The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-24
JUST GOSSIP.

! It is related by one of the young men
| employed in an official capacity by the
| state government that a tenderfoot
| struck Leadville in the early days and
! wishing to become as tough" as the
men in that section usually are, he went
! into a saloon and started his career by
/ ordering a drink.
The bartender set up bottle, glass
and whisk broom. The man from the
| land where all bugs have gilded wings,
/ caught on to the bottle right away, also
the glass, but when it came to the broom
! he was puzzled. He didn't like to SHOW
an ignorance of western customs, so he
decided TO take his time and accordingly
took his time in pouring the drink. While
he was engaged, one of the denizens OF
the town came in and called for Snlf-
ter.
The tenderfoot watched him carefully
! pour out the drink, swallow it and then
take the broom. go to corner, sweep
effect of the whisky lie down and nave
a fit.
The youth pleaded dislike for whisky
and ordered beer.
Manca's restaurant has an aquarium.
1t is filled with mountain trout and WIS.,
tors to the place and people on the out
side have good times feeding them ana
watching them catch flies and do other
trouty things. A few days ago, Manca,
the elder, thought it would be good
thing to purchase few small trout ana
have them for company for the big nsh.
He argued that as hens protected their
! chickens COWS their calves and other
mammas and papas of different kinds,
perhaps trout would do The same. so ne
ordered a hundred small fry about two
inches in length and dumped them IN
The old trout had a picnic right there
and then and in less than two minutes
Iney were sliding around the glass SIDES
of the tank, looking for after dinner
maps.
It is rumored that Charley Johnson
will shortly write work on How 70
Miss the Train Charley accompanied
the choir to California, and succeeded IN
getting left at San Jose. Then ne moved
mento and ali went well until Reno was
reached. Here Charley took another stroil
and succeeded in missing the train aSalH
This time he failed to catch up with ms
companions and didn't get INTO oalt Lahe
until the next train
A young man who figures in the very
swell set was going down Main streel
Yesterday with the hired man VINO WORKS
the familys farm below .?o tt'e nd Gd'y make IKE
him feel good, but the granger was d
total abstainer, and the Book beer signs
had no charms for him, so the s"ell
hardly knew how to entertain mn 80 -
I
nut stand and it occurred to the SVEN
Nat a LOT of shot roasted would prove
acceptable, Sc he said, Jake, have some
peanuts. ..h,+ ;f it,e
all the same to you I'd rather nave
doughnuts.
DR.. Wright, who is the plaintiff in a
damage, suit against the Union fa ed,o
Railway company, now on trial before
Judge Marshall in the United States as
trict court, is quite character. he Is
a man somewhere about 80 years OF age,
and has seen a great deal OF NE IN Tue l'.
west before this section of the country
could he said to have been brought under
the influence of civilization
When on the witness stand yesterday
describing the injuries he had received
last summer by being run into by Union
Pacific train in this city, it was noticed,
notwithstanding his long bushy gray
locks that his left ear was completely
gone In reply to questions by counsei
he said the railroad was IN no way re-
age and went on to tell the story OF now
he came to lose it, which, although II
was entirely irrelevant to the case, proved
so interesting to the court and the law
yers that a depression was permitted ana
the old man allowed to tell his tale.
1t was in the early days in California.
He and a friend were out in the wilds.
far away from the haunts of men, when
he single handed, encountered twelve
hundred pound grizzly bear. 1t was in
close quarters and the bear meant bust
ness; escape by flight was impossible,
and the situation resolved itself into a
hand-to-paw encounter with the grizzly.
The bear forced the fight reared UP on
his launches and gathered the man, who
was armed only with long knife, in
its terrible embrace. The doctor hacked
and slashed so effectually that bruin looS-
hi oil tObp a W
his huge paws scratched and lacerated
the fest of the upper part of Wright
body, and with one claw tore off his left
ear.
While the unequal struggle was going
on Wrights companion arrived on the
scene with his rifle. but realizing the i'm
minent danger of killing his friend was
exceedingly 10th to shoot. Something had
to be done, however, and that quickly,
so he blazed away, with the result, as
Wright said that the bear was hit so
hard that he desired to cease hostilities
and call it q draw. Wright, however,
was also hit, ball shattering his arm
and another passing through a powder
flask he carried igniting the contents so
that as the old man phrased it, he was
blown up and shot at the same time.
The bear soon rolled over dead, and it
was many months before Wright was
himself again.
AT the conclusion of the recital Mr.. P.
L. Williams, counsel for the railroad COM
pany, facetiously remarked that it was
no use trying to kill d man who could
successfully cope with a bear and rail
road engine in single combat.
For over Fifty Years
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. 1t
hill