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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-08-23
L0CIL BREvITIEs.

Attention is called to the fact that
there are number Of broken p'anka
In the bridges about town. Broken
planks sometimes result in damage
suits.
At the meeting house sunday after
noon Prof. Foote gave the assembly .
rare eiasutiouarY treat in his reading
of Christ's Sermon on the Mount"
A young gentleman from the B. Y.
academy ut Provo, Mr.. Davis, followed
and was the principal speaker Of the
mseting,
II 10 told that while some Spanish
Fork people were camping In the can
yon recently a party of the ladies on
Ro,up to their apartment 70 retire foI
che night, discovered to their dismay
that II was occupied 10y an ableboiied
brindle calf from a ranch In me yirir'
ity. A. 10 the remainder OF thit
narrowing scene history is mute, hui
itisknown tn ~ the qusdruptd hung
IL head and blushed painfully, ano
with Q bleat partly CHI ked by mingled
aname and shreds OF silken hulsery
confessed that u ''horrid man" whooe
plaoe of business is not thourant
miles distant from the spanish Fors
bank was the enc who had LED II
astray.
A 4.
Jos. Wlgnall, section foreman on th'
Union Pacific. received notice from
Road MaStsr Latimer last Sunday
that his section bad been discontinue
and he and his men discharged
He informs US that all the sector
men between Lehi junction have beer
discharged, aud that two toa'ins
gangs OF SIX Men each will endeavo
to keep up the road from Lehl juno
ton to Frisco; one gang will operat
between the Junction and Juab. dis
tance of 70 miles, and Que from Jua|
Frisco, 1872 miles. 1t seems tina
tins IS a rather meagre force to kee
up 2OU miles OF railroad, and we dVu1
II the company viii profit much b
the observation-disclosures Globe
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-08-23
NEIGHBORHoOD NOTES,

A marriage license was Issued last
Thursday evening to Andrew Bennett,
aged 81, and Marion McLerie, aged 81,
both Of AmeriesA Fork.
The chemist at tue Lshi sugar factory
IL busy sumpllng beets. The factory
will start up sometime during the first
week In September II the weather keeps
favorable.
Arnold Abegg, 81 years old died at his
home last Wednesday about | o'clock
lie had been confined 10 his bed since
last winter, and gradually wasted way
until scarcely anything was left of him
but skin and bones. Deceased was said
70 be- very peculiar man and extremely
fanalicRl. refusing to eat any meat
whatever. He leaves q wife and -four
children. The funeral took plIce Thurs
day afternoon. -payson Globe.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-08-23

Mr., Lawson Joined the Odd Fellows
excm sion to Gareeld Bea III, Tuesday
S. o. Bacon. the painter, and An
drew Berkiey, the contractor and
builder, both Of springvl!le, were
callers at this office On Thursday.
They came over To see the "hattle".
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-08-23
The Union Pacific System
THE THROUGH CAR LINE.
LOCAL TINE CARD In effect June 20. 1879

. Trains south OF Juab run daily except Sunday
Through Pullman Palace Sleepers to Chicago
without change. Improved Tour ST Sleepers
Free reclining chair cars. Elegant day coaches
The only lire operating Dining car service.
POINTS EAST.
DE. hurley, Gen, Agent Passenger Dept,
City Ticket once, Dol Main ST., Salt Lake City.
WE. LAWSON. Agent, Spanish Fork.
'i.S. H. H. CLARK.
N OLIVER w. MINK,
Z ELLERY ANDERSON,
JOHN w. DoANE
ERRDRICK Il. CorDERT,
Receivers
Ell LONAX. Gen. Pass and Ticket Agent
Z. DICKINSON, Gen. Mgr Omaha, Nebraska
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Did You Read IT.

The Capital City Commercial college
has card In this paper offering instrnc'
tlon free TO number of persons. Die
you read itp
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-08-23

LosT-Between Lincoln Beach and
Spanish Fork, a saddle. FiRder please
return to John Jensen and claim reward.
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Read the Ad.

Read tho ad. headed Free Course by
Nail by the Capital City Commercial
collsgs", II IL ane cffSr. Apply for 1t,
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
Over the Camnfires.

The chill of the evening was sufficient
to make rather poor excuse for camp
fires in the canyon. The campfres, in
their turn, made an excuse for garrulity,
and more than one of the grandpapas and
grandmammas gathered about them and
dropped into "reminiscences suggested by
the scene.
Them Indians camped down below re-
minds me of something that happened to
me long time ago." began good old Mrs.
Butterfeld.
"Of course, it was a long time ago.
LemTne see = father and mother came
across the plains in 80, when I was lust
turned 6 years old. 1t was seven years
after that that got carried off by Indians
You see, when we first went TO Marys-
vile there wasn't another white family
nearer than Inskip, and that's good forty
miles.
"We'd come all the way from Vermont
with party of emigrants, and on account
of being strangers in the country we had
gone long way up in the Sierras looking
for short cut to the valley, so we were all
pretty sick of travelling, and when mother
came to a fine spring of water she said she
was going to have a house beside it, if she
had to build it herself.
'sThe rest of the party was for getting to
the valley before spring, SO they divided
up the things, and the men helped father
make the clearing where our old home
stands yet.
Everybody lent hand toward putting
up the little three-roomed cabin where we
lived for nigh twenty years, and when it
was done and we was settled down as well
as we could be without anything to settle
with they all said good.by to our folks and
started for the valley.
81 declare, it was lonesome at first! The
woods was full of Indians, and though
they never lifted hand against Us they
kept US pretty we'll scarf most all the time.
Father used to meet the bucks when he
went out hunting, and five or six OF them
would follow him at distance, and when
he killed anything they would come up
close and talk to each other and point to
the game. They never did no harm,
though, and mother used to put buttons
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
BELVEDERE GARDEN FETE.
Ladies Give successful Entertainment
for the Benefit of the Church
Eund.

The grounds about Belvedere were
bright with many-hued decorations and
gay with laughter and music yesterday
afternoon. The Ladies' Church Organiza-
ton gave garden party for the benefit of
a union church building fund. The Bel
vedere Land Company has presented to
the ladies desirable site for church, and
the fete of yesterday furnished gOodly
nucleus of a fund for building.
The tasteful decoration of the grounds,
which occasioned much admiring COM
ment, was managed by Mrs. John Pew.
The parlor of Mrs. OBrien's home was
converted into ballroom which was orna-
mented by fish-nets and ferns. that deco
ration being the work of Misses Holmes
and Bridge.
Five hundred invitations had been issued
to residents of San Francisco, Oakland,
Berkeley, Alameda, San Rafael, Sausalito
and San Mateo, and a number OF tickets
were sold besides The number of visitors
between the hours of l and o'clock was
estimated to be more than 600.
The following programme was very ac-
ceptably rendered, most Of the performers
being encored:
Soprano solo. Miss Florence Connor; con-
tralto solo, Mrs. J. E. Birmingham; recitation,
Mrs. Frances Edgerton; tenor solo, MIS-.
Frances Matthew; contralto solo, Miss VIII
cox; recitation, ]. j. Housman; soprano SOLO,
Miss Florence Connor; bass solo: Waiter
Campbell; recitation, Mrs. Frances Edgerton.
In the three picturesque booths where
lemonade was dispensed Mrs. G. e.
Holmes, Mrs. G. J. Hendy and Miss Sara
Dean presided and were assisted by Miss
Nellie Holmes, Miss Gertrude Lawson,
Misses Everson, Miss Harriet Coleman,
Misses Reid, Miss Whitlock and Misses
Buck.
Mrs. E. ]. Benjamin, Mrs. R. G. Hall,
May Palmer Miss Helen Gibbs and Misses
Lohse were in charge Of the ice-cream sales
and Mrs. w. Lichtenberg assisted by Misses
Lichtenberg, Misses Reid and Miss De
Vallen served Russian tea in the Chinese
nook.
The officers of the Ladies' Church Or.
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anybody ever saw anywhere. In the win
ter people use them q great deal, and SO
they are suspended across from one tree to
another above what they call 'high-water
mark" You have to climb up ladder to
get to the bridge. and when you have
crossed it you have to climb down ladder
on the other side.
when L was coming across one some
body shook it and l was so scared that l
had to sit right straight down in the mid
die of the bridge. We eat fruit all the
time. HATTIE R. CO.
~ live down in the glen, writes one of
the other boys, ''and the most fun of my
vacation was the time / went on a trip to
the City. l think it is the best thing in
the world to see the bay and to go to
Golden Gate Park, and to ride all over the
City in streetcars that go like gee whiz!
"We have little boat down in the can
yon, but you just ought to see the great
big ships and steamers that are thicker
than blackberries in the harbor of San
Francisco. 1t is enough to make any
body's eyes stick out, 1 tell you.
JOHNNY L. B."
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

and knees to where 7 heard the blessed
river 1owing along, and pretty soon l
slipped into the water with much the feel
ing that a lost child would have when 1T
found its mothers arms.
Wasn't / afraid of drowning2 Bless
your heart, child, was about as much at
home in the water as fish, and II L
couldn't have kept aH6at minute should
have done the same, fer drowning would
be comfort compared to being tortured
by those Indians I made short work of
swimming mile, and the next thing l
knew / dropped like shot bird On the
steps OF the Humphrey cabin.
Well, to make a long story short. it
wasn't more than two hours before every
two Indians. They found Tommy in the
bottom of a ravine, not dead, but so near
1t that he never walked a step for three
months. Will was all right, crippled for
Lie, oh yes, but that was all.
What became of them Indians?
never asked and the men that hunted 'em
never said. All know is that never see
hide nor hair of 'em again"
You may be sure that after that Grand
ma Butterfeld was the heroine of the occa-
sion, and that everybody was proud of
sitting in the presence of woman who
had been at once so courageous and so
clever. Perhaps some of the young folks
moved up little closer to the fire. and it
maybe that some even cast apprehensive
glances back where the branches of the
trees cast their shadows; but when one
little chap, who ought to have been in bed,
wondered whether the band of Indians
that Emily belongs to down there are per-
fectly peaceful, everybody laughed conf
IDENTIFY, and the story telling went merriiy
on.
II have sailed all the seas there are,
believe said ruddy and genial grand
papa, who couldn't help being an ideal
captain if he tried, isbut I have always
been so much less of hero than Mrs. But
tertield that think will talk about some
talng else than my own experiences after
this. For instance, did you see that great
old flume and water-wheel up the canyon?
Well, that flume, which the Spring Valley
Company is now using in supplying San
Francisco with water, was built by the
elder Vallejo between eighty. and ninety
years ago. Vallejo owned thousands of
acres about here by grant from old Spain.
He planted grain, he built the fiume and
had a magnificent fall, which supplied
mill-power as well as irrigation.
Now, our road through the canyon has
been washed out each rainy season for
twenty years and rebuilt each time at enor-
nous expense, and Vallejo's old cement
century, is still in excellent condition.
"That is the difference between the way
we do things and the way the old-timers
did them"
"a story of 40? Well, l will tell you
something that happened to me in June of
that year. I was washing out gold in the
north fork of the American River, and we
were taking out about eighteen ounces
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and bits of bright cloth and other odds
and ends out on the ground for the squaws
and their children to carry off.
1--WE got kinder used to seeing 'em
around and didn't mind them at all after
awhile.
"Well, one day mother was washing
some clothes by the river when a buck and
a squaw came polling along in one of them
queer lite dugout canoes that you can see
them using up there to this day. They
brought the canoe up close to the shore
and the squaw stepped out. slipped the
band of her basket from her head and laid
the basket down at mothers feet.
1.-THE basket was fine big one, shaped
like funnel Q got it yeti and it was nearly
full OF brook trout.
well. mother was just tickled to death
with that present and afterward she never
felt the least bit afraid OF the Indians. She
stayed all alone on the clearing with us
children while father took our one old
horse and went to Chico for -four and other
things that we had to have for winter.
The Indians would come around and sit
in the sunshine, watching us, still as
statues, but never speaking.
Our folks was good to the Indians
and gave 'em food and thinss in winter
when they was starving. So things went
well ami they never harmed us, though we
heard of dreadful things that were done
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cage like mad. But one day it was really
dead.
~ caught box full of grasshoppers, but
they all got away.
81 have killed three snakes this summer,
and have been fishing great deal, and
once l caught trout fish. That was fun.
LILLIAN G. j.
Another little g-person in overalls
wrote; Il came ali the way from Port
land down to Alameda Canyon SO that l
could spend my vacation in place where
it doesn't rain all the time. And the most
fun we have had was the day we went on
picnic.
''Some people don't like picnics, but I
think they are just elegant. Ruth and l got
everything ready. We filed big basket
with all sorts of good things, and we har-
messed up the pony and cart all by our
selves.
''Some of us walked and some of US rode.
and we stopped on a beautiful bank all
covered with ferns. We wanted to 60 in
wading so bad that at last they let US, and
after that we built fire and cooked some
candy.
''The water in the creek was so clear that
we could see the fish in it. and we took
cups and stopped down and caught little
tiny ones in them. There are the funniest
little bridges across Alameda Canyon that
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

ganization are: Mrs. l.. L. Dunbar, pres
ident; Mrs. T. V. O'Brien and Mrs. G. s.
Holmes, vice-presidents; Mrs. T. L. Mil
ler, secretary; Mrs. f. w. Bridge, treas
urer. These ladies constituted the reception
committee. Others who were active in the
preparations for the entertainment and
who contributed to its success, were:
Mrs. H. l.. searle, Mrs. T. Wintringham, Mrs.
Thomas Haven, Mrs. II. S. Wood, Mrs F. c.
Peterson, Nine. Bazan, Mrs. C. J. Hendry, Mrs.
A. 8. Spence, Nine. Fusenot Mrs. r. c. Hall,
Mrs. Horace Ball, Mrs. ]. B. Maxwell, Mrs, John
Burns, Mrs. Arthur Page, Mrs. Alexander
Becker, Mrs. G.. L. Holmes, Mrs. John Pew,
Mrs. W. Lichtenberg. Mrs E. j: Benjamin Mrs.
Dorsey, Mrs. ]. w. Tucker, Mrs. ], E. Berming-
ham, Mrs. A. c. Donnell, the Misses Tucker,
Miss Holmes, Miss Dean, the Misses Lichten-
berg, Miss Lohse, Miss Becker, the Misses Ever
son, Miss Whitlock and others.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
BROKE DOWN THE GATES.
A Team Crashes Into Crossing as
Train Passes.

A Team Crashes Into q Crossing as a
Train Passes.
An accident occurred yesterday after
noon at the railroad crossing on Mission
street, near Twenty-fourth, that by the
merest chance did not result in the death
of two persons.
1t is customary at this point for the flag
man to let down four large arms or gates
at the time of the passage of trains
The new Santa Cruz ''hyer' that was
put on the road yesterday had just passed,
causing several waiting teams to become
restive. As the next passenger train, the
Monterey express. leaving Fourth and
Townsend streets at 2:35 P. NJ, was going
by at a high speed, a two-horse wagon
bearing license tag 2599, and containing a
man and boy, dashed forward into the
swiftly moving train.
The springy poles of the guard threw
them back for an instant, when they made
another plunge and broke through both
gates, just grazing the rear coach, break
ing the guards int splinters. The team
dashed up Twenty third street and was
stopped at Valencia, and was EVIDENTLY
quite severely hurt. The man and bow
escaped with bad scare.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

quartz, and the woman said there was a
spur OF quartz mixed with gold running
out into the lake, ,.and that it was from
the same sort brock that the natives had
buiit their beautiful houses. The men of
this woman's party were supposed to be
gone to San Francisco to equip for return
to Gold Lake, but the woman cheerfully
gave us explicit directions about reaching
1t and we started post haste.
AFTER few days hard travelling we be-
gan to meet prospectors coming down the
mountains who had investigated for them
selves.
'sThey found that Gold Lake existed
only in the imagination of a woman, whose
reasons for deceiving us l have never been
able to guess.
My partners and L started back toward
San Francisco, climbing up and down the
mountain peaks instead of going around
them, because we knew no better. One
weary night threw myself down upon the
hillside, hopeless of ever getting back
among my fellow-men.
"The handiwork of nature was grand,
impressive and oppressive. | felt myself
too small and weak to fight my way over
the giant hills, and | expected to perish
miserably in consequence of my folly in
climbing where no white man had ever
been before.
"At the climax of my misery and loneli-
ness saw something white cleaning in
crevice of the rocks. / took stick and
poked it out. 1t was @ piece of news
paper which had been published in Dublin
year or two before, and on it were printed
some blank verses, which seemed to me
to be the greatest ever penned. You can
guess the impression they made on my
young mind from the fact that | still re-
member some of the lines. They were as
follows:
The bolmiest zephyr that ever foated on even
fng's were dscord to this heavenly scene
Heavens ebon vault studded with stars innumer-
able and bright, looks like canopy that love
has spread
To curtain her sleeping world.
MARY CALKINs JOHNSON.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

that is the prediction of DR.. Ellis, acting
pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church
of East Oakland. He says that on Mon
day he will give notice to the union that
at the following meeting he will move that
the union is ashamed of what is said or
done in its deliberations it should go out
of existence" said that gentleman, land
if l were you would withhold judgment
until they reconsider the vote. If they
still refuse admission it might be well to
let them severely alone as far as news
na nor notices 60"
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
FEES OF JURORS.
A Decision by the Supreme Court That
Pay Cannot Be Drawn for Time
of Continuanees

of Continuances.
The Supreme Court yesterday rendered
decision denying the right of jurors to
collect fees during the continuances of
cases in which they were engaged. An
Amador County citizen named Mason sued
his county for fees during the period of a
long continuance of case. the continuance
being on account of the illness of two other
jurors. The Superior Court decided against
him, and that decision is affirmed. Says
Justice Harrison:
In such cases they are not ain attendance
upon the court" during the period for which
they are excused Neither are the jurors who
have been impaneled and sworn to try a cause
in attendance upon the court during any
period they are excused therefrom, with the
opportunity to be engaged in ordinary avoca-
tions, any more than if they had been relieved
from attendance at their own request, or be-
cause the court may have taken an adjourn
ment for its own convenience.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
wills Presented for pronats.

John Golly's will was filed for probate yester.
day, conveying $4,000 estate to four sons
and daughter. Notes amounting to $500
represent money loaned to John B. GolIv a
son who is now dead. These notes are ordered
Cancelled and the sons children are to receive
no other portion of the property.
Mrs. Luigia Boitano has bequeathed a $1,000
estate to her two daugh ters, decreeing that
one silver dollar be paid to her HUSBAND
Giuseppe BoitanO. oDAAos
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
FOREIGN LANDS.

Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.
saw the next-door garden lie
Adorned with flowers before my eye
And many pleasant places more
That 1 had never seen before.
1 saw the 6impling river pass
And be the sky's blue looking-glassi
The dusty roads go up and down
With people tramping in to town.
III could find higher tree
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships.
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairyland,
Where all the children dine at five.
And all the playthings come alive.
oBERT LOUIS STEVENSON in "The Child's Gi
den OF Verses"
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
PASTORS MAY RELENT.

Presbyterian Ministerial Union May Let
Reporters Be Present.
The representatives OF the press will be
admitted to the meeting of the Presby-
terian Ministerial Union again. At least
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28


brought their fl
Everything
day big Ind
kicked fine col
had to be shot.
angry, and he ser
him for his days
ugly and mother q
in, but he wouldn't
again for a month.
Will and my little bfV
coming home from
down by the creek to dN
"He hadn't more'n gN
water when gun went ON
fellow dropped like he was a.
need to be told that Jim was a.
! grabbed hold OF Tommy and 81
rug. didn't get a foot, / guess, bef,..l
was thrown down and gagged and tied.
didn't know any more until it was dark,
and then | heard poor little Tom moaning
and calling for mother. / was being
dragged along by my arm, and was bruised
and sore all over. We were going through
some chaparral bushes, and pretty soon |
found out that if. I didn't want my eyes
scratched out by the bushes and sticks I'd
have to help myself; for that Indian was
carrying me like you've seen a baby car
rving an old doll-just catching hold any
where that was convenient.
well, Strengthened up and tried to see
where Tom was. / couldn't hear him
moaning any more, and the Indian who
had been carrying him was walking in
front of US now. made up my mind that
my poor little brother had been killed,
and was glad-yes, really and truly glad,
because it was better to be dead than to
be in the hands of those Indians.
BY and by the moon came up bright
and clear and ] could see that we were in
big clearing where there was cattle. Old
Mount Lassen was right ahead of us, and
though | couldn't see the river, could
hear it ripping not far off. l don't know
what them Indians was thinking about to
keep so near settlement, but sures L m
alive | knew in a minute that we wasn't
but two or three mics from Pete Hum
phrey's cabin, where father had taken me
year ago when he brought Mr..
Humphrey some butter kegs.
81 tell you my heart thumped pretty
hard and | was so wide awake as mouse
that's running away from a cat. Jim and
and loaded themselves down with meat.
keeping silent as shadows all the time.
''They tied me to tree meantime and
when they started on Jim tied rope of
rawhide around my waist and tied me to
his arm. Then he stalked along, and had
to run or be dragged. pretended to be
stupid and not to notice anything, but all
the time was gnaWlng at that rawhide,
watching that Jim didn't see me at It.
Then ran along SO that Jim couldn't feel
me drag; and then the Lord must have
helped me, for the moon went under
cloud and it was dark as could be.
II caught up a loose piece of brush beside
the trail, and slipped off my skirt and
twisted it on the branch till it looked as
much like girl as it did like anything
else. Then / moaned little and quickly
slipped away into the bushes like a little
wild animal. I crawled upon nv hands