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Show MORE TOLERS. The Smith Contingent Are Now With Us. LOOK OUT FOR PARADING, The Screetchinjc of Discordant Brass Hornaaml the Beating of Drum The Host of the lien Have Been Hauled Prom Bingham Junction to Provo in Wagons. Provo awoke this morning and found herself harboring within her borders about 100 of the Smith contingent of the Pacific coast 'wealers. There are said to be more than 300 in the gang altogether. They have been lounging about in Salt Lake county for a weeK or more, A few of them got tired and moved cn. Some of them have been fed here, but they have givn little or no trouble and are now in Colorado or farther east on their way to Washing ton or wherever they are headed for. The citizens in and around Bingham Junction supplied teams and hauled the majority of the 'wealers who remained re-mained there or to Draper. The others walked. The Draper citizens moved them on to Lehi, and Lehi to Pleasant Grove, where the main body camped last evening. The move being on the more energetic of the men, those who are not entirely overcome by laziness took to the road afoot and last nipht some sixty or more were camped near the Provo river bridge on the etate road just north of town. A smaller bevy laid down in a grove in the west part of town and another an-other batch camped near the depot. The Pleasant Grove people are bring-the bring-the remainder ovei the bench today in teams. The advance gang have been about town today collecting provisions for themselves and those on the way. As near as can be ascertained Smith's program is to round up his men in Provo, parade the streets, coot his horns, beat his drums, 6peechify and collect all the cash he can, They go over to Springville and repeat the performance, per-formance, after which the "army" will go on up the canyon where perhape Smith will to his chrein learn what we all know, that it wili be necessary for his men to disband and steal off quietly in little squads. It will be too bad for Smith, as he likes to strut around in Ids blue suit and epaulets and decorated decor-ated hat waving his little fla, but he will have to bumble himself to the level of the men in his ranks and tabo I a ride on a brake be im or on the blind end ol a baiiicaee uiT - |