Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-28
ECHOES OF THE WEEK.

WITH ALL due respect Tor the sagacity and
capacity of the local railway grandees, we
would like to inquire why. when they were
framing their pool agreement they failed to In
corporate an article providing for the employ
ment of Quaker City attorney to interpret and
construe the document.
THE CITY Council chamber, when that august
and wonderfully composed body Is In sessions
pervaded By about as melancholy and funereal
an air as could be conceived outside OF grave
yard OF the Roman catacombs, and visitor
naturally wonders If he hasn't stumbled Into
depository for Egyptian mummies The pre-
siding officer and few of the counciImen ex-
hibit occasional signs of life, but the rest-ah,
the rest. Well, there is some consolation in the
thought that they are not likely to do any harm.
THE FORTUNES that have been made and the
fortunes that have been lost in western min
ing would furnish material for volume OF
more fabulous tales than could ever have been
dreamed by the author OF 'The Count OF Monte
Christie, in his moods of widest imagination.
And now come Messrs. Browe and Landers
rubicund and rosy members of the happy Den
yer & Rio Grande family, with Wood River
mine that they purchased from bus ted
prospeetor last winter for a $S5 suit of clothes.
the ore from which is found to assay twenty
ounces ''at the grass roots" and TO be In great
demand by the smelters for its fuxing proper
ties.
RIPPLE-possibly ripple and half-was
created in local railway circles this week by
the rumor that pool between the Sanpete Val
ley and the Utah Eastern systems was in pro-
cess of incubation. Realizing the momentous
effect consolidation of these two g eat trunk
lines would have upon Utah traffic, we sifted the
matter most thoroughly. Mr.. Bamberger, pres
fdent of the Sanpete lines, when the. subject
was preached, said:.
"Oh, can't do anything with Mr.. Mcmillan
Too much prosperity hath surely made him
supercilious. Why, 1 can't come near him.
He won't listen to any reason
Mr. Mcmillan, of the Utah Eastern system,
was found in his usually communicative mood |
and unburdened himself as follows:
81 don't think the pool win be formed. Those !
Sanpete nabobs are too graspingly selfish and |
hoggish Why, would you believe it, they ac-
nine per cent. of the earnings Of course we |
could not listen to such proposals They would /
not be entitled to more than ninety-eight and a
half at the most. Still, realize the fact that
we are hopelessly lost and forever ruined
should the sanpete decide to cut rates, although |
my friend Jay Gould has promised to stand by
me should the worst come to the worst
1t is sincerely hoped that the worst will not
come to the wOrst, rs surely would be the case
If Jay Gould was called on to stand by"
HOLLOW! HOLLOW! Hollow" repeated Bun
horne in sepulchural tones at the Logan per-
formance.
as it a telephone?" timidly inquired
Eyes, it is Rocky Mountain Bell" and the
audience beloved with mirth.
THE FERTILITY of the Herald, in fabricating
from its unlawful lottery vic
inns, is only surpassed by its effrontery in
'alming them off on the public as genuine.
ANYTHING NEw?" inquired Tribune report
n, as he entered the city marshal's Office the
,ther evening.
mo, guess not" responded officer Salmon
Spose you heard of that dead body being
ound?"
"Whatp' gasped the reporter, Dead body, did
'ou say? Who? When? Howl" ,
Come, come, young man, be calm Don't
xcite yourself so. I don't know anything
bout II except that dead body was found on
,enth East street this morning and buried in
n adjacent lot"
"But who was it?"
1.-THE bodyI believe, was too much decom-
osed for Identification"
WELL come, tell all about it," pleaded the re-
orter desperately. 81 want to know the par
culars. You can surely tell me something
lore"
Yes, young man, can tell you something
lore, and the officer. with cruel CLEAN in his
ye, drew near the reporter and whispered In
is ear: ut was the dead body of an ownerless
og,"
Somebody looked very sick and went outside
n breath of fresh air, but it wasn't the 20
ceman
IT MAY not be q matter of yerv ureot nv IN