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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16
The Sidewalk Question.

The sidewalk question bobbed up Sc
renely in the city council meeting on Fri
day night Alderman Preshaw spoke Of
what had not been done last year, and
called this question up under the head Of
unfinished business. 1t will be rernem
bered that an ordinance was passed, dis
stricting the city for the purpose of con.
structing sidewalks; that the same was
published according to law, and protests
received during the time of publication.
and that protests were received from only
three or four districts. 1t will also be re-
membered that the ordinance was not en-
forced even in the districts where it might
legally have been operative, and the CON
sequence is that in the matter of sidewalks
the city is about as badly off as it was
year ago.
Thisis the present disgraceful situation
which Alderman Preshaw, chairman
of the street committee, fully
realizes, and would have remarked
as speedily as practicable by the use of
asphalt in the asphalt districts, as defined
by the ordinance, or any other suitable ma
reasonable reason why this should not be
done. In other words, the ordinance should
be enforced without fear or favor.
The inconsistency of some citizens and
property owners who protested against
putting down sidewalks was well illus
trated by petition to which was attached
over three hundred signatures. These
petitioners live in one of the districts in
which the ordinance provided for side
walks, and so many of them protested that
the ordinance could not apply to that dis
trict. Now they comein and ask to have the
streets in their district graveled at the ex-
pense of the city. 1t may be that
the streets need graveling, but if
the property owners had enough pub
lie spirit to put down good sidewalks
in front of their premises, probably the
horses and other animals which are sup
posed to be confined to the use of the road
ways. would manage to get along even if
they had to travel through the mud Ger
tainly the horses could get through the mud
of the streets with as little discomfort and
inconvenience as pedestrians have been
able to navigate the sidewalks on either
side of said streets during the past winter
There is no objection to walking in the
streets by those who prefer to do so, and if
the property owners of any district show
by tleir acts that they had rather walk in
the street, there is no reason why they
should compel the general public to do as
they do. The roadways ought to be gray
eled in any district whenever the people of
that district consent to construct good side
walks, and not until then.
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The Hole in Papa.s Hair.

He was small boy, with all small
boys inability to reason properly and
with profound admiration of his father,
which extended even to respectful at
titude toward the bald spot which was
beginning to be apparent on the paternal
head. 1t was with desire to initiate
this manly adornment that he one day
possessed himself Of pair of scissors
and proceeded to cut off such stray locks
of his back hair as he was able to get
hold OF.
This self barbering did not prove espe-
cially pleasing to his mother, who re,
proved him for his misdeeds with good
deal of emphasis.
81 don't know what shall do to you, y
she said. "You knew that it would
make me feel bad to have you cut your
hair off that way"
"Why, mamma" he retorted, with the
unanswerable logic Of his years, "you
never scold papa for having hole in his
hair. Boston Courier.
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dews of heaven and enriched by the de.
caying aristocracy of the Usage and
Wichita Indians. The dust Of preada.
mite man, watered by the tears of the
more modern and renaissance grasshop.
per sufferer, has laid the foundation fol-
the granaries of the world and stimu.
lated the bright eyed prevaricator to dc
henor to his state.
Emporia is a more quiet city, with
fewer reading notices than Wichita, but
thriving business and good prospects.
Prohibition may still be found in Kan
sas, leading its victims on down to the
prohibitionist's grave. 1 saw quite a
number of people who were just begin
ming to fool with it, little thinking what
a hold it would one day have on them.
At Lawrence l visited the university,
and wish especially to return thanks to
Professor Snow, of Snow hall, for a de-
lightful hour among his fossil batrachians
and giant straddle bugs. He has good
collection of Kansas people who flour
ished at an early date and who made
footprints in the sands of time which
have been handed down 10 posterity in
the limestone of our day. He has the
lower jaw of a mammoth, with blue
porcelain teeth, which for many years
stood in the middle of a small stream, so
that when the water was low the boys
used to stand on this monsters chin and
fish, little knowing what treasure it
would be to the savant and the scholar
in future years. One day a sportsman
stopped to spit on his bait, and glancing
down at the huge stone decided that it
was bone. He got help to roll it over,
and 10! it was the maxillary works of a
great. coarse beast that could eat hard
ware store like dish of oat meal and
use the raging main for finger bowl.
Paris reminded me very much of To-
pel1a. Paris has the same wide, smooth
streets, and is also q railroad center,
though Mr.. Peacock does not live there.
Mr.. Peacock, the poet, near. els the
author of this stanza:
Swiftly, sorrowfuIly, then sadness
Fell on our raptured souls SO light,
That eftsoons nigh unto madness
Led with melancholy blight
Eftsoons is one Of our best words,
think; but Mr.. Peacock would do better
with it in the east, where eftsoons and
gadzook poets get much better prices
.aan in the west.
Mr.. Peacock gets some very flattering
Endorsements from other poets and the
press.
Matthew Arnold, in reply to letter
and volume sent by Mr.. Peacock, said,
with great heartiness:
Yes, we have had an unusually hot
summer in England this year. Still,
crops are looking well and fall blowing
will all be done at least a week earlier
than usual. Sincerely yours,
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Lord Tennyson writes as follows: 81
would be glad to accept your kind invi-
tation to come and spend few weeks at
your house, but have agreed to jerk a
few stanzas for the Guelph outfit and
have already put it off too long" Con-
tinuing his letter, and in reference to the
volume of poems sent him for criticism,
he said. II like the clean cut and rather
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Most all the windows of the town were
also shot out as a mark of disrespect.
Finally cowboy was secured red hand
ed, who had been in the proofreading
and punctuating business, and the PEG
pie made a cold and disagreeable exam
pie of him.
Wichita is the largest city in Kansas,
but does not care to have anything said
about it. Electric street cars run clear
away out to the slaughter house and on
into the forest primeval, so that sports
men frequently so by street car into the
haunts of the pheasant and the bear. 1t
is not uncommon to see an eastern CAPT.
talist returning at night, after good
days sport, with a dozen grouse and two
good sized building lots.
Kansas is said to be the most remark
able grain growing state. Her soil is
rich and black, her people full of hope
and good victuals. Corn is low at the
present time, but there is enough for
food and fuel for the winter, the crop
being unusually large. The man who
said that by the light of his burning corn
the mortgage on his farm was pessi-
mist with q tendency toward uxoricide.
Out of the labor and anguish of war,
drouth and pestilence in Kansas was
born a beautiful state. and within her
borders dwell proud, prosperous and
prohibition people.
Corn grows to great height, and SO
do the pleasing anecdotes regarding the
productive soil OF Kansas. l saw an ear
of corn two feet long the other day, and
stalks of corn twenty feet high. Also
the unrufTied remains of grasshopper
four feet long. do not know how they
were constructed, but they looked first
rate.
Kansas is one of the most healthful
states in the union. People live SO long
here that they get tired of life. The
death rate is only to every 1000 peo-
pie, the mortality being almost as low
as it is among French duelists.
The Arkansas Valley is now called
''the American Nile" All the rich allu-
vial and such things as that have been
borne down from the eastern slopes of
the Rocky mountains and spread over
this fertile plain. For six thousand
years it was pasture for the buffalo,
the deer and the antelope, and while
awaiting its destiny as q great agricul-
tural hotbed, it has been watered by the
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Not finding any gold in the region OF
Wichita, and town lots being far beyond
his reach, he retraced his steps. He
lived, however, to regret that he did not
secure property there and hold it for a
rise.
For some years the Wichita Indians
and the Osages occupied the most desir-
able portions of Sedgwick county, and
the buffalo with the foreshortened mar
rative walked the main streets of Wi
'chita unsecured.
The first white man to settle in the
county was John Ross. He was followed
by his hired man, both being buried in
the same grave at the earnest solicita-
lions of the Indians.
In 1868 Hon. James r. Mead estab-
lished a trading post on the site of Wich-
tia and began killing the buffalo in order
to clear off sufficient ground to start the
new board OF trade building. In three
weeks Mr.. Mead killed $50 buffalo, and
saved 300 pelts in addition to his own.
He also saved $500 pounds of tallow,
which served to lubricate his boots all
that winter.
William Mathewson, who, it is claimed,
is the original Buffalo Bill of the from
tier, then settled here. His wife was the
first white woman to come to Wichita.
The first official act of the county COM
missioners was to issue a license for a
new saloon.
In 1870 d. S. Munger kept hotel, was
postmaster, carried the mail in his hat,
and had time to do general real estate
business, watch repairing, lunch at all
hours, saws set and filed, and also to fur
nish insurance and bulk oysters to one
and all. Now it requires thirteen letter
carriers to spread the mail.
In 1872 The Wichita Eagle broke its
shell, and with a shrill scream bought a
new hand press and began the opinion
molding business. The editor now oc-
cupies luxuriant Office, with rich tapes
tries torn from the treasures of European
princes. he lolls back on q Turkish
divan in beautiful suit of pajamas,
while silent eunuchs from the east do
his bidding. On the walls are seen
costly paintings of Socrates, Plumb and
other prominent Kansas men. a group
picture consisting of Messrs. Ingalls, and
Demosthenes hangs above the etTuscan
fireplace. Costly works are seen on
every hand, and in rich bindings, side
by side, are the poems of Homer and
Thomas Brewer Peacock. There also
may be found the published speeches of
Cicero, the Thomas Ociiltree of his time.
Large etruscan tear jugs containing
Wichita chartreuse ornament the side
board and natural punches of seed corn
decorate the bust of man whose name
did not learn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16

Martha Nelson to Nellie E. Fisher, lots
to ~, both inclusive, block g. Linck &
Ciriflin'S first addition 5000
L. G.. Porter and wife TO E. S. Morton, a
part of lot H. block 4, South Ogden sur
vey C8i4 feet by 9 rods ---.------ 9,15O
W. Critchow to j James y. Williams a part
OF lot !, block &, plat y, 30 feet by rods
and inches $3.50
S. q. Gould TO Il. Il. Reed, lot 10, block Al,
plat c, Iacre- ----, 1,7O0
j. r.. Forrest and wife and e. Shepley and
wife to j. w. McNutt, apart of lots 9and
10, block 49, plat a, Ak o rods------------ 4000
part Of lot /, block %, plat A, 8xS rods 1900
]. Il. Hodson and wife to j. e. HodSon,
part of the southeast quarter of section
4, township north, range west, 10
and 1910 acres
j. Iverson and wife TO II. II. Ballantyne,
a part oflot 8. block s. plat B---------- COO
j. A. Boyle and wife TO Y. II. Ballantye, u
Survey parv ~ Nv - D-0ON NJ 9Ou.l ouol aso
E. JeSsop and wife to w. II. Campbell, a
part of lot IL, block 4, South Ogden sur
yey, 5x9 rods----..---- ------ 1900
I. N. Goodale and wife TO Levi Taylor, q
part of the northwest quarter of section
Z, township north, range west-------- 500
Don Mcguire and wife TO Il. Frederick, d
part OF lot s, block D. plat 3, 4xl0 rods LOCO
w r. Barker and wife to H. j. Warner
part of LOTS, block ID, plat A--,- 70
S. UnSworth and wife to Joseph Clark, j.
L. Thompson and William Emmett,
part of lot Z, block 20, plat A, 25x 132
II. B. Crane to B. F. Blodgett, q part of
lot Q, block 10, plat B2xS rods---- TJC
w. r. Mccoy to Fl. b. Crane, part of lot
2, block 10, plat 1850
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BILL NYE IN KANSAS.
Report of the Meeting of Chief
Wideout and Coronado.
THE ORIGINAL BUFFALO BILL.
Where the Early Pioneer Mother was Kept
Busy Pulling the Arrows Ont Of Her
Little Ones.
[For TIE SUNDAY HERALD. BY special arrange
merit with the author

About three hundred and fifty years
ngo Coronado pitched his tentfn Kansas.
Prior to that it is believed that the foot
Of white man had not been the author
OF any footprints to speak Of within her
borders. The early reddish Indian had.
up to that date, been the sole proprietor
of that country.
Coronado found fat and friendly set
of Indians, quite number of whom he
married, in a cursory manner, after
which he went away from the place.
He formed the acquaintance at that time
of old Wideout, chief of the Cowbiters,
a very warlike and revengeful race.
Wideout weighed, it is estimated, 400
pounds, though not very tall, say five
feet four inches in height. So we may
classify him as the widest red American,
aside from Noah Webster, of whom his
tory informs us.
Coronado, however, was not in search
of Indians or homestead. or even rest
aud cha3sc cf scene, but he was looking
for gold at the time, being cold, grasp
ing native such as flourished during the
luxurious Castilian days or under the
New Orleans dynasty.
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Both Pretty BAD.

"Blykens is an exceedingly extrava-
CANT man," said Mrs. Jones to her hus-
band.
HAS he been telling you how much
he paid for his house?"
"Yes."
''Well, l never could make up my
mind which were the most extravagant,
his expenditures or his sSorys about
them washing IN Post.
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earnest and hosaest work in your book,
especially the JOB work and cover. I
would like to figure with your publisher
a little on new book for this winter.
Our folks are all well here, though prices
are low and live stock is looking tough
and rocky, especially where the boiler
horn has went over the country like a
large wet bosom of wrath. Yours fra
ternally, A. TENNYsoN."
Oscar Wilde says: "Mr. Peacock GER
tainly writes with great vigor and spells
with considerable accuracy. He writes
with wonderful force and bears down SO
hard on his subject that he wears out his
theme and gives beautiful polish to the
under side of his sleeve"
Seriously, however, Mr.. Peacock writes
with much feeling, and some of his ny
perbole and SMILES are as juicy as any
thing l ever sat down to.
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SALT LAKE DAILY HERALD.
OGDEN CITY, UTAH.
OGDEN DEPARTMENT.

The branch office of THE HERALD is in Reed
& Snyder's iron building on Washington avenue,
adjoining Boyle & CO.. furniture store. Adver-
Using rates will be made known upon applica
ton to the manager.
THE DAILY HERALD is for sale at all news
stands and by all news boys, and is delivered
by carrier in Ogden for % cents per week. Nc
papers stopped until arrears are paid. Sub
scribers failing to receive papers promptly will
confer favor by notifying the branch office
Parties desiring papers stopped or addresses
changed must notify the branch Office.
E. A. LITTLEFlELD. Manager,
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Helning the Teacher Out

Little Tommy had spent his first day
at school.
"What did you learnT asked his auntie
on his return.
Didn't learn anything!' said Tommy.
"Well, what did you do?"
Didn't do anything! A woman want
ed TO know how to spell cat and told
her. "-London Tit-Bits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16
Getting Uneasy About Himself.

He knocked at the door of the morgue
and the keeper asked:
''What do you want?"
81 want to know if you've got anybody
like me inside. I've not been home now
for going on three weeks, and I'm sort
of getting anxious about myself"
The difficulty was finally cut by an Of
ficer and the patrol.-Philadelphia Times.
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a Question of the Day.

Landlady Showing Jones her apart
ments)-The hall room you have just
seen is So q week. This one is more ex-
pensive. 1t has two windows, you see.
Jones-Ah, like this best. tell you
what I'll do. I'll give you 50 week for
it and keep the shutters of the extra
window closed. What do you say?-
Epoch.
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Lets go across the street; there comes
Snifkins, and don't want to meet him. -
"Why, you're not afraid of little man
like him, are your
That's just it; he knows he's SO small
that decent man won't hit him, and he
presumes on his size" - Washington
Post,
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First District Court.

Saturday, March Is, 1s9o-In the case o
the United States against Michael Stanley
for adultery, order sentencing defendan
to eighteen months Imprisonment.
James Kelley VS.. W. j. Stephens, fol
damages caused by falling into defendant.
cellar; verdict for plaintiff; damages as
sessad at 81 900.
Adjourned till Monday, March II, al
10 a. IN.
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THE ORIGINAL BUFFALO BILLS HOUSE.
And yet on this very spot, only few
years ago, it seems, the rank buffalo
nodded in the wind and the early pi-
oneer mother was kept busy pulling the
srrows out of her loved ones.
is it not remarkable: Here, where
now wealth and refinement just fairly
jostle each other on the streets, and cable
cars run clear out into the large farms,
and hired men dig potatoes beneath the
glare of electric lights, only short time
ago the early buckwheater, with his life
in one hand and his scalp in the other,
fled before the irritable red man
Like hare before the beagle.
Later still, at each end of the principal
streets, it became necessary to put up
the SIGN;
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Not cnIlectirelr in Error

Minister (from pulpit)-Will the choir
please oblige the congregation by max
ing less noise?
First Chorister-Please, sir, the choir
is not to blame; it's the second tenor's
plaid pants!-Binghamton Leader.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16
The Softest Place.

They were sleigh riding.
He-I always pick out the softestplace
when 1 upset my sleigh.
She-Why, 1 should think it would
grow monotonous, always falling on
your head.-St. Louis Magazine.
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Not wholly Unknown to Him.

"Wagner's operas carry me right
away-don't they you?"
mot his operas; no. But was car
ried to Albany on one of his sleeping
cars the other night. Chatter.
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Am Irrerocable Deoisior

He (rejected)-Would you marry me if
I had 100000:
She-No, Geosge, not even for that
sum.-Time.
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Real Estate Transfers.

The following deeds were filed for record
yesterday in the office of the county re-
corder:
Thomas Bacon and Willard E. Kay and
wife to Joseph Clark, part of lott,
block 90 plat A (i0 feet by s rods. Sl2, coo
J. c. Scott ct oil. to Thomas Brown. jr.,
lots 43 and a, block z, Rushton addition 500
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FREE! FREEi FREE!

Those elegant new reclining chairs on Mis-
souri, Pacific railway. Pueblo to Kansas
City and St. Louis without change of cars,
S. V. DERRAH, Com'l Agent,
POS Progress building, Salt Lake city.
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Couldn't Forget 1t.

''There is one face that is always be-
fore me-" said Clarence, as he stroked
the golden locks of his month old wife.
sAnd that is''-
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Tho Old Old Cnrn-

81 am getting awfully gray, doctor.
Is there no possible way of stopping it,
Eyes, madam; you should diet care
fully."-Harper's Bazaar.
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And then the timid creature hung her
dainty head, while the heartless wretch
whispered:
"My own. "-Yonkers Statesman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16

Health demands healthy liver Take
Simmons Liver Regulator for dyspepsia
and indigestion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16

New stock of lumber at lowest prices at
Angel Bros, State road. Telephone 1885, =
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SHOOTING PROHlBlTEDI1
INSIDE THESE LIMITS /

The next day the sign had been punctu-
ated by cowboys as follows:
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a Cold Day for Terrapin.

Honorah dropping the last one out of
the window)-Th' butcher boys afther
playin' wan O his jokes on me, ma'am.
He left basket in tn basement wild six
G these lizards wild boxes on their backs,
t f-ighten me.-Puck.
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for Infants and Children.

'"Ccstoriais SO well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" Il A. ARcHER, II D.,
III So. Oxford ST, Brooklyn, Y.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-05-01
FIRE DANGEROUS PL4oE.


A shed damaged at the j. Morton
poole COnipaMy's works.
Fire was discovered in long frame
shed in the rear OF the works of the j.
Morton Poole Company, ut the foot of
Thorn street, yesterday week shortly
after O'CLOCK. The shed extended from
the edge of the wharf, distance of 40
or 80 feet towards the shops, and was
filled with moulding sand, coke, char
coal, small mould boxes, lumber, 80.
Considerable lumber wss piled on the
top of the shed aud back of it wers the
piles of lumber in Simmons lumber
yard.
The fire apparatus at .he works was
soon put in service and the spread of the
fire checked. An alarm was struck from
box Al, at Warmers wharf and before it
had ceased ringing some excited person
pulled box No. Is, at Second and Shiplsy
streets. The confusion of alarms was
made worse by the manner in which the
latter bc1 wAs pulled. Three or four
streams from the engines, in addition 10
those from the fire plugs at the works,
soon extineuished the flames.
The origin OF the fire Is not known. 1t
is presumed that spark ignitea cer
load OF very dry charcoal which had just
been received The loss ID about 800
and the shed wag not insured.