Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 45 | illness Wins Mercy for Coal Stealer

ILLNESS WINS TINS MERCY l FOR lOR COAL STEALER Ogden Osden Feb 23 3 Because of oC the fact that lint he lie is hI partially yet et Is la trying to provide pro for tor his grandmother a and auth the lie three small of oC a n dead brother Ezra Colvin charged charge with petit larceny larcen for tho lie theft of ot coal was given a five tiny sentence In police court to today ay Colvin ln took toole about three tons of ot coal it Is said from a JIb Rio Grande c nr carting it to his homo home with witha a horse anti and wagon 1 without in any wa way in ing with the labor market mallet as there ther would be a sufficient number of ot men available n between the plowing anC harvest lat He seasons to tb do this work ana na who could cO not very likely be employee elsewhere Also due to the lie close pro unity o of sand and gravel gra with which to tv build th the roads f but buten very en few t. railroad cars s would A have hU to be he diverted di from essential uses By ll virtue of ot this line lIue of or reasoning the tue Cache Cacho county delegation del del- g wa was pi assured that thattil the til- he state woul e of or the Immediate Immediate Imme Imme- diate construction of ot three milts miles of lIr arid and one half wiles miles to highways highways- s 's sono one ono the north and one on timid and one halt miles mules t to 0 the the- lie south o of ro Logan an It Il was s. roughly estimated that lint the cost of or the lie l I ment would he be between en OOOO and and fliRl that the funds would be raised II by a n direct tax ta levy Fur lor Illif While tho the number of oC miles under Immediate ate are few ow In III number r they thc will doubtlessly I forn a n nucleus for tOl a system s that will eventually event ent to every y CI farming district in iii tho the count county Such a system i connect with wilh the Box l J-l Elder er county count lineon line lino lessen the time on the lie south and greatly time between Logan an and Brigham City Ogden and Salt SnIt Lake About bollt two years cals ago It will be re remembered remembert re- re there then was sonic some religious controversy crl concerning the construction construction tion tiomi of a n concrete cross on omi Ensign peak with which to 0 marl mark th time the ent e of or orthe I the lie arrival of uC the lie Mormons in the Salt Suit T 1 nUI S Senator mator Dern Dermi comment comment- I Ing i on n thin hi controversy t r er In the columns column of ot the tho Tribune sometime later very en abl ably expressed tho ho sentiment of or all th thI the thinking people of or Utah when he hue I stated that th we wu should stop op wrangling about lt the lie construction of ot a no leJ religious ious and amid consi consider In Instead iii- iii cross I on omi Ensign peak pc er stead tho hue construction o of ot A bigger and greater a cross a crO cross 9 also ago o of concrete I but eighteen feet wide wille and extending from Crom the lie northern boundary of or thesa tho the slate sa to the lie southern and from the ea cast t to the lie West wesL Such a cross would Indeed be worth while It would make of ot every el email tunal town a thriving city and ot of every er e city elt a it metropolis It would I tap and make available the lie whole o of tho unlimited resources of ot the tho ho most niost re resourceful re- re state In the he Union It would command the amazement and anil wonder of or tho lie whole world and Utah would I rise to a more amore fitting rank In her place amon among tho the commonwealths Already Davis I Weber eber Box Elder Eider I Snit Salt Lake end and Utah counties havn o constructed con con- sti links s of or concrete along one ono member of ot the cross outlined b by Senator Sena Sona- I tor Or Dermi Cache county has ha taken st steps ps I to construct another link It Is a good beginning of or a l m rost wOIth worthy movement lists hata oft off the thc man maim Ve We 0 should hould take lake our oum to who Inspired it and to tho time men who are arc accelerating H us itH realization The They C our every e praise and opera co tion t ho n. n