Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-13
Ne WIS OF THE WEST.
Two Lien Cramp While Bathing, and
Are Drowned.
NAN DROWNED IN A SMALL TUB
Killed by Stumbling ilorse--Bnby
Drowned In a Ditch---Nsw Gas Dis.
Coyery -iluh,liileri tome East.

The 16.nonths.old daughter OF w I.
| b. Rice. Who Iesiues twenty-five miles
east VI Visalio. CAL, was drowned In u
ditch Saturday afternoon.
Herbert Hyde. the sixleen.ysar.old
| boy wno shot himself in The hesu Fri
uey afternoon. died shortly after mid
night, at San Jose, Cal. The coroneI's
| jury was unable TO determine wbe,l er
the shot was accidental or Intentional.
he relatives Insist centennial.
q. A. Beach rhot himself dead IN
| his room III the Lancaster hDtei, in
OasGair, Cal, Saturday morning.
| He lott no explanation OF the deed.
! The deceased bad lived in the tow
about three months and YVES unable
to obtain work. He was without
money.
| Frederick Sleinpan, mn aged Go T.
! mon who resided near Exeter, Cal,
| died tuijenIy on June "a anu IL is
now believed that lie was poisoned.
| rho coroner Intends to exBums the
body and have the stomach examined
| 10y ynemists. The deceased lived with
his wife, whe he married last year.
A Meth d. . ancampmeut opens In
| Arroyo Graz ie, Cal, July 24.h, to
continue twenty days. n large tab.
| ernaoie 10 to be dedicated August lat,
the services 10 be conducted by Pfesi
| dent Waite OF tho Uuivcrslty of Syuth-
ern California and number u other
| prominent lecturers from all parts OF
the State.
The school csnsus of California
l uI,n oh
In the stale, an increaAe OF 10 l79 over
1896. San Ffancisco has "A, $40 OF this
number, while l. engeiei comes
'ext In the counties OF the state with
| 40,2S4 The smallest county on the
iist is Alpine, with SO children OF
school age.
Jesse Vann and Edward Anderson,
two young men from Westport, Mem
docipo county, CAL, were urowndd in
LELAND pond Saturday morning. They
we've swimming, and 1t is supposed
one. was taken with cramps and his
| C mpanion going to the rescue, both
| pefisheu. Cries o. distress vera heard
by A. z. Heartily, but when he reached
the poni both men had gone down for
the last time,
| Mre. Mcrgaret Miller, m other OF
Jotquin Miller, the "Poet of the
Sierra" WIS stncken with paralysis
en- Wednesday last, and lies 1t her
cabin hoUie, Ia tho foothills scar Fruit
| vale, CAL, very SICK woman. Des.
pite the fact thar ehe lie 81 yesrs old,
and thnt che lives in ruue hut,
which is devoid CT the commonest
| comforts, her condition has improved
| greatly since eho becsmc ilI, and IL is
| eli h1 srtl
George Spfsckmann, blacksmith,
"a ycars old, met peculiar death
Saturday evening, at Stockton, Gal.
The body was found at IL O'Clock al
night. The blacksmith was subiect to
fits, and last evening, after work, he
| went 10 wash his face aud hands In
the slick Tub. BE is supposed 10 have
been taken with fit anu inilen heR
first into the tub. Ee was found In
that petition, having been grow ned
by the small amount Of water ID the
| tub.
News from Carson, New, says that
| city 10 excited over the discovery OF a
new gas which Is being tested at Evan
| Williams's residence. Wood is con.
verted into d spec CO OF chnfcopl.
Wafer Ia dropped on this coal aud then
it lie lighted. 1t has been used In
lamps and stoves with success, and 1t
10 also used 10 bicy Gle lamps. A piece
| OF the substance as big as q pea will
burn live hours, and Ave cents worth
| will last thirty-six bours. Tue fiame
IL az bright as an eleotric light, but 1t
Is soft and has no shadow. Toe gas Is
not deadly and Is non-ex plosive.
Evan Williams says plant for the
In hiatt mi
be erected, and gas bicycle lamps will
be placed on the market.
Laramie. Wyoming, Boomerang,
July 10: Two cars containing thirteen
buffalo, ten deer and eight antelope,
destined Tor the park ON private
estate In suburb Of an Atlantic sea-
board city, havs just gone east. w.
B. Adams, OF the Snake river, Idaho,
Ia the consig nee. The deer and ante.
lope came from Idaho. Mr.. ADAMS
has spent several weeks preparing
them for shipment by feeding them on
hay and oats, but in spite OF all his
precautions one deer and one antelope
have already died ON the journey from
the effects OF the change from grass TO
dry feed, anu alto from the effects o
the change to . lower sltitude. Noun.
tain deer always seek high altitude
during the summer months and they
cannot stand the change. Mr.. Adams
has been twelve days on the road. the
delay being caused entirely by the
buffalo. The herd OF buffalo, which
was picked up at Salt Lake, consists |
OF two old bulls, one COW and ten
yearlings. The buffalo are domestic. |
ated, but they nsu great dinicu iiy IN
leauing them into the Ger.
Niles Margaret, McMullen OF Oak.
land, GAL, lett two weeks ago to spend |
vacation in the hills bsck OF Ffuit.
vale. A few days ago, jus, about the |
time that she was planning 10 return |
to the city, chs tosE a horseback ride |
with Miss Alden, Also OF Oakland,
and suffered shock from Iufch |
which the apimal gave that has since |
cauted her death. Mics McMullen |
was riding slowly when the horse |
plunged beneath her, doubtless. as u re.
suit OF a stumble, anu ali hut threw |
her from the SADDLE. She regaineu |
her equilibrium without difficulty,
however, and thought little OF the |
matter until latter In the day, when
she noticed the pieset ce Of n strange
pain in her back. In returning fron |
The ride che was once more uneeateJ.
and this time fell to the ground, bui |
the doctors who attended Ber cay that