Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-05
FIRST INVADER
MEETS HIS FATE
Sad story Of a Beavers SIrcnu-
ms tGlrs To Alapl Himself
10 NV CONDITIONS
LEFT SNsNE FOR TWIN FALLS.
There We Was whelm,d with
The Change And With Stick
lhIuSs Tut 10 DeaIb

This Is beaver tale, II In a sod
story, II tells Of the ignomnous I'm.
ish Of daring old bachelor beaver
who, HE q great many Of the bJmnn
race, lived In n little world by himself
FOR 80 long that he failed to keep track
OF the progress around him and fell an
easy Victim TO modern improvements
The eubjec, Of the story was a sleek,
Fat old castor who accumulated 10
pounds Of adlposc tissue while leading
an easy life In the Snake river canyon
n fhot distance below the railway
crossing nt llurlcy When the builders
OF the MInIdoka n Southwestern be-
gan driving piles for the railway bridge
their operations disturbed the old bea-
yer ana he decided to seek another
home, liumors Of q new river had
reached his ears, communicated no
doub, by passing muskrots. 80 he con.
oludod 10 30 west ana sec n he could
no, add TO his glrth after establishing
now quarters on the river Of which
he had heard,
GETTING ACQUAINTED,
The dawn Of nm Aprll morning found
the beaver swimming around above the
dam at Miner Ito was evidently sur.
prised 10 ind such formidable OBJ
struction ana as II was built on new
lines he determined TO study the dam
carefully before proceeding, Occasion.
ally no would climb up on top of the
dam look down over the lower aldo
ana shake his head In woniomcnt
The waterfall he saw amazed him, nor
could h. understand the mysterious
gates through which the water Missed
and boiled Carefully avoiding the
gates OF the dam he swan around TO
the he0dgaios Of the big canal When
he reached the hendgntoe he struck out
with con ldenoc, apparently feeling cer-
tain he had found the new river ~
which the muskrate had told him
but he WAS puzzled over the direction
OF the stream and the rapldlty with
which the water flowed porplexod him
nightly Filled with curiosity he
plunged beneath the water and divod
under tho hcadgatos into tho canal be.
You'd,
EspIED BY WATCHERS,
The watchful eye OF the ditch rider
splcd the beaver as the animal came
to the surface and shook his head be.
low the heOdgaios Immediately there
was grea, excitement Word was quick.
" passed around that n beaver had
found It's way into the canal and WAS
looking for a home, A general alarm
was sounded ana the canal forces con.
grognted hastily and planned TO oycr-
come the enemy II would never do,
said the ditch riders 10 let this veteran
turnover ana canal builder commence
business In The canal II he once got
TO work he was liable 20 make all sorts
OF trouble for the rrigators, hence he
must be destroyed or driven 20 other
fields,
Meanwhile the old beaver swan down
the ditch looking for a. good location
Evidently thought the old castor, this
waa (, very new stream for not a single
tree could no md along It's banks, no.
could he discover any dam sites In
vain the homosecker climbed the banks
and looked around for trees with which
he might satisfy his hunger and build
Ms home, Nothing but sogobrush, with
here and there n new frame house, met
his eye,
BACK TO THE SNAKE,
DIseusted with the new rlvcr, the ola
beaver hondod back for the snake. At
the hcadgatc he saw group of gostu.
lNtng men standing on the bank with
n great splash he dlvcd and cndeavorol
10 swim below the surface back 10 tyfe
parent stream, Tho powerful current
beat him back and no was unable 10
mako any Roadway, Bafncd and puff
ilng lo came 10 the surface only To
ilnd that the men had armed them.