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Show (Steve batting for Dave.) .. Sheriff Ben R. Harries, Salt Lake rConnty. .' v - Dear Ben: Again I'm writing yon. Usually I don't get a chance to do much writing nowadays, heing kept ' fairly busy with Second South Sam 'a petition for mayoralty nomination. J . ' However, now that I have f the chance, I want to write to 1 " you . and tcH you how I appreciate ap-preciate the way you are conducting con-ducting your office. There isn't a doubt, Ben, but that you're knocking over the moonshiners right and left, and when you knock them over you're getting at the root ""' of thedrink evil. Of "course Mike Mausa writes a -little poetry whenever a atill is confiscated con-fiscated and his " poetry is atrocious; still we can stand that, if you do the work" of your office. j A lot of people are claiming that the arrest of Bill Ster acker at Saltair waa s frame-up, frame-up, Ben, and I sort of lost confidence in you for a minute or twov but I regained it all when you showed magnanimity of spirit and true obedience to the command of "Love your enemies' ' by exclaiming passionately: pas-sionately: V "I'd have given a hundred dollars it that didn't happen." , That's the kind of stuff that makes friends out of enemies. STEVE. P. S. I didn't hear about it, Ben. but I'll bet that when 0. W. Ewing, one of the signers of the petition to oast you, was arrested while dancing danc-ing with his wife at Saltair you offered to give two hundred hun-dred dollars if it hadn't happened. hap-pened. Didn't you, Bent They held a beauty show at Saltair uat night and Mist Oliva Thomas, as tha "Bathing-Girl," "Bathing-Girl," won first prisa. Miss S Thomas was tha best looking girl then figuratively speaking- Oh, awtVptmbr, Hurry ont My on. etraw hat la naarly gon L. A. Record. If money gets much tighter the bootlegger, will soon be reduced to driving three-thousand-dollar cars. Beneath th rraae Lie. Percy Thorn. He tried to pa.a Without hi horn! I A. Record. Her II. th bones ' ' Of Billy Krr. H tnlaaejd th tarn ' At fifty per. ' . Steve. City commission thia week passed a bill to Improve the Salt Lake baseball diamonds, now that -the season is over. Next December they'll prob-' prob-' ably pass a resolution provid-Y provid-Y ing ice for the poor and in-f in-f digent. . ORROVVS Off' SADIE. I ' r Chapter 123 4-S. I - (What has pone before: I Th la at Dave heard from Bad!, ah waa aonrawher. In Africa. Today To-day she e Mandlng - at th corner of Second SkniUi and Main with Bherlff Harry and th rest of her gang. How aha got there Is none of youa Jiualneaa and how ahee k going to get back yo Africa is w l)av' builnen. On thooa one-evening stands ' we can't be bothered with detail. Go ahead with the atory if von want to.) "t east quit understand." gurgled Sadl. In hr moot reao-Itant reao-Itant gurgle, "I can't null, under-atand under-atand why they bar th Kcqyon hotel right her oa Mala trt Instead of up la City Creek kenyon." "Why. It's ss plain as tha no on your face," whi. pared Lucius, the hsndsom chimney sweep, la B loud ton. of voice. And all whs were ther knderetood, becauae Badl didn't have any riooo with , which to clog up her oleofactory Berve. and aa a result ehe atnelled beautiful 1 mesa beautifully. Just then Andy Ceffey. who runs a motor under an automobile bora and then sells It, being on. of th. best horn salesmen In Bait Lak, horned into th conversation. Andy stuttered. "Say 8a-aa-aa- - sadia. If a Packard will run from Bait Lake to Ogdaa In forty-two minutes, bow long will It take a Studbkr t. run a long wayr k Andy fust bad eaten at) me I alckled pig's head, so she poked I blm In th snout. ' At that moment Second South ' Ham stepped up. ' Bat gadie waa en her way to Africa. (New let thia guy try to gv ber back there br Meev. day. Bha. started en a Pa it Lak atreetrar and eaa't get beyond Murray by Brit Friday. Maybe there'll be some more on Monday.) , |