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Show 3sWr,nT VOL. Ill NO. 5. gF EDITORIALS. &fc ALT LAKE COUNTY OFFICERS. g-- County Seat, Salt Lake City. U. Eldredge, Jr. J. A. Groesbeck. Recorder P. O. Perkin. Sheriff C. F. Emery. Aaseaaor C. M. Brown. Auditor F. Heglnbotham. Attorney Willard Hanson. J.B. Swenson. Surveyor Commissioner J. C. Mackey. J. E. Clinton and J. B. Cosgriff. Herk J. Treasurer TAFT RECEIVES MAJORITY t' VOTE. By Raymond. Washington, D. C., Jan. 31. (Special.) If straw ballots nominated the secretary of war would be busy tonight preparing his speech of acceptance to be read to the notification committee. Out of 5,792 ballots for first choice received by the Chicago Tribune Mr. Taft's name appears on no less than 3,164. This Is 55 per cent of the whole; or a clear majority over all the other candidates. His nearest active competitor is Gov. Hughes, who has only 12 per cent of the total, and figures run down, from that to a vote too small to measure in comparison with the grand total. The lead of the secretary of war Is If these ballots, sent overwhelming. to The Tribune without a suspicion of Influence, are any indication of the result at Chicago next June, Mr. Taft will be nominated by the Republicans for the presidency, not only on the first ballot, but practically without serious opposition. Test Accurate as Possible. It Is not my purpose at the present time to contend that the ballot in the Chicago Tribune, 3,164 out of 5,792 votes is an accurate forecast of political conditions In the Republican party. No forecast Is absolutely certain, but this one conducted by The Tribune Is about aB reliable as anything that could possibly be Imagined. A11 the safeguards of the Australian ballot were thrown around it The re- turning board was absolutely un biased. The voters were not solicited, Intimidated, or cajoled. They were not even obliged to send in a ballot at The result simply speaks for itself. It shows that, among the active work- ers reached by The Tribune, Mr. Taft had more friends for first choice than all the other candidates put together, including more than 00 who persisted In recording themselves for Roosevelt, In spite of his recent letter of declina- tion. Moreover, the secretary of war has 1,217 out of 4,381 votes for second choice, or 27 per cent. Then he Is mentioned 525 times as third choice, nr 16 per cent of the total. These second and third choices are first of all from the Roosevelt section, and then they are spread over the ballots by those who have other candidates for first choice. EDITORIAL NEWS SRIEF8. Senator Davis praised Mr. Bryan In New York as the greatest living American;" in Washington, he said Mr. Roosevelt's message was as brave a document as he could frame himself. Evidently the Hon. ''Jeff proposes to land on his feet, no matter which way the wind shifts next November. "There is a growing feeling that congressmen are not earning that 50 per cent increase in salary, says the Commoner. Well, that is not apt to cause any feeling of disappointment throughout the land; did anybody them to? ex-e- ct Gov. Hughes arouses no violent enthusiasm, but, perhaps, enthusiasm is precisely what is not wanted In this country for a few years. As a however, Fairbanks their WAS ALMOST TOO PARTICULAR- highly interesting to watch games of water judo. high diving and fancy swimming. Obedience Colored Man's Literal -o Caused Slight EmbarraeamenL Tribute to the Methodists. Thomas Turner was proprietor of a . An old bachelor, who lives In lb store in Wllllinantlc. suburbs of a southern city, hires large dry ds Conn. He came from England to this negro to clean up hie room, fill tip A country a poor boy, working at first lamp and ;erform like services. in the cotton mills, and rose to be few days ago the colored domestic, one of the foremost men in his bor- who had been using hla employe!! ough. He was a pillar of the Metho- blacking, said: Boss, our blackin' a What do you mean Mr dist church, and the writer on many done out. occasions herd him at the experience saying 'our blacking?" growled the of the go'1 the church sordid employer, everything belonP meetings had done him, winding up his remark to ine. I want you to understand that The terrias follows: nothing belongs to you. "Hall HI ave hand ham HI howe fied darkey aiwloglzed and promise to remember. On the following SunBoston Herald. to the Methodists. day the bachelor happened to meet the colored menial, accompanied by 6 chocolate-colorewoman pushing Wae that your baby baby carriage. In that carriage?" he asked the next - ' lay at hla home when he wae entafc a -- i talnlng quite a number of hie frlAids. No boss, dat's not our chile; daf your chile. I'se neber gwlne to ssj ? auffln belongs to me no moah." ! o Is ev- . en superior. A Foraker club has stamjteded to Taft and a Taft club has stampeded to Foraker in Ohio. That leaves things right where they started anyhow. AN ENERGETIC BUSINESS FIRM. Among Salt take's solid business men who pursue the even tenor of their way without fuss or feathers may very proiierly be classed the firm of Fowler & Smith, 139 W. First South street. By riose attention to business and honorable dealing, they have built up a good and dependable trade In the harness and saddle line. They employ six or seven first class workmen, and harmake a specialty of ness. showing now on their racks some sixteen varieties ranging from the light buggy harness to the heaviest dray. They keep in stock a full line of mining horse goods for which there will be an increased demand as soon as the weather opens up. Visare always welitors from come to their shop, and buyers will find their word as good as a bond. Read their sdv. In another column. hand-sewe- d n o Proprietor Snyder of the Sanitarium Baths has organized a swimming class members and numbering twenty-onIncluding the best swimmers In the state. They meet Monday and Friday nights between 8 and 9 o'clock. After practice they teach the general pub-ilthe art of swimming free. Later on they will be open to challenge from amateur David Westoby, the sprinter. Is among the active members. It is e s t d r. The Bunko Man. It takes a bunko man to appreciate fully the good things of life. ed in milling fur the flrht lime, lie financed some Spaniards in a mine called the Sunnyside, on Lion Hill, in Inode cm: niy. On the property then-a- s a splendid showtug of horn uilver and Mr. Counnr was offered UHi.ikm (nr the mine, which was a large sum for these early days. He haughtily rejected tin- offer. His sons were iln-engaged in the management of A lumber mill, and the pioneer, bellev-s- g TWO MONTANA RANCHMEN MAKE !h. fortune smiled upon them, in HUNDRED-MILRIDE fount J them that the rise and fall of lumber would stain cease to interest FOR LICENSE. the family, itm the Sunnyside proved to lie merely a surface allowing and El - 1 the pioneer's dream of millions van- ished. Mr. Connor was extremely conservative about all matlera of politics and When the agitation relative religion. to religious questions was at its height in Utah he refused to take a part, insisting that as long as he kept on good terra with his own conscience he had fulfilled all tint could eb expected of him. It was the same in politics. He kept on good terms with himself and let others do the hurrahing. - o 8TOCKTON SHORT STOPS. The 8tockton Sentinel. The Ben Harrison shaft caved last Tuesday. No one happened be In the shaft at the time. -- EACH IGNORANT OF THE OTHER Arrive at Destination at Sams Moment, Learn of Girl'o Duplicity, and Decido Neither Wanto Her. Sioux City, la. How would you like to ride at break neck spued on horseback for 100 miles and arrive at the license clerk's office Just sa another fellow was taking out a license for the girl you Intended to marry? And suppose the other fellow had done the same tide, a proviso made by the young woman who had been wooed by both and who had long-distanc- e come to a point again at McCook. B. D., Just across the lows line from here. No one knowo how fast the men rode, but both arrived la the courtyard a few minutes sisrL Their I tonics were dripping foam, yet the ranchmen hardly noticed the animals as they Iesjied from their backs and ran for the Courthouse. 1 want a license to wed," said Jackson to Clerk Frank Tripp. 1 want a license to wed. echoed iiretherton to Deputy Clerk Snyder. Both officials started to comply, but when the name of the young woman was asked Clerk Tripp glanced sharply at the other man and asked him to repeat It. He did so. 'This Is strange," said Tripp. "Are you gentlemen sura this Is not the same woman you wish to marry? In an Instant both men began explaining. Besides, said Clerk Tripp, "yon must bring the girl here with wit. nesses. A fight between the two young men was narrowly averted, as both started out to hunt the elusive bride-to-bBut when they left they were seen talking earnestly together. When Jackson and Brother ton were seen several hours later they had evidently made up ihelr minds to some great decision, for both seemed the best of friends. "We discussed the matter pro and con, said young Jackson, "and we concluded that neither of us would marry the girl. "I didn't Intend to marry either of them, anyway, declared Mias Butterfield, with a toss of her head. But her eyes were red and there vu a quiver In her voice. e. promised to wed both? This was the situation that cont Mb T. J. CONOR'S FUNERAL. : The stores of our town all have a fronted J. J. Jackson and 8. T. M ! era t I 5ipr L I. ) nice line of valentines. y Go and get Brelberton, ranchers near Butte, Aft I, HAM "'ll. .Art. Sin iW CTH1 a large one for your sweetheart i I 'V itlJBC'iLr feSkH A 1,. r, MouL They were coming to Sioux Stockton Sentinel. , Mia. b wn :c.n riR Ji ji to marry Miss May Florence But iwrMwiiii The funeral of the late Thomas City Vnuirds dr J'i If your neighbors' bother you about - It el., I. rrnl TuesConnor took at Lake Salt r i i place li'M...,: l loaning the 8entinel, tell them to ... (.. ill- - Ai.Llu.'L'drlci'fc day afternoon at 2 oclock, from the subscribe and get four monthly magat O'Donnell's chapel undertaking azines for premiums, all for fl.5Q. tabllshment. After the Impressive J js services of the Catholic church, the Mr. Wm. McFarlane Rhone Pol-to- n body was taken to ML Calvary for and John F. Connor and family burial. Many friends of the pioneer attended the funeral of T. J. Connor, e t attended the services and accom- father of John F. Connor, at Salt Lake EXPRESS MESSENGER panied the remains to the grave. The last Tuesday, who died at the Holy members of the family present were Cross Feb. 2. last Sunday, hospital wart JohnF. Connor of Stockton, Utah.th Ftm tfrtaaTkav to obuis STAMPEDED BT BOAR IN ALL COUNTRIES. only surviving son, and Mrs. Elies Aafaw Jirrrt tnih Waikimfto tavtt time, ITEMS. OPHIR Leary and Mrs. Mamie Paxton, daughtkt pctrnt. mcmry ters of the late Mr. Connor. BRUTE BREAKS OUT OF CRATE Pitwrt and Infiinnsent Practice Exdsdvily. Stockton Sentinel. Write or mom tun it Representatives of thd Knights of AND CREATES HAVOC IN 25 like Dalton SI Balk Stnrt, os 1MM Mateo IMtel Ota. shipped something Columbus, of which Mr. Connor was WASHINGTON, D. C. THE CAR. a member, also attended the services. cars for the Ophir Hill Co. last month. Since the death of Mr. Connor many We see the Boss fixing up his auto. Fort Wayne, Ind. To be confined stories concerning the pioneer are reGuess hes looking for a February In the same car with aa angry boar, called. , Back In the TOs he became interest thaw. which bad broken out of Its slender was the unpleasant . ex-confinement, The Ophir II111 Con. Mining Co. are M still ' digging In with loo men. The MsssBStfarsxtfti phrary cut fit wages' bssi' not" af1) tertt Richlimited, recently. town. the fected Ask Tour Dealer For ardson's home Is In Detroit, and when he was rescued by trainmen hen from MERCUR NOTES. his perilous position on the top of s Mercur Miner. big pile of trunks, which he had Nice weather in Mercur at present. gained to escape from the fmnzy of Jf the boar, he was very weak and could js "MARBLE SPRINGS, The addition to Thlne's Process Is hardly tell what an exciting time ha The Pure Whiskey. I nearly completed, when It will be a terfield, aged 22, pretty, and the niece had had. more complete process than ever be- of the late State Senator Butterfield The boar had been received In a fore. of South Dakota. small Illinois town, and was consigned o Miss Butterfield, who also lives to some place in Ohio. At first thu near Butte, was loved by both the animal did not appear In an ugly Stories of Undergraduates. was mood, but Richardson was suspicious RIEGER ft UNDLEY, Distributors. A nervous freshman was dining young ranchers. Their wooing I winsome and The continuous. ardent and put the crate containing it In one with Thomas Herbert Warren, preswhich woman decide not could corner of the car. It soon began to ident of Magdalen rollege, Oxford. young admired westerners she of best the show symptoms of ugliness, and bit By way of starting conversation the latter glanced out of the window and And finally, when she left home for a at the sides of the crate with great of the east, she had half way ergy. Richardson then placed a large 1906 MODELS. remarked, "We have a little sun topile of trunks around it, thinking that Prize, Paris, 1900; Double day," but he was astonished to reif it did break out the trunks would ceive the freshman's congratulations Grand, St Louis, 1904. serve sa an additional barrier. But Send coupon below, filled out to coupled with the hope that Mrs. Warsoon the trunks fell sway, and tbe our nearest dealer or to ns and get ren was doing well. Another Oxwith boar made his appearance our Free Trial and Easy Payment Of- ford story: During his undergradu bis of froth entire streaks covering fer to responsible parties anywhere ate days a man who is now a learned The animal began to cavort body. In the United States. Don't delay. professor was discovered sitting . In the trunks and to set Richamong This Is your opportunity to secure sb the quad" clothed only In an umardson running from it solutely the best Talking Machine brella unfurled above his head. In Tbe express messenger soon perched made, on payment that will not bo folt We accept old machines in part response to anxious inquiries as 'to himself high upon the trunks which from what he was doing he replied: Hush, payment A written guarantee he had plied together, and he staid the oldest largest and most success hush! Don't you see I'm a bally there until the train reached this city, ful manufacturers of Talking Ms mushroom, and I'm growing? as his cries for help were drowned world. entire In the chines by the roaring of the car. His appeals Gonl Columbia Phonograph Co, Harm In Roentgen Rays. were heard by the station men here, According to a Danish medical M. R. S Columbia Phonograph Comand they would have let the boar esName re& Main SL, Salt Journal the Roentgen rays were pany, General IZ7-cape from the car when they opened Lake City, Utah. cently used upon a boy 5 years old, Please sand ms your Fre Trial and Street and He the door had not Richardson called to a for who was treated la hospital Easy Payment Offer with Ulustratod them. It was soon caught and tied, . State eeeeeeaeeeeeee City disease of the hair. After 25 applicabut Richardson refused to axuniiany tions of the rays the lad was sent it any farther, and it awaited a later home cured. But whereas his nature train. had previously been bright and intelThe boar is of fine Poland China absent-minde50c, 75c, $1, S 0 J. H. MARSHALL, ligent, now he became stock, and weighs 480 pounds. In its MANAGES. 93.10 Per Week. and unreliable, and was sent back to career around the car It tore open the hospital. He has been for some several trunks and the garments, time since under medical observation, mostly women's, were strewn over the and the pronouncement of the doctors floor. attending the case is that the Roentgen rays can easily penetrate the thin covered with short hair. He had flowscalp of a child and have an undcslr ing, disorderly locks and a long matable Influence on the brain. ted beard, resembling an ourang o outang. When seized be shrieked, 14 E. Second South St Hates Englishmen. but did not reply to the questions put Aaeee Wilson BetsL A man named Constant was arto him. The bread offered him he ate f Salt Lake City. EVERY ONE KNOW! PM rested in a Paris cafe ihn other day ravenously. for insulting two Kiiglh'hriif-ii- . In ex- - Baron Grynsdsal, the Norwegian The man was Identified by the he said: "I cannot help it; authroplst, a man who had lived like medal attached to. a string around his whenever I si-- an KngliFhnian I In?-- an apo for 12 year In the forests of neck bearing the word "Mygrean." come so enrug'Nl that 1 could do any- Belgium and Franco has been re- When he boarded the vessel for Norturned to his home In Norway. He way the captain addressed him In thing to him." was the only survivor of the Norwe- Norwegian. The man was seized with DIAMONDS. WATCHES. JEWELRY. was which gian bark Mygrean. A BARGAIN. violent emotion and fainted. Wheu wrecked in 1895. He had lost his rea- be recovered he was able to answer sale tor A first-clas- s House Rooming shock. Address or call on J. S. Nielson. fiG W. son from the the captain's questions sensibly, and When found the man was In the for- told how he had lived In the forests South St.. Salt take CKy. est of Solgnles, where ho had lived for a dozen years. for some time, and had Inspired the A Funny Man. population In the neighborhood with Co. fear. Finally it was decided to form Ferry Miss Morton told me that SALT LAKE CITY. a party to capture him. He was seen she thought you were a humorist. to be moving along very quickly, HONEST WORK. Hargreaves Really, I HONEST PRICES. Jumping (ram branch to branch. Tbe Ferry At least she said you were men tried to seize him, but he got a funny little man. Painless Extraction of Teeth oi no Pay. All Work Positively Guar sway from them and successfully hid 1126-X- ; Bell, Develops ths Good In Man. antecd. Phones: himself in the thicket. 73 Hate Franklin: To be thrown upon one's ind. 1126. another attempt this one success-fu- l 218 South Male. was made by s crowd of villagers own resources Is to be cast Into the who surrounded him. His body was very lap of fortune. I 'IiuSMOE fell's. t5 f t, im.rStTitfe.'V Slid HMpUS'i. Jl I , I'lr-- Jt , V V. . I . 1 4 , . east-boun- d, en-tou- r 1I 51-5- d ! 1 I : I BOWERS, Union Dental JEWELER, Salt Lake City. NOW: Street i n |