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Show THE BEE. 4 'T'HK Tribum ha launched tho boom of A Quil" Xeboker is a good for governor next fall. Tho state ways off, and yet tho intereM. is already intensiliod hecauso of the result of the recent election in this city. Three years ago when King was elected to Congress tla Democrats felt that tho state had been placed in their column permanently. Hut all this has changed. The Democratic party abused the confidence reposed in it by the voters, tla last legislature was a disgrace, ami only a fow went hoipe at tho end of tho session without a cloud of suspicion attached to them on account of tho senatorial struggle. Quil" Xebeker was one of those few. IJo is a good man : too good to receive tho support of tho McIIerald, which read him out of the party when ho refused to voto for tho Count. That leaves Tho Tribuuo will, of course, not Quil" in a predicament. support him if ho should get the nomination, and tho Me Herald would probably givo its support as it did to Harnes in the late city campaign. Thero is no doubt about Moyle was Moyle being McCunos choice for governor. robbed of the senatorial toga when tho caucus agreed upon him, while tho joint assembly refused to endorse tho action of the caucus. Many members of the legislature think this was little short of treachery, and that Moyle is the logical For this reason McCune is anxious candidate for senator. to side track .Jim," to enhance his own chances in the event that tho next legislature should be Democratic. XOT the lucky prospector alone who lias acciimu lated big fortunes out of tho Klomlyko gold discoveries. A good steamship on tin Alaskan route is better than any gold mine ever discovered. Take tho big steamship, Roan-oke- , tho arrival of which in Puget Sound ports is followed by the announcement that several more million dollars in JT IS nuggets wero brought out of tho frozen North. The Roan-okjust returned from an s0,000 round trip. Coming down sho carried 500 passengers, paying faros aggregating 10,000, whilo the fares on tho trip going and freight both e ways duplicated this amount. Tho total expenses of tho trip was only .0,000, making a clear, profit of 0,000 to the owners. l gOME days ago the dispatches told us about tho capture of somo important papers belonging to Aguinaldo, among which was a dispatch urging the insurgents to hold out until tho Bryan party in tho States should come into power. That must bo good reading to tho wives and mothers who havo sons and husbands in tlis islands fighting for the tlag. And yet J by the grace of patience we allow blather- skites to travel over this continent encouraging the war against the government by sympathizing with a people who lack sense enough to comprehend the meaning of liberty. Democrats and other the are through with their speeches the whole, if anti-expansio- n llag-furl-e- rs L a citing. To assort that tho president is usurping power It exceeds tho hounds of base misrepresentation of facts. truth to such an extent that It would ho greeted with a storm of ancient eggs if perpetrated even cm the comedy stage. 11 HKKK is a financial sido to grand opera in Xow York City, that the average Westerner knows nothing about. A choice box at one of tho swell theaters is as good as aTintie mine. Prior to tin opera season many of tho boxes owned by tiio wealthiest of tho M'hi" brought as high as 0,000 for the season of fifteen weeks, a pretty good sum to pay for tho privilege of posing before members of tho swell set. A Wall street broker was recently ottered 00,000 for his box, stock and good will in tho Metropolitan Opera House, hut refused tho otter on tin ground that ho believed this financial sido of grand opera bad not reached high-wate- r well-know- n mark yet. "pIIE crowds that daily surround Admiral Dewey when- ever ho appears upon tho streets is an evidence of tho ncreased snobbery of tho American people. People who have any regard for the feelingsof others show their appreciation in a gentlemanly and womanly way, but tho swarming of tho crowds which have followed tho Admiral's footsteps during the past few weeks is boorishnOss, and should bo met by the policemans club. lift JOSEPH DUNLOP, a newspaper scavenger of Chicago, who formerly published the Dispatch (which lias since been galvanized into tho Democrat), has just completed a s term in tho Illinois penitentiary for sending obscene matter through tho mails. Those who print obscene advertisements of houses of and matrimonial advertisements of adventuresses, might protit by tho fate of two-year- ill-fain- the ex-convic- t, o Dunlop. LAWYER in a court room can call a man a liar, a scoun-drel, a thief, and almost any other old thing and no one complains when the crier adjourns court. But suppose a newspaper says such things? There is a libel suitor a dead editor. This is due to tho fact that the people believe what tho editor says what the lawyer says cuts no figure. x ft 'J'TIE mother who drinks wine and smokes cigarettes cannot reasonably expect very much better of her daughter. They are right here in Salt Lake occupying front seats, in some instances, on the ultra-fashionab- so-calle- d equipage. le society ft SANPETE County boy of a mechanical turn of mind was presented by his father with one of those combination tools that is a can opener, gimlet, corkscrew, nail file, glass cutter, etc. The proud parent was made aware of the boys high appreciation of the gift when one of the Manti merchants presented him with a bill for 75 for plate glass destroyed by the future Tesla. gathered together, would form a collection of humorous literature difficult to parallel in its many fantastic incongruities. They have howled about the unholy war that the president on his own responsibility, without authority of congress, is waging for the subjugation of a people who 'p'HE prevalence of typhoid and scarlet fever in this city are and of right ought to be free, in violation of the Declais the direct result of criminal negligence on the part Such foul mouthings are scarcely of the health authorities. We never had better autumn ration of Independence. worthy of notice. The Philippine islands were annexed by weather and everything has been propitious to clean streets and with the consent of the United States. It became, and a healthy condition generally of the city. The people therefore, the duty of the president to suppress any insur- of Salt Lake will be happy when the day arrives that the rection. l The war against Aguinaldo was begun while conset of incompetent officials who infest that portion of the gress was still in session and full authority was given to Joint building known as the health department is kicked raise and maintain military forces sufficient to quell the up out. Speed the day! |