Show CaPITAL at NEWS deal on to secure a mineral land lease master minds and money behind it secretary dfrancis ri ancia in favor of such move aa A railways probable reduction of calarie i amended amende d pass agreement country press and legislation argue Argus a hot thing oregon short line hon thatcher note and P personal ers onal of 0 december esth was wa burdened with extracts from secretary francl france deage in all relating to utah reservation matters etwas it was significant behind it is 1 a tale that will make all utah howl the Utah people would have howled last week had they known the true statu startup but they they may now know it my aly washington grapevine was never in the past delusive nor Is it now listen we have within our state big financiers little littfe financiers and financiers corporate eyes eye i have looked greedily lapon the mineral lands on the reservation different inter interests ests hive have silently come together and clashed on a mineral land lease yet the spirit never died but all the while it was vas nearing that acute stage where the survival of the fittest in diplomacy would be manliest manifest washington was the end to work it from and there are men in public life about there not averse to standing in on propos propositions irions that go to echtner enhancer the public welfare the afie polite way ot of putting it in 1 print 0 it As now then A gad three weeks ago two people peoli e of this city wen went t eat east one of them was a capitalistic manipulator the other a banker ban ler the banker was going to new york said the dally daily press as far as the d p went the d p did nt know any more Is the reason why th the e cold facts in the case are this the banker went ent direct to io milwaukee and ther picked up a united states senator who accompanied him to washington where they caucused caucuses caucus ed with the other salt L aberon bringing to bear upon upon secretary r francis a battery of well vell fral trained fied argument and promises that go so far to dazzle big men and pull off 08 the plum I 1 forbear publishing the names nor will I 1 specify the expense account represented by a certain lour four figures figure that the clique have made up and presented preen ted them with and they all consider the money well spent why hy not 0 on the reservation are rich dep deposits oslis of gilsonite asphaltum asp aph altum and other things that would go far towards making a fortune tor for each and every member of a successful clique in the premises and if signs or words count for aught they have palled p aled off the business Is the salt lake argus was a hot thing when jim bloor all alone worked himself to deaths door upon it to regan regain his health he let go of it and my friend alma katz took it and essayed escaped to run it this he did di dinto into the ground the lines of thought and action upon which it was reared were decidedly too heavy tor for alma to master but now its fit a hotter thing than ever and is still heating log the natural sequence to being run by such a newspaper team as kantner and bloor if tl ese two bright newspaper men are permitted to follow lines as indicated to date they will set the argus upon A p pedestal that wil wilberfor wilbe kiefor for them a proud monument behind after chev they have gone into that and pa perless erless realm beyond tk this kis life the rio grande western win will on december lith abolish the office of traveling live stock agent necessitating the retirement of the genial lawson at least temporarily IF the C al st paul will on the first of the year allow general agent mitchell nell to put on a travelling tra velling live stock agent we will call him jimmie clinton and let it go at that passenger business on many many of our western lines Is all shot to pieces and a pick up tip in such earnings cannot as yet be discovered even by the aid of a ml MI crosscope cro scope Is we sincerely trust that the advance agent of prosperity so glibly promised us by the victors will strike our young state before the first of the year else hundred of men familiar with the business buti busi nebs done on iron rails rail s will A ill be given a reduction in pay tor for a new years gift such is the ironclad iron clad order of things owing to the earnings earning and r naught can avert avert it save olive an n increase or II if a semblance in the very near future the reduction plan must needs be carried the out it will affett every man in service and women toot too of 0 coure 4 0 the election of a united states state senator for or utah Is fast assuming afons beyond state interest the nation li IS looking on how will we as a people acquit ourselves ourt elvea viewed and from an unbiased standpoint the question calls for or expression ot of every Utahn lans ians purest ands and best thoughts and to stand idly by Is the part of an citizen in our uninterested or craven the matter in a next we shall pass upon manner that Is all out our owna own and we promise that great ragged chips will fly fly promiscuously about from eye every ry single stroke ot of a clean cutting ax having behind it for power sincerity and honesty ot of purpose the past pass agreement of the central and western vestern lines for 97 has not beer been modified extent the minimum to any great extent number of miles on exchange hasteen has been raised from rom 25 to SO 50 miles mile and advertising restricted to regular papers and periodicals thus doing awa with ads run on the guerilla plan its as should very properly be the case Is Is the great d p has been filled with columns of short line stuff since the order of foreclosure fore cloture and sale rate and it con talked nothing new from the facts published in all the inter mountain papers sixty days ago through special correspondence pon dence from this city even after such publications the associated press fell down through sending out a rank story that events have disproved the country press of utah should not be slow ilow in matters of impending legislation the great majority of atour our country editors are bright and energetic fellows whose ideas remain at par the season reason round and they should come boldly out of their shell and not leave it all to th those 0 se who push fabers in the ca capitol pitol on all legislative matters their editorial quill should be driven in the interests of an honest constituency aided by their own clear mental acumen and the disgruntled advertiser should be very properly squelched when too numerous with his advice and an eye single for i motives A patron of this st stump x mp should be thrown out together etli his ad if we view it in the right light IS during the past ten days there has been a general mix up among three of the lines and all on account of a twenty car shipment by john hilton of wells nev the fun has been fast and furious mr air hilton was going on the K C market and one week ago last saturday inard the routing rooting order in ogden oden div ing ine it to the Al midland idland and santa fe anen the wiley hawkes of tho D R G went to nevada and succeeded in getting hilton to change it to D R G then cole of the midland sped to nevada and got from hilton a specific and iron clad order super superseding superceding ceding all previous and giving it back to the midland as well as changing the date of shipment and number of cars toloai to load out even that i a lead pipe cinch tor for the D R G took will white out to buy the staff which he did and paid a remarkably stiff price it went with the deal to ship D R G and rock island which means omaha instead of juneas city and that lit Is a cause for the santa fe to howl ft Ta taken kenall all in all a 11 the wes ern operating and traffic department succeeded in ribbing up a mess that will sooner soon eror or later redound to the interest of the union pacific and lose or abridge in great measure the business the western westerns We sterns 6 eastern connections have worked up in nevada unless arsent tactics are hanged the westerns We sterns motto should br be in all in instances stancer a fair field and no favor and the next time traffic mana ger babcock goes east he would do wet well to give to some people such instructions to paste in their hat if the whole story was unfolded it would be classed at a hot stull RAY RAYMOND RAYMOMD |