The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-21
BOX ELDER BITS.
Arctic Weather, Personal and
General News Paragraphs.

| Our LAST was chapter on the sever
| ity of the winter, to the exclusion of all
| other matter; but single chapter do s
not do the subject Justice; a whole
volume is little more than such weather
merits.
"CoLD AS Christian Charity"
BEST AND smoothest walking, these
days, is on the topmost crust of the
dritted SNOW; 1t carries both man and
beast. "a.
FROZEN FEET, Il =. ted ears and ting
ling toes are as plentiful as indictments
| TO- unlawful cohabltatiOn.
LAS CRAZY as Commissioner c." is the
very latest, in the line OF local compar-
isoDs. If we see man step outside the
door these mornings minus oyercoat
am wraps.
THE WEATHER wise are already pre-
dieting no fruit this year. They say 1t
will take at least one s ason for the
trees to recover from the biting frosts.
Look OUT for that predicted boom in
the hide and pelt business. Cattle are
reported as dying by the dozen
on the Promcntory range; Growers are
desperate, sheep men shaky! Its an
i'll wind that blows nobody good, This
suits the farmer.
I'D. PITT. of the c. M. c. & S. Com.
| pany of Corinne, had his right cheek
| frozen coming to town on the morning
of the l4th. This does not imply that
Tom has more cheek than gall; it sim
ply means that his cheek Was the only
part exposed to the fierce fury OF the
, eastern blast.
PATER Rock, of Paradise, brought a
bunch of sheep through the mountail q
i Oh Thursday. He had seven pair o1
horses and one yoke of oxen hitched to
| loaded drag to make path for them
He is en- his way south hunting for 9
warmer climate, but here the cold wave
struck him, the sheep refused TO &C
further, ana several of them literally
froze On their feet before he could gel
them to shelter or feed. He will move
on when the weather moderates, l
there are any sheep alive by that time tt
moYe on Wi b.
| RUDGER CLAwsoH, our president elect
came into town, aboard a wreckint
train, on Tuesday last at o'clock am
He then had to meander mile, facing
the canyon zephyr, for team to takt
his wife up town. We fear such an in
PRODUCTION is OF calculated in its chilly
nature to impress him favorably witt
his new home; however, warm recep
ton by the people will dispel this fetl
ing, affiliate his surroundings and make
the place habitable to degree.
We WILL now leave the weather ex
cept to report casualties in the future
and drift on to a warmer and more con
genial subject.
BUD Harrison, cur live livery man
took an out-ef-town sleigh ride OF
Thursday evening, accompanied b.
Miss Mary Larson; when the couple re-
turned they were man and wife, justice
Joseph Yates. of Calls Fort, havins
acquiesced an official sanction. Miss
Larson's father is now in the Utah Pen.
serving out the usual sentence for IN,
common otfense.
l Mr.. GARDNE3, of the firm of Burton
4 Gardner, your city, has been In town
and placed en- agency for his hous.
with the Box Elder Stack & Mercantile
Company.
AND NOW there is talk of closing Ho
Springs station and removing the
| agency to Willard. Our neighbor CITY
would support the Office well. and she
ought to have it.
| CONSIDERABLE SICKNESS in town. bat
no deaths reportt d. The prevailing
malady is measles, and children are the
only sufferers.
| LARS RAsMUssEN, the old and reliable
mail carrier, i, on the sick list, and for
the first time in many years fails to
meet the trains. L. Halling now has the
contract. Let US hope he will prove as
trustworthy as his aged predecessor.