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Show sctrieJpnts. ror where he was raise!, but is de-'rihI as escy-poir"7 and utterly ut-terly i,m CLscious cf tie wori.d's ways, although a wan in appearacee aut &!. - Xmil Sandburr, 21 years of age and . Iailin2 from Wyoming, reached Salt Lake a few weeks ago, and secured em? Ijloyment at Johnson's tavern, one of tuo old-time down-town landmarks of Salt Lake. His duties were confined to - the kitchen and while he was required ty dextrously remove, the grease- from dishes and pots and kettles most etrenu-. etrenu-. .ous!v three times daily, yet, he was regarded re-garded as an exceedingly., loquacious youth with much to learn and with little lit-tle aptitude for quickly grasping the meaning of things in a city.- ..' - To discover the , real compound" ex-,tent ex-,tent of his. obtusity, his associate workers yesterday morning told Mr. Sand burr to go to Kid Bray's restaurant restau-rant on' East Second South street and get Bray's pie-stretcher from the ook-"Tell ook-"Tell him we.want it;as quickly as he can let you have it,''-was the parting injunction as. Emil started. Then Bray's employees were, informed in-formed by telephone from Johnson's - tavern that they were to give a ealler their pie-stretcher as soon as he called. .Sand burr Obeyed his injunction, and proceeding to the -counter of the Bray establishment imparted his orders, lie war-then told to-wait-s few minntes while the cook ' got . the pie-stretcher ready.' - -...Thereupon the Bray employees prepared pre-pared a sack, filled it. with 150 pounds , of jail kinds of weighty but useless ar-ticuvi. ar-ticuvi. and when scnrelv tied, the ver- dant messenger was told to take it along. Sandburr then carried it over to the kitchen of Johnson 'a tavern and laid it down wearily, and was complimented for his work. - Even then he suspected no joke... j , , , . . . .. . . , Presently he was told to take back this same pie-stretcher, sack and all, where he got it. . He vas-readily complied, com-plied, and after placing.it in toe possession pos-session of Bray's cook, proceeded to h ront of the restaurant and said: - "Mr. Bray, I thank you for use of your pie-stretcher and have .brought it back." . Bray looked at the' man" quizzically, because he thought Sandburr was almost al-most the worst that ever came to Salt Lake in his class, and then told him:' "Say, friend, I think you had better go and. look into that sack and see if the pie-stretcher is there;. I am afraid those people over at Johnson's tavern have been fooling you. " ' - Sandburr again made, a trip, to, the kitehen and opened the sack. He expressed ex-pressed neither surprise . nor .chagrin upon discovering what.be had. earned, but merely walked up to where tBray was standing and said: - .7 "Mr. Bray, I thank you again for telling me to look into the sack. " The pie-stretcher does not seem to be there, so I will go back and tell Johnson's cook to let me have it, and I will bring it over." . . . . "SiyicbriiT gives' ) account of his |