Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-02

nu dyer from Battle 50 uuun o.
Terrace, ghaurFl 900 iuni. /. Waa &.
iLu a O.. thai ire great AuUf.cnu
Desert ha been wrr, bF faIH tt1fmsi
ana rendered imIusaIUie Dit Grant
determined ON the Instant Go csrfg tHu
nlUktt into Salt Like Boy tue wuY Uf
ofluu. and wired Instructions ahead
% him TO ihnt u cl
y course, by iaklug 40 from Ogden
lo Echo direct, they would havo the
fuvnnihgr ui ore slide 90 r. ttauels aa
against ihcothor two sldus.
but tho Salt Lake people had made
such elaborate preparations 20 receive
The rolny aud had worked 80 hard over
their cruel desert route that 1t would
have been cruel to dlsappoiut them.
Why, juat consider. Ih0ee iudomit.
auls salt LakuIs, iu whom dwclls the
rpirit o. their pioneer fathers, hal
fisknf their lives over and over ngain
In blnElnu route for the relay through
she moTciloss desert Toe giant Riahpl,
who is jumping from point 10 point
between Reno, New, ana Rock
Springs, Wye, rlIing n hard relay
hero ana there, supervising ovufy-
whore, nnd sleeping hardly nuy-
where, nearly puflahing during ono OF
hla many uAcufalDns VI the relay, anu
haH never since completely recovered
bis health. Oihop OF the Salt Lake
Lake whrulmeu have had lilo oEroil.
uncus. Relay stations had been C5lab-
lisced OF points with such cuphouious
names 90 "ilaiilcrnagu and skull
Valicy,D and zach station consisted of
ten gallon kog OF waller protected
from the Sun by Apiece Of canvas.
Moreover tho CoutIcfs had been F'lnt
out OF their posts, each man supplied
with rati0np. Aud no Il was deter
mined that Salt Lake should not be-
LETT On the lufcn.
The relay could we'll spare fow
hourt, 40 iamously hnu lt Progressed,
anu, besides, q vernon Wells had con.
spntnd 90 Sign tue packet at Salt Lake.
Tho industry Ufthuha Ogden Esalota IN
organizing an independent relay north
OF desert aud Lake had paved tho way
Tor n change VI route without an In.
sianvs delay.
The ciuriora were already roloicud
that they weru 10 become official
agents Ia tho great reiay, with the
added triumph OF carrying tho packet
through thoir own town. Thee
thinge were practically settled in the
small hours this morning, nnu got
Terrace and OgIon ana SAT- Lake
epont day VI iobhlo agitation, Wow.
ing the possibility Of a conflict between
armed COurlvfH over the route 10 De
taken by tho packet. IL was this wny /:
Before nuwB came Of the doioit rains
the Salt Lakufs Cudgtliul thoif brains
10 duvlso mean whereby they could
cifcumvent the mon Of Osdon In tue
starting OF their independent rUlny.
can write with conviction about tnip,
because 4. w, Donald Of Salt Lake,
who has charge " thslparl u Rlschr's
division running from Wells 10 Green
River, has just confessed tue whole
plot 10 me. The scheme was nothing
lees brilliant anu audHc.Oue than the
kidnapping Of the packet rho two
caufiors Who were assigned % bring
tho packet tom Tacoma 10 Terrace, q
distance 0f thiriy.thton mile, were
Crots and Dull. both OF Salt LIKE.
10 was arranged tlat whom they or.
rived At that point, sixtgen miles wsli
Of Terrace. Ci0ss ihIpid strike Of with
the packet IN alutheIly direction
across The desert, with view 10 join,
ing the OIL ,inal AZ Newfoundland, ihu
lfst relay station. Dali WIS 10 plty
hia part ~ falling Into ditch, pun :
turing his tire, 10 come way kininp
time between the point Of departure
and Terrace. By the time hn should