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Show Dangerous Work. Ve-aterday a hoy about twelve years j of age, named Hammond Fisher, of j Big Cottonwood, was nrretted nnd brought before Justice Clinton for placing an obstruction on the track of the Utah Southern railroad, at the southern approach to tho Cottonwood bridge. ' There is a slight curve in the road there, ami the youngster had nailed a spike in a tic in such a manner man-ner that the bead protruded up a little lit-tle alove the inside of the rail on the inner side of the curve. When the train reached it there was sufficient jolting to startle all on hoard; and, after passing a short distance, the train was stopped, the officials went back, found the cause of the alarm and discovered the offender. It was a providential circumstance that the spike was nailed on the inside of the curve, for had it been on the outside, owing to tho lean of the cars, the train would inevitably have been overturned. over-turned. After an investigation into the ease, it became evident that the biy hai.l no criminal intent, but committed the act most probably through thoughtless thought-less recklessness, "lo see the cars jump;" the Judge therefore gave him a sharp reprimand and caution, and discharged him. This thing of tooling with the railroad rail-road track, putting small atones on the rails, and in other ways endanger ing the gaiety Ot pussmg trains, and that by boys who know no better but should be taught its danger and criminality, crim-inality, is quite Loo common; and il it is not slopped, the public will demand that the railroad authorities prosecute offenders with the utmost rigor of the law. Parent- would do well to imprest im-prest Uiis fact upon their children. |