The Tramp Nuisance Getting Beyond Endurance.
Death of a Little Son of Chris. Layton’s– The Herald’s Agent Meeting With Good Success–General News.
- Mr. Willard Gailey returned yesterday morning from a trip to Preston, Idaho.
- Mr. Edward M. West was in town during the past week on business for THE HERALD.
- Mrs. Elizabeth Layton, of Thatcher, Arizona, is in town visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Williams.
- Invitations are out for a grand ball to be given in the Music hall next Friday evening, the 24th inst.
- Delbert, the three-year old son of Chris. Layton, Jr., died early yesterday morning. The little fellow has been a sufferer from an abscess on the leg for about two years and has been under the care of some of the most efficient surgeons in the territory, but their efforts to cure him have proved of no avail. The funeral services will be held from the family residence to-morrow at 12 o’clock.
- A little ripple of excitement was created on yesterday morning by the arrest of Mr. George F. Pattillo, on a complaint sworn to by Joseph Payne, charging him with keeping an unlicensed boarding house. Both of the gentlemen are well known here, the former as an industrious tinsmith and the latter as the hotel proprietor. Mr. Pattillo was taken before Justice Swan, and had his hearing set for 2 p.m. yesterday. The evidence adduced at the trial was not sufficient to make a case, and the defendant was discharged. Subsequently it was learned that the complainant, Mr. Payne, had been using some very abusive language toward Mr. West, one of the witnesses for the defense, and it is probable that another arrest will be made to-morrow.
- The tramp nuisance is again getting beyond all endurance lately, and it is high time something was being done to prevent our good people from being imposed upon by such a worthless set of vagabonds as continually infest our city. The last few days they have literally swarmed the streets, and on one evening recently there were fifteen of them lying idly around the Union Pacific depot at one time, all looking for work of course. Why could not the city find them employment for about fifteen days each beautifying our streets? The first effort to check this nuisance was made yesterday morning, when Marshal Taylor arrested one of the fraternity and took him before Justice Swan. The man claimed that he was looking for work, and the justice good-naturedly allowed him to continue his search, on condition that he would take the shortest road out of town. He took it.
M. KAYSVILLE, April 20, 1891.