Show 3IIMIVG UNDER DIFFICULTIES Experience of Two WellKnown Miners on Antelope Inland The most comical thing that has happened hap-pened in mining circles for many a day was the adventure that befell L U Colbath and Major Bird last Sunday Sun-day on Antelope island The story is too good to keep and although its publication may bring down vials of wrath upon the head of the party divulging it The Herald in its determination t give all of tne news is willing to take the consequences conse-quences From The Heralds grapevine specials i is learned that for some time past Hon Dick Mackintosh has been giving graphic accounts of a mining prospect owned by him on Antelope island At length after becoming enthused over I these glowing assertions on the great mineral wealth almost within the shadow of Moroni Mr Colbath and Major Bird decided to look into the matter and a they had been informed that the trip was a clean one Sunday I Sun-day morning last found them in a boat jon Ion I-on the lake dressed in their best Sun daygotomeeting clothes All went well until within hailing distance of the island when the boat stuck fast in the sand with about two feet of water all around the festive prospectors I They called loudly for help and their cries of distress were heard by a farmer I far-mer living on the island but he unfortunately i un-fortunately had no boat of any kind I but rather than suffer the two men to I wade ashore dressed as they were in Wallaces best broadcloth he mounted i i a 3yearold stallion and rode out to their assistance I After reaching the party Mr Colbath was soon astride of the animal with the major on behind him They were a pretty pair to look at especially as the tails of the majors Prince Albert coat hung very gracefully over the rump of the wellfed horse that the j farmer prized so highly j The horse was a firstclass animal but he was only country bred and not j used to gentlemen wearing tailormade clothes In fact the Prince Albert unsettled un-settled his reason to such an extent I that he began to exercise his bucking I proclivities in a most extraordinary I manner n II i 1OIC onI cried the major as ne threw his arms around Mr Colbath I Well I think I am replied Mr I Colbath as the horse gathered his I legs under him humped his back and I jumped sixteen feet into the air I Then for several minutes the horse I reared in the air almost stood on his head when finding that he could not I rid himself of his riders he bolted for the shore and after reaching it did I not stop until he ran against a barbed wire fence throwing the two plucky I horsemen into a heap on the other I side And their clothes well they I were drenched with water and covered I cov-ered with dirt 1 The success that crowned their efforts I ef-forts in the mining line has not yet been made public but it is safe to say I thatin returning they did not ride out to the boat on the nicelooking 3year old stallion wading was then good enough for them |