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Show PAYS ELECTION BET. An amusing but a sort of innovation innova-tion for Gunnison took place last Saturday afternoon as the resuit of a political bet. The principals were Uhris M. Madsen, an ardent Smoot man, and Marinus Beauregard, who had essayed with all his might to defeat de-feat the Senator and felt sure it would be done. "I Told You So," meaning that Smoot would be re-elected, was Mad-sen's Mad-sen's retort inscribed on the front of an elaborately decorated wheelbarrow I which Beauregard by reason of his losing los-ing a bet had to pusli from the bank corner to the city hall and back, a total distance of four blocks, with Madsen as a triumphant passenger. There wasn't such a big turnout to witness the stunt, because of there being no sure announcement of the time when it was to take place. But sudden as it was, there assembled enough of a crowd to make the affair real interesting. A drum and cowbell cow-bell band was mustered, with mirth-loving mirth-loving Steve Vorhees as drum major and pounder of the bass drum, which lined up a procession of some fifty juvenile "musicians" of noisy fame. Beauregard brought with him a manure-besmeared iron barrow to wheel Madsen in. It didn't work, for Madsen had provided his own conveyance con-veyance and insisted upon being wheeled wheel-ed in it or not at all. A second tilt was caused by Beauregard's backers insisting upon a banner of their own wording being placed on the front of the barrow. This all but precipitated a row, but "peace" was restored by allowing the banner place at the rear. The banner in question read: "For honoring the flag and' being loyal to my country, I pass through this ordeal. We still live in Smoota." Rats! No American citizen needs feel humiliated "for honoring the flag" nor for "being loyal to country." Beauregard's "pass, through this ordeal" was simply because he had bet and lost. The insinuation regarding re-garding United States Senator Reed Smoot can be passed by as a proverbial prover-bial fling at the Mormon church and, therefore, not worth serious notice. But to blame our honored flag and one's loyalty to his country for the result of foolhardiness is inexcusable. The week has been one of enter- tainments given by local talent. On Tuesday evening was a concert under the auspices of the Mutuals, and was a grand affair. Wednesday the high school appeared at Fayette, in vaude-vills vaude-vills show and repeated the entertainment enter-tainment in Centerfield last night with good success. Tonight it goes in this city. |