USH HW Newspaper Research Based on Letters from the West

Disclaimer: This is from the perspective of a woman living in Utah in 1880 
September 16th 1880

                 This morning I was delivered The Salt Lake Herald and to my dismay I read about such political talk about President Merino forming cabinents, and the Vermont election that I didn't know what to make of it! I tried making sense of the "Fusion Majority with Republican Persistency, but I could hardly understand what Mr. Lee Crandall was saying in his letter. My eyes drifted back and forth from the talk of Indians, first that big census and then the fight over a woman! I think that trying to count all of the Indians is foolish because there are just too many of them to count. Fights like what they said in the Latest Telegraph about the "Ute" and the "Navajoe" Indians in my opinion are more likely to break out if the political figures have to round up all the different tribes together and count them. I think that more conflict will break out because just like they fought over a girl, if they are forced together to be counted then there will most definitely be tension between tribes and immense fighting. I tried not to pay attention to all the fighting and all the talk about people with white masks running ramped in the Nashville jail! I can't believe they hung the black men in trees, that must have been awful to see. I didn't want to read anymore about the Laprade murder and I instead looked at the breaking of the engagement of Miss Jennie Flood. I much prefer reading about these kinds of events rather than the political and ads sections of the Salt Lake Herald. Miss Jennie Flood was supposed to get married to U. S. Grant's son and his son seemed to me to be quite full of himself, and I'm glad that it's been published by Miss Flood's brother that the engagement has been broken off. Hopefully Miss Flood will find someone better than U. S. Grant jr. I've got to go to Teasdel's wagon now to pick up some dried apples for dinner!