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Show A telegram was received in Colorado a few days since, directing the proper authorities to arrest ar-rest a young man who, it was alleged, had run away with his aunt.. "I have an order for your arrest," remarked the officer, addressing the supposed sup-posed criminal. "For what?" "You have been running away with your aunt." "My aunt! Why, she's my wife!" "But wasn't she your aunt before she became your wife? You see, we don't tolerate those kind of goins-on in Colorado." "I supose you never were in Utah?" remarked the young man, after he had completed his survey of the detective. "No." "Well, as you don't understand the relations of aunt and nephew in that territory, I suppose I ought to explain them to you, and then, perhaps, you may see your duty plainer. My father married mar-ried my mother." "I suppose so." I Hi |