surfondef'
Mrgntr did 90 At once.
Woodland city jail, Cal, lisa unique
affair. IL II a uuilding rented lot ,nt
purpose at 50 "a month. A paper OF
that city says mat recently four tfamph
were confined Ia peu IN this jail,
which IN jas feet, and were kept there
two days aui night
A cut In wages has been made by the
Seattle rohl ana Iron company. The
reduction amounts 10 ~ Iot cent, aud
$50 men wuru involved. Much COM
plant Ia made against the company
uecause OF tho rule compelling en-.
ployes 10 buy at the company stotc.M
otto, ,ho l2.ycar.oid son OF a. q.
Hansen, VI Laramie, Wyo,, fell from
the tRts In the gymnasium on Wsdnes.
day aud was Killed. He lived an hour
aud hnlt, but never TegalnoI con.
sciousu,ss. A brother recently died NJ
the result II iull.
The Pueblo OPINION announces that
men arc a. wutK compiling statistics
along the line Of the proposed new rail,
road from Pueblo 10 Durango via Red
Clil, Hardtcmbblu, silver Clin, San
Luis valley, CteUdc, etc.
Spring plowlug IL stated TO have
begun Ia nearly all PORTIONS Of Col
ofndo anu h especially well advanced
south OF the divide anu ou tue western
slope. Exchanges from these local..
ties all confidently predict au active
and prosperous agricultural season.
There IL an abundance Of water for
irrigation about Eddy, n. NJ Al.
though the acreage Ii increasing the
demand lot water will probably not
keep pace, because the farmers nre
learning thai less irrigation anu more
cultivation arr required.
Ia regard TO Monlana's proposed
adoption u state flower, the Helena
IndspeHdsHt, ia an editorial, suggests
the I.vTyi.iA or the Cgl0chOTtus, but
expresses preference for the latter, on
account Of ila beauty. The Luryiaiu,
u says, Ia like a C0mmRuohe beauty,
needs q great deal Of fixing up before
II IL adapted 20 the usts VI polite
society.
Ranohmon In the basln west Of the
Big Horh Tiver, Ia Wyoming, have
aubfcfibrd fund from which ~
bounty OF S2JbO will be- paid Tor eacn
gray vol killed In the territory, In
addition TO that amount Fremont
county viii pay tho bounty author.
iged ny the legislature Of -, making
$3.50 for each wolf pell.
A Mexican circus Innsbruck Tucson,
says the Citi;on, aud held lis ilret pei
ioTmauce. The admission was fifteen
cents, aud where tue cash was no.
forthcoming chickens, candle', chile
or anything OF the value OF fifteen
cents were thken. One party brought
big hen valued ut thirty cents anu
was given titteen-cent chicken Tor
change.
Lieutenant Frank Brlere, Of tht
Folsom (Uall prison force, who was
captured by the desperate baud OF con
victs led by the notorious George Son
tag In the late attempted break, dis
played his courage on Tuesday nigh
by attaching ami, after severe battlu,
putting n light savago bull when
hal knocked down anu was gotlng 10
death "a prison trusty who was engaged
In milking al the prison dairy. Attract
Ell by the oDuviot'a cry Tor help, bflcft
tezed an iron bar Aud rushed 10 hlt