Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-02
INee0s Of TIE Day Through Idabo's Busy Domains
POCATELLO HAS
COMIC SENSATION
Considerable Hiarity the Expense of Manager Of w.,
Works Over Weird Letter Executivs-Rey Cj,,
Candidate for Congress Dubois Ticket Hits a Mall.
On the Head With an Axe.

Special Correspondence.
- oCATELLo Ida. Sept 1.---Consld-
- cradle amusement at the expense
Of the manager Of the local water
company has been occasloned OF
late, by the publication In booklet form
OF an article OF some 5000 words, enti.
tied "Fre Protection, A Letter from
George Winter, superintendent Of the
Pocatello Water Works. to Walter II,
Cleare, Mayor Of the City OF Pocatello,
August, 1905
After setting forth the fact that the
company had compiled with the request
Of the mayor. in furnishing to the chief
OF the FIRE department a map showing
the number and location Of the fire hy-
drants IN the streets Of the city and
what provisions are made for fire pro-
lection, the following interesting facts
are set forth. "rhe water supply Is OBJ
tanned from mountain streams at a
great elevation above the city, and Is
stored in three reservoirs with a ca
pacity OF about 100000 gallons The
reservoirs are arranged one above the
other, on the hillside south Of the city.
The elevation Of the lower reservoir
above the city Is about 26j feet, and
gives a static pressure of ll5 pounds to
tho square inch, 1t has capacity OF
about half a million gallons. IL has
hitherto been used as a storage reser-
voir. the pressure from II being too
heavy TO be connected to the city wa
ter mains The water company Intends
10 disoonnect the lower reservoir and
repair 1t against contingencies, IN the
meantime the new reservoir will be
"cut IN" and will give q static pressure
In the city Of about $50 pounds 20 the
heavy to be connected with the city wa
ter supply by two and one-fourth mil
lions of gallons or more"
The article then goes on 10 set forth
the present, as well as the proposed
pipe lines, and points out wherein the
system Will be made more satlsfac-
Dry to all concerned, At this point the
writer loses the thread Of his nrgu-
ment, and after bitterly arraignlng the
mayor for his presumption" I'm call
ing a mass meeting Of the citizens TO
discuss the water famine, before he
had consulted with the water company,
goes ON TO accuse the mayor OF petty
spite I'm the case and INDUCES in per-
sonalities Of no small nature; accus-
ing the mayor OF being such an awful
thing as a dry goods clerk" (be II
known that Mayor Cleare Is dry
goods merchant "a seller Of fripperies
to ladies' Of having the temerity to
endcavor 10 explain the scarcity OF
water TO the customers who asked Of
him for Information upon the sub
itct, Instead Of sending them to the
water cOmuany, and It then sets forth
] mn ha Httt Q IN
mayor and just how far he can go
| without their permission to so further,
threatening that If he persists I'm these
things ~ viii have to compel you TO
dasist" After recounting n funny 1T
tie story about a dry goods clerk, r
member OF the Idaho National Guard
aud the funny little things he said,
ana after quoting several passages
nom the Scriptures, including an en-
rely new and novel Interpretation OF
The character OF Adam. dlverging for
p moment to tell Of the peculiar antics
Of the lord chief justice I'm the Mikado,
quotes the following sonnoti
"All the same you're dead, dead dead.
The fool killer has knocked you on the
head head, head,
He has got You though you fed ned,
fled
And you can't escape tho wrath to
come"
II then cites the mayor to the COM
parlson Of Elijah the Tishhite and the
Idaho Daily Statesman, az given by
Rees Davis; and concludes with tho
story of the BARRIERS fifth brother, taxi
en- in full from the Arabian Nights.
The open letter" has been sent TO
only a few Of the elect" and is not
for publication, nor for the general
public,
When approached upon the matter,
Mayor Cleare smilngly declined TO say
anything only that he had heard that