Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-25
NEWS OF The WEST.
An Old Nan Jumps Over a Blua 81
Feet High.
THREE PEOPLE BURSEpTo DEATH.
r,IIlu, hoi.lnd F,oi--im'e Pcr'oi'
urewn d no In h g Head
Railway Rumurs.

lend bis oafthly troubles.
saturday morning, at Napa, Cal, +.
o.. Niolerz shot himself through the
bead nj hia h mo uu Fourth street,
siliipr himself aImost inetanly. FL.
1ancial trouble was the ciuse.
terrific electrical olorm prevailed
saturday on the high Sierra Ia Cali
ts,nia, A heavy rnin Tell at Cascade
srcompanied by lightning ami thun-
III. Botwcen 3lue Canyon nnd Emil.
ration Gap hail tell TO depth Of
yr,rlv four irchss. TINS mountains
over which the etorm parsed are alive
with camping parties anu cover more
spb,tnntial than canvas WAS IN great
demand while the storm prevailed.
The farmers Of Frazer Valley. u. C.,
d, convention have decided o. urge on
roth the Provincial AMI Dominion
governments the nsceseiiy NJ pofma.
nrntdykua anu navigation Improve.
went. A delegation viii iutelviuW
tbe tniriale. ~ nothiuu IN done y
Inc governments all tho fafmum on
ioW.iyita ranChts will abandon them
iof taxrp. Tine amount required TO
dreuen the river AMI band dykes
weuld hn immense, " IA foods nave
washed away banks auu eunIl'wcd thv
river. Hydraulic miuing along thr
river IL also doing pIoat damage n
LARGE amount Of gold ~ being lharu
oni, but the mincrb' dump h illiug w
the river.
A fire DESTROYED m old twosiory
to1ripn.house IN San Diolu, Cali
sunday morning and cnuaui inc death
Al A. Nfa II
oib,r pefsont. The fifewas Uncovered
ivan Old mau named Duncan, vino
f1omrd on tue upper Il lor. lie fouepu
JnmeS Lewis, also an occupant Of the
lace, aud then attempted 90 rescue
Inc Bailey woman, whom no heard
sofsnmlnR In tho rear 90 tue buhliuf'
The fiamns, however drove MIN back
and he aud Lows barely escaped Win
their llver. Nora Mcdonald, about
II YEAR, 10, whu livoi with Too bally
woman, was burned TO death. 10 tue
morning tho remains ui the bailry
woman and ala unknown muh were
takon from the RUM.
lance Mlllen, former rosideat o.
Cafson, Nuvatn, h WuniC1 hf the
pollcu Of Tfuckoc, Cal, on n waEfaut
ielegrAphod from Graz valley. iht
sheriff oi Colufa county hAa been ON
bis trail tor several days, hut Militn
has 10 Tar tuoceC4ed ~ Guiding nm.
The crime for which Millrn ~ wanted
In perjury. II seem. mt irVetai
months nru hc uiupod ircm Clluta
with a married woman hnb.l "
10 Cars. Tho couple were not hehTu
ram Tor como due, but nuaiy e..
tutned 10 {. lusa hiirr the hioFm hAd
blown over, only 90 again disnppeiF ~
Iess than n week. on thuir ,oimer Trip
while In Ctlurn, they went through
this form OF q marriage ceremony, NrH.
10 Cara giving her maiden name Alits
Kanrtto, The ceremony was per-
formed on April % u last by Justice
Moore. Before securing matflat
uceusu each had 10 sweat that theIo
was no known reason Why thoY nhouiu
not be- married, aud Tor this reason
Millen u wanted tor perjury. Mia
10 Cara IL wanted iot oigamy.
Weston Daggo,t, one Of the hest
known aetonAnis ia America, made o
balloon ascension Saturday evening a.
Astoria, Oregon, In the presence OF
teveIai thousand people. Aver Tohoh'
iuga height VI 1000 feet 10 uetaohea
his pafachuto from tue balloon uud be-
pren, anu ~ was seen Al once that Day
gslt was In difficulty, bis struggles
boinR plainly noticeable 10 tho spec
tatofs. After falling 900 ieet be- man'
Eged 10 release some Of tho cords At
taohod 10 the canvas and etoauied him'
telf a little, tut the appaTatuc closed
again anu no ioil the otnor l 900 ieet IN
eighteen seconds, uathiug INTO iho Goa
ter OF large liz Tree ON tho hills over
looking tue city. Daggetps collar bone
wns irbctufed anu his right log wal
uflveu sevcTAl inches Into the Trunk Of
his body. Tho unfortunate man was NJ
once taken 10 n bospi,ai and examined
By the doctors, VINO pronounced MI
lnlurios fatal. His escape from instant
death WAS dun 20 tho branches OF IN,
tfoe, which broke the force Of the fall
conaidorably.
The tkolcton and parts OF tho cloth
log OF O. man were found IN tho wood
near Rysn'a slough, about six mile
from lspfeka. Gal, Saturday morning
Tue point at which the find was mau'
was la the brush alongside the OLE
wood road, about two miles from ~
junction with tho county road, between
Ryau's slough aud Ffeshwa1er, TIT
bones HAD been entirely dcnuded o
ibsh anu were scattered over con
siderable apace, 40 II by wild auinhls
while the remains Of the clothing Wer'
shredded anu Totting, showing II ha'
been thefo some time. Among IN
tones and clothing we're found Key
winding silver watch and short bras
chain Of peculiar design, Whlehi WIN
black Derby hat and nob-nnilnd shoes
arc this Gully articles that may lead !
Identification. IL was at inst though
that the remains were those OF on
Modrade, who was l0st while hunllni
In tho upper part OF the county las
year, but the father OF the boy lalle
70 Identity the articles. Toe waloh
M American Waltham, Bond stree
movement, No. G62.
over high blum between the seasid
iesott Of Santa Moniea, Cal, and
canyon oi tho snmo name, poor, Oh
spauiari Saturday morning leapod {
bis death. For nineiy.tw0 years MI
bololqutz hal been known ana 70
sptclcu by the Spanleh'speaking pee
Pic OF San Jose and Santa Monica as
man honest ana attentive 10 bushes
lie was bora In San jose In 1904, MAJ
ed there anu raised large iamlll
when his youngest child was ABOUT
years Of age, nearly twenty years ago
ne removed, with his vile aud iiltoel
ehHdfon, 10 Santa Monica, where