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Show TRUTH 6 TRUTH sclution of the citys water problem. It was originated by J. Pewson Smith Issued Weekly by TRUTH PUBLISHING meny years ago, when he was City EnCOIIPANY. gineer, and was fully approved and 11 and 12 Central Block, Weat Second South the plans extended upon by City EnStreet, Halt Lake City. gineers Doremus and F. C. Kelsey. , JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOV. 23. 1901. TERriS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR (in advance) SIX nONTHS THREE MONTHS 2.00 1.00 75 Postmasters sending sulcrlptlons to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. desired beyond the date If the paper is not subscribed f T the publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his all arrears must be paid in jMier stopped; THE ADVANCE in the price of food of nearly all kinds is quite a serious matter for the poor and for those of moderate means, as well. Meat, vegetables of all kinds, flour and almost every necessary of life, down to milk, has been advanced from 20 to 30 per cent. Living is just that much more costly, and in very few instances have wages been advanced proportionately. . th-i- t Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as pres, ent address. Address all communications to Truth Pur XjIShing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah ATTENTION HAS frequently been called to the fact that while saloonkeepers are required to pay a municipal license of $100 a month, liquor is sold in one form or another by proprietors of rooming-house- s and other places, who pay no city license at all,, and it is doubtful if they even pay a Government license. Since the saloons have been closed on Sundays the places referred to have done a thriving business in bottled goods on the Lords day. The city license collector should get after them. If one dispenser of liquor is required to pay a license they should all be required to do so. Sheriff Naylor might also rise up and explain why beer is allowed to be sold openly at Wagners grove on Sundays, while the other liquor dispensaries in the county are shut down tight. The order of the County Commissioner made no exception in favor of THE SCHEME of the Utah Lake Canal companies, in which the city has been asked to join, for the purpose of augmenting the water of Utah lake, is not by any means all plain sailing. The canal companies propose to divert the surplus waters of the Weber and Duschesne rivers into the Provo river and to enjoin parties from taking water from the Provo river in its course to Utah lake. To turn the Weber and Duschesne rivers into the Provo river would necessitate the cutting of canals from ten to twenty miles in length, and there is hardly a doubt that water takers of the rivers, a portion of whose waters it is proposed to divert, IT SEEMS there is much unneceswould resist t)ie scheme and would in rescuing Miss Stone from take proceedings in the courts to pre- sary delay the Bulgarian brigands. If a ranson is vent its being accomplished. Any proto be paid for her release wrhats the ceedings the canal companies and the use of dickering over the amount? city might take to prevent persons, Whether it is $75,000 or $100,000 matters even with claims of doubtful validity, little. The principle is the same, and from taking water from the Provp while the haggling is going on the lady river would also be vigorously fought. be murdered. When the money The whole proposition would lead to may is paid and she is set at liberty the costly litigation, which would take United States Government should inyears to settle. It should receive very recareful consideration before being sist on the Bulgarian Government it, whether that Government adopted. The water in Utah lake can funding is implicated in the outrage or not. It be greatly augmented by preventing seems that if the Government had not the surplus in the winter season from a hand in it directly some of the indi- running to waste down the Jordan river. Practically the entire flow of idual members of it had, and the the river in the winter months can be Government should be held responsible. banked up in the lake for use in sum-m- International law is somewhat elastic, as the natural percolation from and desperate cases require ' desperate rain and snow falls would furnish al- remedies. most sufficient water for the power THAT WAS A munificent donation plant and the other manufacturies on should be then The river the river. made by Mrs. Mary Judge for two meto lake the from the Utah morial windows in St. Marys cathedral. dredged or of six Jordan narrows, a distance The cost of the windows will probably eight miles, thereby enabling several be about $20,000. They will be brought feet more of the entire surface of the from Europe and will be in keeping lake to be drawn off in the dry season. w'ith the general magnificence of the The citys proportion of the Utah lake cathedral. water should then be exchanged with the farmers for Cottonwood water and TRUTH HAS THE distinction of bethe latter piped, into the city. Thats ing the first paper to denounce the perthe only permanent and satisfactory nicious methods of the Salt Lake min e, stockholders, and there is no 1Son ing exchange. It foretold six weeks ago on it should not pay earth why ine to come pass, wages. The municipality pays the disasters which have Jr i men at$2.25 $2.50 and a called boring and since then has regularly day of irh hours, while for the same period la tention to and expressed strong disapbor the street car conductors aiio n0" tormen get only about $1.44. n iS proval of the bunco games worked by burning shame, and the public si )Uma the brokers. The big dally papers took and does frown upon it. the matter up for the first time last The miserable car service Is cauw- -i to Wednesday. a great extent by the lack of i,ver. The car company leases its plain in STREET CAR ENORMITY. Cottonwood to the Utah Light anj Power company and buys whatever amount of powder the Light company The consolidation of the street rail- has to sell after supplying its nn way companies has been a bad thing needs. The car service is a secondary The Car company made for the people of Salt Lake. When the consideration. a fuss about great building a new two companies wrere operating there power plant and brought an expert was competition on some of the lines from the East with the object of arrangand, some slight effort was made to give ing the plans and so forth, but the exthe public reasonable service, but since pert has returned, the project of prothe consolidation no competition exists, viding additional power is abandoned the service, poor as it was before, has It would cost money to carry it through degenerated, until there is a general and the company rather than spend any of its colossal earnings will continue outcry against the company. The poor to wiggle along as best it can without service is not confined to any one direction; it is common to all parts' of any regard for the public convenience the city, although on some lines it is worse than on others. What are the people going to do about it? The Car THANKSGIVING DINNER. company appears to be completely master of the situation. It cares not how" much the citizens are inconvenienced. There is no other line, and they must Our Thanksgiving dinners are apt to either ride on its cars or walk. A boy- be stately affairs, almost verging on cott has been suggested, but that is h impossible. Those who live a solemnity. The older ones think of the out must either take the vacant chairs and the children are distance long street cars when they can get them or somewhat awed by the occasion. keep horses and buggies or walk. The Now a little harmless special Is a relief, fun latter is out of the question, and the horse and buggy idea is about as im- and I will suggest something that will possible as that method of locomotion please old and young. Let mother preis beyond the means of all but a fapare some little gifts. In secret. Many vored few. A new company to come in can be made, but a visit to the five and competition with the present one is will provide really pretIt would ty things.stores hardly practicable either Have for each person a gift, cost a great deal of money to establish done in up paper. Take a large neatly it, and a second or third track on the pan, put them all in, with chaff coverstreets would be a great nuisance and A little or branch of a tree, ing. plant, would interfere with general traffic. in the center, will make the pan look like a large cake. After dinner, when all the dishes have been removed, place, The Citv Council has some hold on the pan before grandpa, hand him a the Car company, as by the franchises spoon, ofand tell him to help himself to a cake. He puts in the spoon, piece granted it the company is required to brings up a small parcel, and amid the give a reasonable accommodation, and wondering curiosity of all present, opens it and finds a small present, a the frequency of the service is of suspenders, a handkerchief or some of the later franchises specified, having pair been granted on the express condition perhaps a small doll, and this will be that cars be run at stated intervals on followed by a roar of laughter. Then all lines in the city. Since the creation pass the pan to grandma, and she finds of the monopoly, however, the company a pretty penwiper, and so on around the The children will be alive and hardly even makes a pretense of living table. for their turn, and there will be up to the terms of its grants. The City eager Council ought to take the matter up more fun and laughter in that gift cake and compel the company to ameliorate than is usually had at Thanksgiving the conditions which now exist on pain dinners. Greens Fruit Grower. of forfeiture of the franchises. i . ' . w'ell-nig- ten-ce- nt ART INSTITUTE JUDGES. One example of methods of the com- pany occurred last Sunday morning, when a dozen citizens were landed at the Oregon Short Line depot In time to see the 7:55 train for Tin tic, which they intended to take, pull out of the station and leave them on the platform. The street cars are supposed to run on time to make connections with the trains, but it is only a supposition. Incoming The directors of the Utah Art Insti-tur- e have appointed the following judges of aw'ard: Best Study in Plaster or Clay From Life Prof. J. T. Harwood, G. H. Taggart, Miss Mary Teasdel. Photography H. L. A. Culmer, J. T. Harwood, G. H. Taggart. China Decoration, Lace, Pyrography Mrs. A. W. McCune, Miss Mary Teasdel, H. L. A. Culmer. Students Prizes and Poster H. L. A. Culmer, G. H. Taggart, Miss Mary Teasdel. passengers often have to make long wajts for cars t0 brinff them up town, and those who have business to attend to and are in a hurry have either to go to the expense of hiring a carriage or walk. Either is quicker than waiting for the cars. Things are getting to Water Colors G. H. Taggart, J. Wesa point when vigorous measures will ley Browning, John Hafen. hava to be taken to force the company Architecture W. E. Ware, J. T. Harto do something at least halfway de- wood, Miss Mary Teasdel. cent. Wrought Metal, Wood Carving, Cabinet Work and Tiling W. E. Ware, J. T. Harw'ood, G. H. Taggart. of Honor G. H. Taggart, Mrs. In its greed after money the com- G.Medal M. Horne, G. M. Ottinger, Lorus pany not only gives very poor service, Pratt, Mrs. Mary S. Taggart. Public School Awards, High School but crushes its employees to the earth and Prizes Mrs. Grace Y. by demanding extraordinary long Kerr, University John Miss Sawyer. Sears, hours of labor at starvation wages. It has been decided that all exhibits It puts a premium on dishonesty, because must be in the hall by the evening of it does not pay wages sufficient to a married man with a family to November 21st. I spotters," however, should detect any of the conductors The Elks memorial services of the who receive only $1.44 a day down a few nickels or dimes, itputting of sorrow will occur in the Grand lodge not be slow to prosecute them. would on December 1st. Judge Powtheater The street car company is the largest local Rev. ers, and Judge Kinney employer of labor in the State. will deliverThatcher addresses Helds band It has about 400 men. It is of forty pieces will be and of the a feature making large for profits the occasion. en-ab- le |