The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-01
FROM THE SOUTH.
Matters in Sewer County and
ThereabOut.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR ALL.
Some Statements, Facts and Figures
Connected with Life in the
South.
GLENwooD, Sewer Co., Utah,
December %, 1884.
ecial Correspondence of THE HERALD.

Special Correspondence of TIE HERALD
1 take the liberty to write you few
lines, hoping some portion may be in
eresting to your readers.
The weather for the last two weeks,
has been really spring-like; the south
wind blowing almost a hurricane, with
a sprinkle of rain and dust of snow
that thawed off in few hours. Farm
ers hereabouts are at work blowing
again, there being no frost in the ground.
The tops of the mountains were slightly
capped with snow, but most of it seems
to have disappeared.
Some farmers are shipping off good
deal of flour Dixieward, and exchang-
ing it for factory cloth, molasses, dried
fruit, etc, getting $3.50 per hundred
to Silver Reef and other mining towns.
1t is reported that the Refers impose a
tax of $3.50 on persons peddling produce
they get their authority? Flour has
been selling at $3.50 cash, around that
part of the country.
The Beaver factory has been unable
to supply anything like enough cloth to
fill the demand upon them, this fall.
The UtOnidn is still up to time, though
business is somewhat dull in Beaver as
in other places, but our old chum,
George Hales, still contrives to make
his ends meet. The stores seem to be
doing a reasonable amount of business.
We meet freighters returning. from
Poiche in bad condition; they report
six feet of snow and the desert is bad to
unload and store their -four, etc., with
travelling along the road and beat a
hasty retreat for q warmer cline.
Magnanimous traders at Frisco Offer
$3.50 for flour delivered there, the price
it brings at the mills hereabouts for 9
XXXX brand, though inferior brands
run as low as $15O Wheat ranges from
45c. to SOC. per bushel, with an upward
tendency, on account of numerous team:
coming in and buying up wheat
and having it milled here, then getting
the most for their money. Eggs bring
24c., butter 20c., pork, in bulk, &c. t
10o., oats SOC. per cwt.
In your issue of the Goth (SEMI), il
which you give some figures of the
Commissioners report in relation tt
polygamy, you ask how they arrive
at such conclusions; [ will mention ;
circumstance or two that took place no
a hundred miles from here: A yOuns
married woman registered as she haC
just finished her 21st year, taking oatt
| that she was of that age, etc., the deputy
registrar, hearing her mother make the
remark that her daughter was not ye
81; but on questioning he was told she
was born January, 1868. Nothing more
was done to figure out the facts, but thu
worthy deputy posted off and put thu
matter to a certain Murray mathe
/ matician. The answer he received was
Cross her off, her mother ought t
know So she was crossed off withou
any further notice. When she appeared
at the polls of the last election, sshe wa
informed she could not vote because he
mother said she was not 81. Her hus
band grew wrathy at once on hearing
his wife made public perjurer anC
threatened to demolish certain indi
viduals; but quiet was restored and tn
matter figured out by the judges as
ought to have been done before tn
name was crossed off by the ignoran
or willfullv wicked deputy registrar. Th
husband wants to know how he can re
cover damages.
1 Another circumstance came to IN!
ear of reputed polygamist that was no
crossed off by the deputy. The county
registrar returned the list for correc
ton, pointing out the individual and re
marking he was said to be polygamis
becoming so since the former register
ing.
This is about as good as the Pat who
on being told that there were two reli
able witnesses that had seen him stea
! the watch, said "Be jabers an car
! find hundred reliable witnesses thai
/ didn't see me stale it ~
presume our worthy registrars could
! find hundreds of reliable witnesses that
| had heard such and such were polyg.
amists; and on such testimony many
legal voters have been crossed off the
lists, with no other resource LETT them
but to prove themselves innocent al
their own expense and risks. No doubt
many an innocent man has been hung
| for murder because he had not the wit
nesses, means or money at command to
clear him. And why the power to
criminate man in such way should
be intrusted to a single individuals
opinion. often malicious and badly
prejudiced. This is too bad for de-
spotic government, never republic.
But it is hoped that this kind of bust
ness will be closed out soon, when the
worthy Cleveland takes his seat. and a
man be adjudged innocent till he is
proved guilty by reliable evidence.
GA merry Christmas and happy
New Year to THE HERALD and its EN-