Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-23
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
Heroic Indian Fatally Burned While Rescung
His Father.
BOY KILLED BY CLIMBING A WAGON.


At Pocatello, Idaho, Sunday night.
Al Lish, accused of stealing horse
from Paul Cutler, of Marsh Valley.
was lodged In jail. 1t Is said another
boy. VIM. Lewis. participated in the
crime, and officers are now looking for
him.
Daviss saloon and gambling house
at Rnwlins. Wyoming. was robbed on
sunday evening, by man who en-
tered ordered the men present to hold
up their hands. made the dealer hand
over the cash, and then escaped on
horseback,
II. c. Voeckell, a Los Angeles drug
glst, discovered burglar in his store
early Friday morning. and after an
exciting chase captured the fellow sin
handed, the druggist not even hay
Ing pillboN to draw on the intruder.
The burglar gave his name as r. w.
Crswn.
James Cunningham was found rear
the railroad crossing at Oakland. cal,
Friday morning with one leg cut off
and the other badly crushed. He was
taken to the receiving hospital. His
condition was such that he could give
no account of the accident. He will
probably die.
During the heavy thunder and
tlSuAIllE Hlblll u ffludN evening a
heavy bolt of lightning entered the
kitchen of the state prison at Folsom.
Cal, land destroyed fifty gallon boiler,
besides doing other damage. The
prisoners We're all locked in their cells
when the bolt struck, and We're aroused
by the crash that was made. No one
was hurt.
While the attendants at the Mem
docino, Cal, insane hospital We're taxi
ing the patients to dinner Friday, one
of Inmates, young man committed
from Oakland, named Craig, jumped
from a secondstory window to the
ground below. He was severely
bruised about the body and may have
severe internal injuries which are not
apparent at present.
Ella Iverson, the three-year-ol
daughter of NJ. Iverson of Point
Arena, Cal, was accidentally shot and
probably fatally injured by her broth
err Charles 1verson, Friday afternoon.
The boy was taking a rifle down from
overhead when the weapon exploded.
The bullet entered the right hip and
passed entirely through the body Of
the little girl.
Peter Battilana. the eight-year-old
son of John Battilana, an employe Of
the stockton, Cal, wooden mill. was
crushed to death under the wheels of
wheat wagon Friday morning. He
was trying to climb between two
wagons and fell. The wheels of the
wagon passed over his head and back,
last crushing his skull and scattering
his brains in the street.
Rich placer rock has been unearthed
twenty-five miles from Cambria, CAL
in what Is known as the Salmon creek
country. in the northwest part of San
Luis Obispo county. n tramp going
through that section became lost, and
while tearing away some underbrush
uncovered placer rock. Washing il
out he got n small vial of dust and
nuggets. He reported the find, pro-
ducing considerable excitement and
parties are now on the way to the dis
coVery.
A sad accident among the Indians
is reported from the Indian rancheria
six miles southeast of Ukiah, Cal.
The cabin occupied by one Masa Muse
was discovered to be on fire. The viii
layers assisted in carrying the con-
tents out OF the burning shack. Masa
MUSES. father. old and helpless, was
not missed until the flames made con-
siderable Roadway. When his alb
sence was noted. Modoc, young buck,
volunteered to attempt the rescue of
the old man and entered the cabin for
that purpose. He had no sooner
reached the threshold of the door than
the whole affair collapsed. burying him
in the ruins. Several rushed to his
rescue, and Mndoc was dragged out
only after he had been severely burned
about the head and body, and the
probabilities are that he will not re-
cover. The old man whom Modoc at
tempted to save after the collapse of
the shack, was dragged out stlll alive,
but his death is hourly expected.