Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-17
A Skeleton In a Tree Sixty Feet
Alb owe Ground.
ROY DROWNED WHILE BOATING.
KILLED In n Wyoming Mine-Boy Acct
denially hni-siopp'd
by storms.


G. II, Wheeler, book agent who
lived at 4S7 McAllister street, San
Franolecs, dropped dead on Monday
morniug Just in front OF the History
building. 1t Ia supposed that his de.
mlse was due to some Affection OF the
heart.
The steamer Howick Hall sailed on
Monday from Tacoma, WASH, with
the largest CARGO sent from the sou nd
this season. She ia the first steamer to
carry q cargo OF grain TO the United
Kingdom. Her cargo amounts to 5000
tons
Guy stoweli, aged 20, with three
other boys was boating on pond on
the Suey ranch, near Santa Maria,
CAL, on Monday, when the boat was
caps zej. Three of the boys reached
shore with diff Guilty, but 5lowell sank
Immediately.
Helens, Montana, Herald: Percy
Hotter, the thirieen.year-old son OF A.
NJ. Hotter. was the victim Saturday OF
snother's cnrelessness In handling
loaded weapon which may result In
the Ices OF one of bis hands. With
other Helena boys he was hunting in
the Prickley Pear valley.
VIM. Beckford, in the employ of
Captain Marcus Harloe on the wharf
at ismo, CAL, went out ON Monday
In a small skif from the wharf to un.
fasten a schooner from buoy. Beck
ford released the schooner and started
tn return. The sea wss rough and big
wave overturned Beckford's boat. He
fiOuDdered pround for some time and
then sank. The body has not been re.
covered.
Brief details have been received of
coal mine accident near Buffalo,
Wyoming, In which Martin X. Hart
anu Mr.. Bullock OF Buffalo were killed.
The accident was caused by the roof
of the mine caving upon the men,
Hart WAS the son OF the late Col.
Hart, United States army, and Mr..
Bullock was Johnson county stock
man.
Boise, Idaho, Statesman: Traffic n
the Short Line was stopped Sunday
BY dana 10 the bridges over the Pay
eue ard Weiser rivere. Temporary
sTuctures have been In use pending
the building OF the steel bridgos, MT.
teTlai for which has been delayed In
delivery. The sudden thaw sent va
ice Hoes dow II the streams with the re-
iult that tue underpinning OF both
bridges was weakened anu trains cou d
not run for twenty-four hUuIs. It wac
necessary to drive lot OF new piling
before 1t was safe to cross.
Mrs. Joseph Grismer (Phoebe d.
IN N or ia. d. . 4.
on Sunday night at the Columbia |
theater, Sacramento. In the play the
villain, Richard StOckley. is caught |
by Mrs. Grismer strRngling james |
Snillipglaw, played by Mr.. Grismer.
The villain drags Mis-. Grismer to the |
elevator, throws her under it. closes |
aud locks the door 90 that she canuot |
escape, gives the signal for the elsvs- |
tor to descent and leaves her TO be |
crushed to death. The elevator Is |
lowered by means OF cable passed |
around q windlsss which Ia turned by |
two men behind the scenes. There IL |
no Imitation out that elevator. 1t |
weighs 1000 p unds. The ACTOR who |
Is to come 10 the rescue forgot his
cue and the elevator was allowed to |
descend upon the PROSTATE woman,
whose BODY was crushed, but no bones
broken. She bravely insisted q len.
Ing the play, afler TevivinR. III,
audience realized that Mrs. Grismer
was in real danger. Women tainted,
men clsmbereu on the stage and the
whole house was in uproar.
Charles Ryan, who lives on Pire
Ridge, alb ut ten miles west OF Ukilh,
Cal, tells a remarkable story of the
nf h h al.tn a, ia.
cut hunting the other day. Early in |
the morning Mr.. Ryan COX hls shot |
gun ard went out into the wogCs to |
kill squirrel for dinner. He soon dis. |
covereu fine large gray squlrrel,
which ran M into the top VI q tall Ii |
tree. 80 Mr.. Ryan fired at tie i1ls |
animal, when ieli from iIs perch, but |
did net strike the ground. II an was
somewhat puzzle1 at the failure OF the |
squirrel to drop,and examined the tree |
CAREFULLY, thinking perhaps the little |
animal mad fallen and lodged In the |
branches. Alter carefully scrutin I'll < |
the FIR for sjme minutes he uiscoveIea |
what sppeared 10 be large |
ntst, made apparently from the |
dead branches Of the tree,
and on looking more closely, saw
Tue oushy tall OF the squirrel hanging
from the nest. Ryan determined to |
nave the squirrel al any cost, anu put.
ling down his gun took of his coat
anu prepared to ascend the trunk
inc hr. This squirrel had lodged about
sixty feet from the ground and It WAS
with some difficulty that the ait, tube
was retcaed. Finally. howe yer, the
branch IN which the squirrel YVES
logged was reached, tu. Ryan was
mortified TO discover thai the object ho
hau mistaken tor a rect was In fact
we skeleton Of human being. The
sksieton was seated Rslrlde OF branch
OF Inc tres, close up 10 the trunk. Doe
oi the legs had fallen Of, but other
vice the skeleton was 10 "a fair state oil
preservation. 1t was tightly lodged
.h tue tree, aud bore evidence OF hsv.
ing been there for many year.
hSan secured Ais Squirrel and de
tusndsd the tree. de did not dis.
loage the skeleton, as he In ends takiDt
u iopo aEd !.weriDg 1t 10 the gTounu
prevent breaking II. 1t lie pos
,o's lhis discovery clears up
ne mysterious disappearance OF An.
ny" NGbfick, a piuseer settler OF
Soh Cfeeh, who was supposed 10 nav I
iSi' the country seventeen years ago.
ne let his cabin one morning in the
e seventies and since that tire has
neFef been heard O.. 4 was thought
"iL Ryan that the skeleton 10 thai
man who was either utiven to TIT
e LOT reiuge tr IN viii beasts, u
W. p, being lost Ia the woods, assembled
tlc Tree for ubsnryatinn and f.Ii In 10.