Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-26
NEWS OF TIE WEST.
A YounB Man Killed While Lighting a
Cigarette.
LUMBER FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
Scarlet Fever Along The Union Pic ilc
Fugitive for Five Ysars-ldaho
Irrigation scheme.

a 1Au 1ANHNt hNAfa -
,hipping In bfOtmc jrn by the carload
rom Kansas ~ 10 used In making
b come.
The governor OF Idaho has appointed
q lob T.. Jonts, u Mulad Cuy, IT,
1ent Of the state university NJ MOSCOW,
vice w. l.. Borab, feoignel.
Nearly every town along he Union
Pacific duunr the nfoseut Fraaon 8 ~
mad number OF cases Of scarlet fever,
deaths fesuiung Ia tovslli pisCs.
A peronAl note Tor flu recently
came 10 ngut IN Anz1ua Uu which the
Interest was $40. The rate wbs si.g5
a week. Fortunately the no,o was
OullaWed.
Francois Matchnnd, the French.
man, aged So, vii wuu run over by an
engine at Ban Dira0, Cal, Saturday
sud lost his leg, suffered relapse and
died.
Willie Bafrau, n ton.yeaf.'ld boy,
hsd bic len foot badly crushed Sunday
afternoon at Reno, New, while al
tempting 10 climb over q freight tfaln.
lie will lose his foot.
The heads OF the departments Of the
Union Pacific road have decided %
tender dinner 10 Senator 1hufstOu
on the occasion Of ME sevtring hia con.
usctlon with tho company a. liz gen.
etsl solicitor. Tho date foT the dinner
T. Monday, Dec. 30
T.. Il. Ward, dry goods clerk, was
accidentally nsphyxiatod ~ his lodg.
ings, In San Francisco Saturday night.
~ ~ not known whether tho gas
was blown out BY alt within the pipes
or whether Ward turned u on by mis-
take without lighting It.
The Norwegian steamer Florida
sailed Saturday evening from Van.
oouyor, Is. c., for South Africa, with
acsfg0 Of lumber consisting Of 2,500,-
900 feet, valued at over 81 800. Just
~ she was leaving the hatuor coal
trimmer named George Wflghton was
KILLED, owing 10 n MACS Of coal sliding
on him.
Wesley Halllday,a young man about
IL years old, accidentally shot and
klllsd himself Sunday afternoon while
out hunting ducks along the Hanla
Ana river, Cal. The gun was die.
charged while the butt was resting on
the ground and the muzLle on the b0y's
afm,during which time he leaned over
TO light n cigarette.
The now rotary snow plow recently
taken 10 Sacramento, CAL, makes the
fifth rotary which the company has
purchased. Three OF them, Including
tho new one, will be kept In the
Sierra Nevada mountains, One Is In
service In the Shasta, Cal, division,
aud the other n on the border line be-
tween Nevada and Utah.
This PhmniK Herald sayG Arizona
differs Ia Its methods somewhat from
Kansas. In Kansas when y carload Of
beer IL discovered 1t IL put ia the
Lookup; In Arizona they put the beer
In tho man and tut the man in the
lookup. The Arizona process seems
10 be much more tatiafaetofy 10 tho
average man.
The gobllns were after Patrick 4.
Dayton, OF Los Angeles, Cal, Sunday
morning, and In order to escape them
he Jumped from the third story OF the
lodging.housc. lie was not killed, but
received injuries which will probably
conhne him to tho hospital for few
weeks. Dayton IL editor Of the Los
Angelic Business Review, small
monthly paper. Ho Ia m IrishmHn,
about ~ years old, unmarried and ap.
pareatly Of good habits.
Some i've years ago the LsnIsr,
Wye, Jail was pretty well eros ded
with pflsonors, among them telug one
Janis Wnller, who was uulof street.
Tor horse stealing. The Rhwlius
Journal say that Waller, 60 Il and
others succeeded In breaking jail amt
escaping 10 ths hills, where they were
hunted for some days by therifi's
rose. Scott wha killed In u Iunulng
hght with the tnllcfg, but Walker
escaped capture aud has been gone for
some five year,. Monday, BhorlH
Davis arrested him.
Gus etoddard, Of Seattle, Wash,
woke up Saturday night 10 IND bis
house wbirling through the air and
ntlcka OF wood chasing the cat from
corner to corner, the earth grumbling,
Tho doors OF his house falling from
their hinges and the shouts OF people
ringing In his cara. Stoddard lived In
a small house that stood on pillng close
TO the track OF the Columbia anu Puget
Sound railroad In tho southern part Of
the city. He went through this lively
experience unframed. He did not
even get ratified, but Jumped from biz
bed aud running to the door just ne his
house landed IN the bay, yelled Quiz
what uTo you dolng2" He was liy.
lag close TO the railway track, and
derailed car struck HE house, throwing
1t into the bay. s!oddArd escaped.
Wsiser, Idaho, Signal; The Woiser
Re'eryoir, Lind and Irrigation com.
any completed theiE Nutmeg Flat
reservoir last week aud now have a
nne, substantial dam 200 feet long anu
90 feet high, making pond that will
hold water sufficient TO irrlgato 1900
acreS, all the land expected TO be In
cultivation under their System next
season. The engineering party are
now at work or0ss.seotioning on the
ditch from the Cove reservoir site.
This ditch will be ton mies long.
Teams will be put 10 work on this
about the middle OF next week, the
weather permitting, aud 1t will take
yoryHeyeTe weather 10 affect operations.
The company even expect to begin
work on the Cove dam thls winter,
The latter will be 700 fest long anu
hold twice the amount OF water In the
Nutmeg reservoir. Water Is guaran.
teed by the protectors by the 10Th OF
May. The advantages growing out OF
this enterprise are very itAtiorlng, II
viii bring between 5000 and 10000
RgTeR nj mapBIfrpnt land intO gultivr-