Show Des ret News Stories O I ro 40 oars I lILES lUG I N old Eastern gentleman visited lIlted AN ANoia A California Not appreciating the tho period when big licks were being truck and big driven ho he thus Ascribed oo time the th country on Ms his return home I Well Its a II beautiful countr V beautiful country to look nt jt but an nil anto AWful country to live IIvo vo In Why Wh you might sit lilt on a bench a n whole livelong summers Bummers r day and shut your OUI eyes and l think over n nil all tho the sin sill and wickedness I you rou j over Jr er heard or read or dreamed of and odd add to that nil all you could Invent and nd it be bo of ot no account In Cal hernia Why thys act out Oil all that vf and aa a much moro more In California In halt naif the time Ume I got scared ct d last I r really rally ally thought there would be another er nood or and brimstone experIence r M M On Monday tho the Dec Dee put pur to resolution reP the tho Ninth Legis Assembly convened In the tho Social hall ball of ot this city nt at 10 a II m ni Tho The following of ot the council were ero present and answered to their names Prom From Groat Jc l Salt Bait Lake Lako and Tooele Torsie Dan Don H If Wells Orson OrIon Pratt F D Rich JUoh ards A Carrington James Ferguson From Davis Charles s C Rich filch From Irom Weber Cache and anti Lorenzo Snow LorIn Farr Forr From Irom Utah and ond Cedar L E B liar Har Harrington rington John T Hardy From Juab and Whiting From I rom Millard and Beaver Amasa Lyman From Iron and A Smith Tho following officers were elected In the H 11 Wells pros pres I ident John T Caine Calne secretary Fran Francis I Francia cis cia Hoggs foreman P Lynch assist assistant assistant ant secretary 8 J 8 S It Fulmer foreman I In Tn the tho John Taylor speaker Thos Bullock Dullock chief clerk John Oakley assistant clerk H II 8 S SI I Lewis I Grant foreman Seymour I n hi Young messenger Elder W V W Phelps chap chall chaplain chaplain lain NT It Is true truc that wo ire felt relt Indignant on onI visiting I the tho last lad Legislative assembly and amid seeing the tho members sitting on old benches with some somo rickety tables before them thein on which was seen lIeen an nn Interior Inferior inkstand with u a sheet or two of ot paper to which their lights when holding hoMing evening sessions vore attached 1 by melting oft off a part of each candle enough to make moke a small emaIl pool Into which the tho ballance was placed anti and held till the melted tallow became sufficiently congealed to cement them to the table on which they were thus thu placed We looked nt at tho the picture with disgust IlI guAt nail and when we Ve thought of or the cause that hail had produced U it and considered all the clr dr oum of or the tho ap appointee and ond tho the narrowness ot or his hili soul wo we 0 came to the conclusion ion that he ho ought not to bo be blamed much Retrenchment In expenditures Is only a Q politicians hobby and exists only in lu name In these days lIas so 80 far tar as ns govern mont ment are concerned It would be impossible to apply the tIme term torm to the lime case in which wo we have havo referred d AS ns there thero can bo be no imo retrenchment whore where timers there Is ii I nothing to be curtailed mS OF CONGRESS CONG I No doubt there thero have hare been lively lIel times time at nt Washington since the meeting of or I the Congress on the tho but In the tho absence of a II telegraphs line from western vestern Missouri across the continent to California via In Walt talt alt Lake Litke City the tho doings of the national turn tur will not IOOr bo mode made known k hero here Tho The Weather Tho weather has hn boon been ery very cold rold during tho the weak week and shade trees treos hove have been clothed a thick heavy henvy covering of frost All outdoor things whether they belong belon to the nfl ani animal I mal mat vegetable or mineral minerai kingdom have hao decidedly n a n aspect MURDERED UY DY INDIANS From reports r that hare reached this lt II ity It Is III quite certain that Robert nobert Clift who was wall connected the SnIt Salt Lake anti ond California moll mall service has been murdered by the tho Indian on or near Humboldt river to which place he went from the Simpson rout on which the tho mall Is ii now being carried beyond Ruby n bY valley for the purpose e of or pick Ing out a n a road roud or trail troll on Oil which to re ro remove roo move moo the he the old 3 th w route rout S |