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Show IlgfME MAM HARLES BOTHA'S fresh plea for k I his life has renewed agitation for the abolition of capital punlsh-mcnt, punlsh-mcnt, and the several interesting 'features that enter the case have pro-voiced pro-voiced much discussion of the Justness of Botha's conviction. Botha, as might be expected, insists that his offense was Justified, Recently he declared to a local newspaperman that he had been long suffering. "I do not sec how I could keep from hilling that man!" he declared, after Hj reciting the events leading up to the tragedy. He Insists now that the shoot-Sng shoot-Sng of his wife was accidental that the woman received her death wounds In an attempt to defend the man who had wronged her husband. There arc even-tcmperod men who nrguc that Tlbbctts got what ho dc-Fervcd, dc-Fervcd, but there is none that condones the shooting of the poor woman who was tho wealthy farmer's dupe. Botha's punishment, to many, seems Kovere. Thoro arc not a few that will Ray that no man can judge "Dutch Charllo" until, ns It was with him, the came provocation Is present. Many a man, years after sore toinpta-lion toinpta-lion to tako the life of an offender, has asked himself In the silence of a deep personal sorrow; "I do not understand how I kept from killing that man." But ho did keep from it and therein he trl-nmphed trl-nmphed over this Impetuous German who Is now awaiting the Hwlftly-spced-Ing hour when ho must occupy the fa-tal fa-tal chair In the prison yard. Mountain-climbing, these spring diya, when the festive mosquito Is Hj hungrier than a blood-leech and braver than a bumble bee, costs nil that the pleasures which the exercise affords. Those mountain mosqultos arc some-thing some-thing fierce. In fact, they arc barbar- H ously ravage. Salt Lakers who have braved . the pests during the past. few weeks will 1 appreciate the following character 1 sketch by Bollvcr Brown: 1 "The skeeter are a funny anlmllc. be- j In' part bird, part dcvcll an' part itch. 1 It Is foun In New Jeraey an cvry- whore elsfe. The skeeter kin bore like Klxty with his bill an' he-don't hev to cou juq otocic in no oil company to do it, nutlier. Tlie skeeter haz fore long legs, but it are not the legs thet malices our fellor men ferglt ther religion. It .ire his bil. which is Jist like n needle, only diffenint. If a skeeter lltes on you It Is a sine thet you look gud to hlrn, but thet ain't nothln' to brag about. Slap 'im er he'll drink yer blud. Pop sez he lltes on yon ter stick you fer the drinks. The skeeter bites the rich an pore alike without prejydulcc. The skeeter wus mado to pester the wicked, but ef the folkw whut gits to heaven are only them he leLs bee, is must bee awful aw-ful lonesome up there." I, v If Governor Wells and others who have Ben the "World's Fair buildings, have placed a fulr eatlmate on the tin-preparedness tin-preparedness of the exposition management manage-ment for the proper entertainment of the visitors, what a lot of roasting tho management will receive when tho Utah and Idaho country editors get home! , Treatment of patients by telephone, as unnouiiced by one of Salt Lake's best advertised practitioners, opens a field that Is reasonably sure to be taken advantage of by the trust-makers one of these times. A physicians' trust! Sounds reasonable reason-able and natural. Under the plan of operations of the local physician, it is not at all unllkelv that some enterprising physician wlil apply to the Council some day for a franchise that will enable him to drive all of the other doctors out of town. He may guarantee to have a private lino enter every residence and business house In tho town, and become the physician to the whole population at so muph per pain. A corps of messengers can deliver the dope and nostrums after the telephonic diagnosis has determined what particular particu-lar drug Is needed. Such a handsome license may be offered of-fered to Council that there will bo no member with sufficient courage to turn it down. And suppose the people should object to the granting of the franchise. Would any latter-day member of any up-to-date Council caro what the people. peo-ple. say about the granting of a special franchise? Anyway, the people would not complain com-plain after they were convinced, aa they are now not, that there Is nothing essential In a personal visit of a physician, phy-sician, when a telephone is convenient. m That most detestable of all human savages, the dog poisoner, has boon playing tho douce with many of tho best dogs In Sail Lake and dog-owners arc In a fever of iiuspenae until the greed of the poisoner has been satiated. It Is a pity that tho dog-poisoner could not be found and turned over to the mercy of that savage bull pup which recently came so near crippling the city health department. If that dog were not sufficiently savage to cope with the dog poisoner, one might agrco to borrow Dr. Wilcox's bludgeon and dispatch him with that. t a Many people of Salt Lake are Incensed In-censed at the display In the show windows win-dows of a business house of Indecent pictures. They cite the fact that' children chil-dren are attracted to these windows by the pictures exhibited and that tho exhibit ex-hibit Is such that parents would not care to have Ihe little ones look at whllo the effect upon grown people is demoralizing. Remonstrances against the exhibit have failed to cause their removal and officials of the Society for the Prevention of Vico have been appealed ap-pealed to and a drastic remedy will no doubt be applied, |
