Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02
Wyoming.

How unfortunateIt is for a man
or woman to be poor and have rich
ways.
VIM. Garrard will make a trip
to Mississippi in IA short time, so
we are informed.
W. NJ. Jones and wife, of near
Owingsville, visited 1. b. Conyers'
family last week.
VIM. Anderson and Chas. Atch-
ison will attend school at Owings-
vile the coming term.
Sam Estill. Of the firm of Jackson
Il Estill, is down at his home, near
Grange City. with la grippe.
John L. Vice will soon be a res
ident of the Wyoming neighbor-
hood, having rented the property
of the late Abraham Jones, where
he will reside next year.
On the 10th inst, Will F.. Estill
wrote his brother, J. r.. who is in
Salt Lake City, to write him a de-
scription Of that, country. Here
is the result.
Salt Lake City, Utah,
Sunday, Jan. %, 1899.
Picture to yourself long, level val
ley-say 40 miles in length, with an
average width of 10 miles-shut out
from the rest of the world Except by
II. II. and telegraphic communica-
tom by the tall, tapering forms and
awful dimensions of the Rocky
Mountains. At the western side of
the valley lies the Great Salt Lake
and ut the eastern lies Salt Lake City.
Distance between the two, Is miles.
By way of parenthesis I'll remark
that i was at Garfield Beach yester-
day. i went out and back with two
section hands ON a hand-car on the
narrOw-gauge system OF the u. p. X.
r., the only road running from here
to the lake. / had often heard OF
Great Salt Lake and wondered why
il was so named. But when reach
ed down into its sky-blue depths and
put a handful of water into my
mouth | readily understood the sug-
gestive title. The brine is so strong
couldn't bear 1t i'm my mouth. Hav-
ing heard that constant bathing OF
the scalp in the ocean was good fol
badness / next proceeded to expert
ence the delightful thrill. The sensa-
2 ton was similar to that of a thousand
ants attending strictly to business
and was almost unbearable. When
! my hair dried it was perfectly matted
with salt, and my HAIR, for once,
would "shade the snow drift" That
! night i'm my room 1 cOmbed a tea.
spoonful Of nice table-salt from my
head. No animal life survives here
The exact dimensions of the lake
cannot give. L stood i'm the pavilion
Of Garfield Beach and looked across
to the island,-another huge member
! of the Rockies" shaped like back.
5 bone. and In area covering as large q
spot of territory as the Wyoming
Valley from the Forge Mill down to
= Jess Atchison's,-and il looked to me
as far away rs from our house to the
Dawson hill. then turned tC
! l"Frenchy," the custodian in charge
I of the Beach, and asked the distance
e whereupon he replied: 1T is twenty
: miles, Sir" The island is almost ir
the center of the lake and the lake ii
3 be 40 odd miles across, but Just q
e little longer. The lake is falling
slowly but surely. Crossing the Val.
, ley yesterday | took special notice OF
= the old water-marks on each side
? one possibly 100 it., the other 200 #.
, upon the mountain-conclusi evil
denceof a once powerful inland ocean
but at the same time the Hudson Bay
i is rising. So Is the Gulf of Mexico
The Polar explorers have come to tn.
conclusion that the North Pole is q
: continent as large as Asia. l some.
times think i would like to lay dowr
and die and rest about a million years
, and crawl out and see what time has
done.
Salt Lake City is laid out in a very
, systematic order with streets 8 rds
wide equal to 1873 1T. 4 in.). On each
side of the SITS. Is row of tall silver
{ poplar trees, and i'm the center are the
telegraph and telephone poles, strung
with network of wires. These
!. blocks are of unusual dimensions
Hence, in this city of 1000 souls, il
H. You walk distance of 6 blocks, you
8 have walked n lcrg ways. This was
all the foresight ~ Brigham Young
in honor of whom rs" neople hav
! erected "a splendit nBurI''en' g.
where slain and IsmI.. So ros
at right angles. t'acin, I,..s S
1 looking South and betwee "a ~,a and
: Main is the Lion House." where
Brigham lived in perpetual reveris
with his 80 wives and 30 children
: This house is surrounded by a ce.
mented stone wall II #. high and has
three back porticOs and one from;
one. At the eastern end of this bloch
where State and Temple cross al
right angles is Eagle Gate" an.
a other piece Of "Brig's" handiwork
Another block east Cat about the cen.
ter from east to west) is where
r Brig" is forever at rest in a strange
D and mysterious grave. This burying
ground Is rectangular in form, say
$50 #. one way and about 80 #. the
other, with strong iron fence around
, it. At the southeast corner and about
~ fit. one way by about #. the other,
screwed fast to a solid stone of the
. same dimensions which weighs Z
tons, under which lies buried the
greatest "Licentiate" of the modern
world. While standing here and
, locking at this grave and it's sur
rOundings L grew meditative and
wondered il these Latter Day
Saints"weren't really afraid that the
spirit of this adulterOus beast would
come back to the earth and outrage
the families of some of the apostles
and bishops as he did when living.
He died in 1877 of cholera morbus.
Shortly before his death. young
fellow and his wife came here from
the East. BRIG" saw this young
woman and ''gOt stuck" on her at
once. He approached her and told
her his mission and she told him to
come down to her house at u certain
hour of the same day and see her
husband. So he came. The husband
and wife greeted him with the ut
most courtesy, inviting him in. He
laid off his hat, stood up his cane in
the corner, sat down and said:
"Brother, / received a revelation
from the Lord in my dreams last
night in which he tells me your wife
must be mine. 1t looks hard, but we
must obey the Lord. Have you any,
| Al;