| Show TUE report of tho department of the for the month of march of the amount af corn of tho estimate crops of next season still in the hands of producers is ag per cent of the whole crop or bushel imd of the wheat crop 31 per cent or bushels this is very moderate as compared with the same month of last year and it is expected that what growers still have in hand they will hold for high prices the recent conventions of farmers have brought forth a quiet determination on tho part of tho producers not to part with their grain so far as it can bo avoided until after harvest THE LATEST feature connected with tho workings at washington of liberals for tho appropriation of means fora government building at salt lake is the endeavor to have it a part of the comans womans industrial home in salt lake wherefore they have reca amended that the house appropriation pria tion of be cut down one half it would not be a bad thing if that great industrial home that has so utterly failed of what it was intended for could be absorbed in some other public bunding so that uncle sam might get a little of the means back that has been squandered in that institution waterworks WATER WORKS ron provo will bo a line advertisement and will do more toward blinking capitalists than any yet sat afoot to the ciby many strangers havo visited our fine city and not invested owing to tho apparent lack of what we may term public enterprises so soon as the city can boast lighted streets and a protection against lire then will the price of real estate take on a firm and steady advance THERE is some talk of a territorial form of government for indian territory if this is secured tho country will virtually bo thrown open to white settlers and abo government entirely tak a away frair the indians it will bo much better for the present form of government to continue the scheme to convert it into a territorial form of government may bo looked auyon as an endeavor to get the redman away from his rich possessions possession 0 GOOD old DE LESSEPS is said to be much downcast over the report of the commission ol 01 engineers who sent out to inspect the of affairs at the panama canal they toll a disastrous story and say the scheme is a hugs failure and DE LESSEPS himself is compelled to admit that it is a failure THE republican party went into power in 1860 and then the united states bad under its flag tons of shipping almost a third of the tonnage of the whole world in 1890 after thirty years of legislation hos tile to commence the total tonnage is less than the immense loss can bo best realized when we contemplate that with the count rys growth our commerce should have increased instead of which it has decreased in about the same ratio as the country has increased in population LAST WEEK there was a deadlock in the wyoming legislature over the appropriation bill the bill originated in the house and among other items it proposed to pay for some fish hatching grounds at laramie and appropriated 1200 for contingent expenses of the governor and for the secretary these the council objected to after some debate the laramie appropriation was admitted and the issue resolved itself into the question of contingent expenses for alie governor and secretary neither house would yield and last saturday an adjournment was taken without passing the appropriation bill wyoming will now experience what utah did in the same way daring the murray administration DUE ATTENTION should be given the matter alluded to by a correspondent in tuesdays issue concerning the water of utah lake it is a dangerous matter for the water to be obstructed ted this year and if it bo in violation of the arbitration between salt lake and utah counties the people of thia county should see to it that all unlawful are duely removed the fact is there is no necessity this spring for the storage of water as the indications are favorable for a season of alenty for irrigation if utah lake exceeds its natural capacity it is a menace not only to utah county but the farmers of salt lake as well A missouri has worked out a few statistics and communicated the same to his country paper they illustrate finely the contrast between the pay of judges for whom there is a loud cry over the country that they do not receive respectable spec table wages the farmer says that a judge who re receives per year salary absorbs the price of bushels of corn at 15 cents per bushel or of bushels of wheat at 60 cents per bushel or bushels of oats at 12 cents or the price of fifty good farm horses he also estimates that a arm hand at 13 per month would have to work the year around for a quarter of a century to earn the same amount and adds that in 1866 68 abo a c to bushels of corn would have footed the bill or i bushels of wheat A MINORITY report has been forwarded to the honse from the committee on territories settius forth some good reasons why idaho should not be admitted as a state under the constitution franchising disfranchising dis cormons mormons Mor mons when the question of admission comes up for debate the country will learn a litre more about the real state of affairs FRANCE is having another ministerial crisis this surprises no one however ts the world has become so accustomed cus tomed to them in case of france that it would be astonishing if more than three months would elapse in political quietude THE RECENT plot in bulgaria to murder prince FERDINAND brings to light more of dussias Eus sias dastardly cowardice it appears that her plenipotentiary at bucharest was the instigator of the vile plot and had opened correspondence with a prominent army of the bulgarian government with a getting FERDINAND removed quite by accident the plot was discovered the very night that it should have taken place and frustrated by arrest ing the chief parties concerned eus sia is the worst government on earth for secret intrigue NELLT BLY has quit the new york world because they would not raise her wages on her return homo from her flying trip around the world and yet the world appears every morning the same as usual wife jolin if we go to the threatte thre atre tonight to night will you have to go out between the acts to bee a man husband im very much afraid I 1 shall wife well here s a dollar and a half extra get a ticket for him and let him sit with us life |
