Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-16
NEWS OF THE WEST.
nav Killed By a Horse Slipping On
Pavement.
INDIANS FROZEN 10 DEATH
,.bv Fatally Scaldrd-an Arizona
Mastodou -Su day losing Move
mput-ilo ug In snow.
INDIANS FROZEN no DEATH

leld ny '"
portervilIe, Cal. furnished Salt Lake
ritv lie first CARLOAD OF fresh Thanks
giving oranges.
An lS.months old son OF F. Patton
n, Florin, Cal, accidentally fell iuto a
ketiIs OF boiling water on sunday, re-
eelving fatal injuries.
Canaigre is growing wild in large
ousntitles between CucamOnga and
rugauda, CAL, and a man 10 digging
n fora patent medicine maker.
Omaha Stockman, Dec. Ia White
4 Sons Co., prominent 10 stock aud
commercial circles, had twenty-five
ears OF cattle here from Elko, Nevada.
Their headquarters are at salt Lake
CITY, Utah.
Glenwood Springs, Colo, Avalanche:
TAIL sigma don't fail the merchants oil
NEWER are going 10 have u hard time
A IL this winter. They are all well
sIaked for the holidays but the people
are poorly supplied with the "stud"
ID Duy.
Roy johnson, 10 years old, was
killed ny u Southern Pacific train at
LOS Angelica, CAL, SUNDAY afternoon.
Toe boy was trying 10 Jump y passing
iteIghL train and missed HE footing.
He waa mangled Ia horrible man
Ler.
The novel spectacle Of farmers plow-
ing with six inches OF snow Oh the
pFound was Witnessed In several locali-
lies in Washington recently, says the
Wilbur Register. This was possible
by the snow falling before the ground
it.zs 10 any extent.
The sprinkllng of the bituminOus
navements on the streets OF Fresno,
Cal, caused u fatality on Suadsy alter
noon. Al keinborts, aged IL, was
riding on a horse along Mariposs street
and when in front OF the Grand Cen
tral hotel, the animal Slipped and Tell.
This lad was thrown head ioremu st
against the pavement, sustaining fatal
iniuries.
Oakley, Idaho, Sun: Mr.. HAVE,
who at one time drove stage for George
White, on the Albion anu Oakley
Stage liue, arrived In town the tirst Of
The week from Cedar Creek. He vol
uuteers the information that man
who had recently come in from Duck
Valley, New, reported having passed
by an Indian eDcampment in which
there were 90 tquaws and children
irtxsn to death. No bucks were seen
In the nsighborbo9d OF the encsmp-
uient.
Arizona Citizen: A. j. Wakefield @
10 Tucson from Dhvids0n's csnyoi
md reports 0 the Citizen the fndiu
Of the remains OF a mRstodon near joe
Andrads's ranch. Some OF the bones
were exposed in large water-hole
and attracted attention. Excavations
we're begun and resulted IN uncover
log a number OF bones ami teeth,
which, without doubt, belong to one OF
he species of giant monsters which
doubtedly inhabited this country In
the long gone by. This Ia not an IN
common find In this section. There
nave been bones OF number of these
lsrge animals uneartbed In the neigh
bJrhOod OF QIj0toa, and on over into
Sonora.
National Stockman: The sacrifice of
breeding hoGks, which has been a
feature OF the sheep industry during
the late years OF cheap mutton ami
wool, has at last been c6eeked. People
once moro have confluence in the In
dusirY, and theirs Is aud has been for
come months an active inquiry for
sheep to replace or reinforce the fiocks.
This 10 most gratifying to those who
have had the "Band" TO stick to the
business through tbiCk and thin, and
10 us who hsve talke1 sheep in season
and out OF season. A glance backward
Will show that no live stock has paid
any better than sheep during the past
law years, Ia spite of all the dis.
advantages under which they have
lsbored.
Another crusade to secure the clos
ing,of saloons on Sunday 10 to be begun
shortly In Oakland, Cal. The frsl
public annou ncement OF II was made
at the convention OF the Christian
Endesyor union Sunday when Pres
dent Seymour w. Condor pledged the
sapport OF all OF those present to the
movement. He said that the matter
cid not originate with the Endesvsr-
etS, but that they had been asked 10
give their assistance. He said that
The names Of those who were organic.
Ing the movement were being kept
secret ios the present, but the petitions
were bong prepared anu would bs in
elfcnlstion for signalpresi In shor,
lime. IL 10 announced that the petit
lion Will be presented to the incoming
council and that the matter will be
made an Issue In the campaign as 10 /,
10 possible.
The Nez Perces are perhaps the
most powerful tribe of Indians, physi.
eally speaking, on toe American con-
Vnent, says the Spokane, Washington,
NeWs. As q rule the male n. Perce
"a little less than six feet IN height,
tHalsht, muscular and, ss has been
proven In the past, caps BILE OF astonish.
log endurance. FIR Indisn intelIi-
eence the Ntz Percts grace high, in
morals they are probably Superior 10
any other western tribe. Deny them
tae beloved fIewsler anu very little
assauchery would be indulged In by
uIem. Black Eagle, Nez Psrce liv.
iug near town, in one of the canyons,
pos'etsee all the familiar character
nues OF his tribe. He stands six feet
SUI thrse quarters o IN inch In heig f,
SUI We ghs about leo pounds. He "
au oil iLnuence among his psOpIe,
nAs travelled not little, visiting
Mohlana and perhaps Dakota, he con.
,,e, that great way towards the
uusihg sun. He claims to have seen
ueheTal Custer, the Slaughtered hero
y, he Little Big HorD, Sitting Bull
Auu other white and lnuiau pereon-
sses who conspicuou,ly figured in
a Snher HE. Black Eagle hss become
hller OF the soil anu Ia entering a bet