Show AUDITOR CAIXE FILED HIS BOXD One of the Strongest Internments of Its Kind Hon John T Caine yesterday filed his official bond as territorial auditor of public accounts under the recent appointment The bond is for 325000 and is one of the strongest ever filed in this territory the list of sureties including in-cluding thirteen of the most prominent business and financial men of Utah The signers of the instrument were W S McCornick John E Dooly Sidney K Hooper Lewis S Hills Robert C Chambers William B Preston Thomas G Webber Francis Armstrong John R Winder Heber J Grant James Sharp A W McCune and Henry Din woodey The bond was filed with Probate Judge Blair and approved at once Through its action in cutting down the Salaries of officers who can give such a bond the Republican legislature legisla-ture threw itself wide open to criticism criti-cism A Democratic legislature allowed al-lowed a Republican auditor 2400 a I year which was considered little I enough yet the Republican legislature cut tne salaries or both the auditor and the treasurer presumably for no other reason than that they were Democrats Demo-crats There are many bank employees in this city who give no bonds yet receive re-ceive higher salaries than either of these important territorial officers Sales of Wool Increase Speaking of the wool sales for the past week an influential eastern financial finan-cial journal says Sales at the three chief markets were 3180400 Ibs domestic and 1158 400 foreign against 3573100 lbs of both kinds last year and for three weeks of I March sales have been 239 per cent larger than last year The figures give an erroneous impression if it is not remembered that sales last year were large in January and February amounting to 49000000 lbs in the two months but were only 15000000 lbs in March stocks having been supplied There has been much more activity in Australian wool for fine underwear dress goods or worsted suitings and in domestic low combing wool for cheviots chevi-ots and serges and a fair demand for fine territory But fleeces are depressed de-pressed Ohio xx being quoted at 22c Business at New York is mostly confined con-fined to Texas and pulled wool though large transactions in carpet wool which have hung fire for some time are now expected as it is believed that half the capacity of carpet works is In operation At Philadelphia the I market is quiet though there is some activity in wool suited for ladles I worsted serges and for low grade mens cassimeres At Chicago the market II mar-ket improves though pelts are extremely ex-tremely low because of the large number num-ber of sheep slaughtered I |