Show ANOTHER FIZZLE the boad to park city falls through TAKES THE alic route through provo canyon will be rj for a time the enquirer has for some timo past had its misgivings as to the sincerity of the movement of the eio grande western in connection with the provo and park city extension and warned the city council against surrendering too much right of way until there was given more tangible assurance than mere words that the company meant business we fear that under existing arrange ments the eio grando western people can run their switch up H street and across our business centre for local uses and then stop it is still the opinion of the enquirer that all the use the railroad company want at present with H street is to make it the dumping ground of their empty cars and to secure connection with the woolen mill there should bo no movement permitted that would convert the business and most populous portion of our city to such purpose unless the companas comp anys professed good faith is guaranteed teed in a more substantial manner than it is at present the following appeared in this morn ings tribune the utah central has been purchased by the eio grande western receiver and general manager james mcgregor of the first named road has resigned his resignation to take effect at the pleasure of the courts and bondholders bond holders such in brief were the sensational developments yesterday in local railroad circles it is one of tha most important moves yet made by a utah road and the many changes to follow in its wake will make the deal one of baill greater importance completely over showing the late gateway sensation when the utah central was sold on may ath the new york representatives were met by an opposition bidder in the person of frank pierce the tribune was the only paper to state at the time that the rio grande western and a local syndicate were behind mr pierce the plan being to secure the road or roads at the upset price but the now yorkers did not understand der stand the plans and bid up tho property to had the road been bought as planned it would have been operated as a local separate company with a close traffic agreement with the eio grande western the tribune has frequently shown that the rio grande western much preferred to buy the central rather than to build an independent line to meet in competition at park city the union pacific and the utah central it was clear at the sale that the western wanted the narrow guage it is made certain now that it has ac quiren tho property and paid a bonus to the bondholders bond holders above the price paid by mr As to what the bonus amounted to no official figures are given out but a fair guess as to the amount paid by the rio grando western for the utah central ita franchises and appurtenances places the figures at by its latest acquisition the rio grande western secures a very valuable property the road operated by it self wag not a paying investment bufa under the strong arm of the larger road ita line rights of way and city franchises become trebly valuable the utah central controls red antte emigration and parleys parlays Par lays canyons having rails to each of them the last named being the one through which the main line runs to park city it has city street franchises clear around the city save in the north side a franchise across the fort douglas annl ilary reservation half a block of depot grounds on main and eighth south and chops and yards at sugarhouse Sugar housa ward it has a franchise to lake and a bathing beach which could be developed if conditions conditi ors warranted such a mova it has dixy four miles seven und cars the equipment having been put in excellent shape in the last year of mr mcgregors management the western increases ita lenarth to miles and has its own road into one of the most silver camps in the world in the absence of general superintendent welb no information coald be gleaned as to the future of the extension of the western from provo it is argued however that time will see the extension built for the purpose of securing provo canyon and to make a route from the populous utah valley to heber a connection with the utah central branch and also a line to the wo malice nor spite enquirer correspondence in your baat nights issue I 1 noticed an article headed from malice or spite to which with your permission mr editor 1 would like to reply very briefly to begin with let me say there was no malice or spite in the article describing the cruelty of hebe dark at the time he assaulted his wife with a bottle to which he has already confessed I 1 have libed aa neighbor to hebe dark for years and defy any man to point to the time I 1 have said a word him when he was abber I 1 have no feeling of spite or malice now however I 1 haye no words to recall in saying not only ebe but any man who will curso and abase his wife not once but repeatedly is a brute mr fairplay Tair play says the report was untrue and exaggerated now the only point that was in the least misleading was the assertion that it was a beer bottle my reason for saying so was that bia little girl six years old who came running from the house said on my hearing that pa had hit ma with a beer bottle it now appears that it waa not a beer bott lebut another bottle at all events it cut a gash large enough to be seen from our yard which covered bar face with blood almost as fast as she could wash it off I 1 heard bis vile calling her low and mean names I 1 was not alone but company of a reliable man who is prepared to testify to the same fact any one can guess who mr fairplay is as there Is only one family who are in sympathy with the offender the writer however must nave a short memory as the es city marshal just now informs me that during his term of office he had hebe in custody four times that has been within the last ten years by a lone shot he must think the readers of the enquirer also have short memories aa it has not been long since his name was connected with a case of stealing dried peaches from a store however we do not want to say anything of bebes He bes faults but such writers as fan play bring hem out the public want truth not bulldozing or anyone trying to belittle another because he speaks the truth openly As to the slurs in last nights article I 1 have nothing to say as I 1 do not know to whom they are applied calling my father a little poet doss not lessen his dignity for I 1 am eure he would not use such people as mr tan play as a floor mat 1 do not know that I 1 am losing any sleep over the matter but when any person repeatedly in the presence of witnesses swears with oaths that he will kill me and even flourishes a loaded weapon to emphasize his threats especially a person who nas repeatedly struck the mother of his children public safety demands that he should be called to justice my first article was not mina falone but the voice of the people I 1 am willing to concede that whiskey was the cause of the trouble but it it is left in the barrel it seldom does any harm were it not for the fact that birds of a feather hock together mr fairplay would have held bis place As a correspondent to the enquirer my duty to the public ans to report this case W |