Show THE QUEST rort ron ITEMS A search for locals in this I 1 saintly burg is of all sublunary pursuits the most bo hopeless and when said quest is undertaken ot of a sunday the iho results are infinitesimal for six days of the week the place looks like sunday anywhere else and if wo we except the stream of people tending toward the tabernacle and ho bonic vard twice a day on sunday one might imagine the population dead or the city abandoned A murder or in an execution may indeed occur once in in a while but the steady stream of genuine locals to be found in any other place of half the population is hera her not to be found A run away would on yesterday have bave been a godsend and we now fully appreciate what to us its at the time seemed so incomprehensible how bow the vagaries of an erratic sheep farni ma tet it sufficient for item after item to a former local N nay lay such is the influence or of the all pervading quiet that no remarks were on 0 yesterday to be elicited fryn from that inte interesting class of our transient population now so sojourn j ourn ing with us ICK to do not like bannack and who are usually diffuse in their comments upon the lately changed aspect of the mining country in that vicinity |