Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-08
Ne WIS OF The WEST.
A California Woman Makes a P6FilOlS
Ride TbrOuth Snow.
boy CAUGHT UNDER A srREETCAR.
1he Rock Pile for lramps-Rulnpd By
the Morphine ilabit-Iowa Cattle
in The Recent StOim.

Omaha Stockman, Jan. 6. Girrard
& Spear OF Salt Lake, Utah, had six
teen cars OF range cattle on sale.
Glenwoo1 Syringe, Colo, A valanohe:
j. b. Anderson, BRUCE contractor OF
Salt Lake City, is in this city figuring
ON the New Castle bridge.
Santa Barbara, Cal, has established
its usual winter rock pile to afford
labor for tramps, The effect lie magi.
cal. This class OF tourists are giving
Santa Barbara the go-by. The rock
pile will have to shut down unless bet
ter pstronized, says the Lompoc
Record.
Thos. Mohr, a l5.year-old boy was
Iun over by an electric chr IN San
FraDoisco Wednesday morning and
seriously injured. He was treated at
the receiving hospital, where 1t was
! unU he had suffered "a confusion o
The back, abrasl0us of face and right
leg, lacerated wounds or the leg anu
possibly Interval injuries. The boy
says he was picking up coal from the
Track and did not hear the car coming.
James Nlchol, who had up to the
last few months been employed as u
California, attempted to cut his throat
with dinner knife at his home in
San Francisco on Wednesday night.
He made deep, but not dangerous
cash in his neck. His wife seized him
before he could cut himself IA second
time, and sent for a policeman. He
was taken 10 the receiving hospital,
where his wound was treated. He Will
recover. He gave ns the reason for
bia act that he was out OF work and
tired of life.
Redding, CAL, Exchange: l.. A.
Lee, the singer sewing machine agent
now stationed here for awhile, ought
to be the proudest man in America.
He left his wife in Alturas, Modoc
county, hoping to return Christmas,
but, finding 1t impossible to do so,
wrote to see II she could join him here.
She Otified him that che could. The
snows eel in. Nothing daunted, she
mounted her horse and followed the
sage, keeping in sight all the while.
She reached Redding after four days
travel, distance OF 100 miles. AZ
she passed over Ratchet mountain the
pnow was seventeen feet deep ON each
Tide OF her as she followed in the track
OF the stage. 1t blew and froze, but |
Rhe rode on, and arrived in Reading !
W. dnesday to spend Christmas with |
tue man Of her choice.
Sioux City, Iowa, Tribune: Rumorn
have already reached yards OF serious
loss OF live stock ON South Dakota
ranges in the storm OF Sunday and
Monday. The blizzard was, from all
reports, quite. severe over that section
OF the state and owing to the strong
winds AMI constant shifting OF drifts,
II was extremely difficult for live
stock to combat the elements success.
FULLY. Cattle and sheep were more or
less weakened from the effects OF the
November storm which enhances the
OF the death OF Increased
numbers. 1t lie hoped, however, that
the investigation will prove these
rumors, like the reports sent out
after the Thanksgiving week snow, to
have little foundation in fact, and
that the losses will not aggregate a
sufficient number to severely injure
interests in that section.
Clinton Riokllff, the son of respecta.
Bile parents, about 2S years, was sen.
fenced ut santa Rosa, California, on
wednesday, TO serve two years In the
California state prison. Ricklill was
arrested few days ago on the charge
OF petit larceny, having stolen mir
ror from drug store. After his arrest
Ricklif pleaded guilty TO the charge
and also admitted previous convlc.
tion two years ago, when for stealing
some fiat irons he was sent to jail for
fifteen daye. This made the crime a
felony, and this morning young Rick
lid received the penalty or his wrong
doing. For the past ten or twelve
years Rickliff has been gradually
sinking lower aud lower. de WIS
addicted to the use OF morphine, and
was ready to sell anything he laid his
hands on to procure some of the drug.
All efforts to reform him were uselese,
md he lived from hand TO mouth do
ing odd Jobs here and there ana by
his means kept from starving,