The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
GOSSIP OF THE Town.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
If any gentleman is

If any gentleman is ambitious to
emulate William Greer Harrison and
win honors as a pedestrian, let him
steer clear of Jim Moyle.
For be it known that James is not
only learned in the law but walker
and mountain climber from away back,
as the following story from the Brig
ham City Buglar shows:
Tuesday, DR.. Bier and Attorney
James Moyle of Salt Lake were in
Brigham on legal business. After
court adjourned these two got into a
jolly jangle over their respective walk
ing abilities. Finally to clinch things,
DR.. Milwaukee bravely bet a $40 piece
Ton the superstition that the lawyer
had more muscles in his tongue than
in his legs) that the lawyer could not
walk to the summit of the highest peak
east of Brigham in two hours and a
half. To the dismay of the NJ. D.,
the plucky lawyer promptly accepted
the wager. So at L o'clock Attorney
Noyle started on his long, laborious
climb. He was watched by scores of
people with glasses. About 2 o'clock
he reached the high point, in plain
view of the spectators in Brigham,
having nearly half an hour to spare.
So the doctor got scooped. The eleva-
ton of this peak is probably 1850 feet
and the mountain is a mile and a half
from the court house, the starting
point The NJ. D. no doubt thought
the mountain looked close, but might
be at least five miles away. Moyle is
a Utah boy; the other evidently is not,
or he would not have been SO sadly
fooled on our deceiving distances
g O. G
Some weeks ago it was announced
that the inspector of this district would
cause much grief to the postmaster at
Mercur because he (the postmaster)
did not use government ink in can
ceiling stamps; sometimes used no ink,
all of which is against the regulations
The discipline which the official was
to undergo seems to have been for
gotten, although the Inspector had
what is usually designated as a
"cinch'' in the shape of some letters
mailed at Mercur, upon which the
stamps were not cancelled. 1t is like
ly, however, that the Mercur man will
escape official castigation, inasmuch as
he was the victim of an accident a day
or two since, which will lay him up for
a time.
Now that Christmas has gone and
passed, it may not be cut of order to
state that spare dimes. quarters, nick
les, halves and other odd coins can be
deposited in the contribution boxes for
the Orphans Home and Day Nursery
the same as before.
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Two or three wags. intent on having
a joke, are said TO have worked" some
of the police officials on the Turner
matter to the queens taste 1t appears
that when the news of the outrage
began to spread about the city, three
well known men around town began
specializing about what would be done
with such a man. were this a city in
one of the southern states. It was
unanimously agreed that the man
would hang. Finally it was decided
to work joke and announce that
strong feeling prevailed among a cer-
tain element in the city in favor of
hanging Turner. One of the party was
appointed to get a rope and the other
to see officials and inform them that
the best thing to do was to let the mob
have him and settle it.
The official who was communicated