The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-31

| ing may be seen the president. MS
daushte and others of the elect survey
ing the play lansridb,y from the seclu'
sion of box tapestfy. Now that the days
of stock companies are over, the perform
ances are the same that are given in all
paris OF the county,, save where some
minstrel troupe gets off its local sallies al
the expense o: the audience, which are
carefully selected and pleasantly re-
ceived. The Stage is unusually large
Here McCullogh, Barrett have scraped
their toes; here Janauschek and the
other tragedy queens have wept, suppli-
Gated and gracefully swooned: here, also,
Henry Ward Eeecher recently lectured
to large audience.
Salt Lake journalism includes three
daily papers, the Des.rct Neus, published
by the chu. .ch, the Herald, which is an
echo of the Nems, relis:ously;, and the
Tribune, which da-es to defy Mormonism
on its own ground. called at the
Tribune editorial rooms, and was shown
small museum, COMPRISING two articles
which the e6i.or keeps to spur him on in
his amino mon zeal. One was the skull
o. an emisant who pe.ished IN the
famous Moun.a' n Meadow massacre. The
othe. proved to be copy Of the Ne,rs Of
August 7th, cunnin,,ly melting mob
that had just lyached man to try their
hands on the Tribune nest. These are
Gu. osi.ies, indeed.
E.e y s..e-noon, at O'Clock, you can
see a good many tou ISIS and Salt Lake
young foics, especially girls, start for the
railroad depot; and if you follow them
and lake the train win them you may
see them bathe in the waters of Salt
Lake an hour or so later, and take a
plunge in the b.iny flood yourself if you
Ike. The lake is some twenty miles
west of the city. Surf bathing is very
popular there, and on Sundays good
many hundred enjoy the sport: While
the water is so saline as to float the body
easily, there ase other dangers. A per-
son will quickly strangle if he gets the
salt water into his mouth, and eight or
ten drown every year in this way. There
are only one or two steamers on the lake,
which cruise among the islands with
pleasure pa ties aboard. Take it all In
all, the lake is about the most isolated
and desolate body of water on the conti-
nent. As no animal lives in it, 80 no
person seems to live about il; and it is
used as bathing resort only. The north
end of it, into which empties the Bear
river, is the freshest. At many other
places you can pick up salt where it is
piled on the shore. Some maintain that
the lake is annually rising, but think
this is idle talk. Occasionally heavy
SHOWS may raise it Temporarily, but the
constant evaporation must bring about q
gradual decline. Indeed, it is said that
this year the waters have already receded
four feet.
Education is not especially encouraged
here. B-isham Young collected a good
deal of money for the purpose of build
ing seminary, but only laid>the founda-
ton; and his bones rest in the centre Of
that foundation to-day, under thirteen
tons of granite. The Mormon young
men have society analogous to the
Protestant Y. NJ. c. AS, called the
Young Mems Mutual Improvement As
sociation, which publishes a magazine,
called the contributor"
P.S-No, I don't know where that
money is now which Brigham collected.
EMILE.