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Show , I I ! j A LIVELY CANYON TRIP. The Society Men Who Went Up the Provo Had a Time. The swell young society men who took a trip through Provo canyon the other dav had a rather exciting time of ' it. They were out with a tour-horse team, coming down the canvon, when the horses took fright at the" shving of !a beer bottle, and nisi big down the I road like a sky rocket broke loose. The j whole crowd were thrown out, and it i3 j a wondtT that from the contemplation ; of one kind of beer they were not brought to the contemplation of an-1 an-1 other entirely different kind of bier. I One young man is around now with his I jaw in a sling, another has his feet carefully encased in flannel, a third had his abdominal injuries concealed beneath be-neath a very broad sash, and tb Provo drugstores were bankrupted as to their stocks of courtplaster. On reaching Provo the pilgrims found a nice bill to pay for damage dona by the runaway team, and besides there was a veterinary veterin-ary surgeon's bill to pay. But it was a moneyed crowd, and after settling up, they tinned their attention to the local I eating houses. And would vou believe I it, gentle reader, the eating house keep- 1 i eis swore that the next time they fed anybody from Salt Lake, they would I make a contract before hand, lay in an j extraordinary stock of provisions, and I double on the prices. hen the boys I got home tliwy were taken for a lot of I refugees from the Apache country. I Had the Tribune, from which the I above account is taken, only mentioned I that Dave Dunbar. Dan Caulder and 1 Young Caine, the trio mentioned I above, have come to the conclusion l that Provo Is the boss place to come to I for "a day oft',." the article would have been complete. I |