Show GEORGE L WOODS THE telegraph informs us that george L woods who was appointed governor of utah in 1871 is dead we remember him well he was a man given to much public speaking he appeared to take delight in listening to the sound of his own voice a pastime that only a few seemed to take pleasure in besides himself his was a strong voice rough and rasping it was not soothing as the gentle zephyr which sighs and walls wails through the valleys in autumn but crashing and tearing like a cold blizzard as it rushes through the canyons olt OH a december day he had good points about him but lacked the soft sympathetic quality which when associated with native reserved force renders a man strong among his bis fellows he was inclined toward politics but was too force ful to make headway in that fiell |