Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 4 | Local News

Probably ihere are a few who have not yet broken any of their nire new resolutions. j Some won guilty of the mockery of ' t Ishlnp Democrats about to leave of- j flee a Happy New Year Now, if you refuse to be happy, you will have to do so apalnst the wishes of those you met yesterday Our weather maker did not break yes-H yes-H terday his good resolution to furnish suitable weather during lflnfi. And some who went to gambling houses pitifully broke their resolutions to win largf sums of Rhone Many people, however, honestly feel that it was all right to be In bed and asleep when the new year came In. Many might have kept their principal good resolution faithfully yesterday If it had not been so easy td get liquor. The year opened with t xelknt sleighing, sleigh-ing, but so far as the girls could see, comparatively few young men realized 1 Anyway, it would not have seemed like New Years to you, probably, if you had not broken a few good resolution. resolu-tion. Thoughtful people, though, postpone the making of worthy resolutions until New Year's temptations are out of the Evidently the murderer of Nepht Sheets did not care to give the police a ery happy New Year's day. as he did not confess. Today there will be a change In the Mayor's office, and few will realize it more than country people having water rights to sell. Gamblers fear that, they will not be able any more to observe here the j pleasant custom of kef-ping open house on New Year's Almost every honest man out at night lately has had the honor, we suppose, of bf-lng regarded by passers-by as a possible hold-up President Met 'all did what he could to make man) pollr-y-holderH of the New York Life happy on New Year's day by resigning. May it not be hoped that when the holidays come again there will be In-I In-I eluded among the mnn things con sumed much mioke' Perhaps one of the political mistakes Judge King now thinks was made last j year was his action In opposing fusion of Republicans and Democrats BjU Bui how can children be expected to j be entirely happy on New Year's day, H I with the knowledge that they must go I I I I to school again on the following morn- "j Hut Judge King must admit that the people can make amends for political I mistakes made during the past year by ' electing him to something during the II . coming one. ; , But good wishes received by Senator I - . Smoot did not include any from the " "' "" ' j" only ones who could guarantee him a II happy year, a majority of the members t 'A J of the Senate jf . II Quite a number who had a contrary H I j view the night before were willing to - acknowledge yesterday that the condl- ?v 1 tlon to be In at the opening of the year , - 1 was not that of intoxication. r?i" ' H President Smith, who returned ys- I terday received many wishes for a hajjpy year, but how could he be sure that they would amount to much until he saw a statement of tithing receipts?