The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-03
ROAMING ROUND.
A Little Episode in a Cow
boys Life.
ESCAPED FROM DEATHS DOOR.
Reflections on Freighting Grain on
the Railroads-Mails and Muddy
Roads -9I
ESCAPED FROM DEATHS DOOR.
To the Editor of TIE HERALD:

e and granaries filled with the staff o
u life, indicate general prosperity
Il though the railroads turn a colo
u shoulder to the three sister industries
the animal, the vegetable and the min
eral resources of the country, yet thu
people are able to live comparatively
! comfortable within their own resources
The Sewer is troubled occasionally
! with sensational episodes, notwithstand
: ing the staid habits of the people. One
little ''outside cohab." occurred short
time ago. which may be interesting tc
some of the more sensational readers
> Of The HERALD.
A young cowboy laid down his traps
+ in a quiet little town, and commenced
buying and selling cattle in a quiet little
way. Presently he became familiar with
a young woman Tor properly a Crib
whom he trotted round in his buggy on
every reasonable occasion. Matters
went on without much of jingle, till
, all at once he concluded he must go
to Arizona to sell some stock. The
young lady persisted III going with him
10 see her sister who lived IN that
Territory. Probably fearing a
PUBLIC UeH1OuStIdbfOuI uC dliOHcQ Tue
young lady to accompany him ia his
buggy. They arrived at her sisters in
Arizona, right side up, but the young
cowboy (who, it is stated, had wife
and children in Cclorado), had occ; sion
to go further south and leave his "dar-
ling girl" in her sisters charge till she
was in condition to travel, when she
was sent back to her home on the
| Sewer, leaving number of bills which,
he said, were due him in the neighbor-
hood of her home, to pay her way north
ward, but proving spurious when pre-
sented for payment. !ilttl
After she became able to travel, she
was sent north with wee little BARN"
in her arms. 4 family travelling in that
direction took the unhappy girl back
towards her home; but when she ar
rived about forty miles from home she
borrowed horse, and took the little
thing in her arms and made the trip
in about eight or ten hours, SO the |
story goes, where she arrived safe, but |
her baby was SO shaken up and chilled |
with the cold that it died in short |
time and was buried and soon for /
gotten.
In a month or two sitter, her para
mour returned and sought her out, and |
continued the old-time drives as cozily /
as ever. But alasl he had occasion |
again to go south but this time leaving
his girl to the tender mercies of her
neighbors. for her stepnother, not ap-
proving of her course, turned her
out of doors; and, probably, the
self into a vigilance committee,
the young gent was allowed
10 escape, and he lett with the good
wishes of his ,neighbors-that he may
never return to the Sewer, but 90
home to his own family and be good
and honorable young msn.
Another little sensation occurred a
little way below: An cid gent, near
sighted and night-blind, undertook to
return home from a neighbours an hour
Or two after dark. He lost his way and
got beyond the houses ard fell into the
large canal full of water, waist deep.
Half drowned, he scrambled out,
hall0ing for help as loudly as he could.
In his effort to retrace his steps he fell
DOWN stephan some eight feet, onto
pile OF rock; the fall hurt him fear
.ully, breaking two of his Iibe
and bruising him inwardIy. His power
we're gone, and his calls for help had !
grow into mere means; some boys play
ng near the sehool-house heard the i
lolse; one said it was a wolf, and an q
'ther said he was sure it was apanther.
some larger 7boys coming up with 9
cam, We're told of the sounds that had | ;
'een heard. ConclRdingit mightbe some Q
me in danger or distress, they put
1hip to the horses and just discovered
he poor old man. On the edge of pre-
lplce some fifty feet down. another
tep would have sent him into eternity.
tut he was rescued, and alive when last
card from. ISL Il 7. - IBG 10
The country merchants and grangers "
re all on tiptoe and out of breath :.
nth suspense to know what the rail- Ia
bad men siH conclude on in relation to
hlpp1ng grain out of the Territory. If Ii
ae railroad men could twist their
9nsciences into shape to let the cars N
e Loaded with grain (instead of return
lg them empty1 at rate of about 20 II
.nes per ctw- to the Missouri river, it ~
possible Utah people could do some -
ling IN grain growing. If the railroad Sc
IS we're not maleiously blind, they
,uld see that there would come a time frc
hen freight from the east must also In.
OPP, it being only matter Of time. ~,
here must be some process III
{ put money into the nerchants' fro
lnds or=they willfhave TO cease buying ito
theycyil have nothing to buy with. {
ny UC-Iuey not see Inab Lney are -
lllmg the goose that lays the golden az
6, by numbering the outward trade -OI
The beef, the bread, and the bricks of nea
yer. - WA
How long, o! Or. R.) King must we poi
dure = = : lot
'dn another item, and / quit.-Itis
Il -known that the pioneera FARMERS. r.
lchers and stockmeR are sorely op, l;
'ssed for mail facilities; often the nle'
ited States mail passes b. their doors I;
ltheFhaEe to follow it up three or 2:
II miles or more, before fheys can Il
lar it, and get the tardy weekly pa. 1:
s and occasional letters ,Ibhas been 81
posed to get thepHylege1 efosetting wat,
way boxes wherever convenient. and r.
he charge of some trust y persons IL
ing the mail sorted at the postoffice sout
ow them, and sent in charge of the &c
t driver to these way boxes. 1t is 70
ing much needed 11Can not some W.T.
see this idea and perfect it, and re- 90
g the thanks of thousands of iso- Is
q pioneers, the men who build the
ges and kill the varmints of the
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