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Show Vandalism. Falt Lake, May 4'.h, 1S73. Editors Utxil.l: Yuur correspondent ia yeelerday morning's piper, telling of new pastures (or cows, has induced me to show up a little vandalism in an op polite direction from ins 20ih ward The writer bough, a piece of property over there some three years ago. There was a good bjard fence arcund nine or ten acres, a good Btable with hay-loft, a tolerably good cottage of three rooms, and a well with a thirty-dohar thirty-dohar purap in it. Two Weeks ago one of the settlers from that neighborhood neighbor-hood calred on me and wanted to buy the remains ol the improvements, oflering $-3 therefor. In some surprise, sur-prise, I rode over to see what he meant by ottering ' me So lor what had cost $700 or $800. I hardly know whether you will believe me or not, when I tell you what I saw, or rather i what I did not see. I did not seel anything of the stable. It had utterly ! and completely disappeared, not a stick, board or stone being left. I did oot Bee the fence, not a board being lef: on the potts, and some of the posts were gone. I did oot see the pump, whi.'h had also gone to the bourne irom whence there is do returning. I lid not see any windows or doors in the cottage, nor was there anything to keep out the storm on the west end of the house; nor were there any tloors, or anything of that kind in the cottage. But what I did see set me to thinking. I have thought till 1 have concluded that if somebody iloeeu't do something before the grand jury meets nuain, they will wish they uad. What I saw was a nice fire inside in-side the cottage where the floor had once been, with a lot of boards broken up ready to renew the flime when it needs it, and around the fire roasting roast-ing their eliin?, I Hnw quite a number uf boys enjoying themselves at my expense. 1 aaw in one of the rooms a horse nicely stabled to keep him Irom the cold. I esquired of the neighbors and found that these same boys had been in the habit of having fire in the same place lor a year or more. They have taken the doors to cross a slough when the water had risen and carried the doors away. Next they used boards from the fence for the same purpose. and so on till very little is lei t ot what was once a nice place. Maybe , the parents of these Fourth, Filth and Sixth ward herd boys don't know of this vandal iem, but if something is not done about it pretty soon I think they wiil find it out to their Borrow. Seyoeo. |