The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-07
CANNON LOVED
A MORMON GIRL
She Afterwards Became the
Fourth Wife of a Utah Man.
TALE TOLD BY CONGRESSMAN
PET DIVERSIONS OF SOME OF
THE PRESIDENTS.
TALE TOLD BY CONGRESSMAN
Especial 10 The Herald0

Washington, June 6.-WhiIe Presd-
dent Roosevelt appears to live more in
the open and practice athletics as
part of the daily routine, it does not
follow that he is the only president
who has appreciated the advantage, al
most the necessity, Of leading a siren
uous bodily as well as mental existence.
His little vacation in Yellowstone park
brings to mind a similar excursion
made by President Arthur. accOmpa-
MED by General Phil sheridan. The
two took a camping outfit and man
aged at one time to get 100 miles away
from teIegrapnic communication. Ar
thur was as fond Of hunting as the
present incumbent of the presidency,
and liked fishing quite as well as 1irt-
ing, which is saying a great deal for
there never was a greater beau in the
capital. Garfield was devoted to all
kinds of outdoor sports. especially
baseball though his pet diversion was
hunting. Indeed. almost every presi-
dent. from Roosevelt back to Wash
1ngton, appears to have taken particu-
lar pleasure in this sport. CIeveland's
duck shooting is famous Even while
IN Washington he took frequent shoot
ing trips along the shores of the POtO-
mac and Chesapeake bay. President
Harrison followed in his footsteps.
While a fairly good shot, President
Harrison sometimes made mistake in
the game, once shooting a black pig
which he thought was raccOon. The
darky owner of the pig refused pay
for the animal, considering it an honor
10 his family that the beast should
have been shot by a president OF the
United States. John Quincy Adams
was. next to Benjamin Franklin, the
best swimmer of his day. There is a
spot on the east bank of the Potomac
from which he frequently took morn
ing plunge in the river. walking back
from his bath in better spirits than
he usually exhibited to his cabinet
Jefferson rode necessarily. rather Of
Tending his aristOcratic old colouials
by appearing at all hours of the day in
riding boots
Joe Cannon's Love Story.
They call him the Watchdog of the
treasury" and they strain their ears
FOR his faintest growl, those new mem
Ders who do not understand Uncle Joe
Cannon. or those old members who
want to hustle through an exOrbitant
appropriation He is always genial,
and one would hardly expect sentiment
from him, yet not so very long ago,
when he happened to be feeling rather
comfortable after dinner with a friend.
he told a little love story of his own
which occurred more than half a cen
fury ago. ''She was a beautiful girl.
and I loved her" he said. and then he
blew out the kind Of cigar smoke ring
that seems the appropriate frame for
love stories. 1t seems he never pro
posed because, as he put ii, Il didn't
have money enough to buy a pair of
shoes" Presently the Mormon mission
aries appeared. The girls mother was
converted, and commanded her daugh-
ter to prepare herself TO become the
plural wife Of some worthy masculine
member of that persuasion OF course,
young Cannon and the maid were over
Whelmed with grief and cOntrived i'm
possible plans of escape and matri-
mOny, all of which were frustrated by
the prompt action of the mother, who
lost no time in selling out her farm and
trekking westward. For three days ]
was plunged in black despair said
Mr. Cannon. but I recovered. and so
did she. I learned many years after
ward from George Q. Cannon, who
came to congress as a delegate from
Utah, that my old sweetheart was a
pTacticing physician and the fourth
wife of a prominent Mormon"
The TumOr that a convention viii be
held in Chicago late in the summer AT
which a reorganization of the lower
house of congress will be mapped out
receives no endorsement OF course
the new house viii make many changes
in its committees, but il is believed
that Speaker to-be Cannon will wait
until after the extra session before an