| Show NOTES if SALT LAKE had received what she needs most she would have found a coal railroad in the toe of her bar stock ing it to is not too late to offer it as a new years year Is present to force upwards the value of half a dollar is in patriotism I 1 but what is forcing down the vai value ue of a dollar cant you give us something descriptive of that performance in one boru thim SILVER Vint dollar is abw now actually Y worth sixty four cents but the silver columbian coins valued at fifty cents are selling belting like hot cakes for a dollar this shows what patriotism and chicago genius can accomplish when in combination boston herald hereabout got something in ID their stockings during the holiday season those who received nothing else got the warmest and dry est eat feet they have had at a corresponding time for lo 10 these many years I 1 tim THE PAPERS are still burdened with the crisp incident the dispatches are a little further advanced they let go of it a week ago and returned to their wonted practice of giving us detailed gossip regarding big and little prize fighters THE SAN BAN Chron chronicle folo of forty four pages and the rocky mountain denver of thirty six all crowded to the margin with especially interesting and valuable in formation are chief among the now new years issues to reach the exchange table now COMES the logan journal with a christmas number finely printed anaf backed and containing 52 large pages g of historical and tie descriptive matter the journals issuers issue is abreast of the times in all essential respects it Is equal to any we have seen if a story that comes in a michigan paper laports is true detroit offers a horrible warning to the country the therla theria epidemic among the school children there has been traced to the fact that they exchange lead pencils all of them being dropped into one box at the end of each sep sension sion the average child of course puts a pencil into his mouth at least fifty times a day AN EXCHANGE says le jle caron is so well pleased with the success of his bis book I 1 the reminiscences of a spy 29 for the manuscript of which he be received that he proposes to start a weekly political paper in london which goes to show that some men dont know when they are well off A newspaper in london will absorb that as sand does water and then le caron may learn that lightning strike twice in the same place THE READER of chicago newspapers can get the christmas doings of that town in all colors colom the mail abail which on the occasion of the worlds fair dedicatory exercises came out with terra cotta paper repeats the experiment tor for christmas while the dispatch not yet three months old but already one of the best beat and brightest in the land arrays itself in a garb of delicate shrimp pink and points to itself as i ert and saucy A WRITER in yesterdays yesterday Is tribune une casting a look backward twenty five years and quoting from and commenting upon items appearing in the NEWS of that date observes the rate of taxation then was ode half of one per 0 cent now it is five mills on the dorl dollar 11 it to is certainly an evidence of weak ness that in noting so miraculous in an advancement he be should have restricted himself to but one exclamation point I 1 MR JOHN JAMES 1140 ALLS noted though throughout out the length and breadth of the land as a statesman out of a job and a hornet bornet tongued expounder of his own peculiar views has bas been heard from once more in an article on the presidential contest he speaks of the successful candidate as an anglo saxon in fiber and neither a timeserver a trimmer nor a poltroon 29 which is no more like mr ingalls say on that subject from his place in the senate than the fourth of july is like christmas SAYS THE rhe philadelphia press garza the gay and festive bandit ol of the mexican border appears th tb have resumed business at the old stand and at last accounts was terrorizing people on both sides of the frontier in his own cheerful and energetic style it if there were no danger that our standing army might get lost in the venture we should suggest that the government send it down there to eliminate mr garza we were on the verge of suggesting that our own police force be given a show abow at overhauling the mexican terror but as we dont want to lose them altogether will not prof press the matter THE tribune seeks to make merry over the sundial sun dial editorial in yesterdays NEWS saying that the one who depended upon it to catch a train would be twenty sight eight minutes late and concluding with the usual irrelevant reflection it was not out of our mind that there is that amount of dif difference ferenee between solar polar or real time to which reference was made in these columns and standard or arbitrary time supposing that all educated people or even those who read the papers also understood the difference named and would make the necessary deduction we did not take the trouble to make it plain it is not necessary now in the case of NEWS readers besides the noon train start till any way so no one would need to be very badly left A shooting scraper occurred cured oc over in chinatown saturday night last be tween two he athens says the park city record sam lee head cok ciok at ag the park city hotel and jim waw wan played a high rolling game of fan faa tw and jim lost loaf A wrangle I 1 over the game which culminated in fl fi ht bt during the melee a shot waw fired bred from a revolver in the hands or oft sam barn lee jlee and the bullet struck jim wah both men were placed under arrest but bat jim was so BO badly injured that he could not be moved sam lew was placed la in jail until tuesday morn ing when he was admitted to ball lathe sum of 1000 to await the result of jims injuries THE sart LAKE tribunes now new years number consists of thirty two pages the same size as aa the regular regu ier 1 edition the extra space being devote devo tedi almost wholly to carefully collated oOl and correctly printed statistics relating principally to this territory A goodly mention however is made of each ot the immediately surrounding ataleg abate giving the publication a widespread wide spread local field and thus imparting to it their leading features of a gazetteer gaze teer of tha west A really creditable feature lq is the attention bestowed upon the local schools and school buildings the latter i being accurately and artistically artistic 41 pictured the mining interest of the territory receives its usual ample at leation tea tion the articles are high class i n 10 character and altogether the num number be 1 deserves deserve as it receives the high encomiums A telegram from boise city states that interest in the diamond insl austry does not abate there is in much skepticism about the matter amid many reasons for being cautious exists there is much very good eevi eat C denoe dence that the stones found are ref diamonds also much evidence ahk they exist in large quantities but so beof many discrepancies appear in stones that cautious people are inclined to reserve judgment ina in a very shorty shop time the existing doubt will be re jj moved one way or the other for manyol mareyo mk parties are visiting the fields and tharo chiki stones are being sent away for or elaml j r nation by persons who have no object in deceiving anyone A boise reala estate firm have brought an elpe from the east to make an exa examinational and he be has left for the fields for two weeks past the plant of th l crested butte light and water ooin co pany colorado has been shut dowd dow and for the same period the town han h been in darkness for some malater my ous reason the ilie flow of water r su denly ceased and the power belaj bet withdrawn the electric lights wen welk out A force of men has been at wort wor digging diggin if up the pipes and the geue genearh supposition was that the cause of th lb stoppage of the flow of water was due to too ice in the pipes the cau however has been discovered by th tb workmen some malicious person h stuffed with rubbish the pipes th tb feed the reservoir completely off the supply of water and rendert render the electric plant valueless for the ti being the citizens of the town a indignant and the company wt v prosecute the guilty party if he found to the lull full extent of the law 4 |
