Show bellia JEl lIA anwa ia feb 1805 1865 editor let those who feel disposed a i L posed to io do so spend today to day in writing 1 valentines 11 to their fair friends I 1 will not but I 1 will drop a line to the vedette just by way of thanks for or the many favors lately done us its out here through its ita columns wonder if the saintly twelve like those good things as well as we dont think they do I 1 wo would alan n t either if I 1 were in their shoes but I 1 in riot not and consequently can I laugh and grow fat but are you not aft afraid aid of tile the displeasure ot of the 11 areat I 1 am of the mormon church remember that thai you may arousa the arr of deserts strive with the half starved lion fur for his ploy lesser tho the risk than rouse tho the slumbering fire of wild fanaticism finati cism but of course you are not afraid or you yon would not write about murdered innocents etc they fear you more than they care to acknowledge they may well sty say of tile the vedette edelle Tr that it come came amongst them like a new raised spirit to of dreadful judgments that impend and of the biath to come i they will yet recoil with horror at their own infamous acts as the record of their crimes crime are produced reproduced re in the co column luning of the vedette they have been bp spared 11 ed too long their acts and disloyal teachings have been disregarded to too long their hands are arc red with the b blood I 1 ot of murdered innocents death have never beer avent avenged med although 0 whole the they lie cub almea in in gore their wounds to heaven eric the floodgates flood gates of their blood implores for vengeance from the but let us discuss some soine other subject fee feet for lately there has not been any new discoveries made in this district in the way ol of feet some fine looking ing rock however is on exhibition ex here which was fan ot oi the adorning morning 11 star etar ledge at deep creek this ledge has been jumped recently and has become the theme of considerable talk about the time it was first discovered or a little prior to that time there were soldiers stationed allamong all along theroan tho road and as some of the headstones in the camp douglas cemetery will testify some of those soldiers met asad a sad death to my own knowledge certain parties came along a there on one occasion occasion and had bad not courage 0 to ride through tho the canon without a guard of sol soldiers diets eis yet strange as it may seem those same parties have jumped the morning star ledge which was owned by those same soldiers who protected them fi aiom om the attacks ot of big foot and his savage followers lol iol lowers but the strangest St pait par t of the proceeding is ia that notwithstanding the existence of a code of district laws law according to which there is not a single claim in the district Ditri ct owned by a sold soldier ler forfeited these other parties have formed a new district passed new laws etc mr sprout who w ho resides at deep creek is now here as agent I 1 understand for the present company lie he is a fit dupe for his long haired confederates ile he sprout says that there are laws territorial rit ri orial lorial laws in utah saying when a claim is forfeited if such a law exists I 1 would like to know it cant you enlighten me on the subject mr editor the present owners 11 of the ground may spend money on the ledgel ledge but they cannot hold bold it the original locators will baill be secured in t their I 1 rights to that ground they have lived too long and too far west to allow themselves s to be euc hered by yahoos ap in short they are men who know their rights C land and knowing dure dare maint maintain aim if you will pardon this intrusion on your columns mr editor you will not be troubled again by FLOAT ROCK we would inform our correspondent that there ii no such law on the statue books of utah as the one to which he refers ED E D VEDETTE VE DErrE |