Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-13
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A Elmer Falls Five Hundred Feet to
His Death.
OFFICER KILLS A CHICKEN THIEF.
Indlau Progress Ia wyom'ng-Dis
gu,ted with n Jury--Sugar
Factory Tor idaho.

was instantly killed Tuesday by ial!-
ing down the shaft OF the Ksnnr'y
nine near J ckson, Cal. He Tell 5jO
Get. How the accident occurred ,s
unknown. The deceased was MAJ
rico, his vile and two ehildren being
IN LAZY.
John McCrea.the man who attacked
Dsputy Sheriff M. T.. Fisher after
having been arrested by him week
ago al Sacrament, Cal, and who, Ia
the struggle to dieaTm Fisher, was
mot In the side, uioI Tuesday rom tue
eff cts Of HIS wound. McCreR had
been engaged in wholesale poultry
stealing.
Something OF u phenomenon is 70.
ported from American Fails, IdahD.
Farley Z. Dile OF that y ace has Two
COWS that have given birth TO trlplet
calves. One brought forth her trio ui
youngsters On Tuesday of last week
and the other about week before.
Twin caves are rare but triplets cTe
nlmost uuheaId OF.
The fourth annual wheelmen'a re-
lay ride from Los A geles to San
Diego, Cal, took place tuesday an
was highly successful. Few accidents
occurred and the message from Mayor
Snyder OF Los Angeles h Mayor
Reed OF Han Diego was delivered al
1868 in the afternoon, the ri1ers hay.
ing c. vered the distance, l9l milee, In
IL hours and 20 minutes, breaking the
record by forty-ope min utes.
Northwestern Stockman: The next
annual meeting OF the South Dakota
Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers
association will be held at Pierre COM
mencing Tuesday, June 22nd. AZ
the outlook for the sneep blu iness is
everywhere Frightening, "A large at
tendance 10 expected and every hing
indicates that the meeting will be one
Of more than usual interest aud value
business.
Tho Buffalo Gap, s. d., Republican
says thai rom talk with Lum er0us
catllemen IN that vicinity 1t L. thought
the per cent OF loss In stock will not
be very large, although most everyone
lost some. Who're the pastures had
plenty OF iced the stock is coming out
in good shape, but those on the outside
where the feed was short, the stock
looks thin and 10 weak. Generally
speaking, the cattle are thinner and
weaker this spring than for good
many years.
Mr.. James Jennings, formerly secre-
tary OF the Utah Sugar company, and
Ijabo parties are Interested in o 3 600
ere tract OF land near Boise, Idaho,
says the Lehi Banner. They have
built large canal about forty miles
tah al 1T
water TOR the land. They think 1t
will be an excellent district Tor raising
sugar beets Gs they say the sotl is suit.
| able and the season 10 about two
weeks ahead Of us. They intend ex.
per menting on large scale with the
beets this year anu have received a
shipment OF seed from here. If the
experiments are successful they have
the ASSURANCE OF factory being built
there. Field Supt. Austin purchased
| drill for the m In Salt Lake and they
have written asking him to 20 up for n
few days and give the farmers some
Instructions. We shall watch with
interest the endeavors OF our neigh
bofs on the north.
A sensation was created at Green
| River, Wyoming, Tuesday by the
county attorney requesting the court to
nolle prose qui all but three of the
criminal cases on the docket Of the
Sweetwater district court for the
present term, says the Laramie
| Boomerang. The county attorneys
sction grew out of the acquittal OF Dan
MediIl, who was charged with bur
giary and also grand larceny. The
case in the opinion OF the county at.
I far xua lat lnff "a
when a verdict OF acqulttal was rem.
dered he scored the jury In emphatic
terms. Tuesday morning he filed an
affidavit in the case OF Jack Demar,
charged with burglary and also grand
larceny. Curt Dolly, charged with
burglary; Quong Lee, charged with
receiving stolen goods, and John
| Kleimina, charged with assault with
intent to kill, stating that there was
| sufficient evidence In each case TO
warrant conviction, but that no con.
victiOn could be secured with The
present jury. He asked leave to enter
n nolle prose in eaon Gaze. The court
| refused to allow the plea to be entered
In the case OF Kieimina.
Up to the present time, says the
Lander MOu ntninesr, the indisns on
the reservation have sown 1875, 900
pounds OF grain. anu 1t 10 expected that
they will cow nearly as much more
before the seeding season is over, The
department Is not giving the Indians
their seed this year, merely loaning IL
to them until their crop Is harvested
when the seed will be paid back to the
government. The Wind River board.
ing school has in large quantity Of
grain and are gardening on an exten.
sive sosle. They have out 1900
cabbage plants, AMI Will put out sever.
al thousand more. Superintendent
Campbell informs US that the United
States agricultural department will
furnish him quantity OF sugar beet
seed, and IL 10 his Intention to give
the raising OF sugar beets o fair test
on the school farm this year, and H.
successful will make a much larger
test next year, and also try and iu
uuce the Indians to do likewise. While
at the agency last week We had the
pleasure OF being shown through
the Indian school rooms and the Off &c
OF the Indian Guide. The school work
done by the Indian children wasa rev.
elstion to us. We we're shown work
done by Indian children OF the ages Of
too years, which for nestness and
correctness Will compare fsvorably
with the work OF any school children
OF the same age. We anticipsted
great pleasure In being show through