Show I THE OLD a NUISANCE A Few Pertinent Remarks From a Sufferer SALT LiKE CIT May 26 SO Editors Herald I is a good time now to open your complaint book and hear from sufferers upon one subject especially and tbat is the nuisance of astray animals While to u great many it may seem to be a matter of but trivial importance to those who tike S just pride in the appearance of their homes it becomes important in order thai they may reap the fruits of their labor and expense Well kept lawns with choice shrubbery nod clean sidewalks with shade trees and a clean water ditch are pleasant to have but these cannot exist while subject to the wanton and wholesale deatiuction caused by a bt of hungry and balfatnrved cattle Now let us look at it a moment and see how the matter stands By autbority of a city ordinance the watermaster notifies fies each lot owner or resident tha his ditches must be cleared out by a certain time as he id i about to turn in the water This it be person owns a corner lot has thirty rods of ditch which the year previously he had fixed in good shape But owing to the fact that another and as important import-ant an ordinance had been entirely ignored by the city official cattle had browsed along his ditch both day and night breaking down and caving the mud banks thereof tfntil now the water will hardly Sow through them More than this tbey haye not only eaten off and broken down his shade I trees broken his gates and fences trodden over his lawn eaten up his choice roses and other shrubs but have littered up his sidewalk in front of his house and elsewhere and crushed in the covers over the sees crossing his sidewalk Now all this apart entirely from the danger to children and pedes triaDs must be submitted to for years I 1 question ia i asked the answer is well tbero is a law against loose cattle and there it stops while the destruction ana annoyance goes on Horsea aud mules are turned out promucuo sly and i 1 neighbor chances to have a little grass along his sidewalk they are turned in that direction I he has shade trees the cattle lie there the whole day long in warm weather and woe be to a garden i a gate be carelessly left open I or a rail belooso The inevitable small I boy with his flipper and three or four cows seeks the same shady spots tho better to avoid the flies beat of sun and to find an opportunity fo his I skill upon tbo small birds iu the trees Now Mr Editor not to take up too much of your space this picture is not only not overdrawn but that i is the experience of many is too true Can we not have some relief from proper officers They may say as they have often doneMke a complaint Make a complaint against whom Against the cow The owner is not known and i inquiry is made nobody knows whose property she is Shall we send them to the pound But must one hire a man to do what the law requires the officers of tbe city to do and be at the expense of the same It is often said Well put up with it for it may be some poor widows cow and this same cow must be allowed to annoy 1 whole neighborhood because forsooth i may discommode someone I some-one individual Now this cannot be either light or just that the many should suffer for the perhaps precarious pre-carious gcol of cne Cannot something some-thing be done in tbia matter that will induce the proper officer to I enforce alllaws alike Will not other t in this city speak through your columns upon Ibis subject and continuo con-tinuo tbe agitation until we can be rid of one annoyance at least Certainly a request of this kind is not unreasonable and i tho officers make a few enemies by ridding our streets of stray and purposely turned out cattle hey will earn the eternal gratiuda of the masse ANNOYED |