Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-16
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Two Workmen Killed ln tho Msndo.
Cino Forest.
DROWNING OF FOUR MEN.
Caught by q Car--Jabb ID Halpin IN
His Throat--Kiilad With
Slfb.

OF San joe, Cal, Wat aCcluenta ~
drowned ct Aiviso, CAL, Tuesday
morning, while bathing. The body
was recovered sbjut tour hours later.
Antonio Fostius was ins antly
killed In the Mendocin, woods at Il Jrt
Bragg, Cal, on Tuesday, by n falliog
tree. He Intended thiu to be bis last
months worn, when he was going to
return To Portugal, his native land.
Martin Lacy, a lay MENTOR of 81.
Dominica monsstery, aged 40 years,
was accidentally drowned at Bsnicia,
CAL, Tuesday. while bathing, Two
companions heard him call for help,
but before they could reach him he
sank. The body has no! bsrn re-.
cOvereu.
Tuesday evening the ifive.yesr.old
son Of 3. IL. Wordep, proprietor OF the
Shsndon House at Ban Miguel, Cal,
built a fire in the stable. burning 40 n
$500 mstohed team, including the
stable, Implements ana stock, and
involving a loss OF about 1000. rhe
town OF Shandon narrowly escaped
destruction.
w. q. Gr0bs, q maniac, jsbbed q
hntpin down his throat at Oakland,
Cal, Tuesday. while being Examined
for insanity. L. was Thought for q
time that he had succeeded In killing
himself, for his throat ana the organ s
OF respiration were terribly mutilated.
but 1t lie now believed that he will
recover.
A hook attached to a wire cable
used in the Mend0cino forest to haul
logs with u donkey engine flew out OF
stump several days ago, carrying a
large slab with 1t, at Fort Bragg, Cal.
II struck Gustave MOttiin, a logger, on
the head, fraGturing his skull. He re-.
NAMED unconscious and died on Tues
day. He was native OF Finland.
Charles A. Rohr, teacher OF the
Mesquite district school, seven miles
west Of Phoenix, Arizona, is missing,
and probably has been drowned. 1t
was his habit to ford Salt river on
horseback from his farm on the south
ern shore TO the sehoUlhouse opposite.
The river is at flood height, anu there
can be no doubt that Rohr was swept
from his horse and drowned.
w. G. Barker OF You Bet, Nevada.
aged rs years, left his home Tuesday
afternoon to do some prospecting In
the Goodwin gravel diggiugs. He
failed to return at night. Next morn
ing = searching party went out and
found his dead body in q pool Of water
whore he had been panning out som.
dirt. He was a pioneer miner amt
leaves a family.
The dead body OF an unknow man
was found hosting on the Vol, side OF
the river opposite Freeport, Cal, Tues.
day. Apparently 1t had been in the
water about month and was that OF
man about fve feet six inches in
height. A Testament was in one OF
bis pockets, on the fiy-leaf OF which
was written "JohD Graham, May /,
1894, Mrs. Irvine Dean, Sacra msnto,
CAL" The ooroner's jury found a ver-
dict that the deceased was unknown
and came to his death by accidental
drowning.
Robert @. Leu, q switohman on the
Southern Pacific railway, met with a
serious accident, which caused the loss
OF log. An the freight train was
going from San Francisco to San Jose,
Cal, Tuesday evening, at $3.50 O'Clock,
The help engine attached to the rear
backed from the train. In getting into
place 1t struck the rear car with such
force that u damaged the car anu
cAboose. Leu was caught in the
wreck and his right leg was crush cd.
As soon as the injured man could he
sxtricAted no was taken to the hospital,
where II was found necessary to ampu-
tate the leg to save his lie.
Jefferson County (Mont.) Sentinel:
A Dispatch from Glasgow states that
stock suffered In Choteau county and
the range will be strewn with carcAsees
whom spring opens on account Of the
severe weather and unususliy deep
snow. The Home Land anu Cattle
company will run skinning wagon,
&c will probably other large outfits.
The sheepmen nave also been heavy
sufferers. Jack Russell, who has q
band OF about 8, 800, estimates his ioseee
at between 400 and 500. Another
heavy wool grower lsst 700 head In
ono night, when the sheep were In the
sheds. Most Of these were smothereo
to death by the band crowding to keep
warm. Cattle are in the brush ana
many have died from eating brush too
large to digest.
Omaha ,3tockman, April ID: Major
Woicott, travelling representative of
the stock yards, has bsen here for a
few days, after spending some time in
tho west. Around Sheridan cattIemep
report their losses considerable. but the |
death rate has not yet aseu med the
proportions OF q disaster. The late
storms played havoc with the stock |
and thin southern cattle, but cattlemen |
generally figure that present and pros.
pective prices will more than cor,pen. ,
safe them Tor their Losses thi. spring.
There Ia only one way to successfully ,
grow stock on northwestern ranges,
and that isi TO have the stock where
they can be taken caro- OF for about elk
OF eight weeks in the spring. During
the early winter and late fall months
the range Is unequalltd, but the late
storms 10 the spring prove too much
for many OF the cattle in their weak.
ened condition. The sheep men have
been hit prelty hard, but they too are
figuring on evening up matters by
getting considerably better prices this
year for their shipments.
W. p. Anderson, travelling man for
The stock yards company, whose terri.
tory covers nearly the entire range
company, came In On Saturday, anu
LETT again on Sunday for the range
country, says the Chicago Evening
Journal. He says In general the
storms have been OF long duration,