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Show THE EIGHT IMMACULATES LOST IN THE SHEETS. That was a rather severe jar the Eight Immac-ulates Immac-ulates of the City Council received on Monday nignt, when, in the absence of two of the politico-ecclesiastics, politico-ecclesiastics, the appointment ot George Sheets as chiet ot police was confirmed by the council. This is the first time during the present city administration ad-ministration that the outposts of this coterie have been broken through. The discomfiture of that pious-faced partisan who occupies the president's seat, and the seven henchmen ot whom he is the sagacious leader, was the source of much gratification to fair-minded citizens, just as the selection of George Sheets as Chief of Police was greeted with jubilation by all citizens who are not blinded with partisan hate or religious fanaticism. The News raised its voice in a typical fusilade of peavish chatter, and hinted hint-ed mightily that Mr. Sheets will not remain long anchored to his present position. All this the chagrined cha-grined editor of the News shouts in the face of the opinion of the city attorney that Mr. Sheets was duly and legally confirmed as Chief of Police. Po-lice. The News editor's wail of anguish is pathetic , in the extreme. It is difficult to see how Mr. Sheets can be dislodged from the place where the Mayor has wisely placed him, and the dissonance of the puerile shouts of the News will be suffered in silence by a patient public. I In the meantime, the city now has an able ex- ecutive official at the head of a department-which, Ijff by virtue of the machinations of the Eight Im- V maculates and the News editor, has been during ing the past two years the most disrupted and incompetent in-competent branch of the municipal government. Benedicite, Cottrell! Salve, Immaculates! e The uproar, anent the pest house for smallpox patients, caused by the exposure of the conditions condi-tions there made exclusively in this paper, is now being echoed with some vehemence in the local daillo(s. The council, however, has tyiken no proper or expedient action in the matter and the i majority of the councilmen, chiefly the Eight Im maculates, continue to view with apathy that unholy un-holy reproach on civilization and decency. Smallpox is now spreading with alarming rapidity, ra-pidity, and just as this journal predicted, the "health board has been totally unable to cope with the contagion or accommodate the victims with the most ordinary comforts. During the week, when the pest house was filled to the doors, the Board of Health was forced to raise two large tents for eight new victims. These tents are at the mouth of Parley's canyon, where the wintry blasts are vigorous enough to blow the paint off the gables. This fact, combined with the other horrors of the place, makes the incarceration of these people under such conditions nothing short of a criminal outrage. If something is not done at once to remedy this evil, some public spirited citizen would be justified justi-fied in having the whole city council indicted before be-fore the grand jury to answer ior this criminal offense. |