Show escaped from drowning john sparks the nevada cattle king arrived la in ogden wednesday morning and registered at the reed he ile reports having had an extremely narrow escape from drowning in the salmon river mr sparks and bis his partner are the owners of a large number of cattle and horse borse ranches in ia northern nevada and southern idaho and it ia Is the formers former Ps custom to make a complete circuit of the same during each month last week he started on hia his usual to tour ur and sunday afternoon reached salmon river in idaho at the boars baars neat nest crossing nearly twenty five miles from the vineyard ranch the stream was running high and sparks felt rather dubious about crossing it before making soundings taking one of his horses from the buggy he rode it across the river following the regular road and although the water reached far up the animals sides he considered it safe to venture in with bis his outfit hardly had be he reached the middle of the stream before the current snatched the baggy b aggy and horses out of the beaten track into a deep hole sparks jumped aa as the outfit sank beneath the surface and after battling with the waves until he wag was nearly exhausted succeeded in reaching the shore the horses made desperate eff irtis art and d swimming across the stream attempted to fet get out of the water but were pro pre vented by the steep banks and heavy weight ol 01 the buty buggy after holding on for several minutes with their heads evidently in hopes of rescue the intel intelligent nt animals gave up and sank sink to the bottom tom of tha the raging torrent the eight of his favorite team which he valued at 1000 eo so near and yet BO so far from aid literally unnerved him and it waa was with the greatest effort that mr sparks succeeded in reaching the vineyard ranch twenty five mila distant |