| Show THE OLD AD THE SEW the old city council is no more it baying yielded up the ghost thursday evening last when it the city government over to the gentlemen chosen at the recent election to con duct its affairs during the next two years in turning from the old to the new THE desires to say can and openly thai the retiring board has made a record of which each in member may well feel proud and which should receive the hearty commendation of every honest and progressive citizen not only did the council conduct the business of the city with great prudence but it exer cased laudable judgment in the im prove ments made throughout the city while the order maintained was all that could be desired or expected and re lleces great honor upon the efficiency of the old board and the off cers under its command and THE D can honestly say well done to the new council and its appointed officers extends its earn est support and gives the assurance that it will ever be found ready to aid and enciu age one and all in any right effort to maintain and expand the dignity and importance of 1 irs city at the same time it promises that it will not be chaira in avirt acts nor in censuring any lapse from plain and honest duty on the part of any officer it is to be hoped tl at no such occasion will arise but that all will work together in harmony to the end that utah s greatest cams may maintain its proud distinction of being the thriftiest thrift iest and best governed min ing on the boist a long struggle for her rights utah Is at last a lull fledged bbate the proclamation conferring the boon be ing signed ibis morning at 10 30 clock washington time hie news was greeted in 1 ark city by a general blow ing of whistles the hoisting of flags and a parade by the juvenile drum corps lia well and u u takes tl is occasion to say that she will acquit herself ith credit monday is inaugural day and it will be ri abely celebrated and observed through out the entire state suggests that the mine superintendents charter a train or two and send a large delegation of miners overalls dinner buckets candle grease and all down to the city to take part in the exercises ONE good tiling tl e new city council has decided to do is to enforce the cur few ordinance and that determination entitles the board to the earnest op aeration of every parent in the city tor months past boys of tender years could be found prowling about the streets as late as II 11 clock at night not only do they prowl about the streets but hang about the opera house and oil er public buildings in pangs I 1 hey not only loaf about but are impudent and a nuisance and it will be with a feel ing of great relief that tl e public will learn that the law Is to be enforced without fear or favor parents will perhaps save themselves and children trouble by explaining to them the situ ailon in full V do not take much stock in the worry and apprehension that seems so in certain quartets teis abolt the helpless condition of the nation s coast defenses in case of v ar with ang land e have an abiding in the ingenuity and inventive gei lus of american brizue and feel satisfied that means would be found in short order tu render every exposed city practically impregnable and that loo without any tremendous outlay ol 01 labor and means believe that or lesli tin and would solve hie i koblein of coast defenses for america and thit electricity would be tie live agent employed A sunken b autery of dynamite well out lose that cm be propelled forward or backward to the right or left and which cin be ex plodded by simply pressing a button would render impotent angi biest war teet LH s message on the vene huelan boundary question kiy have been a political ringer as charged by many leading papers and persona through out tl e country but it served better tt an ai oil er one tl ing else could do to stir the blood of the ameri can i aoi ie and call to life that patriot lam which was lug eo soundly that many t it is dead it is to be hoped tl at the sentiment arousig will grow and thrive until the gioie will arise one man and demand statesmen bernai cipale the nation from tue thralldom ol 01 1 methods tie ide of a great and rich nation like amerle i craft ling and grov aling at the luck and mil of the lug lish gold ring it Is an Lii glish On ancial bialas are s to tl e same article in america and that is galling at least to western men lu this imbue appears a statement of the Inan clil condition of brummit county and in comparing it with tl e like statement of a year ago we learn that the present board of have done much toward recoup ing the county s finances from the bad condition into which they were blui ged through the failure of the 1 ark city bank vi e find that in spite of the ex tra expense entailed upon the county through i lyn g tor county maps ordered by tl air AI d tor tin services of a statistician is required by 1 iv tl e fur aber estr i cost of the pursuit of cough alln and george and the that tl e revenue w is greatly reduced by the forced sale of v orth of 1 roi er ty for taxes in BI lie of tl ese extra burdens we repeat we lind eliat the present board has conducted tl e aff lira of the county at a saving of over hie record made by the old board vu oilier year of lucli careful work and summit county will agian be free of debt and have a balance to her credit I 1 he showing is most favorable and till congratulates the county court on its wisdom ina ru dence |
