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Show I POLITICAL PERSONAL. Devine Is not yet flro chief of Salt Lake. Nor 'will he he. It is niost unfortunate that Mayor Bransford has taken the stand he has In the matter, for in the very nature of things his friends in the council coun-cil could not confirm ,such a preposterous appointment. ap-pointment. No matter what pledges they may or may not have made their first pledge in this matter mat-ter and In any similar matter has long since been made the American party. Even had they urged misapprehension of facts concerning his rec-the rec-the appointment of Devine weeks ago under a ord as fire chief, or for any other reason, it would have been unpardonable for them In the view of recent disclosures to have put him in. x There is more than a possibility that Mayor Bransford will again send in Devine's name. Ho may send it in twice. The game is be'.ng played hard and fast. His appointment will never be confirmed. In the end an out of town man will probably be made chief of the department a man who knows fire fighting as a science and not merely as a game that requires a little nerve and aptness at looping the political loop. The church did exactly what we said might very possibly happen pulled the props from under un-der the little tailor and rolled him under the bed. With the federal gang and the machine back of Spry and his candidacy now seemingly endorsed by the priesthood, in view of Cutler's sudden demise de-mise its looks very much as though wily Bill will draw down his check from the state after election instead of beating Uncle Sam to it. As for the gentleman who sat at the President's left, his time after leaving ofllce will probably be pretty pret-ty well taken up attending to the marital affairs of a young man calling himself and the Governor's daughter Butler et al., providing the latter starts all he says he's going to. v O O Naughty, naughty Alice! The jar the gentleman received who sat down on the tack that Alice deftly placed business end upwards on a chair in the gallery of the House of Representatives will probably have nothing to do with the jolt the Kentucky prohibitionists aro due to receive before they hear the last of their action in canning Mrs. Nick Longworth from their forthcoming convention. Mrs. Longworth has probably worried herself sick over the affair. As though the tack episode was insufficient in itself to warrant their action, the anti-boozo ladles and what was with them at the convention declared that Alice smokes cigarettes cigar-ettes and that once she sat beaide George Cox of Cincinnati at a horse race. Perish the thought! About twenty pounds of quarter inch tacks advantageously ad-vantageously used in the seating arrangements for the Kentucky convention is probably the only thing that could have changed the result of that morality barbecue. Chief Pitt is very busy making himself popular again and we haven't heard anything of his cherished cher-ished stockade for three successive days. Time for another conference with Belle, the lady who declares she Is strictly decent, "except for the way she makes her money." w w J It is a positive relief to hear that the University Univer-sity regents have finally met the Telluride Realty company about a third of the way and settled the long standing dispute over the opening up of a continuation of First South street through Federal Fed-eral Heights. The regents give enough land for a sidewalk and parking and the company builds a 32-foot street, paves it, puts in sidewalks parking, curbing and trees. The back yards of a few score homes would have made a very elegant northern boundary for the University campus. If Peary is wise he will stick to the Arctics, whether he find the north pole or not. W ( Friends of the one who sat at the President's left ought to suggest that he follow Secretary of State Root and try Muldoon's place at "White Plains, New York, previous to a further airing of , the Butler-Cutler matrimonial venture. w 5 Having with great dispatch and ability completely com-pletely solved the mystery of the theft of $10G,500 from the Utah National, Mr. Londoner announces his intention of retiring from the service of the Plnkertons, In whose employ he has ferreted out a great many Intricate mysteries, and of locating permanently in Salt Lake. He will shortly assume the management f the Majestic theater here. It is fortunate ' .at Mr. Londoner will remain for the trial of A. W. Nelson, indicted for the bank robbery, for while he will have no official position at that time as a Pinker-ton Pinker-ton his testimony will unquestionably be of great value to the prosecuting attorney, whoever he may be, in the trial of the case. |