The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-07

My facts" and his STRIKES"
should of course mean something.
The laugh is decidedly on me, he says,
when he refers to some of my towns folk
disliking newspaper fusilade. But l can
assure him there are enough who do sane
tion a mild resentment to the eplthets he
has applied to US Of sleepy neighbors,"
'unlnteresting little village, etc" to make
him think he cannot stir up hornets nest
without being compelled TO either run or
get badly stung.
He says, 1.-The first paragraph of his ar
ticle would lead a person to suppose that
Kaysville has been using energetic efforts
to secure the removal of the county seat to
this place, but such is not the case. Our
citizens, so far as we can learn, have never
asked for it''
''can Learnt him-see correspondence
of "Rino" of Kaysville, in Dec 10, 1883,
Ogden Standard:
eve are destined to have boom that
will make her the metropolis of the county;
already our city fathers are making an ar
rangement to build a city hall, and also to
have the county seat removed to Rays
vilie.n
Also in the Standard of Jan. 9, 1889:
"a movement is on foot IN this county 10
build a stake academy, and as our citizens,
with their usual enterprise, are anxious 10
have it established in Kaysville, meeting
taken to secure it,"
Several weeks before the above men
toned meeting was held, the church au-
thorities and Davis county academy com
mittee had decided on the location being at
Pennington.
For fear they would tear up the earth
and try to move some of our farms to
KaYsville or do some other foolish thing, l
sent to the Standard of January ~, 1882 an
account of the true "inwardness" of
county and stake matters. 1t was pub
lished under the heading of "Rino Rolled
Over" Four days later Rino mildly re-
peated his city fathers statement about
the city hall and removal of the county
seat and said: ut is correct in every par
/ ticular."
AS the county seat, the new court house
and Stake academy are firmly planted in
Pennington, Notwithstanding the "ener-
getic efforts" of the would be blooming
metropolis the HERALD readers cal Judge
whether the "laugh is decidedly on G. i.
or on ''M." of Ksysville.
His reference to the county seat and his
opinion that they 'have never asked for
it'' don't worry US at all, and this is per-
haps Why he calls US sleepy. They can ask
for the whole earth if they want to- but if
| they get more than they earn by imposing
on innocent neighbors, they will be very
naughty and selfish.
Now for the new and costly city hall''
that l stated was outside and north of the
main portion of the city. M" says, 'for
the writer's information, that our city hall
is less than half mile from the main bust
ness houses, and that over two-hfths OF the
city's population reside north OF the build
ing"
This is easily answered by calling atten-
ton to the fact that most of the two
fifths" reside so many miles north, north
east and north west from the building that
they have to come with teams, and could
with very little extra time, drive to kays
vile City, LESS than half mile" as Nj.
says.
IN" says make "sickly attempt al
sarcasm in my remarks about their city
hall. l am sorry it so affects him, and an
consequently sorry he calls for more, but
l will be brief.
Last Saturday a Pennington mar
brought Denver tourist down with hin
in his sleigh from up north. AS they ap
preached Kaysville the Denver man asked
what building that was. Our townsmar
replied that it was the city hall. Tie sur
prised tourist happening to look north
said he could only see a few scattered
houses, and wanted TO know where tht
city was. His vision was then directed
southwark to where the business houses
and city were located. Not as the wa
the union came near being crushed, twent,
miles away, but, as your Kaysville CORE
spondent honestly admits, nearly half
, mile' away.
To substantiate this incident l will en-
close the name of my compatriot, of Farm
. ington, not for publication. But as tn
Denver citizen is noncombatant and a
Denver needs all her population to kee
ahead of Salt Lake city little Will
> longer, l must be excused from placin
: him in danger of being run down by som
Z angry ''neighbor on the north"
will also enclose the names of some G
their officers who have said the city wa
too far from the hall. One councillor, in
" conversation, so worked on my sympa
i thies that l tried to study up a remedy
and suggested that they rent some room
in the city until the town would grow OF
to the hall, but the clayey north and goo
70 land south question was sprung, and
actually left him feeling bad, and L felt ba
h too to think l couldn't console him.
l will not quote his remarks about Gait
Al in our streets. An order of our count
3. court makes it the duty of town officers
keep stock out of the streets. A fe
a. months ago, for short time. the county q
torney thought the law could not be en-
:. forced and the cattle visited the streets
IL little. but we are too proud of our stree
and sidewalks that mp says are 'widt
to than ours" to allow them to be made
"bed ground" Of.
X | was all the more proud of our town
e, this respect after trip ] made to Kay
vile last summer, when l saw lot
IN horses and cows staked in the streets OF
I'd one block from their Main street.
is If have awakened in me" a true co
ception of the situation, and if he will ke
awakened enough to better Judge as
where the people live who really ne
waking up, think he will have to cred
me with saving him the trouble of journe
If ing all the way from Kaysville to Farr
ington.
In these hits back and forth, which
right here say, Heartily oisapprove of N
self, l take it for granted that we ca
ne represent somewhat of a general sentime
s. of public opinion. My principles are, dor
allow quarreling if it can be possib
10 avoided. AS some of my friends EXPIRE
81 regret at our present correspondence.
" simply say in reply that ''the powers tn
TO- bs,' should have nipped the thing in t
lie bud: one stitch in time saves nine. ella
- to be acting simply on the defensive.