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Show Vile Wretches Abroad; James, Page a Sleuth j i Autoist Beware of Dust Piles Autoists driving south of Manti and especially in the Gunnison valley are warned to avoid dust piles in the road as they may cover up small boards filled with nails placed there to trap the autoist by either ignorant mischievous mis-chievous boys or by some older depraved de-praved rascal. Charles Larsen of Sterling, division road man for the county south of Manti, reports he has uncovered a nymber of these mounds and found the nailed boards. Manti Messenger. Just perfectly awful! And to think that Charles Larsen, the division divi-sion road man is the only one of the thousands of travelers going through the Gunnison Valley to be so unfortunate unfortu-nate as to find a board with nails in it. The sleuth from the News office has had a half hundred detectives out scratching through the myriads of dust piles and as yet no reports have come to headquarters of any being found. But the work shall be kept up and if the guilty ones are ever found the proper methods will be used as a penalty. Ke, if it is found to be a he, shall be bound hand and foot and then all buried in an ant hill excepting his head. His face shall then be ismeared with molasses, the sweet kind, and there he shall pay for the dastardly crime of burying boards with nails in the dust piles as a trap to autoists. Vile, depraved, ignorant, mischievous boys or some older depraved de-praved rascal. But who could think of doing such a thing! Does the Gunnison Valley harbor such criminals? And are the citizens of this community to be set up to the world as laying for the travelers by setting traps for punctures punc-tures ? Nay, Brother Peterson of the Manti Messenger, you are laboring under a delusion or you have been seriously ser-iously misinformed. No such a thing as warning the tourists is necessary. For more than three years the citizens cit-izens . of Gunnison Valley fought vainly for the improvement of the highway with the money voted at the county bond election four years ago. Battling back and forth with the commissioners meeting obstacles, delays de-lays and a "general knock" from many points north when at last the project was started. Naturally, there is dust and naturally when road im-, im-, provement is being made travel is bad. You, in your section found it so. But for the love of Mike and the rest of his family, don't mislead the public and "hang the crepe" all because the road man found a board with some -nails in it along the highway. If you were to spread out on your article you could "fill your paper with such dope. It happens every day and in Manti as well as New York and Gunnison. But if necessary, for the satisfaction satisfac-tion of the road man, the search will be kept up and the villain run to earth. |