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Show 5 TUB HliH. Commenting on the attempted suicide of John Anderson, of Ogden, the News says: He has always been a steady, well behaved boy, not addicted to drink and generally free from bad habits, and no other cause can be as" signed now for his act of despondency According to the Park Record, there is a gang of thieves in that vicinity which for boldness take the cake. Recently they visited a slaughterhouse, drove a steer inside, killed and dressed it and, leaving the hide and head, took the meat away in a wagon. The Tribune and the News are now May it not be that National commit- engaged in a wordy war over a para- teeman ienry C. Paine of Wisconsin phrased construction of the old ques- anticipates too soon. He has taken tion: Which is the mother of the home a prediction that the next conchicken; the hen that laid the egg or gress ( Republican) will enact the gold the hen that hatched it?" And as pens standard idea into a law perpetual. Mr. lly over paper and expressions follow Paine has probably forgotten the platexpressions the public will no doubt gel form adopted at St. Louis in 1.896, or new lights on birth certificates. does he think that platform too rotten to longer stand upon? The whole What good does it do to agitate thing is paineful. 1 this question of polygamy any way? Why print tables of children born to two mothers by the same father within If any a few weeks of each other. (?) one is violating the law why do the officers of the law neglect their duties and decline to prosecute? Stop this rag chewing and get down to business. No danger of Marcus Aurelius Hanna retiring from the chairmanship of the Republican national committee. Mark has a good thing and he knows it. There are too many people who would like to trade places with him. The laws of this state should be changed so that Japanese and Caucasians can marry. From reading the So about 30,000 men are to be thrown morning papers it seems that a white is carThe laugh on some of the out of work by the Colorado smelter girl and a Jap had to go to Fvanston to wed. Asa matter of fact the offspring toonists. They have been picturing trust, eh? When will the people learn of Japs and whites are very good peo- General Henderson, the speaker to be, to get just as smart as the few indivias a sound man; a bicycle rider and all duals who form trusts? It is simply a ple, although the results of unions between Chinamen and whites, or vice that sort of thing, when as a matter of case of the smart few taking advantage also of the versa, are tough. When will the legis- fact he has a wooden leg. He stupid many. a crutch. with walks tumble. lators of the country take a Secretary of the Treasury Gage is The Ogden Press now makes its already figuring on a deficiency of The Tribune and Mcilerald are at While it has as a daily. it again. It seems The Mcilerald got appearance $100,000,000 for the fiscal year. Will no telegraphic franchise it is hoping for Mr. Gage run his Chicago banks on the an advertisement from Chicago, setting one and will doubtless succeed in get- same principles as the national excheforth the merits of a certain it. not having any one to blow ting quer is run? We think he had better start in to gage things closer. a horn for it, blew its own vigorously, is made the announcement Again alleging it was selected because it was that Speaker Reed has not resigned. such a bright advertisinginedium. Now This will relieve the tension on the pubWhat does the News expect? It says comes the Tribune and asserts it was lic mind. lynching does not prevent assaults. encyclo-pediaan- d, offered the same chance and declined it, and that the News was barred for obvious reasons, hence the McHerald had to be selected. And such is fate. The Bee has given the organ of Democracy part of its own and part of its owners name; it is called the Mc- Herald. Provo 1: uq uirer. The Liquid Air trust is the latest to be formed. By and by the other trust will doubtless come in for organization. The beer trust is also on the tapis torn up. It seems Governor Bradley went in a saloon after hours and got something wet. He was indicted for buying wet goods after io oclock. He pleads that it was lemonade he bought and now all the Kentucky is all shaking with indignation because he drank such weak stuff. Bradley had better not run for renomination. state is Another Gas Company is the way a morning newspaper announces it in the headlines. Great Scott! Can it be possible this city is to have other council ? an- John Stubbs delivered his farewell address, Ten years in Zion among Saints and Sinners last week, and will start for Canada at once. Hail and Farewell. The menu card used on the new dining car service recently inaugurated on the Rio Grande Western is enough to make a man hungry all over. The passenger department is to be congratulated on the new venture. As the details of the awful destruction of human life by the New Richmond, Wis. cyclone we in Salt Lake City, by comparing our favorable condition with the hazardous sort of living middle west, find in the wind-swemuch for which to be thankful. pt s The outing of the newsboys at park was highly successful and, as was anticipated, the future magnates of our nation had an all around good time. The city can not too well appreciate its newsboy. That little fellow by learning to rustle for himself early in life is bound to become more than a Cal-der- mere bread-winne- r. Would it have an offender lynched fore he committed the assault? be- Daly will now leave to W. A. Clarke a clear field in Montana, he having sold out his copper interestand sharing some S23, 000,000 with J. B. Haggin and Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco and the Standard Oil people, headed by Rockefeller, getting the With splendid Anaconda properties. the passing of Daly from the state he did so much to build up Montana will lose its foremost promoter. This is the general opinion of the west, though Mr. Clarke will not concur with it, of course. M arcus When the county board starts out to compel the local smelter combine to stand a raise of $1,000,000 in its assessed valuation, the board should remember that this little matter is a straight busiway the ness proposition. The-onlpublic can ever get back at any trust is to make it pay its full measure of taxes. The trust does not show any mercy when it deals with the people individually; they should not show any to it when they deal with it collectively. Ask Jones if this be not the exact situation. Business is business, isnt it Mr. Jones? y |