The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24

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wish You hadn't done it
With that 1 made him bow and
LETT him. He came out on the veranda
and said, If you're looking for
them mules, and that there Finn of
yours. you'll be wasting your time 1
saw couple of mules about so feet in
the air, and when they do come down
they won't be of any further use, con-
sidered as mules
My house and everything else be-
} longing 10 me, was clean gone, but I
was that mad at the captain that 1
dldnt care straw about it. / walked
straight to Lucullus which the cy-
clone hadn't touched. and I hunted up
Squire Gibbs and laid the case before
: him. He said that he couldn't see as
Captain Martin could be held liable for
treSpaSsing, so long as he stayed in his
mouse, and didn't step outside on to my
land. You can't set his house afire
or anything of that kind said he
without getting into trouble. No more
| can you move it while he is in it, for
/ that would be an assault on him. But
don't see ANYTHING TO hinder you
from getting a team of oxen and some
rollers handy. and the first time he
comes up to Lucullus to buy groceries.
you can move his house back onto his
own land. and he can't find any fault
with you
/ CQuliC 1ibDS was Il UTSI-CldSS law
! yer, and | knew I'd be a fool if | didn't
follow his advice. after paying S. for it.
So hired a tent that / could sleep in
! till such time as | could run up another
house; and l laid in provisions. and a
yoke of oxen, and some rollers. not for
getting small hydraulic jack. When
l got back to my farm 1 pitched the
tent right in front of Martins shanty
so that l could keep a good watch on
him, and I went to work with the help
of a. couple of men from Lucullus. to
build me another house. You see the
full force of the cyclone had passed
over just where my house had stood
while only the outer edge of ii had
struck the captains premises. That
accounts for the fact that my house
had been carried clean away. while his
had only been picked up and carried
few rods. AS for the mules and the
Norwegian, they were scattered all
over Minnesota. 1t was said that some
of the Norwegian was picked up about
80 miles from here, but it wasn't ever
satisfactorily identified.
Captain Martins house happened to
be planted in such a way that one
corner of it projected a few inches on
to the high road, and he was able to
get out of the window and into the
road without coming onto my proper
". However. he didn't feel easy 20
leave the house alone, for fear that I
might NEEDLE with it, so he stayed at
home for the best part of a week. when
his provisions, or his whisky, or some
other necessary run short, and he had
to walk over to Lucullus to lay in a
fresh stock. This was what / had been
waiting for, though I never limited it
to him. He used to come out on his
veranda, and remark in a general way,
without addressing himself to me or
any one else, that he was nightly
pleased with his new location, and
wouldn't change it for any other build |
ing lot in the whole state. I never said I
anything to him, except to remark. also |
in a general sort of way, that if any !
rascally old sailor should set foot on
my land he would have a hole bored !
through him so quick that he would I
never know what hurt him. Neither of |
US felt that it would be judiciouS to |
you understand, and so we /
confined ourselves to remarks that /
neither of us was obliged to take any |
notice of.
L waited about an hour after the /
captain had gone, thinking that he |
might turn back in hopes of catching /
me in the act of meddling with his /
house. At the end of an hour 1 felt |
safe enough, for il was certain that he /
must have gone on to LuculluS, and I
that he couldn't get back before dark. |
DO Called the lIlcIl IHdl were WOTkl0S
on my house and we lacked Martins
shanty up with the hydraulic jack,
and had her on rollers in next to no
time. Then / hitched the oxen to her
with a double OK chain, and started
her towards the road. In the course
of an hour L had her planted square
across the middle of the road, so that
nobody could possibly get by her. and
l had my fence put up again, and the
ground smoOthed out where it had been
cut up by the rollers, and then l sat
down and waited for the captain to
return.
1T was 10 o'clock and the night was
pitch dark, when l heard Martin COM
ing along the road and singing.
knew from his style of singing that he
had filled himself up with whisky, and
calculated that he would be consider
ably surprised when he found out
what had happened. He never saw the
house till he had walked bang up
against it with considerable of a crash.
he says to himself, Here's a
house anchored right in the fairway,
and with no riding light displayed
Thishyer's a pretty state of things.
Then he halls the house in his lOudest |
voice, and wants to know. who she is,
Ind where she is from, and where she !
5 bound to, and what sort of an ever
asting fool her captain might call :
himself. Not getting any answer, he !
wore he would climb aboard and wake
he anchor watch with Delaying pin. +
3ut after fumbling around for some
ime, and hdmmering on Sle door, and
MASKING a few paneS of glass, a new
dea struck him. ThiShyer'S derelict; :
hats what 1t is said he. I'll just !
tand by her till daylight, and see if a {
alvage job can't be made out of it. 7
That was the last that I heard of Cap J
ain Martin that night. He lay down in :
he road close alongside of the house
nd was asleep and snoring the snore
f the just in less than minute. Then !
went to bed myself, considering that !
here wouldn't be any more perform 5
noes that night. c
The captain woke up before [ did 5
he next day, and when came out of I
he tent he was nowhere to be seen,
aving unlocked his door and gone into
is house. About noon he came out on r
he veranda, looking pretty savage, /
nd / remarked to one of my men that +
obody but born fool would put his 5
Ouse in the middle of the public road
or he would be certain to be fined for l
bstIucting the road Martin didn't say !
nything, which sort of riled me, so I =
aid to the man who was nearest to \
he that l wanted him to go straight up 5
} LuculluS and tell the sheriff with my 6
Ompliments that Captain Martins b
ouse was standing directly across the c
Dad, so that l couldn't get by it with :
ne oxen, and that it was the sheriff's
uty TO see that the road was kept =
lear. The man naturally did as he h
as told. and in the course of the day h
he sheriff rode down an investigated v
lings and ordered Martin to take his L