Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-22

Charles Keany. forgot to take break
fast money with him when he went to
work In the morning, and this over
sight proved the salvation of his
fathers life.
Topeka, Kan, Dec. 2l.-several
months ago Judge C. g. Foster grant
cd an injunction to prevent the COM
missioners of Pratt county from COZ
Letting taxes from the wichita %
Western railroad. Today he received II
personal letter from the county COM
missioners setting forth that while the
poor people were compelled TO pay their
taxes or lose their property, the rail-
road was allowed to operate without
any taxes. They said that the school
teachers were compelled to take coun-
ty warrants for their pay In some dis
tricts because the railroad taxes could
not be collected on account of the in
junction. Judge Foster read the letter
and at once made an order for the re-
celver to pay taxes amounting to about
$4,000. He set aside his own restrain-
ing order for that purpose
Patrick Dillon, a well-known horse
man. came very near being suffocated
TO death Saturday night In the mud
flat betyeen Sixth and seventh streets.
Oakland, Cal, in the arm OF the harDor
leading up to Lake Merritt lie iioun-
dered about for at least an hour ana
ut the Seventh street trcstie of the
southern Pacific Railroad company.
Dillon was at the races In the after
noon and, flushed at the performance
OF a horse in which he Is Interested.
imbibed little freely. He decided late
in the afternoon to go into Oakland
instead of returning to San francisco
by the direct route from Emeryville.
He is not familiar with the city ami
II is thought that he started eastward
along Sixth street instead OF westward.
as he says was his intention, and
plunged into the mud before he knew
his danger The tide was very low mt
the dime or he would probably have
been submerged and drowned.
"A dispatch Tuesday from Los Ange-
les, Cal, says: j. IL. Perrlns, until re-
Gently president of the New England
Whip company, started from this city
today with party OF fifteen others for
"a new gold field in the Northwest Ter
ritory. The new field Is said to extend
over fifteen miles along II tributary of
the Stlckeen river. and to be even rich
or than the Klondlke country. In one
of his letters to parties here concern
ing the discovery, Dawson, after whom
Dawson City was named states that
the region gives every indication OF
abundance of gold, but that 1t is even
more inaccessible than Klondike, there
btluB Out one why " k'A llit anu tiiaN
extremely dangerous. The winters are
more severe than on the iukc-, and of
longer duration. The nearest trading
post or point of communication with
the outside world is several hundred
miles. Those who left this morning
have been quietly preparing for the trip
for five months, keeping everything
secret, as they wish to get i'm before
any excitement causes n rush. The
party will leave San Francisco tomor-
row for Victoria, b. c. BY steamer
from there they go to Fort Wrangle,
and thence overland by the Stickeen
river to their objective point. The in
formation regarding the new field has
come direct from Messrs. Ogilvie and
Dawson, Canadian officials who a year
ago made a survey of portions of the
Northwest Territory. Acting upon in
structions of these gentlemen, MIR. Per-
rim has limited his party TO sixteen.
Messrs. Ogilvie and Dawson viii join
the party at Victoria.