Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-17
NEWS OF THE WEST.
a Throat Cutting, Probably by a
Drunken Indian.
SWALLOWED A SILVER DOLLAR.
The Cold In IoloraiU-Bnt,eii fly Phen-
cm.nl-Run 0yrr by II Train
Pe,Iiiaciiuns.


Cal, summary, and instantly killed. fhu
uil elbow did not hear the warning
siEnSls.
The condition OF Nine. Modjgska is
grest'Y improved, and all Intention Of
y Ormi & an operation for append,-
cts has been abandoned unless her
condition changes fJr TIVE wor4e. 5he is
al Lus Au. eles, Cal
Chsrlts Westley, who killed himself
al Willianue, Cal, a .ew days age, hnJ
formerly worked IN 5 ctamentO as
bach m IN. He was out OF employ
| ment enl tecsme 30 dependent that
he y eid.u to sudden impulse to take
| his lie.
n curious natural phenomenon ia
interesting scientists near Pacific
Grove, Cal, tor when no explanation
mas been found. .Dn ing the pas week
myrials of butte II a., all OF one
species, have c1ngfU. ated at MaripOsB
Grove, near Point Pin es lighthouse.
rho number Is increasing daily.
d. b. Ames, "a recent arrival from
Santa Cruz, was knocked down by
car at the Junction VI Market ana
Jones streets San Francisco, Gal, on
russiOD OF the spine ana possible in.
to ual injuriep. Tue doctors WHO at
tended him believe he ia fatally in-
Jured.
Robert +. Thomss, passenger en-.
| glueer on the Southern California and
one OF the Oldest and besl-known ell.
glneeIs running between San Diego
anu Lns Angeles. was iound dead in
his bed al the international hotel,
National City, Cal, on Friday WHEN
called for his run. The coroner's Jury
found that death was caused by heat
dise0se.
Laramie Boomerang, Feb. Is: Alex
hoir, while playing with silver
dollar this afternoon at his home on
east Grand avenue, accidentally
swallowed the piece. 1t lOdgeI In hIs
esophagus and the doctor was un4hle
TO remove it. He will be taken to
Denver tonight and 1t Is possible that
an operation will be performed at the
Union Pacific hospital tomorrow. He
Ia not able to talk anu Is suffering
some.
Pedro Margiende, an indian, was
found dead in dry gully about nine
miles from Ell Csjon, Cal, Sunday.
His throat had beeu cut the head lie.
ing almost severed from the body. His
body was discovered by an Indiau o.
the Sequan reservation known us
Pegleg. At the Inquest several ranch
ers testified that they saw MargienJe
| ON the road last Sunday with another
| Indian. Both were drunk. The pair
| appeared to be quarreling. Bio u
stains aud two empty wine bottles
| were seen on the road on the following
day. Nobody has besn found who
knows anything about Margiende's
companions, who doubtless knocked
him down and cut his throat during
| drunken row, after which he dragged
the body 10 the gully, whore It was
iOundia week later.
Never in the history OF the coast,
Gays the Seattle (Wash.) Times, has
there been, perhaps, such a scarcity OF
meats aioot az Rt the present moment,
and a panieRy feeling exists from
Mexico to British CJlumbia. Bee
cattle are out, mutton gone AMI pork
short. The Frye. Bruhn Co. prsctl.
cGlly ceased packing two weeks ago
because they were unable TO secure
supplies-s pittance OF seveuty.tive
hogs day Ia being slaughtered hut
they want 200 more, phey'vs got
| 900, 900 pounds Of dry salt sIdes, but
they are not touching them, and are
paying ceUts for all the hogs they
can get, rather than break IN ON tnis
stock that cOst them but 80 cents. The
normal condition in the market, adds
the report, Will not again be reached
before August.
Timber hsuleTs in Aspen, Colorado,
caught out In the mountains in Fri.
day afternoons storm had trying
time Of it and in one or two cases me II
came very near perishing, sBys the
GlenwOOi Syringe Avalanche. A
man by the name OF Papish was up
COnundru m Euich Tor a load OF logs
when the storm struck him. He tried
to get out with empty sleds hut fail
ing, u o. htchod bis team and starlel
them for home. The snow had diitted
the roads ull and one OF the horses,
alter plugging through the snow for a
couple VI miles lsiu down aud died.
A tdy Norton who was alec caught
up Coz undrum, was obliged to leave
his sled ANA come home with his
| horses. He passed Papish ami re-
ported his plight to ths people In
town. About 10 O'Clock ut night
two young meu etlrteu Tor MS relief.
They met him shUrt ways cut Ui
town with his hat gone, one hand
badly frozen and thoroughly chilled.
1t is said that Friday was n fearful day
10 the mountaius, tne wind whittle1
and scteeched through the ragged
peaks, whiriing down througl the
Canyons IN u perfect tempest, piiug up
tue snow, msKing the trains almost
1 npassable. Saturday night while go.
lag from Marion TO the LUMBER CAM
o, Ward Fucker, Fred Martin became
bewilItreu anu wandered I'll the r0su
Ia Duuscombe park, His Uody was
found SUNDAY morning Ir0zsu sun
He lad Travelled about three miIes aud
had one mile iuTtheT 10 20 to reach
camp. Coroner CLARK WAS notified
"a u nj once, in company with X, e..
Vuurh.e. and Jim Howe, lett for the
Uudy anu returned with It next morn
ing. DeCeBseCtn mad iust fallen neir 10
small fortune ~ Scotland.
MIR. g. i. BoswJ rth returned last
Saturday from visit to his minlna
camp about seve ty miles northeast OF
Deming on the Il CRAM river, says
the Deming, New Me&ic', Hea light.
Bss,des several specimens OF rich
CO per ore, Mr., b. brought with him q
collection OF very interesting ana rare
turiusiliss in the nature OF what woulI