Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-16
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
ntere sting News Items CulIed From State and
Other Papers.
CITY OF RlCHfIELD TO HAVE A PARK.
Mysterious Disappearance of Peddler-
Large Sales of sheep In wyoming-in-
sane Man Creates a Sensation.

yesterday for Salt Lake and Butte and
intermediate points. His trip is taken
in the interest of the fair.
Cheyenne Tribune: Wanted: Six
men TO be killed ON Frontier Day dur
ing the "hold-up" of the stage coach.
A decent burial will be promised and
II they have no friends. mourners Will
be hired for the occasion.
Logan Nation: The thresher operat-
ed by Mr.. Hyrum Bunce has been rum
ming nearly % years. yet this did not
prevent its turning out nearly 800
bushels of wheat at the stacks of Dom
meek Bodrero last Friday.
Logan Journal: Fritz Brewster, n
young man of Ogden. went out hunting
Sunday afternoon with two compan-
ions. While Brewster was on one side
of a clump Of bushes and his friends
on the other, a flock of chickens flew
up; his friends fired at them and a
Elanoing shot pierced Brewster's right
eye, in all probability rendering it use
less.
st. Johns, Ariz.. Herald Mr.. A. c.
Peterson, who has just returned from
Provo, Utah, where he has been at
tending the Brigham Young Academy.
was given n reception last evening in
the Assembly hall There was dane
cling and speech-making. The party
Mems Mutual Improvement associa-
ton.
Ogden Press: The Southern Pa
cific shops bid fair to soon be the larg-
est in the intermountaln, country.
There are at present lO3 mechanics em-
plnyed regularly in the machine and
blacksmith shops alone, and the force
is TO he increased in order to operate
night shift. More work was turned
out than Season
in the history of the shops
Denver Post: At Salt Lake Justice
Sommer united in marriage Mr.. q. O.
Arnold and Miss Carrie A. Taylor. bo.h
of Glenwool Springs, Colo, Justice
McMaster ofIiciated in like manner
and made another couple happy.
They were stephen j. Adams of Teilur-
ide, Col, and Hannah Demott of Grand
Junction. Nothing ike going right to
headquarters for good goods.
Oneida County. Ida. Republican:
The wheat crops in this valley, or In
the country lying tributary to Preston,
will fall about one-fourth short of that
of last year. But the advance in price
more than makes up for this loss. The
shipments from here last year were be-
| tween 100,0 900 and 10000 bushels whlie
the estimate on the shipment for this
year can be placed at about SO,oVV
| bushels,
Rawllns, Wyo., Journal; Several
| large sales of sheep We're made at cas-,
per during the past week. The herd
| of William Kranish, numbering 4,SoO
was sold to Bucknam & Desert, tht
| price being 50 for ewes and eve lamp
| and 50 for wethers and wether lamns
! Tom Hood sold $500 head to DAME
| Ralston and Victor CazanoVa Inc price
| paid was $3.50 straight.
Laramie Boomerang; Engineer Tom
| Kcllett has made n record breaking
run from Sherman to Laramie, DIS
lance of "a miles in 50 minutes. II
was made last Saturday night VIII
the Portland fast freight. Down the
hill n mile n minute.- If the ordinary
land lubber had been on the engine
| with Eellett 1t would have shaken MN
to pieces and scared him gray headed
Laramie boomerang: Word was re
! ceived at Cheyenne yesterday that TN
dead body of tramp was found along
| side the Union Pacific railway tract
! near Marsten station, four miles ives
of Granger. The man had evident
| ly tried to jump on a moving tran
and fallen under the wheels A lette
was found on his person addressed Il
William Shafer. Cheyenne. No per
son of that name Is known 10 NV
there.
Glenwood Springs, Colo, Avalanche
Mrs. Ada Dodge, who has been EN-
ployed at Reds cafe for some time
attempted to take her life last nigh
by taking an overdose of morphine
She is not yet out of danger 1t is SAT-
that domestic trouble caused despon
dency. Her parents and husband Nv
at Antlers. Her mother was tele
graphed for and is now by the bedsid
of her daughter. Everything possibl
&c beinr done to relieve her suffering
Laramie, Wyo.. Republican,: A hu
morous occurrence happened n
Laramie depot last evening. A lad!
about to leave for the East had ar
ranged for the purchase of her ticket
the checking of her baggage, etc
and was about to commence kissing
her friends goodbye when sudddenl,
she exclaimed to a companion, "G
and have my baggage held; l can
20 on this train: ! have forgotten m,
baby" But Just at this instant
friend arrived with the little one, an
the trouble was over.
Laramie Boomerang: A strange
claiming to be a New York detectiv
created n sensation at Cheyenne yes
terday by charging young bushes
man of the city with the murder of
New York millionaire and attempting
TO arrest him. The stranger was evi
IDENTIFY demented and the young maj
submitted 10 arrest and went with hin
to the county court house, where tn
New Yorker was turned over to tn
sheriff and locked up. He appeared t.
be harmless and was released, but late
made ferocious attack upon City Pc
liceman ingalls,. when he was rear
rested and will be tried for insanity.
GIenwood Springs, Colo, Avalanche
Ivm. Harvey, the man who has beel
confined in the Garfield county jai
for horse stealing in Rio Blanc
county, was tried last week and con
victed. After receiving his sentence o
two years in the penitentiary, an
while going along the street of Meeke
in charge OF the sheriff, the prosecut
ing witness passed. Harvey broke ava