Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-06
4 California Church Robbed Of lis
Sacramento Service.
SIX MONTHS FOR A BICYCLE THIEF.
A Los Angeles Powtr Plant similar to
but Small Than the Ogden
Enterprise.

A scheme 10 said to be on foot TO
have the state capital of Washington
moved from Olympia 60 point about
half way between Seattle and Tacoma.
Omaha Stockman, Jan. A..--Joseph
Beer Of Ogden, Utah, was at the yarde,
having BROUGHT In five cars Of range
cattle. NJ. X. Parsons, a well known
patron of this market, had two cars Of
cattle mere from Salt Lake City.
An important trial OF the rural free.
mail delivery system is about to be
made at Campbell, in Santa Clara
county, Cal, by the postal depur me mt
OF the United Slater. The district
will incluue about Blk square miller,
thickIy settled with small orchardists.
Hugo Won Guflenbnrgeu, who claims
TO be u Russian army officer, was sen.
fenced Thursday afternoon last to serve
1871 days In the Los Angeles, Cal, city
jai on conviction OF stealing a
bicycle. Some time ago he was a
trusted emplOye Of the Terminal rail-
way. This is not his fret ofiense.
On January 8 an accident occurred
at Oakland, Cal, Sunday, costiug the
life OF George Combers. He found
that ne was seated In ths wrong train
AMI tried to retain the depot piatfoi nj
at once. He slipped and fell as he
reached the bottom step of the platform
and the wheels passed over his legs.
Rsnchmen throughout Chilcotin,
Cariboo and the vicinity OF Ashcroft,
b, c., unite in eaying that the loss Of
cattle this season will be very large.
Cold weather came on unexpectedly
and found even those lucky ones who
have feed sufficient under ordinary
circumstances unprepared for 1t and
their herds in the hills scattered and
hard to get together.
The communion service of Sacred
Heart church, at Oakland, CAL, was
stolen on Sunday night. They stripped
the tabernacle on the altar of all its
vessels and carried the saie which
contained most of tho service to a con-
venient point near the church, where
they blew it up. The work was done
by experts, for they opened the taber-
nucle with skeleton keys without even
marking the paint, and their operations
on the safe were deity performed.
They disturbed no one and the crime
was not discovered until next mora
Ing.
James Nichols, deputy sheriff OF
Leadville, during the troublOus times
In the history of that camp, and later
sheriff OF Cochise county, A. T., was
found dead in bed at Prescott on Sun.
day morning. He had been engaged
in mining at Chapparal for come time,
and cape to Prescott on New Years
day for medical lattention. His illness
..l< "A d.
hie ply sician called Sunday morning
he found Nichols dead. He was
wounded several times during his
I'll cial career, one wound through his
lungs giving special trouble. Nichols
had wealthy relatives in Kauess and
Massachusetts.
One Of the most important meetings
ever held in Fresno, Cal, was that Of
The chamber OF commerce, Hundred
Thousand club, vineyardisis, raisin
packers and representatives OF grange
Organizations Of the county for the pur-
pose OF memoris!izlng Congress to i'm
pose tariff OF 3 cents pound on all
grape prouucts, held on Saturday
evening. II was said that during the
past year or two over 10000 acres OF
vines have been uprOoted because OF
Improbable returns. AT the meeting
1t wus decided to wire Senator White
Perkins and CONGRESSMAN Bowers, re.
guss.ing that every effort be made In
behalf OF Scent tariff.
An item from Rock Springs, Wyom.
ing, eaye: John Hennessy, an EN-.
ploye OF Fiockmaster Edwards, has re.
turned from Edwards ranch In Routt
county and reports that the trouble
between the eheep and cattle raisers ia
apparently over. Mr.. Hennesey saw
iorty.seven mounted and well.armeu
cattlemen from the Snake river coun-
try ride up and instruct Mr.. Edwards'
foreman to move his sheep across the
river, but beyond this no threats were
made. They also instructed Frank
Woodman TO move his sheep into
Utah. They then rode away aud have
not been seen since. 1t Is believed by
the sheepmen that the Routt county
csttlemen have been trying the effect
OF a grand LiuG Th.ch the sheepmea
will call.
Work upon she most important cleo
trical engineering scheme In Califor-
his, outside of Folsom, began on Mon
day at Azusn, Cal. 1t Is for The harness.
ing OF turbulent mou ntain streon. in
San Gabriel canyon, northwest OF Po-
mona valley, TO furnish electrical
power for use in propelling street cars,
running fRctories,and raising elevators
in Los Angeles city. Engineers have
been making surveys for this immense
work for over year, and q stock
company OF San Francisco, Los Ange-
les, Sacramento ana San Jose capital-
lists, has been formed Tor prosecuting
the work, with u capital OF $500, 900.
Contracts for sSU0, 1000 worth OF work
on this electrical scheme have already
been let, anu more will be by March
lst. The contracts call for compile
lion Of the vast work by April l, 1898.
1t is found that by tunneling through
rock and building CONDUIT for water
six miles long the San Gabriel canyon
stream may be run over immense tur-
bihe wheels that will create $500
h0rse power. These wheels will In
turn run dynamos which will send the
electric current along wires twenty.
four miles TO where 1t Ia reckoneu
acme $500 horse power may be be hal
Tor running street cars and iaciorlee.
Tue electrical plant at Folsom will be
the model for the San Gabriel electri.