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Show 1 Did you do your duty to the street car J company yesterday by helping' to crowd l its cnrsV jj ' Russians say that their fleets are now ready to engage In battle, which, will be good neiva for the Jupi'. jj Now that Greek has met Greek here t and organized, may we not expect them ) i to go dut to one. of the resorts and have " jj '( a tug of war? Ivlj 'I Perhaps the baseball people, In view r of the attendance yesterday, will ar- i J ii range for riots now and then, to stir up "111 Interest In the game. II ' ' ( ' , , If the circus people did not supply i j city ofllcials with all tho passes they j'( wanted, of course the reduction of the Ijl j license fee was Illegal, j' Democratic leaders who were not , J ' I given the responsibilities of delegate- J ' ' ship to St. Louis, may be the ones to be I ,i congratulated before everything Is over. Ill t In doing so much shooting at the If, ', "Wild West show In St. Louis, Mr. Mul- I ; hall may have felt that the spectators I J were entitled to an exhibition of the jj ' real thing. ' i ' , "Wc cannot Imagine that there will be j I ' ' such a thing aa a picture of the Hon. !tj I ' Dave Dunbar wahlng any of his right? ) ! as. a member of he Democratic Rational i 1 committee S i j ' ' - ' y. As so many people thought that the i 1 hall teams should have saved their ' I j twelve-inning game until Sunday, the !j clubs threw in, not merely three, but jh)' 1 nine extra Innings yesterday. IJ j Boys may have heard that there are ij. j i sick people In neighborhoods where they ' i jjpj, are shooting firecrackers, but all they j 'V,'1 have to cay is that anyone is very foolish fool-ish to get sick at this time of year. 1 Those who Imagined that so Interest- 1 ' Ing a thing as the mobbing of an umplro ;'',( would Injure baseball in Salt Lake, j had but to look at the largest crowd of the season yesterday to see their error. I, i1 A week from "Wednesday is the great day for the realty men of this city. On ! that day they will have their excursion I1 to Saltulr, and the public Is taking the - j liveliest kind of an Interest in It. There J have been many attractions prepared for the day, and the Indications are that ' ' It will be one of the mdst pleasing and ' i popular entertainments of the season. I Mr. Herbert "Welsh, the notorious ''' f t "anti-Imperialist," has been printing a v paper ostensibly devoted to municipal reform, but in fact more In tho nature of a scold for the country at large on ( account of , the Philippines and the "de-i "de-i ' stniction of liberty." As a municipal reformer he asked an endowment of J $100,000 to keep his paper going, so that he might fight the "larger question" while ostensibly working for the cauee j of purer municipal administration. He 1 didn't get It, which is probably no pity, '. though a newspaper actually devoted I to tho specialty of improving munl-i munl-i clpnl administration would be worth ! many times 5100,000 to the American ! ' people, i . 111 It Is claimed that the Montana train j robbers "got thousands" in their hold- I up at Bearmouth on Thursday night last; and the story of the scramble for j coins and diamonds around the broken I ' safes' by the passengers and trainmen, I - " reads like a glittering fable. From It all, , ijj it seems clear that there was conslder- I 1 able los3. But as it is not every train f' i which carries so much weath. the ques- i , tlon naturally arises how the robbers jj manage to keep si well posted on tho ' trains, and how It is that fhey so often ,5 ' rtrlke the "fat takcH." The public has v II no knowledge of the trains that carry n ( 1 j, large amounts of money; nothing is said J'f , jt about It to any one, ao far as known; , j and the train crew has no Idea which 4 train Is rich and which io not. How do i J 1 the train robbers find It out? i' v, 1 I Port Arthur Is well provisioned, and Hn t i1 j can hold out for a year; It Js also about H; ' j out of provisions, civilians can buy fll 1 only sparingly, and then at famine prices; probably two or three weeks bo-Ji bo-Ji ing the limit to which food will Iaat in the great fortress; Chinese are leav-, leav-, i in Junk loads daily because they ,'u can't bo fed. Both stories are equally I A I authenticated, and to thosa who I, , , contsnd that both cannot be true, we would remark that evidence cornea forward for-ward from time to time tending to show that tho days of miracles are not past. Anyway, this week Is the time the Japs are reported to have fixed on for tho capture of Port Arthur; and If they succeed, we shall all know all about It; If not, the most of them, together with multitudes of Russians, won't have any interest in tho question 6C provisions. |