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Show NOTES AM) COMMENTS. Under the caption "In Haunts of Horror," the Often Standard toy: "Thi'SM.r l.AKi-. Timks htts liegun a war on the Salt Lake theater as a lire trap anil U pitching into the business w ithout gloves aud sleeves rolled up, so to speak. Wednesdays issue of the Times sprung a decidedly sensational article on the public, entitled, 'The Trap of Death.' It contains au account of a visit made to the basement of the theater with Major Stanton, chief of the Salt Lake lire department. The description is minute aud in it the strongest kiud of words are used. It is charged by the TIMES that in the basement base-ment of the theater piles of combusti-bule combusti-bule material have been allowed, through years, to accumulate beneath the stage and pirquette, and that it would require but the contact of lire to bring on a horrible holocaust, in ease a larnii aiuliouct! sliouM In- at tin! Ihcatcr ul the lime the tire broke out. If all the Times says about the theater basement Is true, it behooves the authorities al the capital to sec that this state of affairs af-fairs is remedied without delay." - The Mini r thus encourages the vaudeville vaude-ville theater project: "So a gentleman from Salt Lake proposes to open a variety va-riety theater in I'ark City and exclude ex-clude from within its walls all persons of disreputable tendencies. That is good; but what worries us is, whence will he derive his revenue and where will he get his performers? We fear our friend has given his project a name which will prove a misnomer. He should have called it a Christian Society for the Protection and Advancement Ad-vancement of the Young and Chaste." The Kphraim Enterprise says: "The question as to whether or not wo shall have a creamery has been considerably discussed during the last w eek, and the opinion seems to be general that we should have one. Hy all means let us have a creamery, but don't give outside parties a couple of thousand thous-and dollars for the privilege of building it for you. Huild it with home capital and home labor. He must be stupid indeed n lin eannot COBlprebend the great advantage of building build-ing and limn associations, Utah's statesmen do not seem to grasp the fact that these associations asso-ciations have contributed largely to the bulldinir up towns and cities aud been the menus uf pruvidinif with cnmfortnble homes thousands nf poor men w ho but for thum would now be homeless and in many case-, penniless. Philadelphia acquired iis title, "The City of Homes," because building associations were organized there half I century aii, and Iiavr-liri'ii in opefejtfOB all the time. They pay iiicir just proportion ut taxntion, and arc SO beneficial that no one thinks of driving then out of business by unfriendly lej;iilutiou except in Utah. Ogdcu HUmtmul. e The Ephriam Enkrprisc reports souiething very much out of the usual run iu the removal of a wheat kernel from each of the ears ot the son of C. W. Peterson of that place. The Enter yrise doesn't say that the kernels had sprouted, but does affirm that they had been iu the boy's ears for over a year. e The Tintic Minn- says: "With a revenue rev-enue of over Sl'iOO per mouth. Eureka could maintain quite a respectable city government, and in the meantime would see 'that the gulch is kept clean,' build a few sidewalks, look to the "protection "pro-tection of property by lire, and, iu fact mak an attractive city out of Utah's greatest camp,'' . . a . . , |