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Show DAILY sr. LOUIS, TIE GRIFT HOME OF esident writes OF CONDI- - tionist as they are th wh City U Considered Artit in Eastern Finan- cial Hold-U- Canter. was pub- of that editorial page the reliable newspaper, the The communication Tw "York Sun. no further comment and Itself Isphiins to point out that except U necwwry and cities which are governed by graft of municipal corruption, as itMrpfM1 have no standing In the gt. Louis Is, --est financial and business centers Jfthe east The same rule of right as to Indlvid-gal- s. conduct applies to cities A city controlled by boodlers and the Interests of governed by and for consider that a public ofwho grafters can never attain fice is a private snap In the commercial a decent standing below The letter published In-a- nd preme court judges that set free Edward Butler, aim i an active candidate. There Is peiliaiis no direct connection between the work of furnishing boodlers mid of running a world's fair, but a cl,y in which the keynote seems to be Let us in on the graft, give us a share of the boodle, and where the rankest thievery excites no opposition worth mentioning, is not fit for a world's host. Instead of a host, St. Louis is a hold-u- p artist. The visitor to the fuir may expect to be taxed at very turn for Inudiuate vervlcc. The city is asking the United States government for a loan of $4,000,000 more, after having already received a gift of $5.000,000 ten times as much as was given to Buffalo. All that 1 have to say is that St. Louis is not to be trusted for that amount I would not consider the loan good unless secured by a mortgage on the city hall, both bridges and Forest park. The whole world's fair enterprise bears too many earmarks of private graft, of exploiting for private gain, a method that by the silence that consents is practically Indorsed and approved by the prevailing mass of public sentiment In St. Louis. F. L. JOHNSON (Still Thankful). St. Louis, December 35th. UTAH STATE JOURNAL, ELI DAY. JANUARY GENIUS SHOWN IN BEGGING. When You Can Secure Money Without ItT It is hard to beat the beggar game In Italy. A urchin grabbed a girl and bo. sided like a chamois over an intervening short cut. heading us off at the next turn. He and bl maiden fell into a t by the side of the carriage. Look, noble gentleman!" he began, look, beautiful lady! See the little ragaxza the poor girl have pity on her! See. noble signor you can not refuse to give her something your heart la too good you are too generous, too noble, too handsome, to refuse. Have pity on her dreadful tate, for look she has one gray eye and one black one! We stopped the carriage. It was true. The maiden had indeed particolored eyes. In addition to which she rejoiced in a most appalling squint. I gave her one copper. Hereupon her escort set up a howl at being ignored. But why should you have any- I- Good fleet-foote- Our Great fox-tro- After Christmas Sale STILL CONTINUES X!ljgis an Unusually Splendid Value Giving Event asked. Xou ought to give me two cop pers, he replied with a twinkle, for I have two black eyes, and sht has only one." I wss vanquished. I gave him his two coppers. I dont believe in beggars, but 1 think he earned them. thing? your correspondent H. L. St. Louis. by my remarks concerning I stand by the facts presented, but as for the peculiar mental disturbance evoked In H. L" that is a matter that could not have been foreseen. I am not surprised that some St One Louis papers disagree with me. of them seems much inclined to thank heaven as fervently as I did that I am not from St. Louis, which circumstance, it professes to believe, accounts for my not sharing the comfortable delusions that appear to make life a dream for some citizens there. It may be worth mentioning that the news columns of the St Louis papers themselves furnish proof for all X said. Within a week there have been fierce complaints of car service, although the transit corporations say they are fair. Within for the nearly ready" , business mens association, address, scored the city house of delegates In the severest terms for not hastening legislation that would enable the railroads to begin to condemn property and get ready for improvements that this association declared were "absolutely necessary for the success of the fair which is to less time, a In a public open In April. And the house of delegates, at the spent most of its over 'a toy electric light shirt stud worn by ope of the members, and adjourned without advancing the bill a day. Talk of Lynching" was a headline in the papers this evening, referring to angry protests against smells from the city garbage plant, operated under a contract that Edward Butler has held for two years at more than double the Price formerly paid, a contract that so anxious to get that he offered Dr. Chapman $3,500 for his vote as a member of the board of health that awarded it. This offer, by the way, was the cause of Butlers being of attempted bribery and sentenced to three years in the penitent- very next meeting, time in buffoonery he-ma- s con-vIct- ed iary. It me here make the record comexplaining that as soon as this te reached that remarkable tribunal, plete by the supreme court of Missouri, Butler, had been out on a bond, was Promptly freed, on two grounds: First, that the ordinance authorising the hoard to let this particular contract not signed by the er mayor until 17th. 1901, while the offer to Dr. Chapman was made on the evening of the 16th. (Moral: Get you work In Hrty!) u Sep-tmb- The second ground was equally Init was held that although for n years such contracts hd let by the board of health, 0 this particular contract was let to Sutler and he drew from the city over 90.000 on It, there was a flaw in the w authorising the board so to act, nd therefore on this ground the offer 0 11,500 to corruptly Influence a vote not a crime! One is left to wop-- r whether It is the supreme court or CraJl Tf this decision is law, the law-- h era must have been lunatics. But the main point, if you please, is Rt Ij0ul" as a whole is not car' in a continental cuss word about the I"' nr ahout supreme court's im W n lfarmnnces, nor anything unless it assails the noses of the ductive; twenty-seve- h" People. I i 20 Argonaut. protest, and Prosecutor Folk, w aWe" bead until recently of th Poll board, president of the C,Uh hnB been mak,n sn live fa nV,W BOVernor with no plat-p0- lt fBr "tnted except abuse of Mr. wes. has powerful I encM . ln1 hlm' and today the vernor ot Misjudge Grant, one of the su "U8ta,n,n ac-for- m fr influ-bad- fr in youth than usual The indignity rankled in his Infantile breast. He was very fond of music and besides he wanted to see all the people who were down In the parlor. He tossed and tumbled about In his bel and tried all the expedients to fall asleep, but It was useless. Flnal-ihe could stand It no longer and he got out of bed. A bottle of violet extract on his mother's dressing table caught his eye. This he held above his head and allowed the contents to trickle ail over his small body. When the bottle was empty he crept stealthily down the stairs, reveling In the delights of the perfume. There wss s lull In the music as he concealed himself behind a curtain and the guests were startled a moment later when a shrill, piping little voice came from the diminutive bundle of scented If you smell anything. It's pyjamas. ' me." Strlngham, Wilson. Morgan county, Mea-cha- ft. H. Rich, Morgan; Lyman Lee. Summit county, Moses W. Taylor, Arthur Maxwell, T. L. Allen. Davis county. R. E. Egan, Woods Cross, J. G. M. names, Kaysvllle. W. M. H. m, HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES Vis Union Pacifio and Oregon Short One fare for the round trip to any station within a radius of 350 miles for Decemselling point Tickets on sale y ber 24th, 25th and list WOS, and until 1st 1004, limited for return aJn-uar- January 4th, 1904. Pictures The most fastidious fancy can be pleased with our selection of pictures. There are copies of famous mid popular subjects some In colni-anil nil beautifully framed. Books Sunu-thin- g will phMKe children s in Rooka everybody. that AIho stand- ard works in handsome bindings and nets all the new novela and we are headquarter for IlintCH WORKS. Leather Goods Wrist Bags, Music, Rolls Pocket Books, Toilet and Manicure Rets a splendid aiwortmeiit, and at our prices a tremendous bargain. We also have some Cuff and Collar Boxes left which come In celluloid also. PIPE TIRAMALI? If 8o, It la Genuine, but It May Be Something Else. Chinawate The require interesting um instructive hooka ns well We have them. y IS YOUR delayed shipment of this exquisite ware reached us two days before Christinas. We have some tine pieces left some large, soma small and in beautiful designs. off earlier put Cut Glass A Per cent Nothing makes a prettier present at any time than a pretty cup and saucer, or handsome plate or vase. Youll find some very Interesting purchases iri our selection at our prices. Dolls and Toys We believe more Dolls were purchased from us before Christmas than any one else sold. Thats Imcause our Dolls were splendid bargains. We have some left and we want you to see them, for to zee Is to buy. Our Toys are worthy your consideration at any time at our prices. Fancy Ware SETS Comb Brush and Mirror In ebony, sterling or China. They're useful and lieuutlful all the year round. GLOVE AND HANDKERCHIEF CASES They mnke a dresser more attractive and keep out the dust. DRESSER hand-painte- d IDont Delay Your Visit to Our Store Meerschaum, the beautiful white earth which is used for expensive pipes, Is found In exceptional quantities In the village of Brussa, In Asiatic Turkey, where 2,000 small mines are being worked now. Most of the miners are Persians and Kurds. They dig a hole Into the earth till they strike a bed of red clay In which the meerschaum Ilea In pieces, usually about as big as a walnut and rarely larger than an apple. Afte. a piece la dug out of the clay it is cleaned by scraping the surface with a knife, and Is then ready for sale. Every Friday the dealera gather, and the meerschaum la aold In open market There are four qualities tiramall, blremblrllk, pambukll, and dakme. The buyers come from and about a dozen of them control the market. They wrap the meerschaum carefully In cotton and sell it for high prices. Only about meer3,000 pounds of Esklschehr schaum are obtained in a year. ROSS BOOK STORE kidney- -shaped Sloe Esk-lacheh- r, and 8ymptoms Diagnosed by Proxy. Jenkins had left word at the doctor's office that he would like him to call at his house early In the morning, aa he did not feel well, and Intended to remain at home the next day. He wanted a thorough physical examination. But, as he happened to sleep soundly and woke up refreshed, ha changed hla mind about staying horns and left for hla office at the usual hour. When he reached home in the evening hla wife informed him that the doctor had called and left a prescription for him. How did he know what was tha matter with me? Jenkins inquired. I dont know," said Mrs. Jenkins, but he Just looked at me thoughtfully for a moment When he had tha prescription written I asked him what It was for and he said you had dys- Ends $&le . COMMENCING TODAY we start our annual cleanup of our Root and Slioe stocks, We are about to take inventory and do not intend to carry over a single pair of our broken and discontinue!! lines. Every odd ami end line is offered at less than cost and in some cases one half original price. Here are some of the bargains. Can you resist them? Guess not, if you intend to continue wearing shoes: pepsia." Three hundred pair Ladies Shoes, broken lota and sizes, including patent kid, vicl kid, French heels, Cuban heels, A, B and C wide; former price $2.50 and $3.50. Now selling at vice-preside- nt, Line. hn" been no Public Harr versation several facts not generally known were brought out concerning the Great Salt Lake. It Is a prevailing Idea that the lake is lower now than it has ever been since the pioneers came .west. Mr. Blood tells a different story. In going by team to Salt Lake City in the early 50s the traveler followed along the lake shore. This stretch of salty land was called the Barrens." Mr. Blood says he was able, in 1850, to go over these Barrens and go straight to Salt Lake city. At the present time there is a marsh, where once was dry land, so that, evidently, the lake lie higher now than In ISaO. This would bear out the idea of Mr. Moore, of the weather bureau, that this country experiences a cycle of wet weather alternating with a cycle of dry weather. These cycles are of varying lengths. For the past ten years or more this country has been suffering from the effects of a cycle of dry weather. In 1860 the lake raised several feet and covered many acres of good farming land. Mr. Blood had a farm worth $3,000 completely covered by the briny waters. When the lake went down and the water receded from the land, he commenced a process of reclamation by means of letting fresh water run over the land and carry the salt off In solution. At the present time alfalfa is being grown on this very same farm. Mr. J. G. M. Barnes, a prominent merchant and banker ofl Kaysvllle, gave me a number of facts about the Weber Reservoir, Power and Irrigation company, which has undertaken the reclamation of all arable land not at present under cultivation, that can be irrigated by water from Weber river. The company has located seven reservoir sites on the river and its tributaries. There are four counties interested in the project, vlx: Weber, Davis, Morgan and Summit. Active work has been commenced on reservoir No. 1 in Lost creek, Morgan county. When completed this one reservoir will conserve enough water to furnish a stream of six hundred second feet for sixty days. There are about 280 shareholders in the four counties. Shares have a par value of ten dollars. The company Is Incorporated for $750,000. Capitalists have several times offered to buy all the stock, but, as Mr. Barnes explained, the company was organised for mutual benefits, expenses to be proportionately met and dividends proportionately shared. The board of directors is composed of two men from each of the four counties named and one chosen at large. Following are the officers of the company, all prominent citisens In their respective counties. President, Moses W. Taylor; J. T. Thompson; secretary and treasurer, J. G. M. Barnes. Board of directors Weber county, Hooper: Frank J. G. Thompson, 33 13 ...per cent off... Read This ! j DIDNT WANT TO CAUSE ALARM. KAYSVILLE NEW8 NOTE8. or financial worlds. readiis which Interesting The letter, Small Boy's Caution to the Guests at Yesterday I talked with William ng, is as follows: Hla Mother's Party. I Blood, one of the oldest living settlers To the Editor of the Sun Sir: The mother of a small Philadelphia held responsible for the of Kaysvllle, about the early settlehope not to be boy was giving a musical, and the elfcet pro- ment of that place. During the conlamentable and had been lingular to bed even duced upon 1901. i ROSS BOOK STORE - Work Why 1, Relic Now a Dinner Bell. large copper bell, nearly 200 years old, will be put to the unromantic use of calling the men to work and to lunch In the government propagating gardens, south of the Washington monument The bell was found in a barrel packed with straw when the quartermaster's warehouse In New York was recently cleaned out. It had beena on shipped from the Philippines and relics other some with transport had been forgotten. The bell waa cast in Spain in 1708, as is shown by an Inscription on It, and waa sent to the Philippines, whers it solemnly tolled the hours of prayer In a monastery. A century or bo later It was removed and it waa found with other government possessions taken at Manila. New York World. A Good and Childrens, Boys & Youths Dee-Stanfo- rd BROOM I I patent leather, all alsea; former price $3.00 to $4.00. Closing out at It will he dangerous. Dont delay your purchases. I I Shoos. $1.45 Plan. Stubb Ye, I think we would have few a contains better protection If they put two poOur Toy Department on this beat. odds and ends that can be purchased licemen Think so? Penn at your own price. Ogden Furniture Stubb Yea; one would snore bo and Carpet company. loud be'd wake the other up. Big bargains in Mens, Misses Three hundred fifty pair Ladies Welt Shoe, extension edges, vlcl kid and $2.25 Hurry along. Shoe Company HOTEL BUILDING. THE ONLY WAY TO START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Subscribe to the . .SUBSCRIPTION, 0athj Half $6.00 A YEAR. tatc Journal W - v"r- - 60 CENTS A MONTH. I ( |