Show A W memorial em orial the following clipping was handed us by harvey H perkins cs esq it having in been written by the well known hun humorist lorist 11 quietly and serenely Bare nely the spirit of jaa ajha Sag witch took its flight from this yale vale of tears teara on sunday sanday night tho the dinst john Sag witch was au all old a mossback a 3 venerable fossil he came west before the blight of civilization had bad driven the muskrat from his lair or horace greely had printed his trembling finger anger to the setting sun and said to the new york dude go hence out of my sight eight before brigham and the a postles had soon E ensign peak john Sag witch had been there digging babii eq ail expedition crossed the trac trackless kless plains john sag witch was in the flush and vigor or of life and chairman of the central committee at the time of the move south he was a member of the legislature from box elder county and president Poca tellos right bower john early life was nomadic ho he followed the migration of the he buffalo and the seasons ot of the ground dog ile he was also without guile or other lie he was frugal and conservative serva tive and left the heavy work to liss his royal consort mrs pocahontas naples Was washakie bakie john Sag witch lacked I 1 d the advantages of a classical education but he had a quick e eye ye and took a good many pale pae face latterly lie gave up the frivolities of youth and began to meditate on religion ue he joined the church and became abillar a pillar in the Wash washable akle diocese ile he adv advanced aneed rapidly in the order and ald was ordained president cut of the deacons in tho year of his big reign As ag age crew upon him and the ground squirrel and skunk berry grow grew shyer and more remote john sag witch together with his wife and re lations lat lons settled down in this valley talley ile he filed upon epou a patch of salt grass lu iu the ito SN 14 of slaughter house als riot the confinement and the diet won oon played haack with his digestion and ho he commenced to fail perceptibly one by one his oseth were toru torn out by entanglement with stray pieces u ut malad yea veal 1111 etes boft began lan to bulge bales abnormally and hie cheeks flapped together on tile the loth by mistake he got hold of 0 a choice e alece of perter house honse steak he hostig struggled manfully but never got away from rom it john and the steak went down into the grave together they were burled with religious solemnity at washakie beside their an ancestors ce that is IB beside john ances tore tor the steak never had any it was old bhea the lord re rested sted on the seventh day it was also quite tenacious a and nd it grew tougher with age moral boware 0 of porter houss steak plucked iu in malad and reared in the bosom of antiquity remember the fate of john Sag witch washakie Wash akle a hardy pioneer who succumbed to the first attack and died before his time in the hope of a glor glorious lous resurrection and without a tooth to lis his back |