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Show II THOSE PROVO Tho most striking eye-soro that Provo visitors seo I HACK HORSES' as they step off tho trains in Provo is some of tho 1 poor, overworked hack" horses. There is no town in the couutry that allows men to drivo horsed in the condition of those J driven by sorao of the hack men of this city. The poor auimals seem to be ready to drop at any iiioment from weuriuces and overwork nud it ia I with tho greatest effort that thoy pull their loads. Tho crack of tho f ' whips can be heard in thu distance. Tho poor beasta have been beat too h much to give uuy quick respouco. Tho drivers seem entirely satisfied K with tho abuso they give their horses aud when asked why the hows I were not fed and rested, tho drivers insist that the horses are getting all i ' that is coming to them. It should not bo understood that all buck horses used in tho city are of the kind described. Every citizen would do u humane act by re- v"- fusing to ride in tho hacks drawn by these poor worn out horses. An effort will bo made to have tho Btuto humuuo officers arrest tho offending drivera aud seq if more money cannot bo speut for feed uud less for whip- |