The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-15
A FEW THINGS.

detect had been discovered in the bill
pfoVldlng Tor interest ON state warrants
IN TINS that there was nothing therein
authorizing The auditor to draw his
warrant for the same, or the treas
urer to pay the accrued amounts The
Dill is as yen unsigned but when The
governor was approached upon the
matter be said there was no defect in
an omission of this kind; that the bill
would be a law if approved, just the
same, and the interest would be paid,
although there was no express stipu-
lation to that effect. However, the bill
has not been signed and probably will
not be.
Joe Gallagher, the poet laureate of
George M. Scott & Co., is always load
ed with story and never misses q
chance to discount everything said in
his presence. Yesterday when visitor
to the Whitechapel club of Chicago
was discoursing on the lugubrious
sights and scenes at that place, Joe
patiently listened and when his friend
had ceased, he said:
Yes, it beats all, how men will be-
come accustomed to handling the relics
of dear departed ones in the manner
you speak. But after all, that story
of yours about dressing a skeleton in
a Prince Albert, and placing it at the
head of the table does not amount to
much. You see the frame was all
there And there isn't anything terri
BILE about being dressed in a Prince
Albert after you are dead. l believe if
1 had my choice 1 should rather take
a fate like that than to have Tom
Carter watch a hired man run a lawn
mower over my last resting place"
Years ago, it must be sixty years
at least, a party of men went overland
from the east to Oregon, and they got
as far as where Challis, Idaho. stands,
when they We're surrounded by a merci-
less band of Indians. They fought
with all the desperation that men arm
ed with old-fashioned flint lock rifles
could muster, but the arrows of the
red men flew too thick and one by one
they sank to rest and had their hair
lifted when the picnic ended. Their
remains were discovered in the little
depression on the hill where they made
their last stand about 1879. The miners
brought them into the town and threw
them on top of a shed, intending to give
them a Christian burial as soon as a
minister came along to preach SER
mon. There was fellow from some
place in Nevada came there and started
a hotel. Blessed if he didn't take all
the large bones and hitch the keys of
the rooms to them. For instance, first
floor front was represented by a shin
bone. while thigh bone was attached
to first floor back. The forearms were
the handles of the rooms of the second
floor and the bone which supports the
biceps the rear rooms on the same
floor. 1 understand he is using them
YETI
At this point Hank Barnes came in
and asked: ice, what's wire nails?"
Wire nails?" was the cheerful an
swer. "W:re nails are from one to
three inches in length with point on
one end to makeIthem enter the WOOD
easily ard a head on the ether so you
can drive them. Ever see one?'
And then Barnes started for rival
hardware store to make purchase,
but was captured and brought back.
He came in intending to buy two
pounds only but when he went away he
deposited a check for half key.
Tom Fitzmaurice, the policeman who
walks down Second South, was hnger-
ing in the shade of the board of trade
building a few nights ago when
crowd of bright youths came down past
the New York store and upset all the
signs in front OF the second mana SnOp
just west of the same. Fitz waited I'M
til they reached him and then stepped
out and informed the crowd that the
whole blessed outfit would go to jail
unless they Immediately restored those
signs to their original positions. Much
against their Wills they complied with
the decree and Tom ambled to the cor
ner above to report The youths start
ed homeward and were engaged in con-
soHng themselves by cursing in choice
language all policemen and wishing
they had gone back and thumped the
face off him. when from a tree on
First West stepped Pop Esfinger. Then
there was a circus The reporter who
followed the gang down nearly as far
as Hegney's noted no further use of
words other than talk about what
they would do this summer if the
weather was good.