Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-15
STATE OFFICIALS,
Governor and Departmental Heads
Plant Some Trees.

Governor H. NJ. Wells planted his
eighth tree today on the Capitol
grounds 1t was a chestnut but the
chief executive did not give any exhibit
ton of being weary IN well doing, while
when 1t came to the charming young
wife OF the governor, she shOVeled art
In fashion calculated to wreck the
finest pair of French Kids ever turned
out Of a factory. After the first gem
tleman IN the state had spoiled very
nice shine through tamping the art
around the saping with his foot Mrs
Wells leaned upon her shovel ana IN
dulged in a soll0quy that was mol
plagiarlzed from Hamlet. 'Phew, sho
murmured, II believe that this beats
house cleaning"
There were others there who welded
q shovel with artistic abandon, TO the
delight Of those assembled. Gen. {. ).
Burton and Mrs. Burton undertook 70
plant soft maple on the cooperative
Plan; that Is, they took Il In turns 70
hold the tree while the other shoveled
the dirt, and the balance Of the officials
assembled each claimed the healthiest
tree that was planted last year.
Seems to me-" Yentured Governor
Wells. after President Shurtlift OF We
Der Stake laid claim TO have planted
more trees In ogden than any other
citizen, an assertion that was strenu-
ously denied by Hans Christopherson,
that this tree-planting business IL
worse than going fishing. when II
comes 10 tall yarns What would
have been the ultimate outcome Of the
Gebate can never be known, for at this
iuncture Moroni Heiner--he who in
spects the butter and cheesc-expec'
torated on his digits and demanded thr
shovel A couple OF minutes later
young Huntington elm was nodding IN
the breeze while Heiner drew of 10
Que side to admire his handiWork,
Say. but this takes me beck to the
days on the farm came the voice Of
Atty, Gen. Breeder from amid a cloud
Of dirt and gravel, as he handed out
FhOycls full and scattered them over
The landscape The major worked like
n steam shovel. His tree was going
90 be planted II Il took a writ OF habeas
arboIum. Then President Heiner of
The Morgan Stake took q hand and
showed the city folks how they did
things up north. In the meantime State
Treasurer ! d. Dixon had annexed a
Norway maple and was endeayoring TO
plant It upside down. After being
gently rebuked for his levity, an Off
cial was pressed into service to hold
The tree while Dixon manipulated the
shovel md passed derogatory remarks
regarding the handwork Of the other
amateur gardeners His insinuations
were ignored by President Shurtllfi.
who insisted that his assistant had the
particular Huntington elm out Of
plumb and also was not working the
roots enough so that the requisite
amount Of fine soil could get packed
around them.
In ALL there were twelve trees plant
ed this morning on the Capitol grounds,
the News Telegram and Tribune
having expert tree planters on the
ground. who were respectively respon-
sble for the planting OF two chestnuts
end a soft maple.
The majority OF the trees planted last
year are still alive, although theit
growth was retarded by a grass fire
last fall The white hawthorn. planted
by Mrs Wells being the most prom
Using OF the bunch out Of the eight
trees planted TO date BY Governor
Wells, six of them are still alive and
doing we'll