The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-25
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

=. II. ID brlSLOl, u. >. A, re-
tired, of Long Island, has been for some
days in the west viewing again the
landscape. but not the scenes. which
nrst he gazed upon in the pioneer DAYS.
and is in Salt Lake with his family for
a few days.
Colonel Bristol, then only a second
lieutenant in the Fifth United States
infantry, came TO Utah first in 1857
with his regiment in command of Cen
erad Albert Sydney Johnston, who con-
Quoted the memorable Utah expedition
winch is said to have cost the United
States government $30,00000O.
Colonel Bristol relates some very
thrilling stories of his experiences in
those adventuresome and troublous
days, not the least interesting among
which is his account of how the
wagon trains of supplies were burned
which necessitated the troops wintering
on half rations and until Colonel Lor-
ing, Of the Mounted Rifles, brought re-
lief in the spring.
1t was this division of the United
States army which gave Camp Floyd
its name, but neither Lieutenant Bris-
toll nor any of the other of the sol
diery ever dreamed of the wealth which
lay buried beneath the village of Sibley
tents which served to house them The
marvellous changes which nearly forty
years have wrought are a source of
much wonder to the army veteran OF
early days.
Colonel Bristol visited General Pen
rose yesterday afternoon at the office
of the Utah Midland, and spent the af-
ternoon rehearsing experiences of army
life on the frontier.
S. ]. Bartlett of Green River, told an
interesting little tale about late Wyo-
ming weather last evening. THE worst
storms of the winter have occurred
within the last month"; he began.
Il came through Piedmont Saturday
and 1 learned that a heavy cold rain
began about April first, and continued
until the eighth, the rain falling at
Piedmont and back through the hills
and valleys around Blacks Fork and
Fort Bridger.
Upon the eighth the rain changed to
wet snow, and the next day there was
a perfect blizzard of wind and fine
snow, and the storm went on without
break until the eighteenth. Last Fri
day the storm was a terror and caused
great loss to the sheepmen.
Friday the wind began again with
a great fall of snow, and two large
herds of sheep near Piedmont took to
the lee side of the hills. The snow
drifted terribly and the sheep were
completely buried in the depths, and
those near Piedmont were not the only
ones lost. Parties of men had began
to dig the poor animals out when our
train pulled in.
Several herders had just left the
little station with pack horses carrying
hay for the flocks further back in the
hills.
''The average depth of the sonw is
an easy three feet, while the drifts are
extremely deep for this season Of the
wear.
"Homesteaders who live any distance
back from Piedmont have not been able
to receive any mail since the last Of
March, and large number of these
farmers have suffered a severe loss Of
stock
Probably there is no man on earth
that has more trouble over his name
than Kenneth Kerr, and last evening
another was added to the long line of
gray haired jokelets, when Henry Bur
ton at the Knutsford said:
There's Kerr again. Did you hear
that little story on him?
You know, he went to the eastern
part of the city after an item one even
house It was very dark but Kerr
thought that he was right, and so
walked into the yard.
after some minutes he found the
bell and rang it vigorously.
"'Who's there?' asked a voice from
within.
.NTigta' Kerr, Kerr said, sweetly.
"aThen take the next one the
charmer replied, and a feather blowing
down from a sparrow's nest crushed
the pencil-pusher to the earth"
]. Rosenberg, with candy, from
Omaha, and Edward c. Watt, with
Omaha furniture, are commercial men
at the Templeton.
A. G. McAusland and NJ. Atch.son,
Omaha people, are Cullen guests.
William Webb came in from Mercur
yesterday and registered at the
Walker.
Some Chicago people at the Temple
ton Yesterday were Mr.. Frank Roophe
and John Bunker and wife.
A. G.. Andrews Of Ogden paved Salt
Lake a visit yesterday and stopped at
the Walker.
A couple of westerners staying at
the Cullen are G. F. Talbert, Nevada,
and H. w. Nichols, Coronado.
N. 3. Saur and G.. w. Tibbs, both of
Omaha. are Templeton guests.
Thomas Halsop a New Yorker, is a
Cullen guest.
large party of Pittsburg tourists |
paid visit to the city yesterday, reg
istering at the Templeton. They were:
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hemphill, Mrs. 5.
A. Fownes, Mr.. T. f. Best, William
Curry. Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Fownes and
Charles B. Fownes.