Show OPLE AND AND- THINGS By fly FRED FEED BAGBY my petrified P Salmon Eggs tells us in last Sundays Sunday's pa pa- time thue petrified J gr Jr r that once upon a raindrops fell felt in lIaw Hawaii ii Well VelI Well Utah 15 Is-In Is In a fair lair way to steal the laurels from Hawaii for fol lre freak t things bY by boasting the discovery discover of ol petrified ed n no one as asyet eggs Of at course temerity to asser assert yet et has had the of Jit JIt that the queer agglomerations of all over a hillside found tl tie stones southe southeastern down by byn an Rafael Ralael In salmon almon Utah a ha h- h are petrified he the But in color and nd in form lorm eggs fish of ot toU toUre perfect replicas i atones are re even to the mat that holds to to- spheres the h little salmon colored s. s gether Jether gether And strange to say t. t have ha found that these so called pot petrified pet pet- salmon sillman eggs are softer soller than other ther stones of ot similar color and texture texture tex tex tex- ture which are found lound in fn abundance with them As a matter of fact the tm whole is covered covered- with covered with chu chunks ks of ot stone ston about the size of your our fist the the outer outer oute shells of ot which are arc beaded with sith nodules And when these stones are broken open the interior in tenor bears a striking resemblance to petrified salmon me meat t. t The outer of ot these stones and the tle is a perfect salmon pink but when the larger stones are broken they reveal a marvelous mixture of ot pink yellow blood red and clear c crystal bs b's tal The broken surfaces take a n glasslike polish I f fA y A friend o of mine suggested t f with a sly 1 wink that maybe way f back In the Devonian period of at the he paleozoic ae age the waters of Lake Bonneville or some other prehistoric body of water in that was Inhabited b by an ossified ossi fled fied variety of salmon that laid petrified ere eggs But nut our matter of fact fad geologists assure us that these bese queer stones are a form of Jasper which derived its colors from Iron In the surrounding 1 earth and that the peculiarly stones derived their fishy characteristics from fr pranks of ot n nature ure when mother mother earth was wa roc rocking rocking- kine her in in- ant fant mountains In the he cradle of at creation 1 Well anyhow a a wh whole le sack full of or these stones were brought in the theother theother theother other day by Doc A A. L. L Inglesby I and nd some of them are on exhibition over over at the Liars club Harry Ship Ship- ler has had a piece of ot one of ot the stones cut and polished into a stickpin stickpin stick stick- pin stone Down iown at Green River Utah lives Charlie Gibbons one of 01 the most interesting in in- old time characters in the Ithe slate irate Charlie is past threescore and ten now and he lived in southern Utah in the wild and woolly days when Butch Cassidy Bob and Bill Curry and many others of ol the noted Robbers Robbers' Roost gang of or outlaws were in their heyday Charlie cantell can cantell cantell tell some hair raising stories when he is in the mood but in those days it behooved a man to keep a silent tongue if he valued his health and Charlie hasn't gotten over his early habit habiL But Bat the other day dav a friend dropped Into Charlies Charlie's place and the old timer told him the he story of af the most roost remarkable duel that was ever fought In Utah or anywhere any an- where ehe else for that matter According According Ac At- cording to Charlie Chari It it occurred at Silver Sliver Reef Red in the days das when that mining camp was reported to h be one of ot the most rough and ready rudy spots In the west weaL As the story goes Joes two gam gamblers am and and Charlie gave lne their names but not for Cor publication publication- became en engaged a ed In a bitter dispute dis over o a game ame of cards As wa was customary In such altercations altercations they agreed to shoot it out Then as Charlie told the story each man grasped the other by the I left eLL hand each raising his empty right tight hand above his head Thus clasped they arose from the gambling table walked outside of ot the gambling gam gam- bling house hous and stood face to face each still holding the others other's lerl left hand A bystander was called upon to count three As the last number I sounded founded each right hand went to a hip Out whipped two six shooters spitting fire and lead Both men fe fell i d dead ad Each had six ix bullet holes in his II body Double suicide I understand was the appropriate verdict of at th the cor cor- ones oner |