Show 1 1 U ESSAY IN BEAVER feb 18 those who were Wal waiting tig here with as aa much patience as aa could command bof for the advent of ow district court were thrown into a mateo mate of dimp disappointment more or less lees pronounced through a message from judge higgins announcing that the term fain would so ao over to next week toil this was cas because of ef his hia being summoned to gait bait lake to sit ait for a while vi with toe supreme court which body seems to need deed reinforcements continually con tiou this being a outgrowth ot of all its members having previously been trial judges and practicing actor mcf yes in one or the other of which 9 they frequently collide with a disqualification sou aou have to take a bacr back mat at for the time being each vacancy tens created being filled pro tempore kempor 9 by a district judge there to ia no present wing tailing just how bow long the fifth district Ari tribunal bunal will remain in this state of imp slop but probably not later than monday or tuesday next Deit meantime um ue lawyers aud others other here who are f waiting for hostilities to commence aan a KO go fishing play ball or make mabe them alvee useful as well as an ornamental by awing cawing wood of which there to is a good AW eal to do no coal being used in this town beaver and in fact all the coun uy towns of southern utah ilow but bat little change from what thy y ome years ago this is by progressive in the matter 01 prove ments there being several now new buildings some of which are quite 66 in appearance anu ana de lilo tout but in places the same ric ketty ead 6 slabs span the water ditches that fab people used to teler on a score ot 0 fears ago while practicing the jestic feat of proceeding from shore fo shore the same array of and heifers heffers patrol the highways and I 1 was waa shown one old heu hen who in ID the halcyon days of youth he be a 9 and mine used to lay jay an egg every afternoon sundays excepted and is 18 doing it yet very lew few people ever die in beaver so the that 1 I knew then nae has changed very little albeit there is a goodly array of bouti men and women chit chiefly fly unmarried as elsewhere who were men tuen either infants in armmor arma or awaiting the cummons i to appear on this stage of action these clearn I 1 learn from and contact are physically t buical ly equal to any are fairly educated tiecia decidedly edly intelligent and over republican in politic ethe latt condition not belig being necessarily r sequence of the others by any means alio amusement hull hall here will by bv no beaus compare with that at carowan parowan when the latter is fible finished hed in fact there will be but few in the slate that will do so BO and outside ot of salt lake ogden provo and I 1 believe none cone at all the beaver hall half is however quite commodious and tolerably well weil appointed it is built of huge cubes ol of stone isgate colored and being unpainted and undecorated has mote more the appearance of a country barn or grist mill than a temple of thessis Th Tb espis espia it la in a quarter of a century or more old a aou ou internally is a long way ahead of what it was when the writer used to tear a sud ld sometimes a shirt to tatters on its beardt bo ardt these were not always securely fastened and unless the actor was careful and andrii vig I 1 lant be would sometimes make an exit which his bis part did not call for nails are chea cheaper tier now and all that to Is past rho proprietor to Is mr joseph field than whom there Is not a more widely mown keown citizen in this ibis end of the state lie he has been engaged in business ot various binds to an unusual extent at the time the writer resided here bere mr field was the proprietor of a newspaper new and job prin printing tinie office of which the former was the chief factotum lacto lum joseph also conducted the amusement hall spoken ofa gen general ersil merchandising establish establishment merit a drug drugstore store a tannery is a harness making establishment a boot and shoo shoe factory lac tory a glue gue making concern a wood yard a hey hay market 0 dutcher shop and one or two other things that I 1 have forgotten it takes a mau man like him to build up a place and he be is still PA at it not looking much older than in the lang jang syne days clays the dionian newspaper published here was established by F B R clayton about eighteen years ago it has been in several other hand bands since and is ie now conducted by george hales a printer of general experience and considerable ability not the least feature in the makeup make up of hi his record as a typographer Is 18 hs ble connection with the NEWS several years ago the I 1 Is I 1 understand now threatened with a rival to be launched in a short time by james T jakeman one of our most widely experienced newspaper undertakers undertaker one would hardly think the field large jarge enough for two such enterprises at the same time but as the great rufus put it there is always room at the tup top there is a marked diminution in the amount of court busi business dooe done and likely to be done here when beaver city was the seat of the becony district court it had bad numerous feeders from all around but now it has only this county to joa jo k to this is IB not an unmixed evil nor indeed an evil of any kind there used to be four dram shops here now there la Is but one the others having disappeared by means meane of the only form of prohibition that is ia prohibitive lack of patronage rho whole of southern utah is prolific or of similar instance at oasis on the union pacific used to be all that its name implied to those who whid were bibulously disposed supporting two or three regular saloons eft loons and presumably an other masquerading as a drug st at re there to ia now none dons at all not even the latter licenses are as accessible aud and cheap as ever but no amount ot of advantage otherwise can overcome the absence of trade and this condition takes root and grows meet meat vigorously where the chiet chief restraints are good examples and moral suasion Eua sion in no part of 0 the man mae torso footstool are these more evident more numerous or more patiently en juring than here to lo our mount mountain mountvill aill borne bome the work which tuey they perform makes sumptuary and hostile legisla tion take on OB a sickly hue and dwindle into in insignificance s Igni fleance great is utah a greater r e a t or t to 0 be I 1 ESSAY |