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Show Some Eaey Reading From TJiatLiyelylBerg. CETY MARSHALTACTICS "k Are Certainly Very Peculiar and Do Not Cultivate any Enthusiasm 3?or Him Among' the Voters Other ETatters of Interest. Lehi, Oct, 16. Correspondence DrsPATCH.J-It has been some time since your valuable parer devoted any space to Labi. Therefore a few items would perhaps be read with interest by the readers of The Dispatch. - Hur city dads by two years of saving have succeeded in producing a surplus in the city treasury. This by the way is an abanormal condition for any treasury to be in under republican rule. Our non-partiaan republican Banner has frequently spoken of this surplus as an argument in fayor of the present city council. Some men are unkind enough to say that if our city dads had been actuated by a desire to saye money for the people of Lehi that they would have reduced taxation when the arcount collected last year had Droven to be mora than was needed in stead of collectine the uaual amount, hoarding it until a municipal election was a thing of the near future and then buying sprinkling carts, road levelers and such like surplus dissipations. I am not finding any fault with them for telling the people all about the rara avis under republican rule, for surpluses sur-pluses under republican rule are so Isolated that we cannot blame them so much for boasting a trifle. Be Ibis as it may, since the conviction has been forced upon them, tbat there is no hope of re election they have set themselves energetically to the task of getting rid of this surplus. The writer was somewhat amused a day or two ago while walking down Main street (which by the way has just been graded). To see a sign posted in the middle mid-dle of a mud hole with the following fol-lowing inscription on it: "No fishina allowed here without permission from the city dads." Mv amuepment was increased later on dv watchirjg an ardent ard-ent diec.ploof Isaac VValtoiiBiriinK on the sidewalk by tire side oXCnis-same place engaged in a lively tussle with a trickless duck tbat had been unwise enough to attempt to swallow the baited hook attached to the angler's fishpole. The whole thing was the cause of much hearty laughter to the bystanders. Some men are bom famous, some are ooosted into fame by their friends, some have an original way of their own of acquiring fame. Our worthy marshal, I suppose, belongs to this latter class, for he has ideas and methods tbat are not possessed by ordinary men, HiB first bid for fame was juat previous to our Fourth of July celebration whan he asserted that no democrat should roiBe Old Glory the next morning, although al-though we had selected a democratic marshal of the day, who proceeded to ignore the city marshal and raised the starry banner. His next bid was somewhat some-what in line with the first, He made known hiB determination not to summon sum-mon a demociat to sit on the jury as long as he accepted the position of city marshal, He was called down on thiB and was forced to find a different pathway to fame. His last piece of ingenuity was the method he displayed in capturing cap-turing law breakers. It appears that there ha3 been a gambling den in town for some time, and our marshal decided de-cided a few days ago that he was in possession of enough evidence to convict con-vict so he hied himself to the city justice, jus-tice, swore to a complaint and was promptly furnished with the necessary warrant which was duly transferred to the marshal's pocket, starting out in search of his victim. He sighted bis man standing on the sidewalk unconscious uncon-scious of the near approach of danger. Marshal K tapped-him lightly on theshoulner and told him that he must not leave town as he was wanted. Of course the man stopped. Oh yeB. Gabke Conway |