Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-07
NEWS OF The WEST.
A Florist Pays Ten Thousand Dollars
for a Rose.
CAUGHT AND CRUSHED by A CAR.
Swiss Colony Ia acknowledgements
In Idaho condition of Mon.
taua Cattle.


blown to shreds. Amputation was
necessary.
The now deputy superintendent OF
schools OF San Francisco city and
county is woman--the first woman
to hold a position Of superinteuGehcs
in that department. The deputy 1t
Miss Rebecca Il. English, native OF.
Boston.
The comet medal OF the AstronOmi-
cal Society nj the Pacific has been
awarded to @. ID. Perriue, assistant
astronomer In the Lick Observatory,
Cal, for hie discovery OF an unexpect
ed comet on Nsvembe 2, 1896.
His condition is critical. The alleged
fence on the par; Of ReIdicK was tDe
improper attentions to a marrie5
woman of the neIghborbood. Red.
dick's friends say the outrage was
really prompted by desire to pay of
old grudg,s VI another character.
A band of TO lsked Regulators went t.
the house Ut q. W. Reddick, ieW
miles ives, OF Newport, Idaho, Monday
night, ana called him to the door.
They seized him, dragged him outside,
where they gave him terrible boat
log with horse whips and switches.
Charles I'll. Perkins, the famous
scotsman Of New York, while in Sants
Rosa, Cal, on Tu,s4ay completed ne
gotta ions for new hybrid yellow
rose with Luther Burbank, the well
known California Dotanist. Perk'n-
pays Burbank $4,000 Tor the new
rose.
Chase Codori, Los Angeles ne@s-
paper man, met with very eever
accident Tuesday morning. He at.
tempted to board Southern Paciht
train. His right leg was caught under
the whreie, anu his foot aud the lower
part OF the leg badly crushed, making
1t necessary to amputate the member
below the knee.
The Wyoming state general hospilal
ut Rock Springs was destroyed by fire
on Monday morning. There were hui
ten patients In the building ana oil
but one of these were removed safely.
A won an patient became go badly
frightened that she died from the
shock OF the occurrence. The state
hospital was erected q few years ago oil
cost of nearly S2S 900, and was in.
fured for SIS. 900.
A swiss colony has purchased 1000
acres twenty-five miles south OF Liver.
more, Cal, and will erect large
creamery and cheese factory. Tue
land was owned by the De Forrest
estate and was known as the San An
tonic tract. There are elk families n
the colony, but there will bs additions
later. They are negotiating .or the
purchase Of 400 cows and will farm
800 acres OF the land.
The con Of Harry Arnold, hard.
ware dealer Of Los A ugeles, Cal, is
lying at the point of death at nis
fathers ranch, situated about five
miles from La Canada. as the result OF
n beating he received sunday night a
the hands OF a man named Barker.
Young Arnold anu Barker had been
drinking freely and became involved
in a quarrel. Barker seized cluO
and beat Arnold about the head, fIac.
turing his skull in several placer.
Barker reportel the occurrence to
Arnold's father, claiming self-uetensc.
The Buffalo. Wyoming, Bulletin
says: NJ. A. Reeves found an interest
Ing human skeleton near the Jepson
mine, this week, while out huntinA
Christmas trees. The CHASTITY find is
now at the Reamer livery stable, The
skeleton 10 that of man who' must
have been about six feet high. The
skull is well shaped, and the bones de-
note that their possessor was strong
man. The only thing found in the
shape OF clothing near the skeleton
was the broad brim OF cowboy hat,
showing a SPOT or two which look like
blood. The remains of rope were
Iound tied to a tree near the place.
How long the skeleton has been there,
and whose spirit once animated the
Interesting remains is at present a
mystery.
Sioux City, Iowa, Times: Farmers
In central Iowa have been unusually
Unfortunate this year, as they have
crib after CRIB OF cheap corn and no
hogs to feed 1t to. Cholera has played
havoc among the swine herds and
there are very few farmers In this dis.
tTict who have not suffered from tho
plague TO greater or lees extent. Some
have lost every hog on their farms and
1thers have managed to cave few,
and hasty trip through that section
would convince any one but " consti
.utional bear that the Inst fl sal re.
port, showing O loss OF 1000, 900 hogs
in Iowa, was approximately correct
and especially true II other parts Of
The slste have suffered In like proper.
lion to the central. The trade gene.
rally lie rebelling against the bslief that
there is shortage of hogs in the coun.
Try, but 1t 10 a matter oil fact that re-
ports from Nebraska, Missouri, ILL.,
nois and ether hog producing statee
Indicate that cholera has made al
most as great threads on the hog crop
10 In Iowa.
Stock Growers journal: Previous TO
The late November blizzard cattle men
In Montana were coDgrstulating
themselves that their herds were In
better condition for the seasun OF the
year than they had been in long
lime. The unprecedentedly long per.
.od Of mild tall weather had kept pas.
iurage good, and the cattle were in
1ncommonly fine frsh TO enter upon
The harsh northwestern winter. The
beef raising interests OF Montana are
very large, tho number nt range cattle
DeinR not less than 654, AVA. valued at
sg.969,4 74. In the northern part OF tn,
nounIain state the vast ranges are not
eDnrd oil and the cattle In herds oil
hupdrecs and thousands, each benrln
The brand OF its owner, roam at large
,ver the wild pastures the winter
n. a.. IL. 4.