Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-28
4 Mother Falls Dead While Decorating
4 Christmas Tree.
Observation-Disclosures
Another Boy Hunt,r Accid ntally Shot
Found His Aged Mother Dead
Train Robbers.

and a search was Instituted. the boy
was found dead in fad near the city
with hole in his right breast, caused
by the accidental discharge OF his
shotgun.
The agent at Congress junction, n
station on the Santa Fe, Prescott q
Phoenix railroad, eighty-iive miles
north OF Phoenix, Ariz)Da, waa held
up Thursday night by INK own roU-
beTs ant $40 Wels-Fsrgo money
stolen at the point OF pistol. The
agent, q. c. West, was alone at the
time.
ST. John, Kanoas, News, Dec. 25: A
graud free entertainment viii be
given ,nis evening (Christmas nighD
hy the Sunday school and choir oi the
Latter.dsy Snintt' Church, to which
Inc public and oiiizsns IN general are
extended cordial welcome. The hall
has been most deliberately decorate
and hos very artistic and tasteful ap.
peArance.
Jesse Brown, the twenty-year.old
son OF the chief engineer on the
steamer Captain Weber, blew the top
Of his head off at Stockton, Cal, on
Friday afternoon with shotgun. The
boy hnd been drinking the night be-
fore and during Inc day was 80 moody
and disugreeable that his aunt, at
whoue house he wac stopping, flea to
the neighbours.
John Alexai der Of Whitlash Mont,
was killel ~ Bernpr'B bay, A Alaska, on
December l7th while worklnE in the
hold Of the steamer AK. A large
lump OF clal fell from the bucket and
struck him on tho head, fracturing his
skull. He died three days later with
out reggining consciousness. Alexan-
der lett Tacoma In April for Cooks
Inlet on the Helga Caroline. His PEG.
Pile reside In Montana.
There is 10 be some radical reforms
In hair cutting and shaving IN Cali.
fornis II the local BARRIERS can prevail
upon the coming legislature to adopt IA
certain measure which they are now
preparing. The bill has for lite purpose
no lets 40 object than the appoint
ment OF state board Of commission
ere, whose duties 1t will be to sec that
every man in the business 10 cOmpe.
tent TO cut and slash hair and WHISPERS
without serious injury to the victim.
The governor Will be called upon TO
the came manner az he would name
any other public officer. The bill re.
quires every barber to eerve three
yeare' apprenticeship.
Thureday night at Jules Girard's
house, nesr the Rawhide mine, Bono.
ra, CAL, john Voloson, Frenchman,
shot and fatally wounded Herman
Erickson, Finn. Erickson and his
uncle went TO Girari's carly In the
evening. The party drank oonsidera.
BILE wine and became boisttrOus.
Giraru ordered them to go homs, which
they refused to do. Glrard went to
Voisson's cabin for assistance to put
them out. Voisson took his shotgun
along. When they reached Glrard's
house ErickFnn anu hi9 uncle were on
the porch. Voisson ordered them to
leave, which they refused to do. Vols
son fred one eh0g in the air TO scare
them of, but failed. Erickson started
toward VoissoD, who fireu at him, the
ohsrge taking effect in the abdomen.
ID. 7. Morosl, a real estate agent of
Alameda, CAL, came to San Francisco
Thursday toe Escort his aged mother,
MrR. L. Moresl de Brevans, TO his
home for Christmas dinner. Mrs. de
Brevans was possessed Ola,
and preferred to live alone rather than
ehare her sons residence. She had
been intending to take Christmas
dinner with her sou. The son went to
her room at IL O'Clock Thursday,
knocked at the door, but received no
response. Repeated knockings bring
ing no answer Moresl forced open the
door and found his mother dead in her
bed. An examination by the coroner
later disclosed that the woman had
Gied forty-eight hours before, and so
far as appearances indicate, Of old age.
There was pathetic Christmas in
cident in the home OF George Coulter
ut 1922 Eureka street, San Francisco, OF
Wednesday night. For several days
Mrs. Coulter had been plannlLg o
Christmas tree for her four little
children and on "Wednesday afternoon
large branch o; Or arrived from
IBglfsidc. They set 1t Up and began
IL load 1t with toys and candles. By
O'clock they were all thoroughly
tired ont, and Mrs. Coulter was just
beginning to put the finishing
touches to the tree when she was
stricken with heart disease and fell to
the 6oor dead. The eldest of the
children is only years old. and all OF
them believed that their mother was
lying down to rest. The father, who
Is clerk IN the San Francisco Lum.
Der company, returned home from his
WORK at O'Clock. "Where Is your
mother, deaf" he aekei OF the little
girl VINO opened the door for him.
"She's been fixing the Christmas
tree" answered this child, sand she
just laid down along side 1t and went
TO sleep. Coulter went into the par
lOr anu found his wife cold In death
with her head under the decorated
branches and branch Of metal orna-
ments in her hand.
Chicago DFovors JOurnal; The ten
dency among farmers anu feeders who
raise and iced stock regularly Is TO
Keep the money turning as often as
possible, THAT calls for pretty well
bred stock, suitable for early maturity,
ana comparatively short feeding
time. The day OF aged "hog iat''
besvss seems to have entirely passe d
away. The only danger in the reac.
tlon that iH taking place Is that feed.
ers VIII get into careless habits and
be inclined to pay too little attention
to the breeding o; their cattle. The
demand for light weight cattle also
TENTS to make many fssders satisfied
10 merely warm up" their cattle, In.
stead OF taking time to max them
koo1. The argument they advance In