Show A FEARFUL CRIME oneff one 0 the moat most revolting chapters in all 11 the horrid history of the gallows will III be found in the dispatches this morning its ghastly details are enough to make the blood run cold the perusal tarns turns one faint and eick sick if the priest who was permitted to attend the doomed broich during bis his I 1 last as t hours on earth really supplied III him n with the pistol with which be he bought sought to evade the hia his cloth and bis his pious protestations should con no bar to his swift punishment within the limits prescribed by law but when the grand jury come to investigate vesti gate his case let them not overlook the conduct of the ehen sheriff who had the condemned man in custody and whose sworn duty it was to see to the execution of the courts penalty penal ty it is to be hoped for the credit of the officers of the law that such bacill vacillation A as he displayed has his seldom been seen a and d never will be again he perm permits ta the prisoner the use of as much opium as he be wants supplementing it with morphine he gives h him in a pint of brandy at a dose crazed by the effects of the poisonous drags drugs tho the victim pleads for a few hours bo to moe of life and the sheriff weakly yields postponing the final scene first from 10 till 2 and then from 2 till 3 then he with draws himself and the guards from the cell only to be summoned back in a moment by the sharp report of ala the pistol whose contents tho the frenzied murderer had poured into himself haste was BOW now necessary lest lost further horrors might ensue and the frantic shrieking struggling victim was dragged to the gibbet bia his blood marking hia his trail and trickling through his lis shoes down from the fatal drop another straggle struggle beneath the noose furce lace in adjusting rope and cap the touching of 0 a spring and all was at last over these constitute the gory framework of a picture that would be dreadful enough when most expeditiously expedit and carefully depicted the eleca tian itself was doubtless necessary in the interest and for the safe safety ti of society Forthe for the frightful trimmings we have to thank the bungling bun glinz X negligence of a sworn officer of the law A BUTTE man named lyons TC S fear the spelling is is not quite right tella tells the idaho idabo falls tie that la plata la Is a fake and he be swears that an old woman in butte can pan out more gold id in one day than five men can pan out in la plata in a week be he avers moreover that be he saw over three hundred men at the camp that are a re actually in need of food lyons admitted that he offered for one of the la plata mines mines but he be get it well agree that be he convince anyone in the camp that be had bad the money to buy anything with when mr lyons tells in the same breath that for a fake mine in a take fake camp be he offered BO so m many any dollars be he only publishes lishes himself an asa without the possession of five senses IN ABOUT half a dozen places in every logan newspaper and in each letter from logan written for publication the reader stumbles over the wholly immaterial assurance that the road from la plata to logan is down bill hill all tho the way it would be quite as much to the purpose and equally honest it the writers would rem remark ark that from logan to la plata the road is up bill all the way but it if logan wants to make her calling and election sure she will S secure scare each such an adjustment of the universe that the earth will tip in the other direction once in a while so that logann logans lonely occasional stage can travel over a road down h hill 11 all the way both ways SECRETARY FOSTES having provided for the extension of such 4 per cent bonds as are wanted at 2 per cent and the payment of all others in gold coin of the realm has started for a fishing trip lie he has been good and attentive and industrious and has earned a vacation we hope hell catch so many fishthal fish that the naked truth about it will sound like a whopper A RAINMAKER who extract a shower out of the dense clouds of night ought to change his business air melbourne melbourn e should have been here to try his hand T FOR an occasional and yelp the public would scarcely know that the ogden commercial was alive its breathing seems to be very labored |