The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-27
Hundreds of Range Horses Perish
In Southern Utah.
FRUIT KILLED AT PAYSON
SHORT LINE TRAIN SHOWED IN
FOR THIRTY HOURS.
Epidemic of Tonsilitis at Deseret-
Mills and Electric Light Plants
Suspend at Logan-Coldest Wea-
Their Ever Known at st. George
Thirty-four Below at Joseph.

(rom The Heralds CorresDondents)
Milford, Utah, Jan. 24.-Unless the
present winter weather abates within
the next ten days, more horses will
have persisted in this region than in
any five years before in the history of
the country All throughout the Bea-
yer bottoms. in the foothills adjacent
and far out in the low desert, where the
snow and hard weather have reached,
the horses are pitiful to look upon
horseman with rome can take ms
choice from the remnant of the nerds,
TO which he could not approach within
gunshot last fall
One man in one of the nearest Ne
vada towns has 400 hides for sale now,
and is gathering them very fast. For
tunately the loss on cattle will be com
paratively small, on account OF the
close selling that was done last rail-.
The only thing that has saved the
sheep is the fact that between the low
est bottom valley and the top of the
surrounding mountains there is strip
of a few miles in width in which the
snow has not fallen half so deep, and
the cold remains moderate. Here the
sheepmen have moved their Hocks.. and
aside from sacrificing a Few hundred at
the beginning Of the cold weather there
is not any great loss. There is loss,
however and to such an extent that
il viii be felt deeply
This range will be cleared of thou
sands of wild horses for another year,
the severe winter doing the work that
was laid out to be done by the rifle in
the hands of the cattleman.
Over the range to the east OF this
valley the horses are faring well.
The Oregon Short Line train has been
showed in for so hours between here
and Frisco. and at dark tonight has
just come in sight here at Milford
and again found too much snow. The
De Lamar mail that should have
reached here at O'clock last evening
got in at tonight. Other mails are
making schedule time by doubling
power and driving very hard.
COLD CAUSES AN EPIDEMIC.
Deseret. Jan. 25.-The thermometer
was down to go below last night and
to % the night before. The snow has
been on the ground for weeks, and
does not thaW a particle during the
day There has been an epidemic of
tOnsilitis among the people, owing to
the extreme cold. Several cases have
been quite severe, developing into pneu-
monia. but there have been no deaths,
and all are now improving.
EARS FROZEN.
Castle Gate. Jan. 26.-This is the cold
est day yet, u below zero A section
hand had his ears frozen this morning.
They We're thawed out by vigorous
rubbing with snow.
CHILLY IN SEWER.
RichfeId. Jan 26.-At sunrise this
morning the government thermometers
registered % below zero at Richtield,
81 below at Elsinore and "a below at
III, nd ur-n 1-a-
spectively s and IA miles southwest of
this city.
PAYSON FRUIT KILLED.
Payson. Utah, Jan. 26.-Yesterday
and today are the coolest days we
have had this winter. This morning
the temperature was 20 degrees below
zero in town, and % below just out of
town at the station. The fruit is surely
all killed for the next season.
EUREKAS EXPERIENCE.
Eureka. Jan. 26.-Today and last
night have been the coolest of the sea
son. The thermometer this morning
registered 16 below zero
TWENTY EIGHT BELOW.
Coalvine. Jan. 26.-At $50 this morn
ING the thermometer stood at % below
zero.
CONDITIONS AT LOGAN.
Logan. Jan 26.-King frost still
reigns. The temperature fell 10 30 be-
low again last night and as a result
there is a scarcity of water in some
parts of town, the water pipes and
bitches being frozen up. None of the
Touring mills are running and one OF
the electric light plants has been com
PEELED to shut down.
DESERET TELEGRAPH REPORTS.
The following reDorts of the tempera-
ture at o'clock yesterday morning
were furnished by the Deseret Tele-
graph company:
Paris. Ida, % below; Franklin, Ida,
81 below; Logan, p below; Ogden, 10
below: Provo % below; Nephi 20 be-
low: Mt. Pleasant. 20 below; Manti, rs
below: Richfieid, % below: Fillmore, %
below; Beaver. 16 below; Parowan, II
below: Cedar City, u below; st. George,
3 below, coolest ever known here; To-
querville, below; Kanab, down to
zero.