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Show TRU T H 8 TRUTH and loudest in their condemnation the most vociferous in telling wnat ought to have been done, and how Iuued Weekly by they would have done it. The fire in TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY, the Atlas and Central blocks called 12 II and Ceatral Block, Weit Second South out the usual comments, the usual Street, Salt Lak6 City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager Entered at the postofflce at Salt Lake City, 7tah, for transmission through the mails as econd-das- s matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! ne Year (In adranoe) BS.00 Months Three Months 1.00 111 TS M .'ostmMsters sending subscriptions to Tbuth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper la not desired beyond the date subscribed for the publication should be noti tied by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid In full. Requests of subscribers to hare their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mentis 4 former as well as present Address all communications to Tbuth Pun- ushiho Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. THE fire on Wednesday morning, which resulted in the complete destruction of the Atlas block, and the almost destruction of the Central block was probably the most costly fire this city has ever experienced. The value of the buildings was over $200,000, and the loss of contents will probably exceed that sum. In addition, Dr. Beatty and other medical men and quite a number of lawyers suffered the loss of books and papers which cannot be estimated in money, and which cannot be replaced. A man like Dr. Beatty, who has spent twenty years in collecting a library, feels very badly when it is all swept away in a night. There are many doctors and lawyers just in the same predicament as Dr. Beatty as a result of this fire. Probably a hundred people lost their office fixtures, furniture and books, and few were fully covered by insurance, and many were not protected by insurance at all. Many legal documents were lost, and complications will arise in consequence which it will take years to straighten out Mining companies lost their stock books and records. The origin of the fire is a mystery which will probably never be cleared up. The incendiary theory is untenable. There is absolutely nothing to support it, and little likelihood that it originated in a malicious way. The most probable theory is that the conflagration was started from the electric wires. It is said that the insulation was defective in many places. The result shows the necessity of having an Inspector for electric wiring in the city. On the whole, it was fortunate the conflagration was no greater. The whole block might easily have gone up in smoke. That is the great disadvantage of having the blocks so large as they are in Salt Lake, and a strong reason why insurance men do not look on Salt Lake property as a desirable risk. . USUALLY when a fire occurs the ' crowd blame the firemen for not handling the conflagration properly. Incompetency is charged and those who know least about it are the criticisms and the usual condemnation for the most part from those who know no more about fighting fires than they know about the inhabitants of Mars. With the means at their disposal there is nothing to show that the firemen did not do as well as could be done. The department is altogether inadequate to cope with a big conflagration, the apparatus at their disposal is not of the best when quick and effective work is needed. Chief Devine for years has been laboring with the city council in vain efforts to get new and adequate equipments, but without avail. The members of the council all admitted that the apparatus was needed, but as an excuse for not procuring the necessary equipments the citys nu-cerica- lly King, years and years ago convicted of red handed murders still go unpunand Mortensen is enjoying ished and similar Quick immunity. not certain punishment, even if very severe, are the greatest deferents from crime. Abolish capital punishment if you will, but let murderers and other criminals be punished some time, not kept until they become heroes, as the system in Utah has become. THE heroic conduct of Police Officer Heath in killing one of the band which were terrorizing of hold-up- s the community is worthy of all praise and should be rewarded not only by thanks and medals, but more substantially. Thanks and medals are very good, but they dont put bread in the mouths of a mans family. Heath took his life in his hand in the service of the public and for the He was defense of the citizens. wounded in the encounter. The city council should make an appropriation A law of $500 or $1,000 for him. should be enacted providing that officers seriously wounded in service like Heaths, should be pensioned, and if killed that there dependents would not be left on the cold charity of the world.. condition was pleaded and nothing was done. The department is woefully deficient. The real cause for short comings might as well be admitted. Senseless ranting at the fire chief and his men does not mend matters at all; moreover, it is unjust, but a scape goat must be found and the firemen are the most convenient and the most defenseless. Taken alTHAT Hooper Young should be together, the department did good kept in confinement the remainder of work and the boys ought to be com- his life most people will agree is mended for it. proper. That his mind is unbalanced Those doubt is little there and conviction THE quick trial, him best declare know who New in sentence of Hooper Young he never was entirely sane. His disYork for murder is an object lesson to sipation and manner of life no doubt Utah. Here, convicted murderers are increased his mental disorder. It Is kept for five or six years before their better for society that such as he who fate is decided. The course of justice take human life should not be permitis delayed on the most flimsy pretexts ted to be at large. If he was really and by the obstruction methods of insane when he murdered Mrs. Pulitlawyers. The courts allow themselves zer he should not be treated as a conto be bamboozled and the public vict who commits murder while in are the 'sufferers. If anybody wants the possession of all his mental facto commit murder and escape punish- ulties. Confinement of a less rigorous ment Utah has become the place for nature should be applied to Insane him to come to. Majors, Lynch and murderers. flnanrifl.1 . FOR supreme gall nothing has recently been heard of to compare with the action of John D. Rockefeller ia issuing orders to a batch of United States senators not to enact any antitrust legislation. John D.s stomach may be all out of fix and his hair is practically all gone, but his gall remains intact. And he is a Sunday school teacher, too. The son, John D., Jr., is not much behind his father. He is worth millions, but returns the value of his taxable property at Both teach poor people the $30,000. beauty of honesty. A personal application of their own teachings would not hurt either' of them. TRUTHS office in the Central block was about the only one in that building that escaped uninjured from the fire. In the universal ruin and havoc wrought by fire and water Truth stood alone uninjured by either element. o ANOTHER ADVERTISING DODGE. Here is a scheme the Tribunes advertisers are being worked on. The paper obtained an advertisement from Vogler, Weidman & Co., who sell garden and other seeds. After it had been running a few days in the paper a representative of the sheet called on a lot of people and requested that they write to Vogler, Wiedman & Co., for its catalogue and price lists and mention that they saw the ad in the Tribune. Of course those people had no idea in the world of buying seeds, but it was an excellent plan to make the advertiser think the Tribune is a most valuable advertising medium. The Tribune must be reduced to desperate straights when it has to have recourse to such methods, to keep its head above water. Several years ago the Tribune had 2,000 more subscribers in Salt Lake City than the Herald. Things are changed now, for the Herald outnumbers the Tribune by over 1,000 in its daily subscription list and nearly 2,000 on Sundays. The Heralds street sales are also away ahead of the Tribune. The Herald has come up and the Tribune has gone down. o You Dont Need to Wa.it Until you have the cash to buy a piano. Make a small cash Dayment down and let your high family enjoy the pleasures of a grade instrument while you are paying for it on the easy monthly installment plan. . . We sell the Steinway. Mason & Hamlin, Belir Bros, and Kimball Pianos at very reasonable prices and on very easy terms. . . first-clas- s, D. 0. CaJders Sons Co. 4547 West First South Street. It was perfectly natural to suppose that when the men who work with electricity gave a dance they would be surrounded by all kinds of colored Christensens hall was lightning. the scene of an electrical exhibit last Tuesday night that far surpassed anything of the kind ever before attempted in Salt Lake. It was. the occasion of the third annual ball of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and they had made a demand for all the surplus lightning there was in town to be used in decorating the hall. There were bunch lights, blazing mottoes and festoons of incandescent globes. Numerous electrical fans were constantly in motion and two long distance telephones were installed for the free use of the guests. The success of the entertainment was quite as brilliant as the illumination. There are in Salt Lake 180 electrical workers who are affiliated with the two local |