The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-14
IN AND ABOUT UTAH.


A Ii Of sanpete county is very much
n exercised over the possibility Of d
grasshopper plague this year. Ac.
cording to the papers down there the son
IS literally covered with eggs. and unless
some radical remedy is found the out
look for a bounteOus harvest IS most un-
promising The wonderful tenacit,- s-ffh
which the grasshopper cIings 10 life Is
Illustrated by a story told bv the Wt.
fitasaht Pyramid tt SAYS.
- Hyrum Coats, who was in town from
-heslef during the week SAYS that there
Is much danger still OF damage being
lhllcted by the grassh0ppers despite the
Lact that the spring has been rather q
wet and cold one He SAYS that moisture
Goes not discOmmOde the hoDners i'm
the least Notwithstanding the popular
DeheL 10 the contrary. He has experi-
mented by placing a full-fledged hopper
IN a jar Of water sud keeping him there
az winter but when turned loose in the
suing II would require only a few
moments 10 make him about the liveliest
crowned hopper that ever hopDed. Then
~ Is said that last year there were mil
Ions f, OF the pests Matched out late in the
an II noles where water had been stand
ing all summer long"
Lie IN mining camp is not all beer
ana skittles, as certain Bingham fam
ny VIII testify The Bulletin tells OF an
occurrence IN the home OF Charles Brink
tnal could hardly have happened outside
VI Bihsnam Says the Bulletin.
Z ~, Last friday morning about 2 O'clock
/ Cnaries Brink and family were rudelv
Jared INTO consciousness so entirely that
sleep Tor the night was driven far away
ana Hltle OF Ii came back. The cause
was Hat rock weighing between 2n0
ana so pounds that came spinning down
the preclpitous ridge like a cartwheel
ana crashed through a kitchen window.
tN5moAshed an extension table and went
through the floor into the ground
marley says he old not have time to
} imagine robbers were shopping around or
/ lMhk about getting a gun He is con-
/ udent the thing came like a streak Of
| l8htning, and bat for getting tangled
! up with the floor would have been 60
ing STILL
! Brigham City's common council is Sc
/ Ilously considering the question of q
/ municipal lighting plant. The Box Elder
I News tell of the movement in this wise.
J, one OF the most important matters
4 before the city council at its session
tuesday night was the appointment bv
l the mayor of a committee TO investigate
1 the Feasibility of putting in a municipal
electric system. The present plant is not
what the city IS entitled to. and the pros
/ poets Tor an improvement by the COM
pdny are very remote. The CITY should
own and control the electric light system
I 90 II NtE5 int NulEEM0TkS.
The election of W. NJ. Rovlance Of
Provo To the Craftsmanship of the state
democratic committee gives general sat
lesIaction to the country editors. The
Sanpete Free Press published at NIantf.
endorses him as follows:
AT meeting of the state Democratic
committee, held in Salt Lake City on
Monday. Hon. William n ROylance was
selected as chairman of the state com
mfffnn Tho 0n he.
ton was not definitely fixed but il was
decided to hold it at Provo at a date not
earlier than Aug. p, The selection Of
MT Roylance as chairman is regarded as
a good one. Those who know him best
say he is worker, and that he will make
the enemy acknowledge that Democracv
IN Utah is not dead by a joyful
For many months the Vernal Express
mas been earnestly advocating the OPEN
ing OF the Uintah reservation 10 set
uement- In recent issue il pertinently
says:
by lacking an amendment for the
opening or the Uintah reservation onto
the Indian appropriation bill il is thought
that it has a better show of passage.
any old way to get il oEened-it matters
not TO the people. The Florence Mining
company, spoken of in the report evil
IDENTIFY means the Ravin Mining company
which has been operating on the reser-
Natl0n and has spent considerable money
II the Florence Mining company has
lease on mineral land the people don't
know it.
1t is barely possible that the individual
referred to in the following story from
the Tooele Transcript had a large sized
package of wet goods on board. but in
the absence. OF evidence readers should
be charitable. At any rate he had a
hard enough time. SAYS the TRANSCRIPT:
a passenger that came from Salt Lake
Loci Crna~ H. 81. IL.
special train was left behind at the T00eIe (
depot and started 10 walk TO this
city, but in the darkness lost his way,
and had to wander around the country all
reached home. more dead than alive By
a little CTOWding he could have been
taken in the hack"
Logan is certainly assuming metropOli- 4
tan airs The latest evidence of its /
transformation from a village to a city j
is found IN the following from the Ma I
ton;
"Logan's policemen are now equal to 4
New York's in the matter of uniforms :
and every other way. Broadway and /
Fifth avenue can boast no more stalwart /
men, no Drawer officers and no hand /
somer suits than are embodied in LO- /
gan's police force in the persons Of .
Marshal Crockett and Patrolmen Peter
Christensen and Don Benson. 1t is said /
all the boys turn green with envy when /
ever one of the rev helmets comes into
view. and that many admiring glances /
are turned toward the blue suits from
lady pedestrians. It IS also the easiest 4
thing in the world to find a policeman
since the new costume was adopted
- Monroe man who came 70 Salt Lake
a few days ago must have found a good /
many changes in the city since he saw It
last. The Gunnison Gazette says;
= James '. Williams. who resides at
Monroe, was a PASSENGER on Wednesdays
train TO Salt Lake. his first trim to the
capital in thirty-three years Mr.. Will
ans was among the earliest settlers Of
5Unnison. having the distinction of
building the first house above ground" /
n this city. He will be remembered no
doubt, by number of old timers here.
after whose welfare Ne made eager in
luiry in the brief conversation afforded
while the train was in waiting
Editor Bovden of the Mt. Pleasant
Pyramid has fun with the Salt Lake
police force this WAY.
"The Salt Lake police has covered it.
self with all kinds of glory in it's
handling of the Collins murder case. Just
Is it has often done in the past. tt
vas a suicide beyond a doubt until the
Joy told on himself, and even then they
would hardly admit Of any other theory.
Taking a ionE-raEge snap II those fell
Ows. we would say that they can find
OTIS of room 10 sit down away back"
DOMESTIC SCIENCE.