Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-09
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
MAN KILLED BY A HORSE FALLING ON HIM
For New National Park-Died Trying to
Save IA Flock OF sheep Rio Verde
Irrigation Enterprise.

There were no carloads Of wheat
shipped out OF Adams, or, during the
month of August.
\ bunch OF seven or eight skunks
three Of Them Of the hydrophobia spec
| les were killed near Cedar ranch, Ari-
IONA, one day last week
The dead body of G. Massa, an ltal-
| ian fisherman was found Monday
floating in the waters Of the bay near
| Point Ronita, Cal, ny Antoine GolesO
| He was divorced from his wife and
| leaves two children.
The claim Of the whittier Reform
| school against Los Angeles county,
cal. for $4,000 due for the mainte-
nance Of boys will bee contested ON the
ground that the school has failed to
| bring suit every six months as the law
| provides.
There are no 1sh in Crater lake. Or
| the deepest fresh water lake In the
world, and the government has decided
| to stock II with trout The nutives
used to say that the lake was bottom
| less. hut soundings have shown its
greatest depth to be 1000 feet.
Thirteen ties were found piled on
| the Southern Pacific railroad track
near Ripon, Cal. ON Saturday night
| but the obstruction was seen in time
| 10 sup Il lttlEHl Tram just before lNe
engine struck it, II was doubtless the
work of tramps.
A dead tramp was found on the track
| near Hinkley. between Barstow and
| Kramer. Cal, last Saturday morning,
probably overcome by heat. exhaustion
| and lack Of water. The coroner held
an inquest. but could obtain no clew to
his identity. He had letter in his
| pocket addressed to Mrs. l.. II .Pake,
Riverside, Cal.
Mrs. Emily Wolf OF San Francisco
was run over Tuesday morning by
| Israel Shenson . butcher. She was
taken to the hospital where 1t was
| found that her back had been serious
| ly injured. She was treated and re-
| moved to her home. Shenson was ar
rested and locked up In the city pris-
on on a charge Of battery.
Ed Cast, brakeman at Kern City
| Cal. fell under n moving train Monday
| evening while coupling cars and was
instantly killed. The train cut tn,
| body into several pieces. 1t is believed
Cast caught his foot in n frog OF
| stumbled. His father runs an engine
| for the Southern Pacific out Of Oak
land. Deceased leaves q widow living
here
Perry Pennington, who resides
| about six miles north of Eugene, Or,
and who owns Il hopyard in that vicin-
ity, met with serious accident recent
ly. He was getting down some hop
boxes from a loft. when he fell and the
box came down also and struck him on
the right side, breaking a rib and fore
| ing a splinter from 1t into his right
lung. II is a serious injury.
A. Barnett Of Santa Maria valley
| Cal, says the Sentinel has mule that
has broken the record for kicking His
black bronco mule a few days ago
changed ends and kicked eighteen feet
four inches. In one-half n second. Mr.
Barnett says the regulation distance
for mule 10 kick is fifteen feet in n
second. Therefore his mule beat the
record three feet four inches in dis
lance. and one-half second in time.
IT is learned from Phoenix, Arizona
that work will be resumed within six
ty days on the great Rio Verde irriEa-
tion enterprise, which Is to redeem
1000 acres of the finest land in the
Salt River valley of Arizona. OF the
$50 miles of canals that win constitute
the Rio Verde irrigation system, TWEEN
ty-two have been dug. and a large
| amount of work. costing altogether
5000 900. has been done at and near the
head of the system.
on Monday NJ C. X. John har'led
a lengthy letter to Sam Conlon. stem
ographer at the cOroner's office at Sar
Francisco. addressed to the coroner
in which the writer says that he sub
sists on meal day and is rapidly
starving to death. lie requests to he
buried by n Catholic priest in n Catho-
lie cemetery. because he has beer
treated kindly by the Sisters of Chari-
ty, though himself n Protestant. and
was refused aid by minister of his
faith,
| Phoenix. Arizona. Gazette: A Mex
lean named Sanchez met with u serious
accident at the depot Friday morn
ing. He was unloading n car of lum.
Der and IA large beam which was beinr
showed from the car struck him in The
side, tearing a gaping wound across
his body and breaking four ribs. 1t re-
uuired several stitches and surgica
The physician thinks the man was in
iured internally and IT is doubtful Il
he can recover
| A Topeka woman who resides Il
| Topeka, Kas., declared war few day
| ago upon a mouse which inhabited he
| cupboard. Having secured incontro
| vertible evidence that the mouse wa
in the cupboard she seized the rollinl
pin. The cupboard doors We're opene,
and the mouse jumped out. making
straight for Its assailant The woman
lost her nerve and looked around 70
something upon which to climb. Tn
stove was the only thing in sight. Sh
gave an awful scream and leaped upol
the stove, which was blazing hot. Th
soles of her feet were badly scorched
| The mouse escaped.
Mary Cramer Of San Francisco Wen
to sleep Monday evening on the mar
row gauge track at Alameda, Cal
She lay with her head resting on
third rail at that point This fact saved
the. woman from death under tn,
wheels, which passed within foot O.
her when the o'clock train came by
The train was stopped by the en-
eineer, but not until after he haC
passed her. Mrs. Cramer was found [,
be intoxicated. She was arrested by
the local police aud later released. Sh,
stated that she had started to go ',
Oakland and not feeling well on tn,
roat, had drunk some whisky from
flask and after that did not remember
what happened to her.
Beauregard Schroebel, nm ex-assem
blyman OF Calaveras county, Cal, die,
Monday morning at his home nea
Milton us the result OF injuries he re
ceived few weeks ago by falling un
der his horse in the mountains. Sew
eral weeks ago Schroebel shot !
French sheepherder during n disput
over pasture land and was out on bail
He leaves q wife and a G-year-old son
| Congressman Barlow of San Lul
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