Show from jn ill TO la city and ital liberal city council Is a fortunate body theae are facts today to day and may coot luno as ever present facts through all time to come but blind reliance upon luck is not the proper part of either pera oual or municipal wisdom and set tho city council trusted aln ost entirely to lack last night hen it accepted the entirety of the bear aliver canal corn pacye proposition without having first received the report of some experienced perien ced engineer who should have been employed by the city to make an exhaustive examination 0 the proposed worlds besides them was inconsiderate haste in deciding this momentous beston before sufficient visibly had been given of the companas comp anys ability to fulfill all its promises we are not opposed to air both wells project on the contrary we esteem many of its features as being invaluable to this city we do not question his money strength on abo contrary we are credibly informed that he has at least two millions of cash in hand and yet we think the whole subject should have been more carefully scrutinized men who are confident of their plans are not averse to rigid examination and mr bothwell would have been glad to rheet in open discussion and competition all other broj acta for t of the water question THE STANDARD called repeatedly upon the city council to bring the three plans before a gnass tinn of citizens each project to have its advocate and all reasonable opportunity to be given for the asking of questions upon any obscure point had our suggestion met with compliance ahe whole subject would have been ventilated and the relative strength and merit of the several propositions would have been tested every taxpayer tax payer could kiive been minutely informed of all phases of the question and oat 0 the wealth of information thus gained the council could bare deliberately considered and kobti judged the best plan to the intelligent satisfaction of the public while TUB will join with all citizens in hoping that the council may have builder buil del better aban it knew we cannot avoid deploring the fact lias been too much trusted A MAKE MAN is trying to write words of a novel in a space only as larce aa a gold double eagle he may bat his work will be eclipsed in value by the few simple and reverent words which occasionally appear inbe bame space U S twenty dollars in god we trust A ano recently came from salt lake saya that instead of plug balver dollars with lead the latest scheme of the fancy down there is td plug lead dollars with iron it is a mean man who will bore a hole in a counterfeit to extract the baso metal THE bottnen f duel is becoming as ridiculous as its french fellow across atie water tiro lousiana Lou slana bloods recently engaged in a bo called affair of honor in the course of which they industriously fired pistols at each other until the police came and took them into custody |