The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-26
PROVO POINTS.
News Notes and Personal Para
graphs from Utah County.

WHAT LOVELY weather we are having.
REED SMooT returned home this morn
ing.
A. H. WIN returns to Salt Lake to-
day.
T. B. LEWIS, of Salt Lake. is paying
Provo visit.
n. A. ENPEY and wife passed through
our burg on Friday.
ED. SHoEBRfDGE was with us for sew
eral days this week.
b JUDGE BENNETT was among the guests
at the Excelsior on Friday.
E. w. TULLIDGE, after short stay in
| Provo left for Payson on Friday.
w. n. DUsENBERRY and w. H Dusen-
berry went to the metropolis Friday.
WILLIAM CARROLL and S. B. Moore
left for Tintic this morning. on mining
business.
H. S. CUMMINGS goes to Zion to-day,
and will return to the Zion of Spring
vile on Sunday.
REV. E. SMITH, OF the NJ. E. church.
/ left for Omaha, via the Little Giant
route, on Thursday. eraa -
DE-. w. r. PIKE, in alighting from his
buggy few days since, turned his right
ankle and badly sprained it. He is
around attending to patients, although
still lame.
SHOOT g. Co.'S drug store has been un-
dergoing reformation the past week,
such as whitewashing, calcimining, etc.,
etc., which gives it an inviting and
cheerful appearance.
THE MONTHLY meeting of the Mutual
Improvement Association, held a joint
session in the Meeting House last night,
which was well attended, and proved to
be, as those meetings invariably are,
Interesting, entertaining, and instruc-
tive.)
ONE OF Provo's youths while care
lessly handling a horse pistol" in
''Duggin's Billiard hail. on Friday
accidently discharged it. The ball
passed between the second and third
finger of the left hand, inflicting flesh
wound only.
JOHN H. GoRMLY, who for the past
nine months has been engaged as
plumber at the asylum, left for Salt
! Lake yesterday, where he will remain q
few days and then go to st. Louis,
where he expects to reside. 1t is with
regret that we lose him as citizen.
THE CALICO ball, which was given in
Cuffs Hall last night, was success in
every particular. There was a good
crowd in attendance and every one
seemed to be in the spirit for dancing
Special mention should be made of the
music, which was furnished by Jeffer-
sons band, it was excellent, the COM
mittee seemed to be united in their en-
deavors to make 1t pleasant and an
enjoyable affair, and they were certainly
/ successful.
HAS THE idea never forced itself upon
our citizens what a magnificent and
lovely summer resort and watering
place could be made on the shores of
| Utah Lake? We have here before US
every material advantage and resource
that must certainly prove successful
to any one who would make the at
tempt. The scenery surrounding our
city and the lake cannot be surpassed
in the west. All the beauties of nature
are herein combined. Had we such q
place on the shores of this lake it would
attract the attention of tourists and
travellers who, during the summer
months. are always seeking summer
resort, and of late years all this
travel that in former years went to
the Atlantic Coast, has, of natural
consequence, Travelled westward, and
this change will continue to increase
year after year, until but few years
will elapse when the number who
go to watering places in the east will be
very small compared with those coming
west, and more desirable location than
we have here right at our hand, would.
1--WE believe" be hard to find. We have
the best of railroad facilities, and eli
mate not to be surpassed anywhere in
the west, and within few miles drive
| there is Provo, American Fork and
| Spanish Fork canyons, all of which are
widely known and renowned for their
grandeur and beauty, and our city
| itself, which is so universally admired
| by all strangers, and rightfully termed
the Garden City" of Southern Utah.
Now, don't you believe that with these
advantages and attractions herein
named, that such an investment would
be profitable to the parties engaged in
such an enterprise, and it would GER
talnly be benefit to our city. We hope
that some of our more energetic citizens
will give this thought. and embrace
! the opportunity which has so long been
in reach. and make for us a resort and
watering place such as would attract
| the attention of all tourists and travel
ers who are constantly seeking such
pleasure.
The case of the people against
Farmer and Follett, charged with the
murder of one Hans Ottenson, COM
mitted in Manti, in November last, the
case was closed on Wednesday at
O'Clock, and was submitted to the jury.
They after having been out two hours
brought in a verdict of Not Guilty"
While this was surprise to most every |
one, yet we have heard but little if any
dissatisfaction expressed. The two boys |
are generally believed TO be guilty, but
he evidence being purely circumstantial
and not Of the strongest character, we
think the jury was justified in finding |
the verdict they did. And We think the
verdict should meet the approval of all, !
and not be subjected to any unjust |
criticisms, because in the first place"
the jury was composed of men with
more than an ordinary degree of intel
ligence; in the second place" we are
satisfied that they discharged their du-