Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A LabOr8r Killed by q BLOW in The
hbdCmal.
A FINE FARM SOLD CHEAP.
Opposed 10 Reducing Car Farts-liit
With huokot aud hill d.
Long Irrigation taoal

The friends Di Mrs. Lucinda Ben.
nett OF Oroville, Cal, c0ngregRted
"Wednesday evening a. the parsonage
OF the Methodist Episcopal church to
celebrate her lG0b birthday. She was
bora In Orii, N. ", aud wss lone lof g
family o, fliteou children. She bt came
the mother Of thirteen children, only
two Of whom are living.
The first real fold work on tho
Golden irrigation ditch in western
Nebraska has Gu begun. A party d
thirteen men under the pers onal 6u.
pervision OF ID maid Campoei }, an iffi-
cation engineer Of Denver, has left
Lone Pine Tor Snake river to survey
the route OF the proposed ditch. This
10 one oi the largest projects Of its kind
~ tue United States. rhe main canal
will be $50 miles long and it's many
miles of iaierals will water at least
800, 90 0 acres.
Thomas Rsiclifl, seaman on the
ship Hiddekel, lying at BeRle street
wharf, San FranciscC, was killed
Wednesday by being knocked into
the hold OF the ship. He was going
down a ladder leading Into the hold,
and large coal bucket was being
hit RatcliI severe blow and L atczeu
him into tue hold. He wss picket W
In an unconscious condition aud dltd
in the ambulance while on the way TO
the hos pital.
At a meeting OF the board of direc-
tors OF the chambers OF commerce Ia
California, one adopted resolutions
deptecstiDg the passage OF the Dill
now pending before the legislat ure IOr
the ie iuction II street car fares In San
FfsuciBoO from to q cents. The
resolutions slate that II tie bill should
become law IL would impair the
financial standing OF all street car com.
pauiss doing business In California, and
thua throw many people out OF employ
ment anu materially reduce the wages
OF othefe,
Members OF the California legiela.
ture who signed the petition to Con.
| gresH to pass the tcalreTs' bill, now
before that body, complain that theft
signatures to tho document were OBJ
taineu by false pretepsep. Assem- bly,
man. G0ouhue circulated the uelition to
the members, a number OF whom now
claim that their sigma utes were oh.
| tninei upon the representation that the
bill was q measure to Assist the Chrla.
uan Endeavorers in procuring cheap
| transportation rates 10 SAn Francisco.
| They were indignauJ when they
learned the true purpUrt OF the petition.
| Donald Fleming, laborer at the
Union hon Works, San Francisco,
was killed Wednesday while at work
in the yard of the shipbullding firm.
He was staining near "a lnrge lathe
watching some sheet iron rai.ed ntt
the sir. A heavy iron chain stuuuc
the pieces OF iron broke and one emo
hit Fleming, pinniDg him against thr
machinery. The blow was 90 severe
that he received FERROUS Internal IN.
iurles anu fell TO the ground almuei
unconscious. The wounded man war
removed to st. Luke's hospital and
died u few minutes after reach :
there. The autopsy showed that u
number OF blood vessels in the abdo.
men were broken.
The 500 acres comprised in the Oak
Lawn larm OF the late L.. U. Shppee
was sold at public auction "wednesday,
for S73,525. Tao Oak Lawn lnrm i.
the finest IN San Joaquin county,
Cal. Tue deceased capitalist speu
| $3.50, 900 on 1t ia the heyday OF his
prosperity. 1t was the pride OF MI.
5hiDpee and here II was for twenty.
five years he lsvished money 10 tue
breeding OF fine stock. The iarm ia
located on the Cherokee Lane road,
about six miles from stockton. II has
numerous fine buildings. The roads
leading to 1t ate lined with cypress
trees, there Ia iine orchard on the
| premises, number OF ornament al
trees anu the place in general lie highly
improved.