Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-24
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A Horseman Drops Into a hysttrl-
GUS WslI.
DROWNED IN THE COLORADO.
One Hundred Acres of Wheat Burn d
Kill, d In a Hine-J mprd ffom
a railroad Bridge.

Wy cave III tue FTte DliNeE tuiue u
Aspen, Colo, Friday evening. A.
derson was about 81 years oil age and
u Swede.
The long contest between the llhu
slate land board and the PeOple'e
Ca al company In Ihaho has b. on
.ettlet l favor OF the canal compsny.
ihe amount OF land involved wac
%, 600 acres, which came unuer the
canal company's ditch.
The FIRST grain fire of the season oc.
cured near Cisuston, GAL. on the Vai.
ley Roau, Friday afternoon. Over 100
acres OF summer failow wheat belong
lag to Harry Cayii was burned.
There was no insurance. the county
-oad savel large acreage from de.
structiou.
Rocky Mountain Husbaudmst:
Never In the history OF sheep hus
bandry in Montana has the country
cen bleesed with better lsmbin.
sea- on. Grass came early aDh the
weather has been dry ana sunny and
Tree from raw winds. 1t has not been
weather calculated to promote gooG
growth OF grnse, but 1t has been f1rs,-
class for lambing and the bsst possible
results are being obtained.
Evanston. Wyoming, News r. gis-
ter: The semi-annusl conference OF the
members Of the Church OF Jesus Christ
Of LAtter.uay Saints of this district
was held In Evanston last Sunday.
Both afternoon and evening services
were attended by large congregations
| and there were great many visitots
from Randolph, Woodruff and otner
place.. James Brown was sustained
| No Bishop anu Thomas Parkinson anu
John 7. Whittlc as fret anu second
| counselofs. The Dresent tfiicors o
The various Chuch sIcieties were also
,usiained. ULu9al interest was evincsd
L the conference and much good re.
| sul,td.
The body Of w. q. O'Brien, a mine
owner OF Gluason, California, the
,cene OF wonderful gold strises, who
left that pace Jour days ago for Yuma,
was discovered Wednesday at Speese's
old stage camp on the ella river,
near Antelope station, anu about forty
miles from Yuma. The coroner's jury
wac summoned anu 1t decided that
O'BrIen eau to his death from un-
known causes. HIS had csmped for
the night at the place where the body
was found, and the condition of the
camp Indicated that he has prepared
his evening meal, led his animals nuu
lay down to rest. Next morning HE
bufros were found by men wondering
In seach OF something 10 eat.
Ramon Rodriguez OF the Rsal Dol
Castillo, Lower California, foil dow ~
u well at San Diego, Cal, last Satut
1 a n y Qft IA w mi In hor t,an
is not ye. quite able to understand
how he escaped with his life. He was
in Las Cruces cany on, riding In the
vicinity Of an old mine, where vel /
had been sunk years ago and which
had been completely hidden with
brush and underground. Both horse
and rider were precipitated fully eigh.
teen feet into the water below, anu 1t
was only by means of a pipe, which
remained standing In the we'll, that
Rodriguez succeeded In climbing out.
He came TO the surface not in the
least injured. There was no hope OF
recovering the horse anu 1t was killed.
John Noonsn, who lives ut West
Oakland, CAL, leaptd between the
ties of the Alice street bridge into the
estuary, Friday,to avoid an incoming
train. He aimed to strike the water
and take chances upon being able to
| get to shore, but his calculations were
poor, and instead he struck upon s1me
legs being fioated along upon raft
and sustained fracture of the skull,
He slipped into the water anu mud,
but was pulled out by men on the
barge before he was drowned. Naonan
had been drinking and his senses
| ad N h n haan dnllad 10
trudging alone on the bridge when he
suddenly became aware that an en-.
CINE was approaching directly behind
him. By little careful climbing or
even smart run ho might have
avoided the leap he took. But he
acted upon frat impulse and jumped
into the bay, the engine whiszing by
over his head ss he shot downward,
The Idaho Falls Times says: w. J.
MoGill, youg man % years OF age.
whose father has leased and 10 WORK .
ing the Briggs ramon was killed Tues.
day while engaged In blowing with a
sulky plow and four horses. How the
accident happened NO one knows, as
there were no witnesses to 1t. The body
when found was impaled upon the
point OF the pillow, which had struck
him In the breast under the left arm
and penetrated the body at least ak
inches, making o terrible wound
which reached to the heart itself
Death must have been instanta aous.
Upon examining the ground It seemed
probable thai the unfortunate man in
turning . corner had through some
cause been thrown from the seat di.
rectly In front OF the pillow, which must
have been out OF the ground in max
Ing the turn. The pillow was directly
undea the scat and evidently had been
| thrown forward. After he had fallen
the team had travelled about fifty
yards and stopped.
A special from Yuma, Cal, says
that Calvin dc Turk arrived at Han.
ion's ranch Friday aud reported the
drowning OF his partner, William J,
Trebsrlhen, with whom he left Yuma
six weeks ago for pleasure trip down
the Colorado. They lett in email /
boat and followed the course of BIZ
river until the Hardy was reached, up
which they went TO Hot Springs.
where they spent month. returning
by Padrone slough, q cutoff from the
Colorado. Twehty-hve miles from
Yuma the banks are high aud narr ow
and the current go swift as to be i'm.
passablo In n skiff. Trebarthen was
stan ding up In the boat attempting to
pull 1t up stream by means OF bushes
growing along the bank and fell oves.