The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-10
SOME GOOD STORIES.

Senator John Foy Chidester, of Pan
guitch; the tall statesman who wanted
an appropriation for Wayne county
bridges, so that Blue valley farmers
could "go ITO MILL is not handsome
man, as all who have seen him will
testify, and as he himself, reluctantly,
admits. Chidester is an attorney and
has considerable practice in the courts
south. It is related that at one time
he was attorney for the male defend
ant in a divorce suit, where the wife
was suing for a decree, alimony and
the custody OF the child, a male in
FAINT of lusty lung power and about
eighteen pounds avordupois. Chichester
did not care for the granting of the
decree or the payment of alimony, but
he was fighting for the possession of
the kidlet.
Presley Denny was opposing counsel.
He was making his argument in favor
of giving the woman the child when
she happened to walk, with it in her
arms, past the place where Chichester
and his client were sitting. At the sight
of it's dad the infant let out Dixie yell
that brought Judge Bartch up stand
ing, as it were.
"Your honor" gravely said Denny,
will note that our position in this
matter is the correct one. The child
should be awarded its mother. Why,
sir, it is, even at this tender age,
afraid of it's unnatural parent who
seeks to tear it from it's mothers
arms"
Chichester was on his feet in an in
slant IF it please the court, 1 object
to the insinuation. The child saw me,
was the reason it CRIED
Denny Strengthened UP and, after a
moments thought, said: your honor
[ wish to apologize to the defendant
for what I have said. 1 had forgotten
the presence of my noble and learned
brother"
They do say that after adjournment,
Chichester offered to wallop Denny on
less ground than he could stand on.
to members of the late legislature
People from all over the country wrote
letters asking for the passage of this
or that law and suggesting many and
varied changes in the revised statutes.
New positions were asked for and the
persons who asked for them were not
in the least modest either. One mem
Der of the state senate was the recipi-
ent of the following novel letter:
To the Honorable, senator
''Read the cold blooded statements
of this bulletin, every word of which
is gospel truth, and 1 defy any sue
cessful contradiction of one word
contained herein"
Rag Mattresses and Comforters.'
1 am in favor of a law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale Of shoddy mat
tresses within the borders of our state,
as made at present, the same as the
laws now in effect in older and more
advanced states. Since we have a
building inspector, dairy inspectors,
meat inspectors, fruit inspectors, 1
would suggest that our legislature
take immediate action especially as
affecting mattresses and prohibit the
manufacture and sale of so disgusting
and necessarially unhealthful house
hold articles in its present form, upon
which the final owner spends one-third
of his life. 1 know of no greater SER
vice TO the poor or ignorant than in
promoting pure and healthy bedding.
Shoddy wool is made of all kinds of
rags, picked up by rag pickers in
dirty alleys, in all parts of the town
and county and all such rags as are
not fit to make paper out of are con-