Show I ECHOES OF THE WEEK I Wun ALL due ropcct for the sagacity and capacity of the local railway grandees we would like to inquire why when they were framing their pool agreement they failed to incorporate in-corporate nn article providing for the employment employ-ment of a Quaker City attorney to interpret and construe the document THE CITY Council chamber when that august II and wonderfully composed body is in sessionls pervaded by about as melancholy and funereal an air as could be conceived outside of a grave I I yard or the Boman catacombs and a visitor naturally wonders if he hasnt stumbled Into a I I depository for Egyptian mummies The presiding pre-siding officer and a few of the councilmen exhibit ex-hibit occasional signs of life but the rest ah the rest Well there is some consolation in the thought that they are not likely to do any harm Tun FORTUNE that have beeh made and the fortunes that have been lost in western mining min-ing would furnish material tor a volume of more fabulous tales than could ever have been I dreamed by the author of The Count of Monte Christo in I his moods of wildest imagination And now come Messrs Browe and Landers rubicund and rosy members of the happy Denver Den-ver Rio Grande family with k Wood River mine that they purchased from a busted prospector last winter for a f35 suit of clothes I the ore fr < m which is found to a Slay twenty t ounces at the grass roots and to be in great demand by the smelters for its fluxing properties proper-ties A RIPPLE possibly a ripple and a half was created in local railway circles this week by the rumor that a pool between the Sanpete Valley Val-ley and the Utah Eastern system was In process pro-cess of incubation Realizing the momentous effect consolidation of these 1ro gent trunk lines would havoupon Utah trafficVe sifted the matter most thoroughly Mr Bamberger presIdent pres-Ident of the Sanpete lines f when the subject I was broached said < 1 Oh I cant do anything with Jlr McMillan Too much prosperity hath surely mude him I supercilious Why I cant t come near himI I He wont listen to any reason Mr McMillan of the Utah Eastern system was found in his usuully communicative mood and unburdened himself as follows I dont think the pool will be formed Those Sanpete nabobs are too graspingly selfish and hoggish Why would you believe it they actually ac-tually had the heartlessness to demand ninety nlneper cent of the earnings Of course we could not listen to such proposals They would not entitled to more than ninetyeight and a half at the most Still I realize the fact that we are hopelessly lost and forever ruined should the Sanpete decide to cut rates although ray friend Jay Gould has promised to stand by me should the worst come to the worst It is sincerely hoped that the worst will not come to the wr is surely would be the case if Jay Gould wi > 0 culled on to stand 1 by HOLLOW I HOLLOW Hollow repented < < Bun thorne in sepulchural tone at the Logan performance per-formance Is it a telephone timidly inquired Patience Yes it is a Rocky Mountain Bell and the audience bellowed with mirth THE FERTILITY of the Herald in fabricating communications from Its unlawful lottery victims vic-tims is only surpassed by its cfTrontcry in palming them off on the public as genuine ANYTHING NEW inquired a Tribune reporter report-er as he entered the city marshals office the other evening No guess not responded Officer Salmon Spose you heard of that dead body being foundWhat I What gasped the reporter Dead body did you say Who When How Come come young man be calm Dont excite yourself so I dont know anything about It except that a dead body was found on Tenth East street this morning and buried In an adjacent lot But wh j was it The body I believe was too much decomposed decom-posed for identification Well come tell all about it pleaded the reporter re-porter < desperately I want to know the particulars par-ticulars You can surely tell me something more Yes young man I can tell you something more and the officer with a cruel gleam in his eye drew near the reporter and whispered in his ear It was the dead body of an ownerless dog Somebody looked very sick and went outside J liceman for a breath offrcshair but it wasnt the po I IT STAY not be a mutter of very great or impressive i im-pressive significance but It is a fact which no newspaper reporter has yetgiven to the public I Judge Zane uses a quill pen We think an opportunity op-portunity to perpetrate a joke on the Utah Penis Pen-is lurking somewhere around this item but I just at present we are in too pensive a mood to I penetrate the obscurity that pens it in QUITE A remarkable and sensational Incident I occurred in the Seventh ward one evening last week which no newspaper reporter was enterprising enter-prising enough to investigate A man named Johnson was found In a comatose condition about 6 oclock in the evening He was reclining re-clining in an easy chair and appeared to be sleeping but his countenance was overspread I by a weary tiredoflife expression All efforts to arouse him failed and the following morning morn-Ing he was slumber hg as soundly as ever His wife became alarmed and summoned a physician physi-cian who after examining into the matter pronounced pro-nounced the case a most phenomenal one He tried every means to awaken the sleenln < r man I 0 that was known to the profession but to no purpose pur-pose Mrs Johnson in relating the manner in which her husband was discovered after he had fallen into his deep slumber stated that the copy of a newspaper was lying In his lap Let me see that paper said the physician Ah that explains it all he continued when the paper was produced Ppor man bow he must have suffered but he should have known better I cannot Jell Madame when your husband will awaken I think it probable that he will sleep several days yet It was a copy of the Dacrct Yews Johnson returned to consciousness yesterday lIe was somewhat weak but w able to come around and subscribe for the DEMOCRAT after which he grew better rapidly BISHOP WHERE Is the Rubicon river inquired in-quired member of the last Territorial Assem bly of a Peoples Party statesman the other day RubiconRUbicon pondered the Bishop Seems tome its down in Arizona If it aint there its up in Idaho and if it aint there Ill have to give It up Why do you ask Why I was just talking with a young mem her of the Democratic Club and I told him he had better come back to our party and he said No Ive crossed the Rubicon Now I know he has never been outside of Utah and Ive looked on every map of the Territory I can get and cant find any such stream |