The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-23
GOSSIP OF THE Town.
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| Unless the council has matters in good
shape, there will be a whole lot of fur
as soon as the warm weather sets in, "
remarked an old citizen yesterday, ''fol
there is more snow in City Creek thar
there has been for years. The cold
weather which we are having now is not
gong 10 continue much longer. and when
| IT gets warm again it is going to be not
only warm, but absolutely hot. Then the
water will begin to come down the
canyon and the way it will roll and swish
will be caution. The city will wish it
had some of those surplus canals which
1t filled up few years ago with which
to get rid of the water | don't know
whether the members of the council have
remembered. during their scrambles, that
there is liable TO be whole lot of moist
ure this spring. but if they have not it
is time they did, and got a movement
on themselves
After permitting the dear public to
tramp on coarse gravel during the sum-
mer months, the city fathers are now
allowing the same dear public to wade
through mud in getting to the joint city
and county building grounds, when a
wagon load OF material would materially
assist in preserving the dryness of the
public feet.
Stenographer Barker has a nice job on
hand He is working on the code amend
ments made by the legislature and re-
writing the same in the copy which is
being used by the committee on revision,
indexion, codification, annotauon and
other tons which is preparing the
work for the printer. Barker has job
which will last him for some time.
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The legislature having adjourned the
promoter of the mechanical voting de-
vice, or ballot box machine, now takes
his post daily at the portal which leads
to the office of Utah's executive.
IF This uaa thor keapS I'm II will ta IL,
order for the poet of the season to leave
on the table of the horse editor some
thing like the. following:
Cub gedle ,sprig with all thy lebes ad
Cub shed thn1y warbd cd desc code hearts
ad ourd;
Cub ,gedle sprig, cub with thy sky so
Cub gedle-ah-ker-choo, ker-choo, kerr
choo.
Up to date Martin Lannan and Mulvey
are still engaged in telling people how
it happened that Corbett's wind was
shut off by that terrific punch which
Fitzsimmons hit him in the 18th round.
BY the way. Mulvey is one of the I-told-
you-sos, and has the advantage of the
argument.
AS an indication of the condition of
affairs, it is noted that for the position
of private secretary to the superntend-
ent of public schools of this city, made
vacant by the death of Miss Eva Cohen,
there were applications yesterday, and
all of them will be considered by DIR.
Millspaugh today. The place is one
where a great deal of ability is necessary.
knowledge of stenography and type
writing required and the salary is by no
means large, yet the applications were
as numerous as stated. DR.. Millspaugh
is much grieved over the death of Miss
Cohen, as outside of her personality she
had the detail of the office work at her
finger ends and was thoroughly COM
petent to fill the place. 1t will be some
time ere a competent person can master
the detail which she had at her COM
mand.
Because he is a square sport. Billy
Woods. training partner of Corbett.
started from Carson yesterday to walk
across the Utah desert to Salt Lake City
and from thence through the mountains /
Of Wyoming into his home at Denver
Woods is performing this CALLING tramp |
to pay a wager he laid with a Carson |
sport before the big fight. Nobody was
master of the art was going to win, hence |
the bet.
The distance from Carson to Denver is
exactly 1;224 miles. and calculating that !
Billy will walk an average of 30 miles |
each day. il will take him fully one /
month and half to make the trip. His
brother, Walter J. Woods. the well |
known sport of Denver. has literally I
supplied Billy with funds so that he will |
lot be forced to do the begger's act.
A package was also dispatched from
Denver several days ago containing the |
pair of brogans that could be
ound in that city They were con-
is the word-constructed
If rawhide. not sewed nor even nailed,
nut riveted with copper hasps and the
hide throughout was nearly an inch in
thickness. Accompanying the brogans
vas large package of goat powder, to
absorb pain and another chemical to
.ase blisters and burns. The brogans are
considered in the nature of good
lumored Josh.
Woods should arrive in Salt Lake with
n three weeks, if his feet do mot fail
i'm as badly as his judgment. He IS
,ften or frequently as he chooses. but
ne distance must be covered consistent
V on foot Woods says his great walk
will be made from Carson to Salt Lake
or he does not fancy lingering on the
Ttah desert. After resting several days
n This city he will then strike out to
nish the remainder of the tedious jour
ev. taking the last half by slow stages.
lie thinks that after the job is COM
leted he will himself try a go with
ritz. Had Woods won the wager he
rould not have received more than 800.
n that his odds on Corbett were laid
own at about 1000 to 1. Woods tramp
viii conclude at the Omaha and Grant
melting works on the outskirts of Den
er. where he will be met by large dele
alton of sports and escorted into town
" a brass band. Fireworks are to be
ct off in the evening before Walter
Woods place
There IS some talk among the local
uorting fraternity of giving Woods a
eception when he arrives in Salt Lake.
However. these plans Will define them
elves later.