Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-21
NEWS OF THE WEST.
DySpspliC and COnsumpllYe School
Teachers Need Not Apply,
WASHINGTON PIONEER DROWNED.
Chinese Woman S,abb d-shlt a Con
dora White snaka-A sweet
heart OF LitcDln.

A rare specimen OF the California
condor was shot at Fresno, CAL, few
days ago and was brought In to bu
mounted. The bird measures niue
feet from tip to tip OF wings.
Jerry James has been selected CHIEF
OF the Humboldt Indian tribe IN
California, and will 20 to WRshingt II
to see President Mckinley and get
him to intercede for government ait.
Straw berry growoIs Of Hood river,
Or, cay that an immense crop IL COM
Ing on and that persons seeking worn
can find employment for the next
month picking berries In Hood River
valley.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20.-Beautiiul
Bells, the seutaiiOnsI ptCoi mare o.
America, has u foal. The new comer
arrived at Palo Alto Tuesday nigh
and is sired by Monaco, u son of IL go
tioneer ana Manoa by Piedmont.
At the railroad yards NJ Red Bluff,
Cal, "Wednesday. IN Jrnlug, brakeman
named o. w. kinksid was killed. L
some manner The brakeman was
thrown nom tho ears an! the Wheels
passed over his body, cutting him In
two.
b. f. Runels, living In the mouu-
tains near Alma, Cal, WINS founu dead
In bed in his cabin Wednesday moru-
Ing. An Inquest will DO held over the
RENAME, wnich were brought here.
Death Is believed to have been due TO
natural causes.
The Moro, Or, Observer says that .
pure white snake WIS killed recently
on the Newton farm, near Monkland,
In Sherman county. by Miss Alma
Newton and j. b. Gregg. Toe sDRke
WAS three feet long, and the Observer
says 1t Is the first OF the kind ever
killed In Oregon.
In New Whatcom, Wash, last
week COW caught little Bobby
Kratzig, three years old, on her horns
and tossed him up over her head. He
III on her back and slid of. Torn
clothes and few bruises were all the
Injuries sustained. The COW had
small calf with her and objected to the
boy coming too close.
Albert Bacon, one of the pioneers
OF the state OF Washington, wes
drowned in the headwaters OF the
Ssagit Saturday. He was an expert
canoeist and had safely put one OF
three comrades across the river. r.
turning with the other two in mis-
canoe, which was overloaded, he was
carsized in swirl. Bacon could have
escaped easily, as he arose within a
few feet OF the shore, but ne swan
back to the canoe and soon sank. HIS
two companions were rescued.
Tai He, Chinese woman, was
stabbed In her bed Wednesday morn.
Ing, at Portland, Oregon, by Nun
Yin, q cook. A butcher-kuife with a
blade eight inches long was iounr
sticking In her throat at noon by All
Bow, the coob IN the house, who had
broken open her door. Bow had seen
Mum Yin leave the place two hours
earlier under suspicious circumstances
and decided that something was
wrong. A report WIS maize to the
police In the afternoon and detectives
are ut work on the cnse.
g. W. Loudangin last week took to
The Wsitsburg, Wash, Era office,
curious specimen. Nearly u month
ago his SOB, Robert, living about seven
miles northwest Of WaitsbuTg, noticed
IL an alkali bank formation which
attracted his attention, and he pro.
ceeded to dig 1t up. What he found
had the appearance OF having been the
horn or tusk OF some huge animal. 1t
was about seven feet long, about eight
Inches In diameter, and tapered 10 a
point about one inch IN diameter,
with a socket in the butt end and
curved like horn. 1t ID without
joints.
An old lady has been visiting Santa
Rosa, Cal, this week who,it Is claimed,
was once the sweetheart of Abraham
Lincoln. Her name is Mrs. Susan A.
Deboyce, and she is the mother OF Mfs.
j. Cameron Of Santa Rosa. Tho old
lady, who is 81 years Of age, has her
home In Calistoga. Her maiden nam Q
was Susan Reid, and her father was an
intimate friend Of the Lincoln family,
and resided many years near Jackson
Vile, I'll. Mrs. Dsboyce's mind is per.
iectly clear. She says Lincoln desired
to pay her his addresses AMI obtain
the consent OF her father to propose
marriage, but when the day came Tor
the young rail-splitter to receive her
fnal answer she avoided him by going
away from home. Her conduct In thus
stunning Lincoln, she says, made her
ihtuot eAooeuinSiy hukfy.
No cyspeptios or consumptives need
ask for positions In the Berkeley, CAL,
school department. The board OF
education decided Tuesday night that
instructors troubled with chronic In
digestion were likely 10 be too irrits.
BILE TO I'LL their positions properly, and
that those having pulmonary diseases
were likely to spread such Troubles
among the students. A rule was
adopted requiring all teachers TO GER
thy that they are free from such or.
ganic diseases. The new regulation
goes into effect at once, and II any OF
the present employees Of the board are
troubled with dyspepsia or with con-
sumption they will find their heads
In danger VIXEN the time comes for
appointing teachers for next yenr. The
board will take the word OF teachers or
aspirants for places that they are In
good health, though some of The
members desired to call for doct>-e'
certificates.
Boise, Idaho, Statesman, May 10:
A little girl named Edna Roberts was
at the depot yesterday afternoon as the
eastbound train was about TO pull out,
She told the conductor pitiful story
OF how her mother had deserted her
month ago aud that she now wanted