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Show AX OUTRAGE I.V COTTOSWOOD. Little Cottontcood, j May 19, 1ST1. i Editors UeralJ: A brief communication from here to your paper may benefit some interested ; in the mines. Work is slow yet, for j the snow is melting fast, and the water ; is stopping many from working. A ! few new ledges have been found lately j on the tops of the ridges; but it is too j early yet for much prospecting. Build- j iug is going on rapidly and the people : are excited about taking up lots, ex-1 pecting a big business this summer, j One large new house not yet finished 1 1 am told is going to be one of those places of "civilization" where a man of low spirits can get them renewed by a dance and a drink with some of the op- j posite sex. i Now comes a question, which I ; would like to ask. Are there any laws i to be observed through the mining camps of Utah? If there are not we must do the best we can and prepare i ourselves for the worst; but if there are laws it would bo well for those in au i ihority to see into it. ! Ou the night of the ISth, two men Mormons were camping in the old furnace, the property of Mr. Bruner. ' The house contains several rooms, one of which is occupied by a Mormon faai- j ily, and the two men referred to slept by the door, at the entrance to the house. Some "roughs." arrived from Pi n tio, also made their home in the 1 house with some of their aequaintan-1 cos, and on the night in question they , came home the worse for liquor. They ta.ked considerable about " driving the : d d Mormons," and niurdexinK them whenever they could get the chance. By and ly they came out with a candle and fired three shots towards to-wards where the Mormons were in bed. The latter jumped, and one of them soiled hold of one of tho assailants, an Irishman, and held him until help came; the other Mormon had a pistol leveled at him and was he'd in that position po-sition for a time in the snow. One of the Mormons was got into the house, and his life was threatened, a pistol being be-ing drawn on him, but he manatred to force his way out. This was about two o'clock in the nwniinc, rain and snow falling at the time. Now. Messrs. Euitors, if you see fit to publish this you can and welcome. . A jMissa. |