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Show J TRUTHS. I One of the Beaver county "boys," who is known to his acquaintances as Abe Fothcringham, has been in Salt Lake the greater part of the week on ! mining business in which he is con- , corned, the working interests being I V located near Milford. "Abe" is a fine J type of the Beaver product hardy, industrious, persevering, young at any j :ge and with an eye ever open to the j best chances for foi warding his own r.nd his community's interest. There ' rrc many' others in the same class, r.nd Truth is glad to know that they I :tc doing well and have excellent I prospects. The story of Beaver i county's greatness in a mineral and poductivc way is juat beginning to be told, and when it is finished, or even I well along, it will be one of the most interesting in the annals of the western west-ern country. , fro Calvin S. Buckwaller came in a few days ago from Rosebud, New in which : vicinity he spent the past four or five niontltj engaged in mining. He says that region in point of mineral wealth has no equal on the earth. He has j become interested in some fine prop erties there adjoining the great Biown Palace ground. He speaks most encouragingly of Lucky Boy, Will Lawrence's property, also of the Golden Anchor, Triangle, White Alps and other properties. The town of Rosebud has 1500 people and town j lots arc selling at figures up in thou sands. Mr. Buckwaltcr will return to Nevada in a few days. The appointment of Messrs. Lynch ! and Candland as recess appointments after the senate had twice refused to confirm those gentlemen caused a , v good deal of talk in political circles. Cur idea is that under normal cir-i cir-i cumstanccs the Governor would not have been justified in thus, as it were, thrusting his appointees into ' office against the wishes of the lcgis-"f lcgis-"f laturc, but in this instance conditions were not, normal. A few members of the senate concockcd a conspiracy against Lynch and Candland particu-1 particu-1 lurly against the foimcr. It was a conspiracy pure and simple and the governor did well in thwarting it. As a general rule, however, it is a dangerous precedent to set. Suppose we had a governor sometime who vanted to be a dictator and appoint whom, he would independent of the legislature, he could easily do so by simply delaying his appointments until un-til after the legislature had adjourned. This would be contrary to the spirit ' and intent of the law, but not con- trary to the letter. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the next legislature to amend the law, and ' while doing so I- wouldn't be out of the way for the legislature to make a provision prohibiting pro-hibiting any membci of the lcgisla- ture from holding any executive of- fice under the state. The Jamestown Exposition will be j in full blast in a few weeks, and it I brhooves us to have everything in 1 , readiness for our part of the show. 1 There is a good deael to be done and 1 it will be poor policy to leave it or 8 any considerable pait of it to the last. Begin now, and make Utah's display as creditable as the limited means will permit. In beginning, carrying on and consummating con-summating arrangements, there is no 1 osition more consequential than that ot secretary of the commissio'n. The i rj secretary must, in fact, see to every thing, not only here, but there. He must be a regular factotum as to having hav-ing everything where it belongs and in the most advantageous positions, j and a vade mecuni in the matter of ready information to all desiring it, which class will constitute pretty much everything there. lie must also be affable, long suffering, a tireless and cheerful worker on limited pay, and above all strictly businesslike and honest. Parley P. Jcnson lias all of the qualities named, is young, enthusiastic, enthusias-tic, has a colloquial faculty which is ceaseless and a certain sprightlincss of demeanor rarely found. lie is also a newspaper man and is thoroughly I.ostcd on all affairs relating to the State and its people. The Governor and commission may rest assured that if they appoint Mr. Jensen they would be far away from anything resembling an error. Another thing to be considered in this connection and a very important one as the fact that Mr. Jcnson has been to all the world's fairs of recent years, including the great one of Paris in 1900. lie would thus be "to the manner horn" and know what to dl mid how to do it right from the beginning be-ginning without spending valuable time in getting acquainted. Frank J. Cannon, editor of the Tribune, has gone away, cast and turther east. For the past two or three years the Tribune has been in leccipt of $2,000 a mouth, $24,000 a j oar, from the deluded woman's clubs 01 the cast furnished on the false 1 rctext that the Tribune was a lone voice in the wilderness crying out for righteousness. It appears that those in the cast who have furnished that $2,000 a month arc getting tired, especially as no results have come to them for the money they furnished. Just what results they expected is rather indefinite, but the returns are not adequate t5 the expenditure, they consider, and the $2000 a month or rny other sum is in imminent danger of being discontinued. Mr. Cannon has gone cast to mingle, with those ladies and let Mrs. Schoff and others cf them look into his eyes. If these looks and other things succeed in making Mr. Cannon's visit a financial Mtcccss Mr. Cannon will take a trip to Europe and sec the ladies there before be-fore he returns to the editorial tripod in the Tribune office. If his visit to the eastern states should not be crowned with success from a monetary mone-tary point of view Tommy Kearns will have to "dig" to pay Mr. Cannon's Can-non's salary for the remaining two years of the life of their contract. It's easy to tell who wrote the editorials edi-torials which have appeared "in the Tribune the past week. The dry rot 1 very apparent. The legislature of the state of Nebraska Ne-braska recently passed a law limiting the charge for carrying people by tailroad to 2c. per mile per passenger in the state of Nebraska. It was a very immature, illadviscd and very detrimental measure, detrimental to the public, and unjust and oppressive t.; the railroad companies. Nebraska is but a sparsely settled state. No railroad can be built and operated otherwise than at a loss in the state of Nebraska with a maximum charge 01 2c a mile for canying passengers. Neither could a railroad be operated in Utah or Wyoming or any of rhese as yet thinly populated states and vl.crc railroad building is difficult and expensive. Even in Pennsylvania and other parts of the comparatively densely populated east 2c. a mile is a doubtful proposition. Wc often hear about the cheap railroad rates in England, both freight and passenger. A penny a mile is the lowest passenger passen-ger rate in the British Isles (that is 2c a mile, an English penny is 2c.) and there everything required to build and operate a railroad costs about half what it docs in this country. coun-try. The Nebraska law will probably ( affect the Ilarriman roads more than any others. It is illadviscd legislation legisla-tion and shows to what extremes poorly informed and back boneless legislators will bend to senseless public pub-lic clamor. While the English passenger pas-senger rate is 2c. a mile for 3rd class with poor accommodations, second class is 3V2C and first class 5c. to 6c. a mile. While the laic Utah legislature legisla-ture did not display any super-human in-elligcncc it was in some things ahead of the law making body of Nebraska. Ne-braska. On the whole the Ilarriman policy has not been unfriendly to Utah. The system is spending a lot ol money on depots and on improvements improve-ments to the street car system of Salt Lake. While the railroads should not be given the earth, they arc entitled n fair treatment and at least to justice. jus-tice. Truth congratulates W. P. Cooper on his election to the high and honorable hon-orable position of Exalted Ruler of Elks, lodge 85. Cooper is an all lound good fellow in whom everybody every-body has confidence and everybody l'kcs. In addition he is a literary man,. being the author of a large number num-ber of books, not the least important of which is the Salt Lake directory. It is to be hoped the reorganization of the Agricultural college board of tiustecs and professorsj will bring peace and progress to that importaht slate institution. The bickerings and troubles of the past few years have materially interfered With its usefulness. use-fulness. Prof. Widtsoe the new president presi-dent of the college is in all respects a most capable man for the place. He is one of the best known and best qualified agriculturists in the United States Lorenzo N. Stohl of Brigham City is the new president of the board HJ of trustees taking the place of W. S. HJ McCornick resigned. HJ 1 The wide circle of friends and'ac- HJ qnaintanccs of Joseph II. Young, the HJ well known railroad man arc fclicitat- HJ mg on the latest step up the ladder HJ which he has taken in his appointment HJ r. general superintendent of the HJ 'Frisco sustcm. HJ |