The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-05
STATE NEWS AND COMMENT.

SlAIE NE VS. AIND (OHIWENl 4.
The Weber County Times thinks Ad-
miral Deweys son George is wasting a
golden opportunity. He is travelling
for a New York wholesale house now.
The Times says: IF the young man
were half sharp he would resign and
either take to the lecture field or go on
the stage. Americas curiosity is as
lmitless as Ogden Winds"
A striking case of so near and yet so
far occurred at Lehi the other day. The
Banner tells a story of how six hoboS
tried to dig their way out of Jail. They
were within two inches of liberty when
Guard AL Hitesman heard them at
work. He promptly informed the Will
lies that he would shoot the first man
who showed his head outside. and
they promptly ceased their labors. The
single fact that the wanderers were
willing to work at all makes the story
interesting.
The Logan Nation is camping on the
trail of the council that runs the bust
ness of Cache county's capital. The
Nation is fretting over the award of
a sprinkling contract as follows: 1.-The
Logan city council is somewhat unfor-
tunate, if nothing else, in its business
transactions. 1t recently advertised
for bids for street sprinkling. One
resident bid $3.50 for the season, ard
another resident bid $500. The council
awarded the contract to the highest
bidder. The citizens, of Logan would
doubtless like an explanation of this
method of doing business
Nothing but a barn roof prevented
H. j. Clegg of Heber from doing the
Elijah act one day last week. Mr.
Clegg, according to the Wasatch Wave,
was getting out a piece of lumber in
the second story of his barn, when the
plank slipped and struck the two-inch
piece on which he was standing. 1t
tilted and up went Mr.. Cfegg. The
roof saved him, but in rebounding from
it he alighted on the ragged edge of a
manager and sustained some severe con-
tusionS.
This naughty paragraph is from the
Eastern Utah Advocate. published at
Price: 1.-The devil sends the wicked
wind that blows our skirts knee high,
but heaven is just and sends the dust
that blinds the bad mans eye"
Levi Ganett of Wellsville will con-
tent himself with using the time-hon-
ored "sooey" when pigs get into his
garden again. The Logan Journal has
an account Of a severe accident that
befell Mr.. Ganeft while chasing hog
lets out of his garden sass" He
started to chasing them and ran into
a stump, dislocatIng his thigh bone and
injuring himself internally. Mr.. Gan
ett's condition was precarious for sew
eral days, but he is now on the road
toward recovery.
Editor Dresser of the Mercur Miner
came to town last week and got all
tions. He makes this frank confession
in the last issue of his paper:
"The editor went into the city last
week to make arrangements for bring
ing his family out to Mercur. Admiral
Schley captured the town on Monday
and the editor was unable to get away.
Tuesday the Decoration day celebrd-
ton proved too attractive to leave, and
the circus came in on Wednesday and
the family had to be taken to that.
The editor. therefore did not get back
to his desk till Thursday, which ac-
counts for the lack of news in the
Miner this week"
Postmaster Mclaughlin of Payson
would be eminently successful as the
head of a matrimonial bureau. Says
the Silver City Star: Miss Emma
Green has resigned her position IN the
postoffice, and will return to her home
in Payson, which. so Dame Rumor
says, she will soon leave again, this
time as the bride of a popular resident
of Eureka This is the fourth Deputy
Postmaster Mclaughlin has lost in
that way. and in consequence the po-
sdtion is in demand by Payson girls"
Love and letters seem to go hand in
hand at Payson.
Clear Lake wants blacksmith and
a meat market. The town has black
smith shop. but no smith, the former
owner having gone to the war. The
Review says these are good openings
for the right men.
The Springville Independent INDUCES
in this bit of sarcasm: Now that a
Provo mining man has a $4,000 span of
horses, the citizens of that city are
thinking of building a boulevard for
him to speed them on. We wish some
Springville man would build a yacht;
perhaps this city could then get pub
lie road to the lake
"Utah's best crop is fiourishing at
Nephi. The Republic, in its last issue,
prints notices of five new arrivals, and
says something nice and something diff