The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-26
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: MONDAY, AUGUST g. 1907
FRUIT EXHIBIT
At SACRAMENTO
Magnificent Moab Peaches to
Be Taken to National IT.
rigation Congress.

Moab, Utah, Aug. 23-J. D. Wadley Of
Pleasant Grove, Utah, member of the
state board of horticulture. has been in
Moab for the past few days gathering
up lot of fancy fruit for the Utah ex-
hibit at the national irrigation congress
TO be held in Sacramento Sept to Z
Mr.. Wadley has secured a number of
crates of peaches which are, he says,
the finest he has ever seen Among
tnese are peaches Of the liberia variety
that weigh fourteen ounces and measure
twelve and a half inches in circumfer-
enee. They have been shipped to Salt
Lake City and placed in cold storage to
be shipped to Sacramento later Mr.
Wadley has also arranged for some fine
pears, apples, cantaloupes and water
melons to be sent out from here Monday
Tor the Utah exhibit. He thinks these
with the peaches secured, will play an
important part in bringing back to Utah
the laurels of the congress
While John f. Brown, a wealthy stock
man of this place was driving down the
river road from Richardson to this place
yesterday, the road caveo OFF at a point
ABOUT mile above the Moab ferry,
horses into the river. forty feet below
In company with his wife, he was re-
turning from his summer ranch in Sin
bad valley, Colorado. When they started
out, his wife was driving a two-horse
team and Brown was driving the four,
but just little while before the acct
dent occurred, they had been overtaken
by John Du Bots and Heber Christen-
sen. who were coming to Moab on horse
BACK. Seeing that the road was in bad
shape, Du Bots offered TO drive Mrs.
Browns team, and at the time the acct
dent occurerd she was walking. Du
Bots, who was in the lead, passed over
the bad place in safety, but Brown, whose
wagon was heavily loaded with lumber,
was less fortunate. The road caved off
and all together. Brown, horses and wag-
on, rolled down the steep bluff. Brown
landed on a rock with all of his body ex-
cept his head under water. and two horses
lying across him tangled up in their har-
ness. Du Bois and Christensen rushed to
his assistance, and after a quarter of an
hour of hard work succeeded in getting
him out of his perilous position In or
der 20 rescue Brown, 1t was necessary
for them to swim TO him and literally lift
the horses off his body. Strange to re-
late, Brown was not seriously injured by
the mix-up, and was able to go back af-
ter his wagon today. None of the horses
were killed, although some of them were
badly bruised.
At exactly the same place where Brown
went over the bluff; II. D. Grouse met
with similar accident five years ago.
which resulted in the killing of a horse
and a broken leg for Mr.. Grouse, which
made him a cripple for life
Word reached Cisco today stating that
Albert Hanson of that place. 30 years OF
age, and the son of V P. Hanson, the
Cisco merchant, had shot himself there
yesterday evening with suicidal intent |
The shooting was done with forty-five
caliber six-shooter. The ball entered the |
OF the left shoulder. Hanson is still |
alive, but it is not thought that he will |
survive. The cause of the tragedy is
said to have been dependency over mar
year ago and did not get along well with |
his wife.