Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-25
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Twenty Months Old Baby Poisoned
by a RaltleSnake.
KILLED BY A CAVE In A MINE
Caught Under Railway Trains-Ap.
pointing Delegate TO tbs Trans
mis- ,isslppl Congress.


OF Whatcom county, WASH, cut an
average Of 2, 900, 900 shingles per day.
A. w. Shearer Of Steamboat, JACK.
son county, Or, broke his arm the
other day while pulling tooth for q
co mpanioD.
The Port Ludlow, Wash., sawmill,
which has been shut down ever since
1890, will start up again about June
l5iD. q he mill will give employment
to about $50 men.
Reports have been received OF a
serious mininp disaster at Lundy, Cal,
on Saturday. o ily mea er particulars
could be obtained. One man was
killed and two others fatally Injured.
I. l.. Csrothers OF Ukiah, CAL, has
been appointed by the board OF super
vlsors as delegate from that county to
the Transmississippi commercial con.
gress, which convenee at Salt Lake
CITY on July 14th.
Hugh Carroll, secretary OF the Pop.
ullst committee Of that county, was
killed by Great Northern passenger
train Monday afternoon. Some spec
tators say he threw himself In front OF
the engiue. and others think he fell
accidentally.
Alfred FreeI, convicted ct Mountain
Home, Idaho, for the murder OF John
kensler, and who secured a new trial
because the Indictment did not SUITS
where the crime was committed, was
convicted a second time on Monday,
this verdict being murder In the sec.
ond degree. First degrees was the
former verdict. Mrs. Kensler, in
whose case verdict OF murder In the
second degree was set aside for the
same reason as in Freel's case, 10 now
having her second trial.
Two masked msn entered an Oak.
land, CAL, saloon Saturday night and
made an effort to rob the place. Six
men were In the saloon at the time
and all were compelled to hold their
hands high above their eRds while
the robbers made hasty examination
OF tho bsrroom in quest of money.
The saloonkeeper made an effort to
reach staircase when one of the men
bred shot at him. The bullet few
wide OF the marx and In the con-
fusion that followed the robbers broke
for the door and made good their
escape.
The Boise, Idaho, Statesman says
the little daughter OF Matt McGilliok
OF Tammany, four miles from Lewis
ton, Idaho, was severely bitten by a
rattltsnske Saturday. This cnild
picked up the venomUus reptile while
playing 10 the yard. The snake sent
It's fangs into the chilu's hand betw cen
the thumb ana fore finger and then
coiled around the arm as far ms the
shoulder. The mother, attracted by
the screams Of PAIN Iom the baby ran
and tore the snake from it's victim,
The child's life was saved. The baby
10 20 months old. 1t was badly pol
soned, but the treatment acted prompt
ly.
Shortly before 8 O'Clock Saturday
morning an engine drawing Two
empty passenger coaches struck and
killed q tramp on q railroad crossing
near Elk Grove, Cal. The engineer
In charge Of the locometive told
Coroner Clark that as the train ar
preached the crossing he saw four or
i've men standing near the railroad
track. A few seconds before the train
reached the crossing one Of the men
stepped to the middle OF the track md
stood there, facing the fast-approach.
ing engine, which had its bell clang-
ing and whistle screeching. The man
made no effort to get out OF the way
and the train struck him ant cut hin,
to pieces. There was nothing about
his person to indicate who he was or
where he came from.
A fatal accident occurred Saturday
at the big Iron Mountain niue, ow NED
by the Mountain Copper company and
situated about fourteen miles north.
wet OF Rsduing, Cal, which might
have resulted in the death of scores OF
men. Asst is, one life has been called
to pay the forfeit for negligence.
Shortly after z O'Clock In the morning
q large cave.in occurred, precipitatipp
q large amount,ot the overhead ore into
the working tunnels where about sky
men were employed, burying i've OF
the unfortunate miners who were
working beneath stope. The fifty.
Ave men wers further fortunate in
being able to make their escape to the
surface by other passages. Upou
reaching the sur ace the men who
thus luckily effected their escape
at once set 10 work with PICK and
shovelto extricate their buried friends.
Alter about four hours OF hard work
the searchers broke through the debris
and exhumed their comtades from the
living tomb. All i've were found to
be seriously Injured, aud were a. once
taken on q special train to the hotp tai
of the Mountain Copper company Al
Keswick, where the company has It's
smslters. Before reaching the hospital,
however. the most SERIOUSLY hurt
miner, named Martin Sanders, ex-
pired. He was badly crushed by the
falling rock, and hia bouy was severe.
ly lacersted. II. X. Tonkins, another
victim, was also patty injured, hie
wounds being so severe as perhaps 10
necesaitste the amputation OF the