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It is with the most profound regret that we are obliged to chronicle the collapse of one section of Edmonton's very complete system of waterworks. Donald McLeod's historic mule, which for the past year has been actively engaged in forwarding the cold water movement in town, departed this life on Saturday last. Words are inadequate to express the loss thus sustained by our rising and hopeful burgh. Suffice to say that in the not distant future, when Edmonton has distanced the petty rivalries of Winnipeg, Montreal or Chicago, and stands forth the champion city of the North American continent, when the history of its early days is written on scrolls of silk in letters of gold, the place of honor will be accorded to an engraving of this lamented mule ...