The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-02
NEWS OF THE WEST.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 30.-The tenn
perature during the past week aver
aged from five to six degrees above
the normal, with practically no rain in
any part of the state. The days were
hot, but the nights were moderately
cool.
Grain harvest is nearly completed in
all eastern counties, and is progressing
| rapidly and nearing completion in Big
Horn county. where some damage by
rust is reported. In Albany, Fremont
| and Uinta counties grain is ripening
rapidly, and harvesting has begun,
| with the prospects of a crop much
above the average. All unirrigated
gardens are drying up rapidly, but. as
most of the vegetables have already
reached maturity, but little damage will
result. Stock is being marketed in
prime condition, and the ranges, al
though dry, are still furnishing good
grazing.
William Linderman was sentenced to
one year in the state penitentiary from
Cheyenne yesterday. having pleaded
guilty to a charge of demonstrating.
Captain NickerSOn, agent at the
Shoshone Indian reservation in central
Wyoming, has left Fort Washable
with band of 80 Indians, where they
will participate in the Frontier cay les
tivities.
William Reed has just completed the
work of gathering some 1900 pounds
of fossilized remains of ancient reptiles
for the University of Wyoming. The
specimens were dug near Aurora, 90
miles west of Laramie, on the Union
Pacific
The Crow Indians in Northern Wyo-
ming have gone into the horse shipping
business, and a few days ago shipped
80 carloads of ponies to st. Louis.
A Toll d
Mass, to San Francisco, awheel, has
passed through Cheyenne.
Wilbert Parfet, an 11-year-old boy OF
Golden. Colo, shot and all but mortally
wounded his 14-year-old playmate, Harry
Bennett, with S2-caliber bulldog re-
volver.
Sheriff Hawkins of Canyon City, Colo.
arrived from Villa Grove with William
Jones. a timberman, living near Howard,
Colo, on the 18th inst. lehman confessed
the killing of Jones, but claims he did it
in self-defense.
w. P. NOBLE HEARD FROM
Casper. Wyo.. Aug. SO.-Messrs. w. P.
Noble and Fred Bragg have returned
from the Big Horn mountains. Mr.. Noble,
after short stay here. went to Omaha
Mr.. Noble is the wealthy Salt Laker who
was reported dead few weeks ago. He
while at Meads, on the Wood river in
the Big Horn country. He says he felt
as though his Salt Lake friends would
not worry about him, as the last thing
he did before leaving Casper for the
mountains was to write to his daughters
in Salt Lake. Mr.. Noble. who will prob
to Salt Lake. says he found his flocks OF
sheep and ranches in good condition.
A CLOSE CALL.
Glendo. Wyo., Aug. SO-Eddie, the f.
year-old son of Allen Laughlin. a well-tO-
do ranchman living near this place, had
a miraculous escape from death yester-
day afternoon. As the train from the
north, on the Cheyenne & Northern, was
approaching the station at full speed,
Eddie ran out on the track and stood be-
tween the rails, watching the oncoming
locomotive. Bystanders noticed the childS
danger, but all save one, the father of the
child, seemed rooted to the ground. Mr..
Laughlin. with a loud cry, rushed t-the
track. and, utterly unmindful of his own
danger. snatched the boy up and threw
him from the rails. The boy rolled down
the embankment and was unhurt, but the
brave father was struck by the locomo-
tive and thrown from the track and
water tank. He had escaped a horrible
death. TO be sure, but he was seriously
injured and may be crippled for life. A
large number of people at the depot wit
messed the father s heroic act.
RAILROAD BRIDGE IN FLAMES.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 3O.-A small boy
named George Dix discovered railroad
bridge, near Newcastle, in flames yes
terday, and knowing that a passenger
train was due there in few minutes he
jumped on a horse and rode down the
track for a distance of half a mile and
tagged the train. which was heavily load
ed with passengers. Had it not been for
the boys timely act, frightful wreck
would have occurred. as the bridge burned
out before the train reached it. Young
Mix was presented with a purse Of over
s1Oe which was donated by the grateful
passengers, and the Burlington road has
agreed to reward the yOungSter.
A woman named Patricia Guanas who
had been living with Nels ShOline, the
who was shot and killed at
Fort Steele a few weeks ago by Robert
Casteele. was found dead in bed few
days ago. The woman was a hard drinker
and the authorities believe she died from
alcoholic heart disease.