| Show county HIS STOEY OF THE i the ravages of alie diphtheria editor of the well im out east I 1 came m one of lers palace wagons drawn by sore shouldered horses with chain tugs the road out here to vernal is very good till one strikes provo bench and here to the mud piles that choke this valley on the south its ever remindful bows abaye the headtke head the un yielding stove beneath the seat I 1 have exactly alie responsibility of the train as I 1 came more as a tourist with two indian scouts at the first camping ground I 1 was in for a wash but they aard that would bo a breach of the etiquette of the road and that to take fried onions out of the dog licked pan onto a plate was worse being an apt scholar I 1 boon tumbled into line traveled the remaining seven days without washing and learned to get right down to the bottom of alie frying pan with both hands ay iy finger auais have grown quite long and liace afen cleaned once that was my first and only batch of bread one of our party has a perfect abhorrence of pepper and insisted that I 1 had peppered the bread but when I 1 ahomed him my clean nails he caught on and ate without a grumble we tra relea gracefully on until we reached the top of alie fiill lead ina down to currant creek and it is so blamed steep that to set down safely we had to rough lock the wagon and hobble I 1 llie horses several just such dec the road they become decorations when one reaches the bottom and look back one morning one of the boys got the wrong sock on the right foot and it go in hie hoot he had worn them till they became rights and lefts and then hung them on the wagon and went barefooted bar footed in liis boots we had some of the sons of laman to dine with ua twice and I 1 learned more in choso meals about liow to gracefully run a fried spud between the finger and its nail and thence to the stomach door than from the boys all the way nest place of importance was the post from there I 1 wrote a loving postal card home it was here too v e bought beef tho ind waa blowing as I 1 never saw it I 1 before though 1 te member of having felt it a little harder wo could see it this time that is until were filled with sand we were on the bank of a river and fearing that I 1 might drift in and thus be washed I 1 took a piece of me beef we purchased tied it to an oak by cue end and wrapping the other end around my hands I 1 just took hold with my teeth closed my eyes and hung like a bull dos hold of a cat the beef even stretch after the wind hai subsided we got under tho wagon just then a spring chicken came from the bushes and I 1 felt sure it was boing to peck me on the arm at the end of my short so I 1 grabbed a club and killed it in self defense I 1 may have to stand trial but the boys are honest eye witnesses that it was a case of self defense and that it was absolutely necessary for me to deal the neck blo w for fie safety of my body I 1 will here beatify that it waa the best thina I 1 could have done for beside protecting my shape I 1 placed the would be murderer in a pot and satisfied my appetite we divided the feathers amongst 03 for pillows it was late in the little half of the day when we left the post few indies out we overtook a good natured freighter he had a team of six head two horses and four bonks I 1 soon made his acquaintance and asked him if I 1 might drive the mules with his consent I 1 mounted the saddled wheeler grabbed the break rope in one corn stealer and the jerk line in alin kotlier and with my face and sore lips felt just as tough as they make them the next day we reached vernal from alie top of the hills on tho kouth it is a beautiful valley indeed the only bad news to be sent from here ig that that dreadful enemy to heal th and happiness diphtheria id at work already four or five have succumbed to its deadly grasp and many more cases are reported the disease is still spreading but with the aid of the physician from the post it is to be hoped that it will be conquered tho ralley is not quarantined the facilities of this valley are very good it has a bright future before it about a half days drive from here are the much talked of asphaltum mines and from all reports the mountains on clift north are alive with mineral only awaiting a little capital for their development lakes lie above anxious to pour their water over alie crops below and when needed they will be rendered into reservoirs for the farmers benefit new buildings are going up on every hand among them is that will rival almost any in utah county and a mercantile establishment lish ment belong to john A alythe the people act as though expressly educated to please and invite people among them there is to be a horse race to dav for a purse afi ive bet my knife and bracca on one livorse blindly I 1 must eo and see eliat no fouls are committed ive applied to be bottle holder to the na I 1 bet on BILL NYE JR YA uintah co 1889 |
