The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-30
BRIGHAM CITY, Sept. 2s.-Drownet

BRIGHAM CITY, Sept. 29.-Drowned
in the very sight Of his wife.
That was the fate Of an itinerant doc
tor near Corinne yesterday afternoon.
The story comes 60 me as follows:
Last Saturday a travelling doctor drove
into Corinne. lie was accompanied BY
his wife ard two or three other people.
They pitched their tent in ccrinne, ex-
pecting to remain some time.
Monday afternoon the party thought
it would be nice TO have duck hunt.
SO they drove about mile south Of
Corinne and began popping away at the
astonished ducks-the law was not UP
set
This "quack doctor as the people
had already begun 10 cali him. snot
some ducks that fell across an arm Of
Scar river called Dead river Ii was
ABOUT sixty feeE across and probably
ten feet deep. When his game fell
across the river, the doctor stripped
off and swan over after the birds. He
successfully crossed the water, secured
The game and started on the return trip.
When within thirty feet of the shore he
said he could go no further; cried for
help and there, right before The eyes
OF his frantic wife, ne sank beneath the
stagnant waters of Dead river.
The people on shore We're horror
stricken for the moment. Then brave
young man OF the party leaped into
the cold water and made for the drown
ing man But he, too became cramped
or exhausted, and barely got back
alive. He then mounted one Of their
horses and drove in and tried TO dis
cover the body of the now drowned
man and drag il ashore. but in vain.
The poor wife and her friends after
wards got assistance, ind about y
o'clock last evening the body OF the
drowned man WAS recovered
His name could not be learned. He
was about 50 or 40 years tof age--a big,
broad-shouldered man Of fine presence.
lie claimed to be connected with some
prominent firm Of doctors in San Fran
cisco.
The body viii be inferred in Corinne
tomorrow afternoon.
The wife of the unfortunate man IS
50 Frustrated that practically no infor-
nation as TO who they are can be learn
ee fron. her.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION
is still the all-absorbing topic of CONVEX
saticD in Brigham.
Yesterday the county commissioners
met in special session in order 30 give
the representatives from the four old
districts a chance TO air their grievances
and, if they had any, suggest a better
plan for apportioning the Indebtedness.
IT was quite a hot old session when the
committeeman from the Second had the
floor Eli Jensen and John Merrill
were the chosen spokesman and with
speeches full of pepper and salt did
they treat the commissioners and small
audience present to.
Eli is an orator of no mean ability,
and when he imagines he has a griev-
ance he rises to an oratoT1cal height
that would have done credit to a Pat
rick Henry.
Several times the court was under the
cruel necessity of bringing him down off
his high horse and reminding him of
the subject at hand. Eli represented
that the Second warders were for Sc
cession. The other four wards were
for union, but a readjustment of the
taxes.
State Superintendent of Schools DR..
John r. Park was present He said 1t
pleas ed him much when he first learned
that the Brigham school districts had
been united Gentlemen said he,
you have made step in the right d.
rectiou. and i beg of you don't so back,
but resembling of the consolidating
order of the court would surely be 3.
step backwards
=
took il under Amusement. Their decis-
. ion is practically a sustaining of their
FIRST action. The districts remain unit
ed. but instead of placing a certain rate
of taxes on eecn of the old districts for
the next seven years, they name the
amount that each is to raise during
thar time This is to cover any dis
crepancies that might arise liz the fu-
ture in the fluctuations of values OF
property.
Although it is no doubt just and equit-
able. ii yet remains to be seen as to
whether or NOT this new order of the
court will meet with popular approval.
There are a few agitaSors in town who
seem 60 love TO keep things boiling here
ard there is no telling what they may
contrive.
one of the biggest objections of the
EScanTlsnavians TO the new order OF
things is this: They have just built by
far the finest school house in town. In
grading, some of their children are COM
pelled to cross dreadful ward boun-
dairy line and attend school in an in
ferior building. They also claim that
their children may be kicked out into
The street and their handsome building
used for a temporary high school. Of
course their views are extreme, but
many people believe them nevertheless.
POLITICS.
Politics are surprisingly quiet here
since the tickets were nominated. Some
people are wondering if the party lead
ers have not gone off and died, or
have sneaked off to the mountains to
dig gold in order to raise funds to carry
on the campaign.
It Is pretty we'll understood that
bombshen is about TO burst in one of the
chief planks OF the platform recently
adopted by the Republicans of this