The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-09
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A cas- of wife-beating is reported at
Evanston by the Press.

A case of wife-beating is ireported at
Evanston by the Press.
Fred PLACER, son Of Fred PLACER. a
teamster, fell from a foot bridge into
the Gunnison river at CrookviIle, Colo.
and was drowned. :
Sentiment seems TO be with George
w. Savage at Red Lodge. Mont. who
killed D. j. Nelson, the despoiler of his
home
from loss of blood, caused by a blow
received ten days ago from his brother
in-law. Herbert S Wing, who is now
under arrest.
Hiram Strong, one of the oldest,
wealthiest and most influential citi-
zcEs o. the Fort Bridger CWyo.) coua-
try, with his family, of Fort Bridger,
are e. route TO Oregon and other
points on the Pacific coast. and expect
to be absent II year sightseeing and
visiting friends. They departed over
land with two splendid four-horse out
fits and . complete Camping ayouts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morton went to Idaho
Falls the other. day from Swan valley.
about 20 miles up the river, tal-:ag
their l0-year-oid on, who had q hor-
riDly maagled leg and arm. He had
been playing around an old vacant Jog
house aad found. it is supposed, a brass
shotgun shell. He built q bonfire, got
the tong. and held the shell in the fire.
to see * explode, which it soon did, the
charge tearing the flesh frcm his left
leg above the knee nearly away and
badly lacerating Il arm.
The Tucson lard Office reports a vast
amount of business coming from Ora
ham county, Arizona, where the new
Farmers canal is retaining thousands
OF acres which are being filed on as
rapidly as water becomes assured.
Most of the entries are homesteads,
showing that>there is confidence in the
new canal. There are also many can
cellations from the Salt and Verde val
leys under. the new canals projected
some years ago, but never completed.
At Breckenridge, Colo, John B. Dew
ers was shot and killed by DIR. J. f.
Condor as the result of ill-will between
the men caused by accusations made
by Dewers against london relating to
DewerS' divorce from his wife about a
year ago. So far as can be learned at
present, DeWerS vas Lnarmed and en-
do&vored to disaTm Condor, who shot
him :our times.
The Forest fires on Brush creek and
aroun Bald mountain, Wyoming, have
about died out, says the Saratoga Sun.
Those started in. the tie camps on
Brush creek and vicinity were soon ex-
~tinguished by the tie men, but the one
started or Bald mountain burned over
q large tract of timber before dying
out. The u IS informed from a re-
liable source that the fires in the tie
camp were started by some one intent
on mischief, as fresh horse tracks to
and from the place where both fires
were started were plainly visible. The
government has. determined to take a
hand il this forest fire business, II
we may look for an investigation of
the tie ca:ap fires.
TRIED GIBsON'S PLAN.
Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette: A party of
Tempe young people went up into the
PiEal mountains TO spend several weeks
on the Bellamy range. The range has
considerable rough country and lots
of trees upon it. The young people
wandered off into the woods to specd
the day picnicking. They sat Down upon
a large fiat rock opposite a ave in the
mountains, to eat their lunch. Things
went along nicely until lunch was over,
when a large mountain lion made its
appearance at the mouth of the cave.
He fingered q few minutes ana then
made lunge right through the party,
across the spread, and stopped on q
rock on the other side. The party scat
tered in all directions. excepting n
girl, who got her eye upon the lion n
could not move. There she stood, as
pale as a sheet. and staring with wild
eyes at the lion. who never moved for
fully three minutes. when he turned
away ard walked slowly off into the
mountains. Whether the lion was hyp-
Noticed or felt disappointed after sizing
up the party could not be learned. At
ter the lion had gone, the girl tainted,
but was rescued by her friends, who
were close by.
AN IDAHO PIONEER DEAD.
Montpelier. Aug. Last night the
death of another pioneer. Mrs. Severn,
more Familiarity known as Auntie Sew
ern, occurred here. Mrs. Severn came
to Bea LAX with her husband in the
days when it was customary to haul
flour across the hills from Cache vel
ley in the winter season on hand-sleds,
and was making her way to her 60th
She leaves no ,hildren of her
own, but several to whom she had
played the part.of a good mother.
Travelling men all over the county
will be grieved to lear of her demise,
as she has for many years kept a COM
travellers home and was al
ways called "Auntie Severn"
THE DELEGATES FROM MALAD.
Malad, Ida. Aug. AT a well-at-
tended Democratic primary held in the
court house last night, the following
m persons We're elected delegates
to the Democratic county convention,
to be held il Preston, Aug. IS: l.. L.
Evans. D. L. Evans. H. Z. Ezell,
George E. Gray, e. w. Cotton, J. r.
F. Z. Jones, Mrs. Mary Stuart,
Mrs. Elvira Harrison, Miss Hattie E..
Morgan.
The important business before the
Preston convention will be the election
OF ten delegates TO attend the state
convention at Boise, Aug. "a, and the
of a county central committee