The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-01

WIN 81 "lOh al tillo SlC OOuull
without the spon," Burch and 1 dc
posted our spOn with the aforesaid
proprietor, and in receiving it he toll,
US that We must excuse his old woman
for talking as she did for she hat
drank little too much rye that morn
ing, and at the same time he brancheC
out on " business" anu prospects, y
commencing from the time he was tel
years Of age. and giving US a regular
history of himself and Ielatisns, from
that time up to the present. I ven
tured to inquire how times were, ant
how he got to this country. "Wall
fact is, stranger, my old oman and ]
was gittln' along all right down on oul
leetle farm. on Bear River, until the
tarnel locomotive got into this country
and then there was such big excite.
ment here that tn old oman told ne
| was blasted fool for tinkerin around
down en- my leetle farm thar, when
every body was maxim their cverlastin'
fortunes up here at Wahsatch. Wall
one day I comes hum and l finds the
old 'Oman's got everything packed uE
tew 60, and then | had to 90, After
makes my evcrlastin' fortune up her,
then I'll steer straight for Bear River
again; that's good enough country
for me-" After partaking of bounte-
ful repast of hard boiled eggs, loathery
beefsteak, bewitched coffee, and hot
bis cult, " slightly colorod" with sal
eratus, off of a dry goods box, (reader
DO not start), minus table cloth, we
wended our way back to the depot,
ready to take the train, which was to
start west at 9. Arriving at the d c
pot we were informed by the railway
officials tina. three men had been shot
last night and several wounded, In q
saloon several rods distant. The sta
ton agent pointed out Is graves OH
the hill back Of the depot, with rough
slabs over them to keep the wolves
from tearing them up. lie told us
that of those 16 deaths only one had
been natural, and she a young girl from
California that died with the small pox
and had it when she came here. The
other ID were all men who had either
been killed in bar room fights or af-
trays, had beer stabbed, or died from
the effects of wounds received in such
ARRAYS, and all this IL the brief space
of SIX weeks. Going down to the tele-
crap. office, We saw out on the track
not roGa distant, several tons of mail
mattec-two eight car loads-piled
out III TIC uitCh anu LAohCH OIcu. II
had been thrown there the night be-
fore by the westward bound train
Several ba5s had been kicked over on
the track: and the freight trains had
cut them open and scattered their con-
tents in all directions. Several men
were standing around helping them
selves to what best suited :hcir fancy
| noticed large bundle Of Harper S
Monthlies which suffered considerably.
| do not tell this to create any pref u
dice at all, but tell it just as It occur
red. Some Of our party vebtured to
suggest to these mail robbers that
they had as much Of an interest in
keeping the mails in safety as anybody
else, and they got the reply that a
man was ID fool that wouldn't pick
! up some kind Of readin' matter ". en-
so much off was lying round loose, -
together with the reply that it wal t
any Of our ID business, and tat
they had some six shooters with then,
to back it up" | comlorted myself
myself with the assurance that proba-
bly, I'd hear from home in the next ten
years anyhow, and that letters written
by me to friends east, would possibly
get through, with the growth Of civil
cation. l returned to inquire where
the government. mail agents were, and
the railroad agents said that there were
three here, but they did not dare say
anything for fear of getting shot, and
and that to rifle the though mails was
J but common occurrence there.
Finally our train is made up, ant at
9:15 a. M, we leave the town of Wah-
satch, glad enough to get out of the
place. The road from Wahsatch to
Ogden is called the Utah DIVISION >
and from Wahsatch to the latter place
is down grade. Eight miles west Of
Wahsatch we strike Echo Canon"
Echo Canon is very narrow strip of
tablc-land which could hardly be called
valley, bordering IN each side of