Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-19
NEWS OF THE WEST.
TTO.Yoar.0ld Baby Drowned in an
IFFigating Ditch,
BABY's FATAL FALL our OF BED.
Plucky Boy Stops Runaway Murler
0yir Woman Condition OF
Montana stock.

A severe shock OF earthquake wa
felt in Ukiab. Cal, at IL O'Clock Tues.
day night. The vibrations were from
hecOnds.
At San Diego, on Tuesday, Nicholas
CaTreellO anu Juan Garcia quarreieI
over the affections OF a young woman.
| COrreello stabbed and killed Gafciu,
aud escaped u the hills.
Harriet Kribbs, q four.monlhs.old
baby, died Tuesday, at OaEland, Cul.,
rom Injuries Received from fail from
bed. The accident occurred Sslut-
DAY morning, anu while the baby
seemed to be suffering nothing serious
was Anticipated.
The California legislature has passed
proposed constitutional amendment
| providing for home rule for counties.
IL provides that counties may adopt
charters for their government IN
which salaries may be fixed anu un.
der which elections may be held.
The two.year.old daughter Of II. q.
Park, a prominent resident OF Baker6.
| feld, Cal, was drowned In an iIrigat-
ing often Tuesday afternoon. The
| child was playing with her brother, u
few years older than herself, and fell
into the ditcb, cODtaining fifteen inches
of water, and was drowned. She was
not discovered until life was extinct.
Rallord Ross, student at the Oak.
land, California, bish school, made u
| plucky and successful attempt TO atop
q runaway on Tuesday, on crowded
thUrOughiafe. The horse, which hnu
broken ite hitching straps, ran down
The street at hvoly gait, dragging
| light cart. Ross leaped into the cart
alter sprint and secured the liues,
reigning down the horse before it had
| proceeded much further.
Montsua Stock Growers Journal:
| The last three or four weeks OF winter
are generally the cause OF anx ETY. T.
stlckmen, anu the conditions pre-.
| vRlling at the present time are no ex.
| cepti)D to the rule. While no live
stock Losses Of any consequence arc
reported up to date tee situation 10 such
as 10 cause apprehension should
severe storm occur In this sectiou Of
| Montana. The winter has not been
what would be called severe one,
| but since the middle OF January, when
" uOkhh Nhls IhAAiuu Vi Nuo EhDRt,
! 1t has been continuous. Much snow
has fallen but 1t has not crusteu to any
degree, 80 that feeding has not been
lnterierred with to any great extent.
On the ranges OF Montana adjoining
Dakota and Wyoming there is now
lear OF come losses Ne the extreme
weather and Unprecedented falls OF
snow have bees felt there. OItle
| ranges OF the Yellowstone, lower
| Powder river. Tongue river ,and the
Musselshell the conditions during the
| winter hive at no time been serious,
but the long period OF low Temperature
IL naturally reducing the condition Of
| cattle from the excellent shape they
were in at tho beginning OF January.
While no losses are reported, there is q
ceiling OF uneasiness whioh Is bred no
bOubt, by the reports OF loss which
come from the adjoining ranges In
Dakota anu Wyoming.
The Omaha Bee ssys thvt last sea.
ron $50, 900 bead OF sheep were sheared
at and around Casper, Wyoming, and
1t is estimated that 100000 will be
sheared in the same territory this year.
The shesting pOinte are Casper, WITH
iour pens; Freeland, Lost CABIN, Bal
ger, Casper Greek and WoltOn. VOL.
ton Is the most important outside
point. These pens are sixly-five miles
northwest o Casper. At this point
the Elkhorn road has located pens aud
piping works and constructed reser.
voir AMI the Wolton COmmerclal CLUB
has put in a general store. Kenneth
Mcdonald, Just In from the ranch,
report sheepln the best condition Tor
years and says he never saw sheep in
Australia or South America winter
| better than the sheep In this vicinity
has the past season. Thers are not
many weIhers lett In the country,
| sheep raisers having come to the con.
| clusion that ii was more profitable to
dispose OF range stock than to run
them. A stock company Ia here on
the ground ready TO put in cam
shearing plant. The railway is build.
Ing large ad ition to its already large
wool house. When this is completed
Casper will huve the largest wool
house in the West. From the letters
received 1t is believed u great many
wool buyers will be on hand ana that
our sheep men Will be able to dispose
OF their clip as soon as sheared. One
wool grower has been offered 7l5
cents Tor his wool as against cents
lhbt ytbE. are
anxious to advance cents. Que COM
mission house advanced 7 cents yester-
day and guaranteed no withdrawal.
This is tue larg eat advance ever made
IN the same terms. These two offers
MITIGATE that wool will be worth 10
the producer from l to 9 cepts
more than last year. Wednesday,
| March II, the wool growers OF Ger.
trail Wyoming meet at Casper In con-
veDtion to establish the price to be
| paid tor shearlng and to appoint scsb
inspector. SheariDg will start April
at Lost Cabin, ana at Casper about
Anil 10. Tine prospects OF tariff
have heen felt there already. No less
| than ten eastern men are there trying
70 buy stock ever. They are Offering
| So so per heat, delivered alter shear
iug. Tnis is 75 cents more head Than
| the same class OF sheep brought this
| time last year. 1t 10 believed that II
the tariff bill passes 100000 head OF
| sheep will be sneared at Casper next
yesr, Ms there 10 no business 20 profit.
| able to toe man Of small means, and
from the number OF people there want
ing to buy sheep 1t IoOks az II every.
| body wanted to get into tho business.
All the hOteia are crowded with
| quests, and the Fred }. Klesel Grocery
company lie about TO Opeu q new gen.
| erbl store. Casper hgs the AppeRra ace