Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-08
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Baby Falls Into an lrrI6atins Canal
and is Drowned.
TWO FATALITIES BY sNOwsLlDRs.
Turned 10 Dfa h Caught Under
1raln--Going 10 bawati--Sugar
Beet | lanling.

A fremou's tournament Is to be held
In CheyeDnr, Wyoming, on July An.
The bodies OF the job naon brothers,
lost in the Wyoming blizz ird, have
been Recovered.
The loss Of sheep in western Wyo.
ming. curing the rrceut storm, is said
10 lave been very light,
The two-year.old son OF J. f. Muel-
Ter, prominent rnncher near Otange,
CALI ieil into an irrigbtlng canal Mon.
day aud was dfowned.
q. H. Light was fatally burned at
CHA Bend, Ayiz ma, Mondny, while
attempting to save neTsonpl effects
rem bis burning farm house.
More beet cattle have teen shippci
from GsZeile, Or, this season, than
any preceding winner. About 200 car
Iosls have gone sinoe September.
A suowSlide occurred AZ the Corinth
niue In toe SlsGau, b, g., Suuday,
AIlllng three mon anu carrying away
tho neEu Of tue Aerial trAmway rec
entity erecled there.
There are yet immense quantities o.
tnow IN the Snake River valley, Ida.
spring VIII be 60 late as to iujure crop
prospects.
David Harris died at San FrAnelsc)
Ou Monday. 1, lbs mad survived
until the 10 h ony OF May he would
have reacnuJ lu4 years, as he was
uorn in Prussia May 10, 1903.
Jack O'DAy, lhirLsea-year.old
trump, VINO claims San Diego as n,
home, slipped anu fell under train nj
RlveTside, Cal, Monday moruiug,anu
10 a result viii lose mis- right leg. The
heels crushed his right foot.
john II. Brown, one OF the proprie
tors OF hotel at Harrison Hot
Syringe, b. o., is thought to have
leTisheu IN u sliJe while out prospect
ing in the Harrison lake district.
Brown was tracked to tue Glide ~
lnaiaDs, but no further trRcs Of him
can Oe found.
Beet planting will commences In the
San Juan valley, Cal, this week, an
The acreage to lie sown will be- about
the came as last season. The pro
paid last year Tor the wedding ana Gu.
ovation OF the beels WAS Sl.l5 per acre.
THIS year contracts are being made nj
the rate OF 81 per acre.
Gus Johnson, the Bteamboa, MAJ
who dropped dead on alcoholism AT
Port Townsend, WASH, on Sunday,
the day previously had been awarded
500 by the FEDERAL court for his
bravery in essisting in keeping the
steamer City OF Pueblo from being
wrecked On Flattery Rocks tive years
ago last fail.
Or. }. II. Hawkins aud Joe Lyons OF
Douglas county, Or. hove Imported
twenty prairie chickens from eastern
Oregon and turned them loose in the
vicinity Of Drain aou Snowden. Their
effort to Introduce his iavOrlte game
pfeolated by sportsman.
Louis j. seurcy, convicted Of the
murder OF Joseph OFT, was denied
new trial by Judge Oeter of the
superior court anu was sentenced on
Monday 10 be hanfitd at San Quentin
on June 25th next. Searcy, VINO lie O
negro, killed OF for few dollars iu
money, while both were trampiBg
across tie Colorado deeeTt.
From bints dropped by officets Of
the United States cruiser Philadelphia
at San Diego, Cal, 1t IL believed that
the vessel 10 awaiting the arrival here
OF special commissioner, npPointed
by the President, who win 20 10
Hawaii to investigate the condition VI
affairs there with a view OF making q
report on the question of nnnexipg
the Islands IL the Unitei States. The
Philadelphia is 10 eail the night Of
Aprils.
Assistant City Engineer William
Penn Humphreys died at San Fran.
cisco on Tuesday morning from ~
operation performed March 10. Some
lime ago smokeT's cancer developed
Ia his throat and he decided to have
It removed. The operation wac tu,,
cessfuI, but violent fit OF coughing
brought on hemorthage which 60
weakened the patient that he was un.
able to combat the nervous strain ami
uelirium that followed.
A queer accident be'ell two men
nameu Mike Gleeson and Mike Nc
Creel'Au in Jackass gulch, xix miles
from Redding, Cal. on Saturday night.
They had taken several drinks OF
native wine aud was going 1me, feel.
ing somewhat elatcd, when they
wandered into the Te chickens of the
restraining dam OF voluntino 4
ChnpmRn's hydraulic claim. Sunds,
morning they were discovered ty
Chapman almos, up to their necks Ia
the sllcEene, anu had he not refcued
them they would soon have perished.
Laramie, Wyoming, Boomerang:
Officials OF the Union Pacifiu have rs.
turned to Omaha to Cheyenne, where
they have been Ia conference with the
tff,cials Of the Oregon SHIRT Line man.
SEGMENT. 1t was announced by one Of
the membtIs OF the party tails morniup
that the freight and passenger trstiic
arrangements between the two lines VI
railroad would conliuue Els in tbs pas,
when the Short Lac was a part OF the
Uuion Pacific system. There Is cli.
siderable reticence among the ofiiclsle
about discussing Short Line relations,
hut from what eau be learned u is
patsbt that the L Hion Pac flo Will cln.
iipuu through The Ogden gateway to
the northwest couutry.
Tho following is fro m the Preston,
Idaho, STANDARD, In relation to tht
late Idaho legislature, have much to
tRy about state pfiutiug at each sue.
Uessivs leg itlalure. The Legislature
esems 10 lave overlooked the lact tina
II could have introduced come tremen'
dCuply economical features by abolish
inc the slate, HUT IL did stmethlnl