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Show A Fearful Bcmor. There is a rumor afloat that a quantity of buffalo robes, to the number of l;3u0, were recently, if they are not still, stored at Uintah, on account of being infected with the small pox. having been bought from some of the northern tribes in Montana, who have had a terrible visitation of that dreadful scourge. It is also reported that an effort was made to'send these robes by steamer, but failing in that they were sent by train to the terminus of the U. P., and the officers of the road learning a few facts concerning the said robes retained them at Uintah. If the rumor is true, there is a fearful fear-ful responsibility resting on those who were parties in the transaction. We are strongly averse to any measures for punishing wrong-doers except those recognized by the courts ; but in a case like the one reported, a little lynch law, vigorously administered, would savor of justice. We publish the report, without, however, endorsing it, to give the officers of the road an opportunity of contradicting it, if it is false. T mnv hp nddfrl rtiat this storage is said to have been effected effec-ted some length of time ago, and if so the question arises how far the smallpox small-pox that has afflicted Ogden and other localities to which it has spread, is directly di-rectly traceable to these robes. |