The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-12
IN AND ABOUT UTAH.

The Salina Sun Of recent date has a
snake yarn that deserves more than an
ordinary place in the world of romance.
It isn't always necessary for Editor
Howard TO furnish an affidavit with every
STORY, Dut lot OF doubling ThOmases
would like to be showed" in this in
stance. The story follows:
p D SchOeber and two of the Muir
ply boys were out in the hills southwest
of town yesterday, and they had the glory
OF killing the first rattlesnake of the
season. The reptile was not a large one
barely ten feet in length-but it put up
d spirited fight and was as mean and
VindictiVe as snakes are supposed to be
in August. It was the proud possessor Of
eighteen rattles and three buttons. Tho
strange part OF this story remains t. be
told. After dispatching the snake and
while removing the rattles. Mr.. Schroeder
observed some foreign object attached 20
the creatures body. Wen up toward the
ears An examination disclosed this 70
ne q narrow piece Of blue ribbon encir-
cling the snakes neck %. secured in
place by a small gold clasp. Upon the
RIBBON was traced In red ink The Initials
a. J. s. Undoubtedly these gentlemen
unwittingiy and thoughtlessly killed an
innocent creature which, perhaps had
been the pet of some dear little child who
now moUrns its loss. Mr. Schroeder has
the ribbon on exhibition at his office in
this city"
A thoroughly sincere but altogether TN
conscious compliment was paid a theatre
cal company that played a date at Coal
vile recently Says the Times.
One OF our boys who was present be-
came so interested in the part where the
Dunkard lady was giving her consent 10
the marriage Of her daughter, that he
yeued out; Hes running race on
YOU. People from Henefer TO Wanship
were present al the show. 1t has been
such long time since a show was here
that everybody turned out
There's a name that's never spoken
these days by a Tooele swain. He has
very good reasons fOr remaining silent
because the laugh is decidedly a him. as
the following story from the Transcript
will more particularly set forth:
1T is no secret now that a very i'm
portant match was broken off in this
city day or two ago; verifying the old
wise law. That there is many a slip
betwixt the cup and the lip II seems
that by many promises of wealth and
fortune TOOele lover had induced a
widow of the eastern states TO brave the
dangers OF railroad journey across the
dreary western plains, with love, fame,
fortune and marriage as the prize in
view. On the wings Of love. and the
train. she came so swiftly that she ar
rived IN this city just one week ago yes
terday. But, alas. she did not find the
love the fame and the fortune she was
=
day the widow took the back track, and
is now IN her old home in Pennsylvania.
thanking her stars that she escaped
through all the dangers she was in with
out losing her life"
Into the happy hunting ground are
fast passing the straggIers of once great l
and powerful tribe Of Utah Indians.
Death has thinned the ranks Of the reds
until only a few Of them are left to pitch
no y 81
are good and an existence can be eked !
out. Says the Richfield Reaper:
Bishop Bagley. while down from
koosharem last week, told of heavy
mortality among the Indians Of Grass
valley during the past winter. Of the
once great tribe there were but fifty I
left at the opening of the winter, and I
seven Of them have died since. The !
death OF Big John win be remembered. l
Three squaws and three papOOses have
oleQ since. There was no particular ]
epidemic 10 cause the deaths. One squaw
was the victim Of consumption; another /
Lretted her life out because her napoose /
Qleu. one OF tho children ChOked to 1
death on bone and another took a bad I
-oln tnat finally turned to o fatal disease |
Ims makes the past winter the worst /
one Cor the tribe in several years.
Many Moab people didn't know how
near they came to losing their paper. the /
strand valley Times. until they read an /
editorial announcement in the last issue |
The editor said that he had never re /
ceived the support from Moab 10 which /
ne was justly entitled. He had struggled Z
along under adverse conditions, doing the (
very best he could under the circum- /
stances, and living principally on the not
TOO nourlshing diet Of hope. When the
business men Of the thriving little VIII /
lage or Castieton, which nestles close. up /
10 the La Sal mountains. offered him /
splendid Inducements 10 come over there. J
ne felt tnat In Justice &c himself he must Z
accept the proposition. However, when /
the Moab people heard Of the contem- /
plated change they rallied around him /
with pledges Of support, and the Times