The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-29
SOU rHERE UTAH NOTES.
A Correspondence Who Takes a Few
Exceptions.


AIvear age the Salt Lake Tribune pub
Hshed al article, cqlliag she sauPete
none alot Of Scandiaavian deadheads,
or so,netLi4g to that effsst. In the
SEMI WeExLv HERALD of the 18th in
slant. read " hat purPsrts to be a
onversaubn md on the platform OF
The sanpete Valley khAroad, s"pled
from The FoiAe-Sentiicri
We dc not object tothe last-n@med
l9saper pqshsl,ing all ssise slang aHe lies
Il likes about Us, but We Do objects re
suectabIe AID reliable papers copying
/ the saline Now let a. see now 1ilch
trutb there assia this conVerSatlon- The
| sjIDerintei5deut says that teams awere
! yreIgbtirey to Nep. Tor &C. per luO
wounds: thaUfour days Eere consst,neo
! ia makiEg the. round trIQ; 1900 poanos
/ IL all a good team can df4w; at SC. per
| LOO pounds, bhaz would make $i-50, or
/ Bike. Der day for tear and team
ster. When the superiBtend made
| this assertion, and ahe platform
man penRed 1T and the sentinel Puo
| lIshed it, did they thiak Tor mOnleni
| that any one Weuld belSege such stun
! Now, if this trio bed inquired
where those teams we're going. they
| would have learned that sthey were not
1 going 10 NePhi. but that a large nam
1 Der of them were going direct 10 Provo
I Factory to exchange their wheat for
| goods, and were ge ting so cents PEI
Oushel on the wheat aud q reduction OF
! % ger cent .JnJahe goods, Ehlch w@lld
peSsthem s. per day TO the team far
more than the Sanpete Valley Railroad
/ ever paid teams; aud at the same time
patrOnizing an establishment thatEa'
done more COED for this part OF the
| country than all The railroads put TO
getker. :.
And does the superintendent of sid
i road not know That partiesE2ho have sac
back freight have to pay $i0tper car ex-
ira? Here IS q sample OF this business
The SEner Of dhe station ground al
Chester, for which the compaG :
haven't paid eeEt yet, GlthOagh they
have had possession for over ye&T
! wanted to shin a ear load of freight tO
Salt Lake, but eORld not without pay
ling SIOextra. NoE as to GhesfOrce anc
point. the superintendent accuses the
Sanpete people of lacking. wOEld 1t no
be a good idea for MIN TO look little
nearer home? EOw much force L
there to 2 railroad that is eight or ten
wears getting about twenty-five miles
ard how much point is there III rail
road company that builds its station
for the main part of the country ID a
swamp, so that teams can hardly get to
tham at this time of the yearY II the
Salt Lake Tribune, the SeRtlnet, the
Sanuete Valley RaIlread and ats plat
form man were boxed up together al 4
sent to hades or some other good place
where they would net be heard from
again, this party of the country, a
least, would be better OF.
The other day, after the mail had ar
rived, and some forty or fifty persons
we're waiting for it, there was quite a
commotion in front of the postoffice
here. The neighbors for block around
could have been seen maEiDg Tor thelI
doors and windows. thinking perhaps
/ that the Indians or United States
deputy marshaIS had made q raid on
the town, but on closer observation IL
was found to be our postmaster on one
( of his drunken sprees, jumping up and
down worse than jumping JACK, en-
dangering peoples noses with his Inst,
one gentleman's in particular, and
using obscene language too filthy to
mention, and that when ladies were
coming to and going from the postottlce
/ and in other ways making himself so
abusive that the city marshal had tc
threaten him with arrest to keep him
Quiet EPHRAIMITE.
EPHRAIM, December 81, 1885.