Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEST.
An Idaho. Family Amos Wiped Gu!
by DiphIhsFla.
ROASTED A car IN THE OVEN
hufl by Rough brIk manila al
Jump from unawAY--seArciiy
Of snow In the North

California, March Oh, by swallowing
strychnine.
Charles ID. MoCauly, deputy In.
ternRl revenue inspector at Vallejo,
California, is missin', and IL IL re-
ported that his accounts are very much
mudIied.
Owing to the lack OF snow this wear,
the sswmill output OF Pal1use, w .sh.
ington, towne, ordinarily l3,UOU,000
ieet, will PROBABLY he less than 1000,
600 feet. The expense OF hauling
from the mountains will prevent ex.
iensive log boums.
Friday afternoon w. Ii. Stark, his
wiig anu lady friend, were urivIns
near San Lus ObispI, California, and
the team becoming frightened, ran
away. HiTe. stark jumped or fell
rom the carriage ana was fatally in'
juret.
Albert Smith recently fell asleep at
COuuIg, Oregor, ami failed for eigh-
teen hours TO respuni to any tH0rt8 10
awaken MIN. MIR. Smiths invOlun.
larry nap was due to nervous prostra.
tiou, says Eugene Guar. After
waking Mr.. Smith was threatened Tor
time VITA typhoid fever, but he Is
now In his usual good health.
David WhitcomO, young man liv-
Ing with his parents on Columbus
creek, near Sheridan, Wyoming, met
with death in curious manner, A
lew days ago he was cut sleigh riding
when the sleigh tipped over. A gun
which was on the seat was discharged
by accident, the shot striking young
Whiicom0 and instantly Killing MIN.
Thomas J. Burns was seriously
hurt at InRnm, Idaho, on Frluay
light, on the Oregon Snort Line. lie
WAS stealing IA ride GU the top OF
passenger coach, AVID claims the brake.
man uulled him n while he was In
the act Of descending. He caught on
he lever handle, which pierced his
body Gb.ug twelve iAches. When he
was liberated from that he saws the
brakeman kicked MIN ofi the train.
He Crawled $50 yarCs TO a house, anu
tbs county physlciRB took him in
charge.
Mrs. George A. Clark OF Pasuo,
Wash, says the News Of that place,
recently roasted her house cat in the
oven Of her cook stove while prepaT.
ing dinner. Kittie had habit
sleeping iu tue oven between meal
h0urs. and was quietly TeSosing IN
the seemingly uuiregueuted spot when
Mrs. CLARK lighted the fire preparatory
to cooking dinner. After the dinner
had been all arranged, she sat down,
awaiting the arrival OF her husband,
when she missed pussy, and 1t &C.
CURED to her that perhaps she had
closed the oven door on Kittie alter
lighting the fire. On opening the
ovon door she was Mortified to learn
she had roasted her poor cat alive.
The other morning about IL O'Clock
an accident occurred on the river
about three miles east of town, says
the Dallee, Oregon, Chronicle, result
ing in the drowning OF two indiana,
John Williams aud Jim Waters, who
were engaged In sturgeon fishing by
Jake Andrews. They, with an In-
dian boy about 8 years old, were taking
up sturgeon line, when Ia some man.
ner the boat swung In the current aud
one or more Of the hooks caught over
the gunwsle of the boat. A sturgeon
on the line pulling hard and assisted
by the current, turned the boat over
throwing all the occupants out. Toe
two indians were carried down by the
current and soon ,sucCumbed to the
chill and the whiting waters. The
boy, more fortunate, managed to secure
three oars which fiosted out of the
boat, anu with their aid reached the
shore, anu from him the particulars OF
the accident was learned. The boat
was caught short distance above
town. Jake Andrews, Tor whom the
men were working. . iIsrs reward OF
$50 for the recovery OF each OF the
Jodies.
Fremont County, Idaho, News:
Within the past two weeks almost the
entire ketshaw family consisting OF
eight children have been swept into
eterui.y by diphtheria. The eldest
daughter survived, and she also had
severe attack OF tue dreadful disease,
but 1t IL the opinion OF the doctor that
she 10 recovering anu will likely get
well. liz often occurs that entire fam.
lies are wiped out OF existence by,acc.-
dent, but seldom IS 1t the terrible ex.
perieuce OF parents to lose sewn
children in lees than two wetks by
disease, especially in n cold climate,
where there is no trouble with the
dtath.dealing ievers. Joseph keT.
shaw, the father OF the deceased, anu
the mother are now erlUusiy III ana II
is not improOsOi that one or both may
ollOw the chilIren before many days.
rnelr suffering Is piutul in thr
extreme. No one is allowed to
20 to the home to console with
mem, their children have been
taken from the house during the night
and buried without much ceremony
Hnd without mOurners to follow the
coli us, anu the prevailing storm makes
ven the well-to.JO anu comfortably
situated people feel despOuuent. AL
these things make the misery OF ths
poor parents aim ct beyond euuurapce.
rne lkershaw home is about three
miles north OF 81. AA,hOuy about hal
way between here and Chester. NJ
dipnthetiR cases outside OF the X g.
susw family have been reported.
There Is no getting away from the
fact that the western farmer must lie
dlstinctively a or wer VI good live
stock, Gays the Nebraska Farmer.
This IGct was never more plainly toiJ
than through tut experience Of the
past two or tnree years. pho lack o,
stock in the county mas maize a pref y
h,t market for ala kinda OF grain an
nay. The one phase In particular fUI
ne farmer to COnHiuer in the future H.
the building up OF The i've stock inter.
est on the ipTm is IT, permRuency. tbs
TACT that the farmer ireqnsnly has
Heen compelled TO sacuhcs "a large
Dart OF the value OF his farm ST elk l.,
times of urCuth because Oiihis Inability