Show rr j NEWS EVS Of VI UTAH AU AND A TES J fI SALT LAKE MAN ENTERTAINS TOWN t Cunnings Cunning's Busy Press Agent I Passes Out Story Worth Printing Special lat sete t w Sp l Feb eb eb 22 At 2 At At a meeting meeting- of or th t the promoter r. r and directors of ot th 4 Gun- Gun ul on Valley aile bank held In the parI par- par 10 Jon of thu tho Gribler hotel Cunning the I who has Just Iut a two nights night enga engagement encasement In ln this city I and who with hla company 1 is ig sto- sto stop stop- ping Ding at the tho u waa brought in b bone by one one c or inc mc pany party anti introduced to those thoe present Van president of ot tho the Spaulding Land and Irrigation company and a a. prominent M nan man of or Salt Lake banteringly ly of that he would woul bet a thousand I dollar dollars that Cunning would stay atay In an any box he Spaulding nailed up I Cunning stated that ho lid had never foyer I jJ md Ade l a b bet bel l In his life lito but hut that Mr Ir mh might ht have the privilege f Of l nailing him up rp any night he cared t attend h. h lila hla performance free iree Show botT At At U till Sp Spaulding stated that ho be would give he one hundred dollars If It Cunning Canning would put on li his show that night The Thc fact of ot It being Sunday WOuld uld require tho the p permission of ot the town totra authorities This was CR easily ll ac- ac and Air Mr II exten extended an invitation to tho the citizens in general general general gen gen- eral to be tr present n as his hla guests tB and azid anda a ga a rosult th the opera house hOlle was soon tilled diled to overflowing o with an nn audience 1 Tj At t tho the finish h of ot the regular pro pro- t 3 1 tram a largo large box was 38 furnished b by byc bya c m a business man and after Cunning I i was securely nailed Inside b by Mr lr f if and anel his hla friends the tho box W Wf was bound with two tv hundred feet of ot wire f f and a perfect net work of ot Inch half I rope The box was waR then placed In a n nI curtained recess and In six minutes i I I Cunning appeared before tho the ston- ston 1 7 I toned committee and an examination of or the box showed It to be SpauldIng SpauldIng- 1 is 18 congratulating himself that Cunning Is IJ not a betting man and the preachers of or Gunnison ar wondering what became of or their usual Sunday night congregations |