The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17

1t was getting to be torture to wait.
No one spoke. AS the time was almost up
a little cloud of dust rose on the western
horizon, then soon after the measured beat
of pony's hoofs came pulsating on the
breeze, and, lathered from head to heels,
the painting pony. with wild eye and flut-
tering breath, came stumbling to the spot,
making the last mile in one minute and
fifty seconds.
st. Joe was the last residence of Jesse
James. He lived here quietly, having
travelled great deal formerly by rail dur
ing his life, meeting up with strangers on
the cars and converting with them briefly
on current topics. Thrown among strsng-
ers as he was SO much all his life, it is not
strange that at the last he courted quiet
and rest with complete change of scene.
He lived in ST. Joe under the nom de
plume of Howard, and those who were
impudent to him at that time now often
start up wildly in the night and shrek
with terror after dreaming that Mr.. How.
ard has returned TO life in st. Joe, and
with large shotgun in one hand and
John L. Sullivan ultimatum in the other,
is engaged in settling up old scores.
Mr.. James lived very uneventful life
at ST. Joe, and the gas man who remembers
now the time when he and MIR. Howard
were alone in the cellar looking at the
meter, and how Mr.. Howard spoke rather
meter. and how he (the gas many talked
loud and got red in the face and bullied
Mr. James into paying, now trembles like
leaf when he passes the house, and can
hardly look a gas meter in the face.
Prior to the time Mr.. James lived here
Mr.. Eugene Field, now of Chicago was q
resident Of St. Joe. Senator Cochran and
Major Bittinger now run the Gazette and
Herald respectively, and Major John N.
Edwards for years Uttered up the streets
of st. Jee with the shattered vitsls Of his
foes. During the bot weather it was said
that Major Edwards foes who were await
ing their turn at the undertaker's became
even more offensive than they were dur
| ing life.
| ST. Joe is great overall center. The re.
gala of the Farmers Alliance is made here
in great numbers, and the overall girls
throrg here like blackbirds in the spring.
If had time could stand for hours watch
| ing IL en- with deft and agile fingers over
alling ana painting for the trade.
ST. Joe ie said to be the richest city of its
size in the world. In travelling about run
across good many of those. The richest
city of Its size is getting to be very plenty
in America, and in numbers is only equaled
by the town which has never had what
you may call boom, but has regular
steady and healthy GROWTH l wish
could remember how many of these towns
l have encountered just this season.
A short time ago visited the Bee office
in Omaha Mr.. Rosewater says it is tn.
largest newspaper Office on the globe It i,
certainly the largest l ever saw. 1t is fire
proof and very well planned for convent
ence.
A short time ago we passed through Cal
laway county, Mo. Galloway county ha
the honor Of having seeded at one tim,
from the state of Missouri. Acting on tn
principle that if q state could secede, tn
divine right also belonged to county, Cal
laway refused to recognize
THE EMANCIPATION FAD.
and also rocked back on her launches an,
refused to pay taxes to the state. This RAJ
! on for some time, but at last she was force
to come back into the union because for
eign powers refused to recognize her soy
ereignty, ana her currency was not take
at per by other nations, as it was poorl
printed by an amateur job printer, who di
, it in colors.
, Crossing the river from Jefferson City
' | noticed the gait of young man in
> brand new suit of Fort Dodge clothes.
asked Missouri man to look at him. n
said: Eyes, that's convict just out. H
4 still has the prison step"
He was young man, and this Mi
Q sourian to whom spoke said that th