The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-26
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There was no reply.
"Are YOU Job?" was then asked of
the gentleman whose white shanks were
trembling from beneath that absurdly
short garment. you orght to br."
he added, you seem to be patient
enough"
Yet there was no response, but the
awkward silence was broken by the ad-
vent of delegation of Waterman and
porters in charge of the gentlemen who
had summoned them to take charge of
the trembling culprit. No explanations
being forthcoming, the two men were
turned over to the hotel employees, aud
then it was thought best to see where
"She" had gone to. She was net gone;
she was still there, and her story was
almost as brief as her drapery.
While the two gentlemen hid their
faces in their hankerchiefs, the fair
damsel gave sketch of the proceed
ings up to the point where she had
deemed il necessary to leave the apart
ment allotted to her and seek shelter
with strangers. It seems that she and
the short-shirted Amhagger were in
tue room all by their own lone selves,
and she claimed that they were cousins.
Suddenly there came knock at the
door, and then the knocking was re-
peated several times The gentlemen
on the inside conc luded that he had
better make some inquiry as to the per-
| Sonality of the individual who had
| disturbed him, aud while he was NOV
| ing toward the door the lady intuitlvely
satisfied herself on that point, and
realizing that there would be trouble
she had knocked at the connecting door
and appealed to those within lor the
protection which they had given her.
Her cousin (?) by that time had reached
the door leading to the hall, and stand
Ing against it sidewise asked in large
| two-for a.quarter tone of voice,
was pistol shot, the ball penetrating
the door and cutting a piece of cartilage
out of the tip of "couSin's' nose. He
Immediately made dash for The door
through which his fair relative had dis.
appeared, and as the gentlemen who
had occupied the adjoining room were
engaged in capturing the would-0e
assassin he contriyed to reach the
closet unobserved, and there he found
| his lost partner.
Her tale of woe ended, the lady was
| allowed to depart, and, after she had
added a few decorative tribes to her
airy costume, she too was summoned
down stairs to answer for somebody's
| misdoings. 1t was expected that some
dreadful punishment would be inflicted
| on all the parties, and it would have
been only o fitting finale had "She,
who must-be -obeyed," sentenced them
to suffer the fortunes of the tabled ''hot
pot" but nothing OF the kind hap
pened. The parties went to their
several rooms-ouly one to each room
this time-and they did not leave the
house until yesterday, when they left
the city. 1t was rumored that the man
who did the shooting claimed to be
bound by marital ties to theslady il the
case, but no testimony to that effect
was developed.
All the participants saw each other at
the breakfast table yesterday morning.
The lady was dressed for company on
that occasion, and seemed to be per-
fectly happy. 1t evidently took more
to worry her than such little toing as
the proceedings of the previous night.
| Her cousin whom she called
Frank" had his nose in sling, and
talked as though 1t hurt him, while the
murderouS william sat at another table
and gulped down his food in the man
ner popularity supposed to be peculiar
to such bloodthirsty individuals.
1t was tame ending to such pro-
missing young tragedy.
The bill passed by the House short
time ago amending the postal laws is
likely to meet with its death in the
| Senate. Senator Henderson, chairman
of the Senate committee on printing, is
being overwhelmed with petitions from
all parts of the country against the
passage of the bill. The Objectionable
amendment is as follows: land no
publications that are but books or re-
| prints of books, whether they be issued
complete or in parts. bound or un-
bound, or in series, or whether sold by
subscription or otherwise, shsll be ad-
mitted to the mails as second-class
matter. If the amendment should be
adopted it would result in injuring if
not altogether crippling the cheap
printing business. The petitions
against it are numerous and numer-
ously sigued; they come from all the
larger cities of the country and will
doubtless accomplish all their purpose
Senator Sawyer, the chairman of the
COMMITTEES on the postotfice and post
roads. has beea fully convinced that
the amendment would work great
wrong, and he can be depended upon
to influence the majority against it.
That army officers will descend to
small tricks in their endeavors to secure
advancement has probably been shown
very clearly but it is not often that
such an intricate piece of scheming is
INDUCED in as the following: Some
time ago Major G. NJ. Terrell,
of tbs pay department, now sta
toned at Omaha, sent al innocent
looking bill to Senator Henderson
which was entitled "a bill to secure
monthly payment in the army" and
which contained in its innermost re-
cesses provision FOR the promotion of
certain officers who had performed
continuous service for certain period
Mr.. Henderson introduced the bill, it
was duly referred to the committee, |
and last week it came up for considera-
ton. Then appeared that the in
nocent-looking provision in the bill
about promotions embodied the resl
purpose of the measure, and that it |
vas intended to promote Terrell over
another pay officer named Smith, who
had served as long as he had but whose
service had not been continuous in the