The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-03-25
How the Associated Press
SWindIeS the Public.
Leo HaetIi Does a Very Neat
Piece of journalistic De-
tectiYe Work.
The BraVerY of a Mt. Hope
SChooimaSter all Gone
to Smash"

patcn. since laSC Wrote you. giving
you hurried information about the
movement for the establishing of a
water works system in Midway, the
committee appointed to make the nee
essary preliminary inquiries, have
gone to work with laudable zeal, and
l may be able to lay before you some
thing more definite as to the where's
and whens, hOws and whats of the
plans, which has yearly become OF
greater necessity, as the increase in
human habitations with their animal
dependencies has had the inevitable
result in defling the small bitches,
branching off from the big Snake
Creek, upon which most of the people
in the bottom part of this burg are de-
pending for all domestic purposes.
Hence there is no wonder that some
of your superfastidious people in Provo
have expressed a certain dislike for
our water, being afraid of its impurl-
ties although L concur with speak
er at a recent meeting of your Cham
Der of Commerce, in thinking that by
the time the Provo river empties its
water into your canals and bitches the
rough rocks of the canyon bed, with
the wear and tear and rush and brush
of the declivitOus current, have acted
as tolerably thorough, filters to what
deleteriouS or otherwise undesirable
ingredients the stream may havere
ceived in the upper valley. 1t is our
selves up here that need pure aqua,
fresh from the unpolluted bosom OF
mother earth, such as | used TO quaff
in copious draughts up in Snake Greek
canyon, on the half-romantic and half
idyllic country place of my longtime
friend, John Huber. The nature of
the soil here, in the business part OF
town, y is of a rocky, volcanic nature,
rendering the digging of wells ex-
tremely difficult, and its results ques-
tionable, as the warm springs that
break out in the numerous "hot pots
are percolating the ground in all dl-
rections, both tainting and "unfresh-
ening the native cold water all over. !"
But as we live not on water alone
after all, let us leave the matter to be
"liquidated'' and filtered still more to
the committee of five, with friend A.
J. Alexander brother of our former
Bishop H, S. at the head.
will tell you, fer sake of variety of a
discovery l have just made, which has
again confirmed me in my skeptical
attitude towards the numerous cock
and-bull'' stories which appear almost
daily in the telegraph columns of the
press, as specials to and from the
Associated Press or some other syn
dictate of gatherers and disseminators
of current events. Some time in Jan
uary Il forget the exact date there APP
peared in the dispatches of the
western journals that enjoy the fran
chiSe of the Associated Press at from
5000 to $500 per month, an interesting
account of the proweSS of Ho0Slel
pedagogue. The narrative stated that
: at Mount Hope, Indiana, a young male
teacher, named Edgar Farmer, haC
been annoyed by some of the larger
E scholars lof the type called ''yaps" il
this region who would use improper
language toward the female students
= One morning, as he called one of the
offenders up for chastisement, the lat
ter, on responding to the teachers sum
mons, was at once joined by four O
his rowdy companions with the evi
dent design on their part Ito do" the
school monarch up" The latter
however, resolutely took his coat of
and just ''waltzed'' into the gang
; right and left, 50 that after brief bu
2 serious interview the liking of TIT
ferule'' came out on top, and the con
, spirators had no other trophies t,
t show save black eyes and blood,
noses" aS the graphic dispatch de
applicable in country schools in gen
=. eral although in Midway, | am glaC
| and proud to say there are no big
|. ood-for-nothings of the Mount Hope
stripe) That one of my children reciteC
the item in school, in the morning
class, devoted to the daily current
news. The startling item was received
} with due respect, but my, by no means
''rock-ribbed, faith commenced tt
show cracks in its foundation when
, after waiting for nearly three weeks
: for an acknowledgement from Mr.
Edgar Farmer" of the receipt of the
: Vol. Ii of my AS You Like, It
(which | had sent him as tribute tC
his valor and courage under difficulties
: in the school room, [ still failed tC
, hear from him. To make sure about
. it for the Associated Press does, yea
indeed! it does, sometimes rove on
Truths sacred demesne). [ wrote tC
the postmaster of Mount Hope about
the matter And 10, and behold! on
the 18th l received from that worthy
public official note informing me
that no such person was known OF
heard of in those regions of Hoosier-
dom, and that he still held the book
subject to my orders for remailng up
, on receipt of the necessary postage
But although this is only matter of
three cents, thought enough of the
worthy postmaster prompt kindness
(which cost him "A two ce.t stamp