| Show accident accidental at varis paris PARIS bear lake co idaho july 9 18 8 editors despret jasi A severe accident occurred here on the ath by which joseph oakey bad had his hia thigh bone broken a short distance below ihie ifie he hip joint on account of the funer funeral al a thomas G rich taking place on n the jtb the celebration intended for that day was po postponed until the ath when vh en a lar large go number of our citizens went up to the big spring about nive five miles from rann pann to celebrate soon after rear hing there charlo charlt o oakey brother brothe U k joseph josuph oakey commenced sliding rock down a steep hillpot hill not knowing there was wag any any auy one below when a argis rock struck bis hie lug log gughis his thigh aa stated in the evening a te team a m was sent to logan canon for dr Ii lamoreux amoreux who ia is at present edga euga ed at a the term tern pie saw paw mill who immediately started for paris hr rn riving ving at al the latter place at 10 am on the ath and in a comparative short time had bad the limb attended to tho friends of the injured man and the community at large feel very grateful to bro lamoreux for his willingness to come his proficiency in setting the I 1 limb and his kindard kin dand g gentlemanly conduct yours youra etc WALTER hoge sua xua Sus idun idus wager water Wn ger ter i editors despret much aluch has been bee h said concerning eon con concerti cerni n g the thy use and application of water f for 0 r pur purports ponts posts ot of irrigation and pt perhaps reaps your readers are surfeited with the subject but nevert nuvert nevertheless holess I 1 feel like adding a short contribution to i the mass maas already communicated much I 1 is said bald about the use of 0 bur sur plus water I 1 would ask at what season beason of the thie year ia Is the proper time to deter determine milie mitie the quantity of surplus Is it in the early part pare of the season when the banks of creeks are full to overflowing or is it in the latter part of july when the streams arbrun down so that they afford little uttie water for gardens and fruit trees tr besl let jet alone the extended nelds felda of grain that are suffering feri ferl ng and burning because of the scarcity of th that at necessary element long exper experience ienco lence has taught me that the day ot july Is the proper time to determine the quantity of surplus water watery and not at the be ginning of june whereto encourage new land to be cultivated for grain rai effig in ju the months of april Ap riland rlland and may with the knowledge I 1 now have I 1 should feel that I 1 was 1 misleading my friend ard ard tha that t my apparent would prove a serious damage to the cultivator or if I 1 would apply the water myself under those circumstances circumstance Js should feel reel that the wel fare of my brethren was drowned in lb the e flood of 01 my 0 own wn be selfishness fish n esq it la Is true that our water increases in creases yearly or at least has done ao bo up te to the present ilme lime but its increase doe snot heep keep pace with the increase 6 our population bences hence I 1 would respectfully new locut locations ions lons be sought out and our surplus population under wise and competent leaders be drawn off to build those now vacant where they can nave have both land an and water rater to their hearts content without infringing upon the rights ts of those who may have an earlier and better claim to water etc in that place respectfully HYDE I 1 eagar fatal accident I 1 TOOELE CITY J july uly 15 1 1878 editors riese fiese bei erdt ref loews eherd waa drowned in the tsiu twin S dam rhin on saturday july 13 a son of brother joseph H jhenson enson of this place the tho ivas was along with two of bro Ormea sons and iwo ofero B R bathing in the dill dam and while attempting to swim across he kemt down almost utmost faking one of brother rother Ja ormea boys with him who had went to bia bis hia hla asb ass assistance 1 istance anee the other boys tried to render all the assistance they possibly could but without su success edess the deceased was one of the apprentices ia in the coop coope co op ope shoe shoo shop he was about 20 years of age aged an and d a lad ad of 0 I 1 promise fuli full of intelligence and willing wing iii pro to assist wherever it was needed he bd was lame and had to walk witti with the aid of a stilt still only a few days previous death dath he said he would like to have as much money as to take him to tb the e st george tempie temple term tern pie for his faith was that if he could only have the ordinances of af the temple he could bo be cured of hla hia the I 1 intelligence ce ot his death cast casl quite a gloom over our bunday sunday school aud iho young mens mena association of which he was a member and Is a to be buried burled t oday ly by procession n of the youn young mens hiens associations 8 an inquest I 1 was held weld neldover lel bel dover doven over oven there th e le mailis mails by charlesa herman heri nan jus lice LICO if f the tho pace peace and tind a verdic lof of accidental drowning rendered la JS accord accordance anbe anbo with the facts facial S i a ghe the almen times luk Lui erile ezzie co penna july alb iss 1878 T editors Edi eai fors knowing the interest which tt the readers of the NEWS take in suot suet matters L hereby present ut to them an account bf a tew lew of the feigns of 0 the times that have come udder under my nay observation since leaving utah in april last during buring D my stay in counch B brulls lu fis its there occurred several beveral terri florain tle fie rain and hall hail storms in different parts of iowa among them two cyclones in the western part of tiie tee stat which lu i the manifestation of a most mysterious and seeming jy unlimited the witnesses ui oi its lis the tira first occurred soon after wy arrival at the bluff anu anil along tha thu belt of country through traversed ed it wrought buch such fearful leahi leani and frears of as to urouse arouse emotions of awe alid and the minds winds kraii of all nil pe be holders it traveled with terrific speed with a gyrating in III striking a farm house or other structure i would lift it bodily from its foundation and while holding it in mid air ali tear it to fragments fl as a man might a piece of paper and scatter the bits tits of wood for mile mlle jn other instances the building would be lifted up to a great height hj i be dashed to earth a mass of sticks and splinters splint ers eis domestic animals as horses cattle and ai swing would be picked up carried some distance sometimes Bome some times over the tops topa of trees and let iet down to the ground without injury oi or alight a mass of quivering tiesh flesh anid arid bones ac according cordin uto rao to the fk treat lk of the storm fiend in one instance a hent bent of ot swine were picked uj up bodily wafted wafred over the tops of some adjacent trees ane and let dolyn without warr injury iu in another a span of horses with the wagon JQ t which they were attached and the driver were lifted up carried a distance dis distance lance lanco of some hundreds of feet over some trees and let down without injury ahse were extraordinarily fortunate instances for in many others men and animals were killed I 1 instantly not antly or badly injured by similarly fantastic tricks of the terrible cyclone in according all nil acco neco iding to ie reports in the papers it if I 1 remember them right rightly A IY about 50 persons persona were killed kille dand and hundred of thousands of dollars worth of property destro destroyed yb 1 I the second cyclone occurred in the southwestern part of or the state it did much less damn dama damage ge than llian the first one but was quite as fearfully fantastic in som some e of its freaks in one instance it swept over the premises of a thrifty farmer dashed nis his house to small fragments which were scattered along the country coun try for miles but not a piece of the house as margeas large as a lead pencil was left on the spot where it had stood barn earn corn corix gribs cribs and out buildings shared a similar fate on the same farm a of chickens had their feathers blown off as cleanly as they could have been plucked by hand while the skin of one was bid blown biown wu oft and afterwards picked up r almost intact were not reports ot of such freaks as the above well au authenticated then it would be almost impossible to credit them thern on arriving in Illino 4 on the uit nit and ana mingling among the peor people the county country folk began to tell ine lne me of certain new and strange 90 phenomena as the letter ietter V jy seen on the win wings wins s of an insect called the seventeen yean year year locust one gentleman caught an insect and snowed showed it to me there plainly to be seen on either wings was a ft cd capital p ital letter W formed formea bj by ihu thu veins in the tran transparent spar e nt ti tissue ssu sau 16 of the win wing 9 some maintain that thai the jutter jetter should be viewed the other end up when it would become an h ba M others maintain that los ios it is a av W and stands for aarand Wa rand and thal that tho the same insect appeared with the same f letter ietter on I 1 its ts wings seven beven teen teea n ye years ar a ago Jus I 1 balfore the breaking out of ihu thu late lato civil war farmers told me that there was on the leaves of ho he bats a capital letter B plainly visible waving having a curio curlo curiosity sity to seo sed for myself it if this was so 1 I in jn co company with two gentlemen te repaired paired lo 10 a field of oats containing from 15 to 20 macrea 0 acres acrea the grain was busthead Jus just thead heading out and looked very thrifty and sure enough in nearly every leaf ii appeared the capital letter 1 B I 1 examined as many as BU 50 leaves picked in different parts of tae the neld held and in all but four ofilya or nive five byis vy as stamped the letter gen era orally very distinctly on oil the lour tour or five exceptional leaves there was an indistinct mark of ao no definite shape resembling sem bling a letter the he letter extended the entire width of the feard lear leaf and was smaller or to the width of the leaves it appeared to have been madg made by p pressing rss a type or die on the under side of the leaf thus raising the letter on the upper side in a manner mauner similar to that in which h letters are ate printed prin ted on tinor tinon other sheet metal metai tail tall and the depression depies depres sion slon on the un under der dor side lide of the leaf corresponded exact exacts ly y to the raised letter ori the other both could be distinctly felt by slipping the leaf through to th jhb fingers this phenomenal letter ia is ln in to signify R nih y blood 11 thero there ia is no doubt about aboul ab out its being plainly visible on ott the oat leaves in that nield field at least whatever tion it any it may have for I 1 critically examined many of the leaves aforesaid afore sald mald I 1 was alsor alsot told that on the th ewhite white oak leaves in the woods woody fearly in the exo morning before the dew dow chap pearel from ra them therb there could be plainly plainy been the iho capital letters NV i hi and F formed in some mysterious manner by the moisture but d disappearing with the dew I 1 h had ad no opportunity this thia statement or of proving it fallacious these these thebe letters are conjectured to mean mearl war wary annd aund and cF famine by the more r superstitious of those with whom I 1 conversed on orl jhb the subject I 1 give tho the above facts as I 1 witnessed them or heard beard them but will wili not venture to assign any sig ance arice to the mysterious letters the storms however I 1 regard as potent testimonies to the truth of the great latter day work for he liard lard has Us said wd that after ane te ti monie of hid his servants would collo colue the storms thundering earthquakes abid other judgment and phenomena one incident in connection with the st storms 1 is I 1 think worth relating there is a man living near council muffs bluffs many years has professed a degree of faith in ili the goa gospel e but he be has a good farm and valuable ua ble bie property to which he be clin clings 9 s with great pertinacity and notwithstanding the admonitions of the eiders eldera to gather has alwa niwa q been unwilling to make the sacrifice recently during a terrific rain torm when the thunder aud and lightning rolled and irr an appalling manner at about IQ pm he gathered his family into a potatoe cellar fearing flaring tb thui thai UL his llis house might be re demolish ed and there he remained till tili nearly daylight when the storm abated lext morning he remarked that if anyone would give him hirn half of what his property was worth he would sell seil oue one and go to tu ut utah ah I 1 have been traveling in thib state during the past fortnight working up lip genealogies C I 1 expect to go gd td ehl ladelphia thence to nev york and bost host boston bohton aly addres till further notice will be 13 greenwich street philadelphia your brother in the gospel P F jr if 1 |
