Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Tbs CrOpkhlteS COmlnG lltO HsITshlp
for Holland Millions,
,,rIL BITE or A RATTLESNAKt
s,i,atIouints Hap lie by lmmtrsi)n--
snits Against southern Pa
eInc -Gcneral Notes.
Fatal BITE OF ARlTrLESSAKE

bsen closed on account OF diphthefa'
Icui, Cavanaugh dropped dead 10
sacramento, Cal, from thv effects o.
drinking liquor.
Nalad, Idaho, Enterprise: II bert
Henderson auu sou WIN, osme ~
,t,m willard, Utah, Thurday 10
ptsparc TOR the fo.opening Of 'helf
daiTy.
~. Anthony, Idaho, Silver Hammer:
gi,tk Bramwell Informs us tnat ne II
An receipt NJ n great mnDy H. qulrlts
I'M land in Fremont county from Utah
Ftemonts pOI ulatiou will be greatly |
incrsated this year from oil appear
Ances.
Old John white, the man whom
galifotnia chToniclors credit with hav-
inc dtiven the hfsi mail steie hcn |
apfoss the plains rom IN, East iu 1893, |
was before Justice Young q Los
ANGELES, Cal, ON the unromhnu'
charge u sieaiiug chickens
DR.. Jospph l.. ThAyer committed
suicide at Los Angeles Friday mofu-
ing by iuhaliug ohiufoiotm' hc wa
"A Young man, not over 80 yoats OF age
and was dsspOndent because OF 'lr
inability to earn u fair living at his pr
h,sou. lie has sister NJ Da.lar'
Texas.
On Sunday niphi, Feb. 20, jacob
Ilirg, prominent rsucher Vi Ante
lone valley, Cal, went into HE yard 10
attend 10 lila dogs aud Ia the datkuttB
thrust his hand into the kennel anu
was bitten ny huge desert tAitltsnnkc.
lie did not receive medical attention
until the following morning, anu ON
Tuesday moruing he died IN great
Ax.ny, his entire body btlng nlmoti
aok.
The governor Of Wyoming wired
Governor Mcconnell, Oi Idaho, thetu
m,n representing himerli 10 lie VIII
liam Mcdonnell, son VI the governor
had solicited him for money. The
Idaho governor replied that tue man
was an imIlstsf NJ his ton was atleni.
ing the state university at Muscow.
IL was afterwards discovered the man
had been working people under null
utude OF names.
Friday Mts. August d. Vandewalker,
VI Boise, ldahA reported 10 tue police
that her husband had mysiefluusly dis.
appeared. She said he lett HE home
Iast Tuesday Tor the purpose OF coming
down town Tor come groceries and hau
not returned. lie mad been looking Ia
vain for WORK 10 maintain hie sick wife
hud children. They had had aquafTtl,
hut Mrs. NandctSalket did NOT tuinG
her husband would leave on that ae-
count.
The Idaho Statesman OF Saturday,
February 20, tells OF the unusual spec
tacls OF n bAptismnl ceremony in the
waters Of Boise river on a bleak Fsbfu
hTy day, with the water almOst nt the
ffetEink point, which was Witnessed
Fnday afternoon by about 200 people
Twenty converts Of the Salvation
Army were Immersed. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Young, who
asserted that baptism was not essential
to the salvation VI sOulr, but A"glotloui
emblem OF tho bRptism OF the Hsly
B,iui.0 lie made no attempt to On
plain bis contradiction OF tho Divin'
Masters words on the subject
Instructions have been receiver
fran Washington nj the office Of TN
United Btates district attorney In Sal
Francisco 10 institute additional sui,
Ngainrt the Southern Hnd CentAl Pa
o,uu tAilfoad companies ana againt
tue trustees Of the three land mortgage
TO recover for tho government abOu
20, 900 sores OF valuable land along IN
railroad lines named, a large porto
OF which lies in Alameda and Saul
Clara counties ana beINeon Ban jos
aud Sacramento. Ia all, oiRht sui
will be fled, aud must be In by I =. n
To-Day, March 2, to come within Ia
act Of Limitations passed by Congrsi
IN March 4, 1891,
Three persons In Fresno, Cal
claim TO DO heirs to large fortune tal
~ be IN the bank OF Holland ready
lie distTibuteu. IL IN claimed thl
JASPER CTOnkhite died there 100 year
ago, leaving twelve millions Ia Iu
ia tue hauds Of tho government for III
heirs u his bfOtheI'H children, ID
ttiuutiOn was not 10 take place tot II
years, The time IL now up, and u
estate has grown 10 81, 100000, III
heirs IN Fresno are Miss l. 2Liu Crun
hite, Charles CTonkhite anu Mrs. w
liam Maxwell. They have slfea'
tAkeu steps 10 have Iheir claims
the eslEte hled with those Of MY
sixty other neiTs In different parts
THIS country, but mostly OF the Stale
New York. ruose In Fresno are q
ntkh generation IN uttCvht llulh ahl
Ctonkhito's brother, Charles Cfoh
hile Ia n ealOon keeper, Miss Il a
CTonkhiIc, lisa taleswOman In
goods house anu Mu. Maxwell 10
vile Of driver OF hose cart In
Ffesno fre department. ThBy us
kept track VI that Holland estate
many ysAts, waiting Tor tue Hme
come ior Us distribution.
David 7. Hanbuty and Geo.
Rudge, OF Victoria, Il. g., lsf1 1
NOR ing, March ., on an rxplorl
TIP Though the northern p,Tllons
British Columbia anu the n0rIhW
territory, Tho lIip VIII occupy al lt
twelve mOntns aud possibly long
They intend to 20 through eOun
that nas never be ore beeu uaVofsed
Awhite man. leaving by the sleAl'
Danube, they Will 20 to tue moulin
tho SucReeu river, wutfo TIE hul'
Bay cUmpany's steamer CaieiOl
viii be waitiug Tor them. bhe Nlllli
iuom a. lar up tne riysr ~ sue
20 aud ih,y viii Ihsu make Ihelf
10 Lease laHe. From tneie they
tlTiks norm LOT tue mead wulefs OF
Yukon river, nud tneu east 10 tue M
he zte, wnvTe they VIII resume "
explorations ~ the sptiug' MI IL
GurJ u only object IA mAAing me
Il 10 satisfy his OeBira ~ SEQ the co
ina