Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-03

Bpll, tfe agent OF the enterprise, ls now
there arranging to take ten more fam
HES to Nevada. The colony thus aug
mented will number 1870 persons who
settled on $500 acres OF land.
The executive committee of the Den
yer Civil Service association has adopt
ed resolutions urging the Colorado sem
ators and representatives in Congress
to use every effort in their power to
prevent the passage of any bill de-
signed to abridge or retard the progress
of civil service reform. A resolution
has also been adopted favoring the
classification of the census bureau I'M
der service rules.
The steamer Eureka. owned by Good
all. Perkins e. Co., which has been laid
up for some tome, Is to be put in sail
ing trim and will probably go to Taiia
to be used for towing and carrying pas
sengers. The bark Northern Light has
been purchased by Captain Il. Cogan,
and is to be placed on the kotZebue
Sound route. For Taiia, and Skaguay
the Alaska Yukon Transportation Co.'S.
Albion will leave on Saturday with
full list OF passengers.
L. G. Collett, a resident of Vermillion
county, H., committed suicide ut Santa
Monica. Cal, Monday by shooting him
self with rife. Collect went to Santa
Monica several weeks ago and occupied
a cottage on the beach near Crystal
Plunge. With j. ]. quad, the OWNER
of the cottage, Collett went on several
hunting excursions, but soon became
III and had to remain at the cottage.
He suffered from catarrh OF the stom-
ach and seemed quite Respondent.
Thousands of sheep are reported to
have persisted from cold and starvation
in western Wyoming. The cold has
been intense for sixty days. and old
timers say that II is the hardest winter
they have seen for the past nineteen
years Carbon county has 5000 sheep.
and fiockmasters there fear the loss
will amount to % per cent. Losses
among cattle will not be so heavy. as
owners had been preparing for several
days to feed their stock during severe
weather.
Governor Adams OF Colorado has d.
rected the state board of charities and
corrections to investigate the manage
ment of the state industrial school for
girls in which many inmates have been
punished for INSTRUMENTATION by being
imprisoned in dungeons. fed on bread
and water and treated to cold water
shower baths when they refused to be
quiet. All the members of the board
of control of the school have resigned
on account of popular disapproval of
the methods employed in the institu-
ton.
The Southern Pacific company re-
ceived from the East Wednesday the
largest engine ever built for that road.
Its weight is eighty tons. which In
about ten tons more than the largest
hog" engine weighs. 1t will be called
the Baby" 1t will be used in hauling
freioht trains over the pass between
Cotton and Beaumont and Beaumont
and Palm Springs. The cylinders are
twenty-five inches in diameter and
twenty-six inch stroke. The capacity
is so per cent more than any other
engine on the line.
The cattle in the southern end of
Monterey county, Cal, are suffering
terribly from lack of feed. There has
not been enough rain to start the green
feed and the result is that many cattle
are dying daily. A few days ago
twelve carloads of cattle belonging to
Henry Miller passed through Salinas
en- route to Miller's ranch near Gilroy
where they will be fed on beet pulp
When the train reached Castrovile
only twenty were all that were able to
stand. the others all lying on the bot
tom of the cars. This shipment was all
that We're able to stand the trip out of
a herd of 5000.
Tests of Shrapnel shells furnished to
the United States army have been
made by Lieut.. f.. b. Bahbitt of Benicia
arsenal, Cal. Twenty-six shells were
fired, and 80 per cent of the ammuni-
ton was found to be perfectly worth
less. The fiimsy shapnel was fur
nished by an ord nance company at
Washington. All shells fused by cleo
tricity was excluded from the twenty
six pounds selected by Lieut.. Rabbit
Col. Charles r. Suffer, chief of he
Pacific divis ion, has received instruc-
tions from Gen. G. NJ. Wilson, chief of
engineers, Washington. D. c.. to hasten
the work of mounting the modern guns
for the defense of the San Francisco
harbor. In accordance with instruc-
tions the force of workmen on the for
tifcations will be enlarged.
U. s. District Judge De Haven OF San
Francisco has rendered an opinion
against Chinese iaborers and criminals
The opinion Is to the effect that the ac-
ton of the collector Of port is not even
prina facie evidence of the right of
Chinese to land. Judge DE Haven dis
afirmed' the report and recommended
ton of Commissioner Heacock in the
case of Lau Sun Ho, Chinese woman.
to this country In December,
1896, by the collector of port on her
statement and the testimony of wit
nesses that she was a native of Cali
fornia. Seven months ago Ho became
with the life OF chattei
slave and went TO the mission on Wash
ington street She told the woman at
the mission that she was a native of
China ana that her statements made
to the collector of port were false.
Coroner Sherman OF Riverside. Cal,
received word Monday afternoon that
Oscar Johnson, Swede. had been
found dead in his tent in the Chucka-
walla mining district on the desert
sherman wired at once to inquire II
there We're circumstances connected
with the discovery that would indicate
foul play. Receiving no reply. he left
for the scene. Johnson was well known
in Riverside, having lived there about |