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Show and expense, -- likewise the honor,- - of The Improvnient of roads be, sending a representative to the nationThe tween Reaver and Frisco cannot be ac- al convention in June. complished more satisfactorily forboth programme by which the three places, nor the Interests of the" county practically butiguous counties secured it ud of the Stale belie r subserved than allof the delegates, leaving only a very by shortening the distance eleven or small per cent of the crumbs of second welve miles as the repair of tills road place to the outside counties, went would do, and an effort sLould be made through without a hitch, and fcalt - - - - Lake's former record remains unbroken. to have it done atonbe. tliat his ruling would bavoboen cut-and-dri- r IRRIGATION APPROPRIATION." Tho Irrigation appropriation of $250-00- 0 which Is asked for the use of the Ideological Survey, would euable that bureau to vigorously prose.ctite Its needful work ofJjettlngTu the faTtsToticern-iu- g the water possibilities of the arid region, and making surveys to show definitely where water eanbe stored. -- In what quantities and how much there will be in store. These are all subjects of vital Interest to arid America and which Congress owes it to the West to provide for liberally. 0 The Metropolis in Spring Attire Politics And Other Things. 15,-190- Editor Jh, apr: From a lifth-stor- y thesmoke-begrime- d window, but overlook-Jn- g now-id- le chimney lops of the business center, I am taking in the enchanting panorama of city life. They say that distance lends enchantment tu the" view, That may bo why my eyes wander.out beyond house tops and muddy the streets to the beautiful background of mountains in the distance, where the rapidly fading rays of an evening sun, of storm stealing In Jieneath.a.canopy " In all the splendor of clouds, reveal r nature's matchless art, the mantle of virgin green in which It is clothed. The . efficacy of distance as a lenderJoCeiP chantment is fully illustrated by taking, a'vlew of the beauties of Salt Lake City streets, buildings, customs, hospitality, .eterrthrough the columnsof and tlieiiotrc!ose range. Per haps a like effetls giveu the eastern background. At anr rate 1 shall not take any chances of disspelling the charm by takiug a closer.survey Some little cothment has arisen over the results of the laio Republican convention held hero last week, and the drift of it Is not calculated to make,r the Lake Citys magnanimity picture any brlghterunless It was In relieving the balance of the state of the trouble soot-covere- d her-news-pa- nf-Sa- lt pers SHORT BITS; ed 1 Salt Lake City, May f favor-able- ., From Our Regular Correspondent. Seven Presi ientsof the United States were Masons Washhigton, Jackson, Polk, Ruhaiiati, Johnson, Uariield ,and master of McKinley,.?; Washington wa his lodge, Jackson wasat one timq graud master of the grand lodge of Tennessee, of the r Secsnd only to thee iosingliou and Ruehanan-wa- s deputy grand master athwas the Republican convention, of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania. letic contest which came off Saturday On the leuth of the present month, between the students ofthe R. Y. A. of Provo and the University on the Uni- the Major commanding at Fort Deleware will receive proposals for the" purchase" versity grounds As prize fights are not. of a large number of obsolete caTi non, permittedTTnder the law, the contest columbiads and Rodman guns was advertised under the euphonious eight-inc- h flfteen-incRodmans, title of field sports, thus avoiding ten and the police surveillance that would other- inortKrs aud other cau non and carriages, wise have been a feature of the contest. shot and shell of ail sizes and other condemned. That the dust didnt fly with the hair stores that have been f and ribbons and swear words that for a There are also imuieuse quantities of time filled the air, was owing solely to similar stores at other posts which wili the copious shower of an hour before. be sold soon. There are quantities of -The affair was to have been a point Parrot rifles, eighteen, twenty-fou- r. aud forlvlwo pounders, ami contest, but the events were crowded thirty-two so closely together that the judges had four, iive, eight and tee inch camion no time to score the points ereT another that were considered very flue and efbout was under full swing, hence, to fective in the civil war, but are now avoid all hard feelings a commendable entirely out of date. There are also yet seemingly rare college trait it was other stores which the Secretary of War TsaTTthorlzed tolend soldiers monument d eel a red a d ra v associations, municipal corporations aud is a in at standstill Mining practically posts of the Grand Army of the Republic. Salt Lake. The deep schemes and In- Some of these guns are very old and all. trigues that were started on Second aremore or less ornamental, but they Souih street last year and which were areotherwisewonhless except for old calculated to take the place of tunnels iyon. Any of the organizations menas and shafts such are found in tioned can ..obtain - them as loans by have either caved application through a member of Concamps, in or are full of water and the operators gress. Those for sale can be had for are becoming pretty badly discouraged. about the cost of transportation. Investors, too, are becoming unruly. The House has passed a bill providing Instead of schemes, etc., they want to see diggings, ore and the like, and it is that noenjisted man of the army or navy shall biLpermitted to leave his , post in. puzzling some of, the operators here order RTengage in any performance in Iheir ov acting withouttakiugthem out-i- n to civil life for hire wheu It Interfers wilhr the despised territory beyond the limits the customary employment, and regular of Mercur and Tintlc. I ihinkin fact, engagemei.rof local civilian I ii TheiF that this new jiotjon on thepart oLin-vestb- ar.ts, trades, or professions While ten-inc- h h. , suro-enouglrmlr.- er-e- x cus-tomer- ing s, rs may Lad to an investigation of nothing issaid in the bill about musician ore bodies of the interdicted section it was drawn with the object of pjotect-in- g the surrounding your town. tJ Reccn u vestments in the Gold Mountain district gou7show that capitalists are already kicking over the traces and there is no telling what they may do nextr if yOU have an y pros pec is d o w tCy hu r way i got them cleaned out aud ready for exhibition, you are apt them before the season is over Mining will bn done In a legitimate way this suramor ratker tlian on pa pe r as h ere 1 1 r fore, W. X. Y. Z . civil musicians againsttlieompeti-tfo- n ofx enlisted m ei ina ud es pecially against that of the Marine Rand, which has earned a great deal of money 7bx playing a tpr i v at e elite ft ai t i in eii ts. The civil bands of the con n i r y h a v e heelT " protesting against this for a long time. An illusi ration of the way in which fashions change lias been presented by tiie doors of the WhlteTIonseZIlSame- Time ago; when black walnut was so popular, these were stained and grained to imitate Iliad wood. During the spring "V r |