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Show The Bailroad Kutcrs Fairview Amid lie joiriug. (Jroiit JJemoiistrations, imtl a Haluoii Jubih'O. What the Liberals H ive to Say of Ujs, THL RAILROAD AT FAIRV1EW. 1 ! 't'Hb F.ECKfTloS. ! Fairview. I'tah. N v,9ih, 1S90. Kijit'ik Kk.is'I'u: Thinking y.ur m my leaders would like to hear Something Some-thing ii.-iii 1'airview, panic ilaily on the railroad question, I send enclosed. As voui coirespomi.uit noticed in youi last issue that a committee h ad beeiiappoint-ed beeiiappoint-ed for die puipoie of giving a reception to the Mihoad boys, will say mat Mesis. Swen U. Nelson, Ctiiistiatl Petei-ou, and (J.ven M. Saii'leison were that coin-mittee. coin-mittee. They had oi.ly two davs to d. tins woik in, an I set about it willl a wil . I The liiass Hand of Mt. Pleasant was en-! en-! gaged, (our oan being disorg uiizedlaud i came up about 3 p m on Saluitlay tue j8-h. and seienaded tiie town. At 6 ! o'clock the citizeas all met at the meet i ill,' hotutt, foimed 11 to procession ami marched to the depot, under the d. rectum rec-tum i,f Samuel Pails, Mnishal of the Day Fust came the 11 'i. Martial Baud, IJravs fiaud. and a torchlight ptocessi n two tiluc'is in length, iju.te a number weie uut in then buggies and from time to tune tlieie -eie salutes filed by artill.iy and he band.-- p!aed al eiuately; mak-linginalla mak-linginalla very imposing appeaiance. I On amving at the depot we found about one hundred men in readiness to recieve us. After a tune by the Hand, Mr. S .veil 0. Neilson made an appropri- ale speech of wt-lcuine, and extended j an invitation to ail present to join tiie I people ol Fairview in a social ball. ' Three rousing cheers were then jjiveii 111 1 hon. ir ol the entrance ol the K. K. uiio our city. One ul the railroad UK-n niade 1 a ne.u l.ttle sp-.-e.M i.t xc p use, anil ' after the assembly bad given thiee I chceis lot the K. K. boy-.-, tile piocession i was retoiined, toe rdlioad men joining The procession hailed 111 f tout of 1 Netlsou hies, stole anil some verv tine specular piefomiauce m tie- way of : figure marctnng was done under the ; leadership of lens Eiii.ksou of Ml. leadership of Jens LiK.kson of Mt. Pleasant. Mr. Etickson.Alouz ('..ahoon and others of Mt. Pleasant joined n this, and malei tally aided us in making a success, lor which we 'eel indebted to tin in 'Pile rest of the evening was spent at our tw o large dancing halls, w.odi w ere both thrown open, and will accomodate troui !5'.i, to 2oo. Both halls weie crowded, and noUitng but the best of leellngs piev.ul-d. The coniai.ttee furnished rufieshinenis m the shape of a variety of hints, runs and candy Even-thing Even-thing was fiee, and it was a gr .nd success. suc-cess. THE R' R. COYS ClititBRATK. As I have given you an account of the reception mid the better yiade of our society 1 think it only p super to give i vou Some cf the other siue of the ques- lion. 1 have lived in this q.i el little city ; near aboi I eighteen yt:us without a i S do oil uut 1 all. mi two mouths ago.w hen ; a man n..ni d Woe x tented from Hans j Cailsicu a little bu Id ug across Hie stieel I In in llu: meetintf In use. ills building j In. ii :g too small to sun the proprietor, the leteiti.uiol a verv laie mal eiegai.t i bi'diling, ttvo stnl es, w as begun, but be ! was unable to complete ii in lime to cat h Hie i,e.iliaiest that he knew as.,11 hand wnhtiie kdvctit of the lailioad. S ) the littitf h ud stuck of liquors was S moved into the new building without j Coins ol w.ntlows. I A g teat many of the sons of Erin were ! in ue. iliusiv than anything else, su they j funed u) tins u ii.i-.hv Palace, they en-j.ned en-j.ned ilie.nsilves cry much and soon j foigol liu ii troubles handling lies and I loigoUii. il troubles handling lies ai.d I tail ; and lelt like louls of all creat.on. Three 01. lour bar tendeis were constant ly engaged dealing out the good old whisky. Fusi Pat lYluipiiy would treat all that could stand alone- the whiskv altai, next U'Duaii would Heat, then Snotty and otueis iieatcd until about 10 o'ciotk. w hen the Iiish boys look a notion thev would have a wak., Seveial Sulnans weie m the ring. is thete went aoout 6 special police sworn iu vie found them quite handy, I about six or eight of cur boys were try ing to quiet the melee, bu; tailed and had to send foi help, your wiiitr eoter-ed eoter-ed tne dootiviiv about the same time that another special police entered ac-! ac-! com panted by Selectman, Swen O. Nielsoii tjlicrilf Bums, and City Marshal I Petetsoii; and about the liist thing these ' ollicers did was to make known thai ' tiiey weie officers and demanded peace, at least one d -Ken weie engaged in knockd -whs all at tne same nine, tlur special police did good Wi ik, s..nte of I leui n-ceived tiiows.but nothing serious Stampeded cattle could not have liec-n woise to haiidle.uoi less in.1115 1 shouted at the Same lime, men weie so thick that it was impossible to knock another down;uur ollictis woe not hint. Selectman Select-man Nielsoii and Siieiift Bums pushed their wav up to the whisky aha', (not for a d'i.ik) but demanded thai ihe saloon should be closed up at once. The piopiietot was w iling but poweiless, about rout 12 ollicers set to w. ik 111 'he moving mess and witsiled lully 15 ur 20 minutes before they gained any foothold, out nnciy commei.ceo convincing convin-cing the ctowd ilia, thev were olliceis; 111 another 20 inmiues they had the Sidoon cleared out. Some ai tests weie made. All weie leleused, some put up foileits for the r appeateuces, Monday morning. Itisoulv fair to give all olliceis and others who attested them credit for doing biave woik. Sueiift'huius was heard to say. that 111 all h s travels iu the muting camps in Nevada, this beat them all, but as Pat Murphy said he hadn't had a space loi a long tune. As he I t in a guui" ot 5 or 6 upon the ground he said: 's thai the way tuev put theui out iu Fairview." SPfcXTAIOK. |