Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEST.
UnIQuo and Artistic Cane from All.
IONA PgDItentIaTy.
MONSTER or FORMER AGES.
Railroad Section boss Fatally Injured
An EmlgrauI Han over aud
Killed, Etc.
A MONSTER or FORMER AGES

J.. ID. Mason, a California pioneer
and newspaper man, diuu at l. GatOs,
Cal, on SUNDAY morning al The age VI
IS years. He had been cItnrrfod lu
the past with the LO Galos Nal the
San Jose Mercury and SAu jose Herald
aud tho San Louis ObispO Tr.Jmc.
Jaquos Etchatt, "a Partisan emigrnnt
en- route for San FrauciauJ, was uu
over and killed by a train In tue A..
Cade depot AZ Los Angeles, on Sunday
night. His wife aud two children,
VINO weto with him, are iuit destitute
and were compelled 10 remain In the
depot oil night.
Two notorious character, william
DENLY anu Thomus brown, dug
through the county iail at santa
Anna on Sunday morning and scaled
the big board fence around tho jaIl
grounds. Onloers gave hot pursuit. on
horseback anu captured both men
after a sharp light. The men are
charged with au assault with deadly
weapons.
The wardner udaho) NCus says a
fatal accident occurred on Monday
morning at the Frisco mine, causing
the death of james Carney aud Patrick
sullivan, both we'll aud fnvofahly
Enown In the Occur d' Alenes. B0th
men were ut work In one Of the st1po,
when the timber broke and they foil
i've hoors. Fred schnoll, VINO was
working near them, was seriously, but
not fatally Injured.
Tue Lick school Of mechanical arts
has boon formally opened IN San Fran.
cisco with appropriate crumJuits
Lick left SijO,OUO Tor the building AMI
support OF the school, which Will be
uIcn 10 any boy or girl OF California
competent 10 enter, aud Will be- ffUB Of
cnArgo Tor tuition, Mathematics, bile.
tory, science, carpentry, iron fitting,
modelling sewing, wnOd-carving, dfvss.
making and millinery will be taught
Ia the different departments.
Last month the Beaver HIN Coal
o0mpary had huy negroes imuottoI
from West Virginia to operate tue
mines ~ Mashflold, Oregon. The
white men formerly employed had
their wages reduced, and consequently
quit. The negroes ON their arrival
were disappointed and alleged tina, the
yompany's agent greatly misrepto.
rented the facts. Only few " them
have gone 10 work and portion OF
hem have started on their return
home. The white miners have sub.
tcribed money 10 send back the women
aud men who arc Ia destitute circum.
stances. 10 IL reported here that the
coal company will bring In moro
negroes from Seattle.
l.. w.Stacy, who Ia In from Powder
river roundup, Gays the Yellowstone
/OurHdi, tells OF thu finding Of the car.
yass OF some extinct monster whose Te-
mains are hH large but unlike the
mastOdOn. MIR. Stacy says II was on
the east fork OF the Powder river that
a number Of men were out when ono
Of them discovered an Immense spinal
column which In siLe IL equal 10 that
~ the mastodOn. The head Of the
uuimal IL gone, but there remains, In.
u.uJing the tail, thirty feet OF the yer.
,UU ~ anu tail bones. 10 was at fret
supposed that the bones found were Of
come monster serpent, but on closer
examination II was found that the
remains VI the legs were buried Ia the
ground to depth OF seven feet.
James Waters, section boss on tho
San Francisco and North Pacific
Railroad NJ San Rafael, Gal, had a
narrow escape from death on Monday
evening anu IL now In critical con
dillon from his injuries. while repair.
Ing a water.chute tho bank caved and
Waters was preoipitated Ia n whirl-
POOL at the head Of tho chute, While
revolving In the pool his head struck
against a timber aud he was rendered
unconscious. Before the wOrkmen
could rescue him he was swept into
the chute, which n seyenty-lwO feet
long, and carried through II. On
Emerging he was rescued by the work.
mon, though In AN almost drowned
condition. He had numerous cuts anu
lruises, and II Ia feared that he In in'
lured internally.
]. Il. Brlckwood has recently 70.
reived from Yuma n cane made
by one OF the conviets there that
j. really unique, says tue PRESCOTT,
Ar 2ona, Courier. II n made from the
spinal column VI shark. MI Btick-
wood had the bone, which he sent 10
Q superinteu dent Of the prison with
Tie request that II be- made up Into n
r1'e. II was put into the hands OF
tomo Of tho inmates noted Tor that
tud Of work, and they turned out
rmothing roth novel and handsome.
The bone was drilled through liz entire
length and n steel rod inserted. At
each Of the Joints the ridge Of cartilage
was removed and narrow piece NJ
leather inserted and cemeniej. This
unne the stick was turned aud polished,
with segmenls Of ivory wniieness
irparated by narrow black banis. A
iollshed leather tip and steel iorulo
were put upon the point, and NJ the
tan 10 n shank of Arizona iron wood
which ia suTm0untei by n handsome
nryS bead, artisllcally cut and highly
ilnshed. II makes an elegant walking
slick, artistic, strong, light aud elastic.
he alternate hRndR Of white hone and
black leather make neat contrast.