Salt Lake Herald | 1900-04-10 | Page 4 | Shooting the Rapids

SHOOTING THE RAPIDS It I is ia announced that Judge Jacob Johnson Johnon and his court stenographer Attorneys Houtz Hout Warner and White Wie cotton coton of Provo Judge L I R B R Rhodes and Lawyer Lawer Woods of southern south r Utah are on their way to the Grand river to embark in a large boat for a fish fishing fiShIng ing and hunting excursion ex urion down to o Moab Mob They propose to shoot shot the rapids says the report of their departure and ad adits its ten to tb t one that tha they wont shoot anything else ds on the trip The map fails falls to indicate just jut where t hose hese rapids are located and we e have se serious e lions rious rou doubts as ns to whether whether anything more rapid than that aggregation of legal lega luminaries l will wl be found between the place they cut cu loose from their moorings and ad where they expect e to leave leve footprints footprint on the sands of Grand Grad county count The sober and ad Industrious population population tion of Moab will doubtless be aston astun astonished ton wf when this boatload of orators Is 1 seen se approaching loaded loed down dow with the th rapids they have shot shot Naturally the first impression of the populace poula will willbe wil willbe be that the Uncompahgre Utes are ae off their reservation In which event the crew will wI be awakened with wih a ashot ashot ashot shot across Judge Johnsons bow hw It will wU be necessary then to raise Warner to the f a mast mat and ad adI I 1 to run up as a sign of peace pece If I the are wise as they always aw appear apper to be they tey will wi present presenta a a protocol to be signed before the te party is allowed to land After which court will wi convene with the stenographer in his place I L