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Show RU dont like it let them get after their own kind. II ft The Democratic county committee will hold a meeting this afternoon, for the selection of the temporary officers of the convention, and the transaction of such other business as may come before it. Hon. H. P. Henderson will doubtless be selected as chairman of the preliminary organization. The secwill be disretaries and usual fashion. the in around tributed ft ft ' The fight over the nomination for sheriff is getting warmer as the convention time approaches. Sam Dowses friends declare Naylor cannot be nominated, while Howells crowd declare they will bolt the ticket if Naylor is Dowse, however, declares selected. he is in the fight in a fair way; that he is a Democrat and will support the nominee of the convention. But Howells and his gang are very bitter. ft ft There is a funny story in connection with Howells. When he was sheriff he had a chance to be renominated had he kept to his own office. But he insisted in butting in on the senatorial fight four years ago and the result was that the boys bumped him, and bumped him hard. ft ft It has been suggested that the ministers pf the city, to be consistent, must now abandon their crusade against rum and the saloons, since one of their leading lights, the Rev. JohnT. Axton, has so neartily endorsed Brewer Moritz for the sate senatorship. Save your money and when you get a dollar deposit it with Zions Savings vice-chairm- an RAILROAD TALK. The combined friends of John Dooly and S. H. Babcock in Salt Lake could possibly be put into a bird cage and then not overcrowd the canary so an to keep him away from his sprig of water cress. Those who deem it not an honor to be classified as friends are now wondering how long it will be before' that courteous railroad cavalier will go the way of the hank cashier and retire from public life to a spot where his dyspepsia will have less play; Manager Herbert i9 quoted in an evening paper as saying that the assistant- general traffic manager of the Rio Grande, has not been, neither will be asked to resign. Judging from previous official announcements from the same source there is exceeding great joy accordingly and bets are being placed that Babcock will not last longer than sixty days. - . - ft- - ft Coincident with this paroxysm, of glee on the part of the merchant and shipper, who in days of old has been old to repair to his Satanic- majesty when Babcock has forgotten to bring his pepsin tablets along with him, there is a dark and bloody plot on foot among a number of prominent business men to d oust the official. Already slate has been made up and a promi,the nent Church official from a little village up the line is heading the insurgents. Indicative of which way the wind blows Manager Herbert is now being quoted as saying on the occasion of his last visit here that the best thing that could happen is for some one to apologise to George W. Heintz. - honey-tongue- ft ft of George W. That the would Heintz be a most gracious and street. The largest and oldest Savings popular act is generally conceded. Bank in Utah. Such a thing is impossible as long as Joseph F. Smith, President, Babcock is at the head of affairs here. M. Cashier. Bank and Tbust George Go., No. 1, Main Cannon, cock telling him to go to a place when. ! irrigation does not prevail. The little agent carries in his pocket a from Manager Herbert letter today wherein he is thanked for his good work and told to proceed. When Babcock returned from California and blundered into the franchise business in a fashion that made Dan Spencer deem that his prayers had been anto keep his nose swered, he told Heintz out of the Traffic ' Managers domain and attend to his own business. Then Heintz flashed the Herbert letter on the man with the superabundance of bile and the fat was in the fire. EveryThe Rio body now sees the mistake. Grande cannot get Dan Spencer, the diplomat, but the next best thing in the way of a passenger man, tow it Geo. W. Heintz will fill the bill, with dragnets out after several Short Line mainstays in Salt Lake as well. In the meantime George has turned down two offers of jobs and Is saying noting, hut playinir golf ' BOODLING AS AN ART. e, g. Heintz would not stultify himself, to that extent; while Babcock, well Mr. Herbert has been indirectly approached on the matter and things look so good; that the gossips on the street are now affirming that Heintz is coming back in charge of the passenger business while S. V: Derrah will be given the freight end of the Rio Grande Western, and both will report to Traffic Manager lUliablsi Our Abstracts Hughes in Denver. Since the first of First Because they are correct. the month those railroad men who have Second Because they are backed by been to see Babcock on important mata bond ( In the sum of 110,000.00.) ters, over which he has had jurisdiction in days gone by, have been informed by In Accuracy and Completeness they excel. him that he could do nothing for them, The Abstracts themselves are our best proof. ft ft as the matter would have to be laid beUnder Denver. in Mr. fore A. W. SMITH. M&n&ger. One of tlie boodlers, a man named J. Hughes a K. is neither Babcock conditions such ST. SOUTH Murrell, fled to Mexico where he TSUEPNONI 70S. 19 Wllf FIRST useful nor ornamental adjunct to the His days are numbered. remained for some time. He lias now Rio Grande. returned to St. Louis and seems to ft ft . E have made a confession, whatever The great play on the part of the that is. In his confession, he says: Gould crowd at the present time is the "A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE We did not look upon what we did as church stunt. With this end in view a serious crime, as it had gone on so General Superintendent A. E. Webley long without interruption that it was Is a dangerous thing. This is especially true in the practice of was kicked off the back end of his own not regarded by those who participated Optics. Our long experience in Opin it as morally wrong. Until the tics, and the many pleased patrons private car without as much as a present we have in the city and state, warcircuit attorney took office, no thank you for his dozen years of rant us ia assuring you that you will make no mistaken you consuls us faithful service. While he was busy in when in need of Spectacles or Eyemaking the Westerns physical condiglasses. tion second to none in the west, he negto cultivate acquaintances up lected O. D. town who might be useful when it Joe 206-- 9 Atlas came to granting franchises. Expert Refractlonist, 1845-Block. Phone Young is a mighty good fellow, but when it comes to having any influence around Eagle Gate, why Herbert bought a gold brick; The smile has THE WHISKEY SALT LAKE ICE COMPANY not died away yet. ft ft Dl.ulUd W.t.r Heintz always stood in with the Church and had the franchise matter 'Phone 3S5. 35 been left to him the result might have been different. It was that matter that J. O. LYNCH, Telephone 43. caused. Mr. Heintz to pen a note to Bab MMMM. For accident insurance see Warren Foster, 300 Progress building. . . RELIABILITY an - ' SCHRAMM, k. ..ICE.. Opera. Hats. Fashion has decreed that the proper hat for afternoon or evening dress for men is the silk or Opera Hat. The Opera Hat is convenient as it closes flat. u The latest style here all sizeR Call and try one on, Richardson The good old town of St. Louis it again in an uproar over the ancient, free and accepted art of boodling. In the definition of the word boodle, Webster's dictionary says that its origin is uncertain, and traces it to meaning the whole collection or lot. It is further defined to mean money given in payment for votes or political influence, and is later disposed of as political Blang peculiar tc the United States. From all accounts St. Louis has been steeped in political infamy for half a century. So common had the custom of accepting bribery become in that city, that it was looked upon as a natural perquisite of Everybody who held office was supposed to accept bribes, and to make the business more uniform and systematic, the city council invariably formed an organization for the purpose of controlling legislation and selling legislation for the benefit of the members of the combine. When anybody wanted concessions frV-- T the city if the way of franchises, they paid down a certain amount of money, which was placed in a safety deposit vault. After the franchise was secured the money belonged to the boodlers. An electric light company gave $47,500 in bribe money, each member of the combine of ruffians receiving $3,500. A street railway company put $75,000 in the safety deposit vaultfor a franchise, and the robbers fell out over a distribution of the spoils. office-holdin- JUST RECEIVED & Adams, 172 Main Street. effort apparently waa ever made to punish what was being done as a crime. ft ft There is something in this for phil- osophers to ponder over. The gang did not know it was wrong to sell franchises. A wolf does not think it is wrong to kill chickens, and a hyena thinks he is doing perfectly right when he robs a new-magrave. Bob Inonce said that the reason murge r soli der was made a crime was because so many people objected to being murdered. So long as those who seek franchises are willing to offer bribes to get them, it will be a difficult thing to punish bribe-takin- g or classify it as a crime. The boodlers' did not take money from anybody except the one who was willing to give it, and therefore they could not understand that they were guilty of doing wrong. There must be some errors in a glorious free government when bribery in a hundred cities shocks the sensibilities of those who recognize a decent standard of morality. The hanging of a few boodlers to lamp posts might have a good effect. de . Byiiiiimaimiiimuummmumuaiiima Utah Light & Power Go. INSTALLATION. BLBOTMOAL.1 Salt Lake Salt Lake Water-24- 00 Steam Water Ogden Leased Plant Water-20- 00 H. H. H. H. P. P. P. P. AS. Salt Lake... 400 M Cu. 00 MCu. Ogden 7 8. 1500 6000 MAIN SALT Ft. Dally. Ft. Dally. STREET. LAK CITY. ewnimnnnwnniiwimwwmiwiniiiniiS ooooooooxoooooooooooooooo RIEGER & LINDLEY MERCHANTS. and 37 West Second South OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |