The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-27

he had been engaged, with the Elk
Mountain u ties, in which he claimed
he had received a severe wound in
the leg. Some of the party expressed
their doubts as to the truth of the
latter part of the "yaTn." AL, to
substantiate his narrative, offered to
show the scar if some of the party
would build fire. In the centre of
the barren are some low sand
mounds, on the tops of which is a
rank growth of greasewood. When
the party reached these mounds
they dismounted, built a fire, and
then dared AL. to show his scar.
Nothing daunted, he united his leg
gins and rolled up first one, then the
other leg of his pantaloons, but
after a very close inspection failed
to find a scar or even the faintest
semblance of one. Al. hesitated for
some moments, evidently nom
plussed at his failure to produce the
desired evidence, when a bright
idea entered his brain, and he ex-
claimed: "BOyS. l was wounded, but
the scar is on my brother Lots legp
FISH SPRINGS.
Faugh, horrible! The water quite
warm enough to battle in even in
this inclement weather; brackish
enough to make a good emetic.
Now just throw in a handful of
matches; the usual quantum of
coffee, boil ,sweeten and then turn up
your editorial nose at what / am
drinking this morning and call
coffee. Smith lives here-one of
the inevitable, irrepressible Smith
family, and he claims to be a lineal
descendent of the frst-Smith-the
one that Pocahontas Saved from
decapitation. If the original Smith
had foreseen the fate in store for his
descendent he would have just put
Poca. to one side, and said to her
angry parents, "Chop away, old
snoozer; IN mercy to the future gen.
Grafton of Smith chop 'er of"
Jones or Brown couldn't live here
a fortnight; none but Smith
could do it. By the way, he spells
his name with "y" and is not
familiar with the Pocah ontasEstOry,
and doubt his being that kind of
a Smith. There is a popularity
about these springs: they ebb and
flow, have high tides and low tides
| the same as the ocean. The fish
which give the springs their name
are small, black variety OF club,
and are unfit for food.
KA PAHsHUP,
meaning, notgthirsty; literally, not
dry, the name of an Indian, now
here, by whose hand I send this let
ter. He says he will go direct to
some of the Mormon towns,
but is uncertain as to which
one. He expresses his indecision
as he wraps his rabbit-Skin robe
around him, by the word, mo hoe
gany." at first l told him / was a
big chief, but changed my tactics
when he replied that the big chiefs
in Nevada rode in a wagon, and had
lots of whisky to drink. He informs
me that he is wild Indian; that
he is so small that Washington
can't see him when he hands around
1 the blankets, shirts, beads and flour
Jthat he has heard that the Mormons
have made farms for some of his
red kin, and that they have lots OF
potatoes and wheat; that he is going
in to listen to their talk, and if he
likes their grub that he will stay
with them. 1 have filed his sack
with eatabIes, and his stomach
with the residue of my coffee; if he
survives that dose, he is proof
against tangIe-foot whisky. start
southwark for the PahgatZe Noun
tains, distant about fifty miles
thence by the way of Crater Noun
tain to Silver City, East Tintic, from
which place you may expect to hear
from me again.
Plus ULTRA.