Show SLATERVILLE Tales of an Old Settler About Persons Per-sons and ThIngs An Old Resident of Slaterville the Weber county settlement with the largest percentage of Liberals and members of the Loyal League outside of Ogden has given me a few points as Citizen VanDyke Van-Dyke would call it as to some of the brethren thereabouts Ill give you one Your readers may remember how last spring one Lot Darney a shrewd old Elder farmer eluded the grasp of the i generally wideawake deputy marshals who were after him with a warrant on a charge of unlawful cohabitation Well this same Darney while vacating his polygamous ranch also vacated his office as watermaster of the South Slaterville ditch Fred Foy being elected to fill the place to which he was reelected this spring The same Mr Foy it was who sprng election five years ago challenged Darneys proffered vote on the ground of noncitizenship Darney however swore he was an American citizen and deposited his ballot like a good little the aston man Picture to yourselves aton ishment that overtook his neighbors when two or three weeks after that i election they read in the papers that Lot Doney of Slaterville bad been naturalized at Salt Lake City Here was a stunner an alias an alibi or an aliquid The question now arises Suppose alquid Sup-pose Darney against whom there hangs a charge of a crime keeps secreted on the underground cannot Lot Doney come to the front till his broad acres build up the kingdom and put in his Peoples Peo-ples party vote whenever needed Heres one on halffare to Provo A L good Plain City brother was telling a T r neighbor a Liberal how he was going to take advantage of conference rates on the I Utah Central to do some business The Liberal who had been down to Provo a a juror in the First District Court and had had to pay full fare both ways found the special advantage to conference confer-ence visitors inequitable but finally found the key saying Oh I see you brethren you go down to serve the Lord j we American citizens go to serve the people |