Show the cabins in provos suburb tom down by the officers alt a point about a quarter of a mile east of the rio grand e depot is what is sometimes known as Tramp town here the tramps from north south east and west congregate they recently constructed ted at this place two log cabins using the railroad ties that had been piled along the track by the railroad I 1 companies with which to build them the cabins were not particularly artistic in design or substantial in construction but they cedas lodging places for all the knights of the road who might desire to occupy them to make matters more pleasant in one of the cottages an old stove had been borrowed from a U P train without the owners knowledge and a warm fire was kept going all night coal was obtained from the coal cars A large bonfire supplied with pieces of timber and coal kept the other tenement house warm on wednesday night at about 1 marshal brown and officer wilkins walked cowx to the depot to inspect Tramp town in the one shanty they found nine gentlemen of leisure and in the other eight the fires were burning brightly and the tramps were sleeping peacefully get up and get exclaimed marshal brown alie ho bows rubbed choir eyes and queried in sleepy tones what do you want we want you fellows to clear out of here right away or the whole pile of you will be arrested and put on the streets U it takes half the men in town to gurd you said the marshal the tramps much like the idea of laboring with pick and shovel and after a slight demurrage they cleared out the next morning tha cabins were leveled to the ground and the materials placed back in the tie piles but then sp coming on and when a conyn ien centhay thay stack or barn minus dogs cannot be found the green fields will serve as a resting place a bunch of tor a pillow and a piece of blue heavens as a covering |