Show BOX ELDER BITS 1 Arctic Weather Personal and OJ General News Paragraphs OUR LAST was chapter on the severity sever-ity of the winter to the exclusion of all other matter but a single chapter do snot s-not do the subject justice a whole volume is little more than such weather merits COLD AS Christian Charity BEST AND smoothest walking these days is on tbe topmost crust of the drifted snow It carries both man and beast jj FROZEN FEET fj ted ears and Hug ling toes are as plentiful as indictments fo unlawful cohabitation As CRAZY as Commissioner 0 is the very latest in the line of local comparisons compar-isons if we see a man step outside the door these mornings minus overcoat anJ wraps THE WEATHER wise are already predicting pre-dicting no fruit this year They say it will take at least one s ason for the trees to recover from the biting frosts LOOK our for that predicted boom in the hide and pelt business Cattle ate reported as dying by the doz non n-on the Promintory range drovers are desperate sheep men shaky I Its an ill wind that blows nobody goodIhis suits the farmer T 1 > D PITT of the C M C di S Company Com-pany of Conuue had his right cheek frozen coming to town on themorning of the 14th This does not imply that Tom has more cheek than gall it simply sim-ply means that his cheek was the ouly part exposed to the fierce fury of the eastern blast I PATIE RocK of Paradise brought a fenjibh of sheep through the mountaiLa ea Thursday He had seven pair of horses and one yoke of oxen hitched to a loaded drag to make a path for them He is en his way south hunting for a warmer climate tint here the cold wave struck him the sheep refused to go further anti several of them literally froze OH their feet before he could get them to shelter or ferd He will move on when the weather moderates if there are any sheep alive by that time to moye on wi h BUDGES CLAWSOJT our president elect came into town aboard a wrecking train on Tuesday last at 4 oclock am He then bad to meander a mile facing the canyon zephyr for a team to take his wife up town We fear such an introduction in-troduction is i ot calculated in its chilly nature to impress him favorably witn his new home however a warm reception recep-tion by the people will dispel this feeling l feel-ing affiliate his surroundings and make the place habitable to a degree WE WILL now leave the weather except ex-cept to report casualties in the future and drift on to a warmer and more congenial con-genial subject BUD HARIUS N our live livery man took an outot town sleigh ride on Thursday evening accompanied By Miss Mary Larson when the couple returned re-turned they were man and wife Justice Joseph Yates of Calls Fort having acquiesced an official sanction Miss Larsons fattier is now in the Utah Pen serving out the usual sentence for the common offense MB GAEDNES of the firm of Burton St Gardner your city has been In town I and placed an agency for his house with the Box Elder Stack Mercantile Compauy AND HOW there is talk of closing Hot Springs station and removing the agency to Willard Our neiehbor city would support the office well and she ought to have it COKSIDXBABLB SICKNE2B in town but no deaths reported The prevailing malady is measles and children are the only sufferers LABS 5UeMU SENtthe old and reliable mail carrier h on the sick list and for the first time in many years fails to meet the trains L Hailing now has the contract Let us hope ke will prove as trustworthy as his aged predecessor |