The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-10
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VIII virtually ruin their business, and
besides will incommode the public, who
Will have TO go TO State street on the
east, Second West on the west Fourth
South on the south and South Temple
on the north to obtain an expressman
when needed.
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Apropos of proposed ordinances. there
is something funny in the proposed
water ordinance. 1t is suggested that
the tax for the schools be 615 cents
per head for the children, while the
brewers get water for the manufacture
of beer at Il. cents. Here is a chance
for the reform workers TO get in some
good, legitimate work.
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The plan for the paving of Second
South street, west to the Rio Grande
Western, is being urged by the tax
payers and the members of the cOun-
Gil from the Second precinct. but be-
yond that there seems to be little ami
nation. The property owners down
there are willing to sign for the paw
ing of the four blocks, provided the
payments can be made in ten annual
installments Paving bonds could be
issued bearing interest at the rate of
per cent and the burden made easy.
Several contractors have signified their
Willingness to take these bonds in pay
ment, and nothing remains but action
on the part Of the council.
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1t is learned that the waterworks de-
partment anticipates serious trouble
after a few days of warm weather.
There is, as has been stated in The
Herald several times, more snow in
City Creek canyon than there has been
for years. 1t will thaw mighty sud-
den when it gets started. Superin-
tendent Wallace says he is in fair shape
to handle the water, but matters might
be in better shape. although he appre-
hends no very bad results.
During the absence of Chief DeVine
who is in Logan buying horses for the
department TO take the places of the
poor hacks which have either died or
are on their last legs, purchased some
time ago, the men who were fired bv
him and decreed by the courts to still
be members. are engaged in drawing
their salaries from the city for the
time they have been loafing McMul-
lin got his yesterday and has gone to
Kansas City on a trip; j. J. Clark and
Mowers are jingling some loose change
in their pockets for the time When
they took an enforced vacation, and
Tom Walsh will come in for few lines
in day or two, having merely to go
through the forms of law to get his
money.
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The department is in need of horses.
so says one of the minor officials. The
gray mare which was purchased for
use at the department, after all Amer
lean Fork had tried to do something
with her in vain, died some time ago.
There is another in service which Will
not stand run of more than a block
or so. At headquarters it is said that
hot he d.ar,a ~ &c
who knows what a good horse is when
he sees it to make purchases of live
stock.
1t is rumored that ex-Sergeant of
Police Ford is coming back TO the city
and take up his abode He has been
in Idaho for some time. but matters up
there are not what they once were,
and a change is required.
In these days the average miner who
hangs around the corner begins to
yearn to get out in the hills. This
longing is made more intense by the
fact that lead propositions are begin
ming to be considered as very good
things to tackle. Every old prospector
remembers a place where he found
lead and left it because it wasn't worth
bothering with. 1t is said there is con-
siderable activity over in the Death
canyon district and that several outfits
are only waiting for the snow to sub
side in order to leave.
By the way. the teams which pull
out in that direction this spring will
miss a familiar face on Lookout Pass
in the person of Aunt Lib Rockwell,
relict of Horace Rockwell. who has
lived in the cabin by the spring at the
foot of the hill many years all alone.
Aunt Lib has gone TO California to
live and will not greet the travellers
any more. The old lady had a good
thing on Lookout. She owned the
spring and used to charge a dime for
a teams water. Men could drink all
they wanted free, but it was cents
per horse. OF course, she kept the
trough in repair. She made quite a
good thing in selling eggs, ETC., to
prospectors who drove that way, too.
from her room. and those who stopped
there could camp and do their cooking
for a small fee.
Aunt Lib was peculiar in this, that
she would cook for no man. To ask
her to cook a meal was to cause her to
have an almost ungovernable passion.
The late DR.. Groves of Kelley fame
was a victim of a joke on his trip TO
friend, who wrote him that she was
famed for her ability to fry chicken.
He was told to be sure to go in and
ask her to fry him a chicken with
country gravy, and that she would fall
over herself in getting it ready for
him.
Groves halted and watered the
team, Aunt Lib cycling him the while.
Then he took off the brides, and while
his Communion carried the blankets into
the bunk house, he approached her
with most suave smile. Aunt Lib
he said. you see know you; will you
please fry Danny and me a nice
chicken And, say, also cook us
few eggs Have the whites just hard
and the yolks very soft. if you please
When you get it ready bring it in to
u.s." The hypo puncher was about to
stalk to the cabin, when Aunt Lib got
her breath. If ever there was sur
prised person on earth it was Groves
She informed that she considered him
a side whiskered dude, and that if he
got no chicken until she cooked it he
would go roaming around throughout
all the endless ages and cycles of eter-
nifty a chickenless man. Then she
shut the door in his face and it took
all Danny's persuasive eloquence to
pacify Aunt Lib and get her to sell
him a dozen eggs.
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Aunt Lib lived there all alone the
year round She had no companions
her family Once in awhile one of the
dogs would get sick. At one time she
sent to Eureka, 50 miles, for ply