Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-16
Tells Some Good Things Of tho
PealhtFsd Tribe.
A SPICY rrJoisDrn is MADE
10 IN thIrgs ,f ihe Norihle'citsi
aud Dtsifuc.iy MSS Of Hirds
-,Og Wi'ha fO.al.
FILLMORE Cry, Utah,
July 10, 1890.


with pnlpilsting heart Tor some tcu-
p3nro to your kind invitation for tho
friends Of our race to speak In our dc.
'0nse, and help allay the spirit Of ez'
termination bronlhed In communiCa.
tion from Moab, Of May 8lsi, and
signed o. w. Warner The only res.
ponto 20 far ne we have noticed has
been taken from tho Randolph, Rich
county Roundup, and the favorable
plea Ia only made for one VI eur large
family, an1 that upon the grounds that
our otherwise unsoclnl brother, kills
aBd eats squirrels. No "cliy cousin"
has thought proper 10 "rot out some
thing 10 our favor" We fear the fruit
season ami tue Carnival demand tor
Il hns dullod the generous hearts Of
cur usual fficnds aud lott humble
bird TO pionI alone for food aud lie.
Your Moab correspondent has been
oitimos cur t0mpter In that he hes
told Of The largc and luscious ifuit pro-
duced in hls orchard, some Of which
has entered your ssncium, aud you
pronounced it good-sO good that VIC
have Thought " taking wing aud soar.
ing 10 tho Grand county paTadifc,
nlghg IN couf fence an1 IlyUusly Co.,.
sotting our I'LL Ia thoso tantauElng
~ CimeDB OF Gld's anu nnturJ's b1uu.
tlcs, and making the welkin ring with
our cong In satislaction. But o.! that
letter OF .. w. We haP fallen IKE
disappointed lgvo upon our hopes, and
bate eoams 10 spring from every uush
ami b1ugh that uugullUd our
fancy before the writing, anu Ia spirit
liiiusod abroad will seal our doom; Tor
even tho daughters Of Zion compass
our destruction IN their desire 20 pos
fess our little poisoned and dried bodies
10 decorate their hair and hats. Yet
you cnll them sweet ana tondUf ctca-
lures, when they emulate the OIlbbo-
way and Zulu, whom they call savage.
Why were We GREATER Surely not
Oh Of "a 10 catch rats anu eat chrfion
Tour only claim 10 peaceful existence
"a some minusG or Ho who seut ~
forth would have provided us the
means OF slaughter. Neither uid Ho
speak 10 our father Of "'otbiiden
ifuit,D nor place "nnmiug
sword about the Moabil0s' cherry Ieo,
upon which We arc forbidden 10 slug
unlcss like thief In ihu night We
sneak into the vicinity 20 observe
whether tho litt'o "WatnCis" are we'll
pfOvilCl vita "shgua anu ltJCkings
and SOMETHING 10 eat"
Then he says. "a can orJYy the
SONGS 0i the sweet sOnguiefa AZ well ns
any CITY cousin" But our timid ma.
tute tells uB Of danger In tins tolera.
tiOu; this lncS Of gho,B and stockings,
ana with "poache4 at 81 a crate, "
might suggest tho bringing forth OF the
old yEuRoT 10 silence (even though
Issuing from neighbOting cotton.
wood trgel our sweetest carols for
ewes,
o. w. W. matOs some strong and
specific charges against some VI our
race. Unmindiui Of tho Fifteenth
amoudmrnp he tinglo8 out tho black
crow and speaka bitterly Of his lie anu
habit, charging him with "eating
corn, Eilliug pigs, carrying oil oggs
nnd chickous.n rhisarrsi gumenl sounda
ike an accusation against muTe r..
sp0nbible animals, but under somO
conditions we plead guilty, In parl; for
wo have Euon crow while wingiug
Ia way over n dilapidattd shed, dis.
cover an egg, alight anu pick II up and
ny I'll Win a. which stamped MT.
Grow ~ thioL But the moral 70.
spouaibllity is atlll question. Who
was TO hlnmt2 thOcrOw for taking the
egg, or tho hen for laying II In Highl2
C"Lead us not into temptation.") Or
al. H..
more comfortable and secure provision
TOT tho fIuit OF the domestic bifd2
Again, tho crow Is charged with
"ploking the eyes out Of live aheep.D
As aug eslei BY the editor such sheep
aTu not very lively, aud dissolution IL
rapidly ut work. Az bird We have
observed something more cruel than
this. We have soen Warner catch
and cut tho throat Of an Innocent
lamb, take Il 10 his brood When, with
too assistance Of this mother bird, they
nave duyoufod the whole oRrrass,
Still our mind mover suggested the
shot gun or rough on rats; our sym.
pnthy went with the Warmers,
When we opened the EvENINu
NEWS anu shw our brothers. letter
headed Accuses tho Blrds" and
the editorial "Ab0ut the Blrla'J
we read them both to n
friend, who had dropped In" HIS
immediate exclamation was, "Why,
he's OIL ON CroWtl rhoy are better
gopher huntsrs than hawks. l have
seen them down In tho sold field in
the spring Of the year when VIZ have
been watering tho luoern the flst
time. They would wAde and eplash
la the water and catch the gOpheTs as
thoy were driven TO tho surface. Then
th0y would hop onto the fence aud
Kill them, YoH, I've aegn AZ many
40 dozen crows at timo oatching
gophors In this way" Now, my In.
foimant may not DO genuine "cliy
cousin" but no Is truthful aud 70.
epeCtud citizen VI this place; man Of
family, a son.in-law OF Mayor Joa. ID.
Smith, and calls your Moab coTrospon.
dent "Uuole Orlanto," His uAmo Is
Milo Warner
q. w. says, speaking Of tho CROW:
"All the good have had him DO Tor
mo is 10 hunt wOrms on potato vln1a
aud eat grGsshOpper," Now add thu
gopher killing that ho does for other
people, and the uospisei black bird has
some claims 10 cat that which nobody
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