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Show AN UNAPPRECIATIVE LISTENER. Colonel Murray Talks Deep Creek to a Commercial Traveler The SeqaoL Colonel Murray, of Deep Creek railroad fame, posesscs the happy faculty of keeping his name before the public. His hobby, of course, is his railroad scheme, and he never misses an opportunity, in a business way, of dilating upon the great benefits which will accrue to this city when the Deck Creek country is joined with bands of steel. Last evening he sauntered into the Continental hotel and without the formality of an introduction intro-duction accosted Colonel Hooper, the traveling travel-ing representative of the Colborn mustard outfit. To the astonished mustard dispenser, who did not know him from Adam's off ox, his talk was all Greek, so he motioned the local colonel away with a deprecatory wave of his good rijfht arm. "Oh, you are another one of those people who do not want to talk to me, are you?" said Murray, as he caromed ou the mustard mus-tard man's shirt front with his index finger, "but I'll have you to understand" "Go away, man, I know you not!" or words to that effect escaped from his victim's vic-tim's food canal. "Yes, but " again ventured the embryo Deep Creek magnate; but Hooper cut him off short by rushing to the telephone and searing the hello girl at the central office out of her suspenders by the manner in which he ordered her to connect him with the police station. When the beauty recovered recov-ered her equilibrium she sounded the alarm ana m a moment more Hooper was relating his tale of distress into the ear of handsome Billy McCurdy, the dashing; Lothario who registers lodgers at the city hall in the early hours of the morning'. An officer, Mike Sullivan, tho ffentlemsn whom his Utah admirers fondly hoped would wrest the championship pugilistic crown from John L., was dispatched o the scene of the railroad-mustard combat por.t liaste, and in a short time returned with the railroad builder in tow. His explanation must have proved satisfactory, satis-factory, however, for in a short time he departed, de-parted, and up to a late hour his name and description did not ornament the pages of the register. It was apparently a case of much ado about nothing, but it proves conclusively that at least one commercial travelor has met his linguistic match in this fair city. |