The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-20

n ear the Colorado Indian reservation and
the band had come from their home and
after having driven of this party secured
all the horses and whatever
else they wanted and decamped
A party,of ranchers armed themselves with
Winchester rifles and gave the Indians
chase. Mr.. Mariger did not learn the re-
suit of the pursuit. This is the first Of
tense of the kind since about 1870, when
DIR. Whitmore was killed at Pipe Springs
At this time the Indians received very
severe reproof, which lasted over twenty
years. The people are ready to give them
another dose If they become too destroyer
GUS. The affair was telegraphed to Fort
Wingate, N. M. 1t is likely government
investigation will be made and the offend
ers punished by this means, unless the
pursuing party. finds them.
Mr.. Mariger, says the Kanab dam, which
has been under way for the past two years
has raised the water about forty-three feet
and is proving fine piece of work. 1t will
be completed within a month, and is the
biggest undertaking of the kind in the ter
rltory. This dam was necessary to fur
nish water for the farms and city, their
supply having been cut off by floods anG
left them high and dry for two years. The
dam is constructed by private corpora
ton at an outlay of between S15, 900 and
$4,000, and will Withstand the floods with
out doubt and furnish water for much
! larger area than ever before.
GENERAL AND PERSONAL
Atkins Bres. gave the initial ball in
their new hall on Friday. 1t was well con
Quoted and reflected credit on the proiec
tors. They will run a series during the
| winter.
POSTMASTER Barnard seeing our refer
ence to the isolated condition of his sane
tum and the repeated echoes from the pub
lie, has brought about the desired removal
and after January 1st, he will be found VI
town next to the Co OPP.
The district schools have adjourned for
the holidays, and Principal Henry Hays
has gone to his old home to eat mince pie
and plum duff.
A hilarious individual from Willow
Bend, by the name of Curtis, was fined
SIS for the pleasure of shooting off his gun,
hitting house and soaring the inmates on
Monday night, after the Standardization
wedding reception.
Isaac barton has been spending a few
days in Salina, the object of his visit tc
some is a mystery, but his friends ascribe
1T to woman, oh, woman"
Duck hunting and skating is the order OF
the day on the Redmond lake, living a mile
| north of Salina
The Redmond school people gave a very
credltable entertainment on Thursday
evening, engineered by Principal Chri:
Jensen, ir., and his able assistant, Miss
Katie Woohouse, of Lehi.
Agent Wagstaff, OF THE HERALD, was il
town last week dealing out receipts, re
ceiving compliments, etc, for his paper.
The Rio Grande Western seems to have
lost its enterprise or else its pocketbool
when it reached Salina 1t has been there
over six months and the only substitute
for depot Office is a back number narrow
guage box car. The company has banked
it up and otherwise made preparations fol
winter permanency that is creating some
dismay among the enterprising citizens o.
Salina.
Travel over the Rio Grande Western
from the Sewer and Sanpete counties il
far beyond the expectations of the com
pany and is giving all the encouragement
TO the extension OF the road.
Salina has newspaper that, outside O.
its politics, is credit to the publisher
both from an editorial and mechanical
standpoint. Mr.. Wallace is an energetic
man and deserves the support of the gooc
people of Salina