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Show TRUTHS. Tho city administration mado a great- fuss about stopping gambling in tho city of Salt Lake and claims that it has done so. It would ho a good thing if its representations wcro true. Three city officials, however, wcro seen within ' a very few days engaged with somo other people In a fairly stiff gamo of poker. Reform like charity should begin at home. It may, however, bo that gambling is a good or at least a profitable past time for city 0lllclal3, but if they can't bo good themselves tho authorities evidently think othei people should be good. St. Patrick tho anniversary of whose birth was recently celebrated not only in Salt Lako City, but all over the civilized world, according to the legend, drove tho snakes that Infested Ireland into tho sea. If St. Patrick would como to Salt Lako ht could find work of tho samo kind as he Is reputed to have done in Iro-land. Iro-land. There aro lots of human snakes holding ofllco In this municipality. Truth could furnish tho Saint tho names of a few which tho community would ho vastly bettor without. Nearly five years ago Truth advocated advo-cated the election or appointment of women as members of tho Board of Education. Wo don't mean to say that tho Board should bo entirely composed com-posed of women to tho exclusion of men, but wo do say that a few sensible, sensi-ble, educated and refined women, liko Mrs. McVIckor, for instance, on tho Board of Education would bo an advantage ad-vantage to tho schools of tho city. In Utah women havo been elected to political offices for which they wore entirely unsultcd, but nono havo over beon on tho Board of Education, a place to which women aro especially adapted. City Food Inspector Frazler Is ma-Ing ma-Ing a "holy show" of himself. Ho appears ap-pears to bo a bclllcoso individual, but without achieving any victories. Ho mado an idiotic fight on Postmaster Thomas and Postofllco Inspector Sharp and only achieved the notoriety which belongs to tho fool. After his failuro to accomplish anything against tho postofllco officials ho turned his attention to somo men whose business is tho breeding and fattening of hogs, claiming that thoso men sold diseased animals for human food, but after an H oxhaustlvo Investigation and a trial iH in court tho charges were dismissed IH and tho only thing that was cstab- HJ llshcd was that Mr. Frazler was a fool H with a prefix. This was not enough, H however, for tho valient Don Quixote H Frazler noxt attacked tho stock. HJ yards company and succeeded in HJ maintaining his previously acquired H reputation with tho added forco of two H prefixes. Frazler hasn't any moro . HJ sonso than his backer, tho Salt Lako' H Tribune. That's a pretty hard thing, H to say about anybody. H St. Patrick's Day entertainments HJ for the benefit of St. Ann's Orphanage H have becomo an established instltu- HJ tion in Salt Lako and their history H presents an unbroken record of sue- HJ cess. Tho lato ono was" no exception. H to tho rule, In fact, it was probably H tho best. The thcatro was crowded H in every part and tho performance was HJ instructive, interesting nnd amusing. H As usual, Miss Norn Glcason wns tho manager, stago manager, prompter HJ and general factotum. For a long time H sho had trained tho children who took H part In tho musical and dancing parts H and must havo put In many hours of H hard and patient work to obtain tho H degreo of proficiency shown by tho HJ llttlo ones. HJ ! H Tho April semi annual conference HJ of tho Mormon church will open ' In HJ Salt Lako on Friday, April C, at 10 H o'clock in "the morning. " ' HJ & HJ Tho Clayton Music company has In- H stltuted a word contest in which pin- H nos and other prizes to tho value of H $10,000 will bo given away to thoso H who send in tho largest list of cor- H rect words mado from tho letters H In tho words "Tho Kimball Piano." H See tho advertisement in this papot and cut out tho coupon from Truth. HJ Charles II. McGurrln of Kalama- H zoo, Mich., brother of F. E., Edward 'H and F. T. McGurrln of Salt Lake,' still H holds tho championship for fast type- U writing. For years he has led In HJ every contest in which ho engaged H ind a few days ago camo out first in HJ a contest in Chicago, H Tho coarse and savage attack of tho H Tribune upon V. S. Peet, tho real es- I tato man, shows conclusively that HJ Peet Is worrying tho Trlbuno a good I leal. Tho idea of men encumbered HJ with the characters of Furious J. Can- H non and ox-Senator Kearns assaulting H l tho character or Btandlng of anybody I is very absurd. It might not bo out i of place to remark that Mr. Pcct was : never in Jail, Mr. Poet novcr murdered 1 anybody, Mr. Poet nover made a mur- I H, derous assault upon anybody, Mr. ' Hi Pcet is not a libertine, Mr. Pcct Is not n drunkard, Mr. Pcct is not a "dope" llond. Mr. Cannon and Mr. Kcarns should mako a noto of thoso facts. Mr. Pcct is a good citizen. Ho Is HJ In the real estate business, not tho Hj kind of real estate business whero a H man stays at homo and makes a com- mission by soiling city lots for one rcsldont to another. Pcct sells land for railroad companies, canal com-panics com-panics and others to pcoplo who set-tlo set-tlo on it, cultivate it nnd raiso wheat H! and oats and beets and fruit and H' cabbages and turnips nnd carrots and Hj cattlo and horses and add to tho H- wealth of tho country. Pcct goes Hj among tho thickly settled country of tho cast and finds that desirable class H, of immigrants nnd brings them to H' Utah. Pcct Is building up tho stato whilo the Tribune is trying to tear it down. Pcct finds that tho slnndcrs and lies of tho Tribune, Mr. Kcnrns, Mr. Cannon and Mr. Dubois about Utah interferes with his work and In-Jurcs In-Jurcs his business in common with tho business of ovcry business man in tho state. Thcso slanders provent de-slrablo de-slrablo settlers and capitalists from coming to Utah and Pcet resents the injury thus dono to his business. That's why ho "wont after" Dubois and for no other reason. Ho Is not out on Mormon church affairs or any other church affairs. He's out for business for himself. That's all. For four days tho Telegram has been engaged in building a railroad from Salt Lako to Ely, Nevada. It is expected tho new road will bo fully equipped and in good running order by the end of next week. Tho long lost Charllo Ross is at last found, if tho paragraph that fol-lows fol-lows Indicates anything. Cancel all rowards and let tho memory of tho past tako a fresh breath. Wo know all tho timo that Charllo was alive, but didn't know Just whero to locato him until now. H, "Clin.l"s Ross, a retired hardware Hi dealer, was arrested at Milwaukee Hl charged with stealing $20,000 worth of gas In tho paBt seven years by tap-ping tap-ping tho Mllwaukco Qas Light com-pany's com-pany's mains. Ross owns a largo apartment building. It Is alleged tho building was heated by stolen gas." H' It's a neck and neck raco between D. M. Huigh and S. L. Richards for tho position of city attorney of Mur- Hj ray, with tho chances apparently Bllghtly in favor of tho former. Tho real estate men according to tho dally papers, have started in for tho stcenth timo to advertise tho city. Wo hopo they will succeed. Moro power to their efforts. It looks as if tho Utah Gas and Coko company, which was recently granted a gas franchise by tho city, means business. Tho company is about to begin work laying G4 miles of pipo for a starter. Salt Lako Is growing in splto of tho knockers. Congratulations to D. S. Taggert on his promotion to tho important post-tlon post-tlon of district freight and passonger agent for tho Harrlman lines at Reno, Nov. Mr. Taggert is ono of the best liked railroad men in this section of tho land. His fellow railroad men and tho public generally aro pleased by his advancement. Tho American Institute of Archae-H' Archae-H' ology, Utah Section, is taking on now vigor. Prorfessor Dwlght Carroll of tho Georgo Washington university s hero In tho Interest of tho i issoclntlon. It is hoped by tho i members that men of influence will ; bo Induced to tako an Interest In tho Institute nnd help it along. Mathonl-liah Mathonl-liah Thomas is tho president of tho Utah Section and Byron Cummings iff the secretary. |
