Show THE KINGDOM OF CANUTE aisle Zip Amonsr the Snaiiiiclc S Girls mill Boys The trip through Thistle Valley is I quite monotonous though not altogether alto-gether uninteresting The teamster proved an average companion and guide The scenery along the road were it not for whose that grand old peak Mount Nebo I MIOI1TY LOFTINESS Soon hoves in sight would be very ordinary This huge pile ever capped L by snow towers thouands of feet above the surroundings hills The travelers does not lose sight of it until he gets down into the valley of the San Pitch Even then mounting some slight eminence emi-nence one can see this awful work of nature lifted high into the skies and lik a sentinel of time guarding as it were the whole country about Since the farmer and the ranchman I have settled along the creek Thistle Vailoy for ages a rugged wild canyon has been turned into meadows and fields where the low of cattle the bleating r of sheep and the barking of the shepherds shep-herds dog now disturbs the silence and solitude that otherwise would reign Ii supreme Some of the farms show enterprise and energy on the part of their owners but most of them exhibit a state of wretched poverty and sloughfulness only too apparent in miserable log huts I broken down fences poorly tilled land poory landIi and ugly dirty ignorant women and children Their existence is not far removed from the primeval life of the poor Indians who now are their neighbors I neigh-bors and whoso agricultural operations are but a few degrees behind their white friends I really seems incredible that such a state of society should exist within half a days ride of Salt Lake City as is i seen by nearly every turn along the road I Of course there are a few men who have risen above the medriocrity about them I They have large farms and herds the results of energy industry and the advantages 1 ad-vantages the evolutions of Nature left in the centuries past At one place thC mouth Creek of a canyon tributary to Thistle IS AN INDIAN FARM Well tended and which shows that its owner by name Santiquin is an industrious indus-trious and intelligent toiler This Indian once a roaming warrior is now a civilized man and tends his flocks and herds in I the same his and ravines where but a few years since he chased the deer mul geanfe i the settleis whose stock he had stolen or upon whom he had n flicted some kind of injury Lo e change A few short years ago Saiitifi i was an uncivilized Lamanite now he is one of the most prosperous ant respected settlers in the very canyon that had been his huntingground since childhood Passing further up the creek we come so the miserable little semiwhite and In than town known far and near a I aRA ITUL Indianola and Clinton more names than I there is townsite to write them on As we passed through the Mormon bishop I sat astride of the Coop store counter explaining the beauties of polygamy to the Saintcss who is proud of being the clerk thereof After a dreary ride of twenty miles on a load of freight we arrived at Fairview I a pretty little town in the north bend of San Pitch Valley me suaucu uiu Ul IUtcu unexpuuea iinn Ullc ance of TIE DEMOCRATS representative was taken as an omen of evil for polyg amists in this remote stronghold of Mormonism He was at n le once I SrOTTED AS A DEItTY And until he departed was watched with I suspicious eyes and uneasiness that told II of something rotten in Denmark tol Before reaching Fairview your correspondent corres-pondent had been regarded with a little sensation that is just now the material for some speculative gossip among the Lords chosen people of this place however How-ever a the matter is of periodical occurrence occur-rence the town has not been very badly startled Information of the matter came first hand that is it was mater THE Drfcl1 man by Mormons themselves them-selves Here it is I THERE IS IV rAIKVICW A civilized Indian sqiuiv who has been raised by the whites and for whom she works as hired girl in private families Within the last few jamies squaw has become tho mother of three children the eldest being abont five years of age and the last one made its advent into the Kingdom of Canute only a few days since The paternity of these children is usually traced to some of the young elders and Mutual Improvement Improve-ment promoters the father of the last child being no other as parties who ought to know declare than one the dis trict school teachers Aud yet the Mormons Mor-mons from pulpit and presslay claim to being the best people on earth Just now the whole county is trembling for fear of the officers Many have taken flight nobody knows whither and it is i rumored that King Canute himself has abdicated his kingdom and like the thief in the night left by the underground railway a branch of which has been established in this county within a few days and just now is more popular than anything above ground The brethren are scared and no mistake Deputies and rumors of Deputies are the chief things discussed More anon MILOZIP l LZJP PLEASANT GREEN May 2i 1887 |