Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-06
An Engineer Killed by Having Lad
der Blown from Under Hin.
KILLED IN A HOTEL ELEVATOR.
A Cow In a Nine Shaft-inlieriled n
Fortune-Wnnted Dance hi,er
His Funeral.


acres OF the Semi.rfOpic Land ana
Water company's lands to eastern cap
itslists is working u revolution ~
Rialto, Gal Men are already at Work
preparing 1900 acres for canalgre'
Joseph Wheeler was killed by train
two miles east of Esston, Wash.,
March let. Wheeler lived near there,
and is believed to have been walking
on the track while intoxicated. He
had no relatives In the state.
Billy Rose, pugillst Of Visslin.
Cal, recently skipped the rope q. 7s7
times in iorty.ssven minutes. He
offers 10 wsgeT 500 that ne can skip
the rope faster ana for u longer period
of time than any other msn In the
country.
Bill Brown, Dave Malcolm and a
man named Wilson qusrreled al Bis
bee, A, r., recently. The two latter
chased Brown into o house, where he
locked himself in. Msioolm broke
down the door to get at him, and was
shot through the lungs and killed.
Brown was exonerated.
The little child OF MIR. and Mrs.
Cudaback OF Nogales, a. f., was
taken down with smallpox last week
AS soon ss the CiEoato was Uncovered
the family was put Into box car and
the car isolated TO make the danger OF
The disease spreading as little as posi-
Bile.
Charles J. Gamble, waiter In Van
Nuy's hotel, Los Angelica, was terribly
mangled Wednesday in an acci-
dent to freight elevator. Aiter being
crushed nj the landing where tie at
tempted to leave the elevator while IL
was In motion, be fell to the bottom OF
the shalt. His Injuries proved fatal.
Two men OF Selma, CAL, got into
n diapute over the ownership OF
choice sheep dog tho other day and
the matter was taken into the Justice
court for settlement. During the com
troversy tue dog was kept In cellar,
but In the midst OF the trial some one
stole the animal, and the case had to
be dismissed.
Smallpox ia increasing among the
Indians ON tho Giia, Arizona, says the
PhDnlx Republican, and II 10 said to
be toe most virulent attack the trlbe
has.sutfered In yeare. The Indian
preacher on his way to SacRtoD the
other day was stopped and turned
back by the Indian police. None OF
the other Indiana have tried to leRve
the reservation.
sioux City, South Dakota, Tribune.
Another snowstorm In South Dakota
has blockpded many OF tho railway
iines again which is Keeping back con.
siderable live stock. Shippers viii
hail any sign OF spring with delight.
There has never been winter In the
Dakota and Minnesota when stock
shippers have had 30 much difficulty
In getting TO market as this one.
Manley A. Fair, an engineer, was
instantly killed at the Keystone iauu-
dry at Los Angeles, Cal, "Wednesday
morning by the explosion OF steam
boiler. He was standing on lauder
when the explosion occurred, and
when the ladder was blown from
under him fell to the concrete floor,
breaking his neck. J. IL. HicAson,
proprietor, was injured about the head,
but not fatally. Other w0Tkmen by
the side OF the boiler were not injured.
Dan Club took a chew OF. tobacco
while he was engaged In scattering
squirrel poison few days ago at Ira.
Yer, Cal, and got fair dose OF poison
himself from the stufl that was on his
hands. He thought nothing OF the
great thirst that immediately came
upon him, but as soon ss he had taken
n drink he knew there was more in the
chew than hs he'd bargained for. I'M
mediate nntidotee brought him out
all right, except u stifinese of the
Joints.
A short time before the death OF Il.
J. HoughtOn, the old gentleman who
died rear TUE river, CAL, a few weeks
ago, he requested II there was any.
thing left OF his possessions after the
funeral expenses were paid, that 1t be
expended In giving dance In his
memory. His matters have besn settled
ana there In u balance, and la Accord
Rnce with his request u dance Will be
given ON Friday night mex; where thu
old gentleman lived, OF what is known
locally az Houghton hall.
The suit OF David Castro against the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railway company has been transferred
TO San Francisco Tor trial from the
superior court Of San Joaquin county,
Cal. Castro Is suing to recover SO, 0OO
damages for personal injuries while IN
the company's employ. While n car
was stopped on bridge at night
Castro stepped out oil the car To help
fellow workman, ana not knowing the
car was on bridge, stepped of ana
received tall TO the river bsu iorty
feet below,
Cheyenne, Wyoming, Tribune:
Again hse Dams @orlune smiled
kindly upon poor person and Il
young wOmSn BuddEnly finds herself
wealthy. Mics stella Bufien burger,
recently waitress at the Inter Ocean
hotel, received "a telegram from her
uncle In Cincinnati stating that by
the death OF her grandmother in Ger.
many Miss BuftenbergeT has Inherited
an immense Iortane. Toe telegram
did not state the amount, nut Miss
BuRenbergsr was OF the opinion that
Ii was large, as her grandmother YVES
one OF the weslthiest women In Ger
many. The lucky girl lefG at once Tor
Cincinnati where she will make
arrangements TO 10 to Germany and
there take possession OF her legacy.
E. Il. Mccullough and Dunca
Davis were hunting birds anu Jack.
rabbitn down through the lava beds
near Ofoville, Cal, says the Oroville
Register, and when near the OLD
Chinese town they heard the tinhls
OF bell from beneath their feet.
slartled for eeconu, they quickly
came to the cOnciusion that COW had