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Show I VOL. Ti HE POLITIC-SWords and Work of the Politicians. Frank Knox Republican candidate lor mayor; a f union of the Republican and Democratic partiea In the wants for the election of councilman. Such are the latest developments in the local political situation. lull AR . , - al . Ik ma-Ican- s. Ke-o- . Honoa it is that the other parties, seeing in this fact a grave danger, in fact a condition that only some miracle can overcome, have concluded that a fusion of those parties In the wards is the only solution of an embarrassing problem. Tbe fight can centralise on the heads of the tickets, then by giving one Democrat and one Republican from each ward a place on the ticket, the assumption is that Cm. RayLoiild. John Duhei. the ward fusion ticket will be elected. Third ward; B. F. Johnson, Sam . Barlow. John D. Hagman. 11. A. Rldd. If such move goes through and Fourth ward; A. H. Vogeler, Wal-jte- r the fusion ticket should win it would Lyon. B. F. Caffey, R. J. Ameras follows: council line up the Geo. Whitaker, Charles Bell, Resix .and icans. four; Democrats, J. J. Stewart. a publicans. five. It would make Fifth ward: M. E. Mulvey, Dr. C. mixed combination of politics, but the I. Douglas, Mark Reedall, B. B. Quinn, American to the politicians opposed A. T. Moon, Joseph Oberndorfer, C. in is the way only party figure it M. Rlanehard, A. Fred A. J. Wey, lte can defeated. which thnt party Davis. , . . , j The result of the convention will, Followers of that gentleman claim .it is believed, show the following as that the naming of Frank Knox on the selected candidates: Bransford. mean its would ticket the Republican Alff, mayor; auditor; Moreton, reof defeat success. Ever since the Howard, treasurer; Dlnniny, corder; Mr. Knox two campaigns since, there There la a slight question has been considerable rhange of feel- attorney. con- on Howard for treasurer on account ing in regard to him. and his he of his connection with a bank. Countbat claim backers stituents and cllmen ward, Hobday, Payne; can win both in the convention and Second First Third ward, Carter, Wood; at tbe polls. ward, Johnson, Barlow; Fourth ward, . , Fifth ward, A. J. Otherwise the mayoralty condition Vogeler,A. Whitaker; Fred Wey. Davis, Richard not changed. of affairs has . . .4 P. Morris will undoubtedly lead the Democratic candidates are not very Democrats; J. S. Bransford will also plentiful. R. P. Morris will be named unless something entirely unfore- for The others who are mayor. seen at the present time should arise named as candidates for the probable Americans. be named by the city offices are as follows: For audJ J C. B. Felt; for recorder. John The dates of primaries, ward con- itor, :S. Critchlow; for treasurer, L. H. ventions and city conventions of the (Young; for attorney, Ashby Snow. It as follows: are different parties believed that Mr. Young will reSept. 24; jls Republicans Primaries. the nomination if he wants It. ceive conward conventions. Sept. 27; city las he has been unsuccessful through vention. date not yet fixed. held Sept. 'two campaigns and his friends Democrats Primaries, him entitled to the recognition conventions. ward Sept. 18; city 12; , again. 19. convention. Sept. s For councllmen there are few 16; Americans Primaries. Sept. named. Those so far announced ward conventions. Sept. 18; city con(are: None in the First or Second; F. vention. Sept. 19. S. Fern Strom, A. F. Barnes both of was convention Tha Republican city them innmhents and Perley but 30, for owing A. Hillpresent Sept. originally set in the the present to the Impossibility of the committee councllmen. W. Third; J. Tuddenham and In being able to get a hall for that Union S. Wells, in the Fourth, and day, it will lte fixed at some other none In the Fifth. will and date what place date. Just Jt lie selected has not yet been anas the matter is So far there have been no announced. As soon nouncements made as to Republican settled announcement will be made. aspirants for office. .1 . the of to the proximity Owing Democratic city headquarters will conward and convention American be opened over the Desert National ventions, candidates are springing np immediately after the rity connil over tne city.. To date the fol- jhank vention. American of announcements lowing . . .4 candidates have been made: American have party audiheadquarters S. J. Bransford; For mayor, ibeen opened in rooms 102 to 107 in tor. Rudolph Alff. L. C. Montague, the Atlas Mock, with Chairman J. E. bookkeeper of the Salt I.ake Brewing Darmer and Secretary Frank R. Chrisas himself announced had company, tenson in charge. a candidate, but has withdrawn: for . . for B. treasurer, Moreton; iworder. J. It Is believed that J. U. generally for Bert Raybould; E. O. Howard and 11. (Eldredge. Jr., will be named as city E. J. H. Dlnniny, attorney, city Willard Han(Republican chairman. Uritrhlow, A. J. Weber. son, county attorney and at present First the From councllmenFor the Chairman, will not lie able to ward: A. E. Payne. Thou. Holiday. verve again owing to the amount nf McKellar. J. Crabtree. Angus t work accumulating in his office. Mr. Wright Pickering. ia now in the northwest. but Second ward: L. D. Wood. A. R. (Eldredge Ho- 'on his return the matter will be W. Thomas Hall. Eber Carter. on Page 4.) mer Geo. Williams. U M. Blackmarr, Glen-dinnin- g, I as-th- GREATER UTAH. Its Cities and Towns Ogden, The Railroad Key. I I I i being scarcely known; the winters genial, and the summers exempt from the excessive heat characteristic of this season further east or west. The culture and refinement of Its people Is a logical result of excellent schools, academies and public in stitutions for the teaehlng of all classical, artistic, business and industrial learning, which are today under the direction of some of the most eminent Instructors In the west. Its public school system Is excellent and many private schools are equal to any In the country. Ogden Is situated at the Junction of the Ogden and Weber rivers, and has five great railways, with others headed its way. It is the railroad and commercial center of the west. Elevation, 4,301 feet. Population, 33.000. Death rate, 13 to 1,000. Twelve rhurchcs and one Mormon tabernacle. Five beautifully improved parks. One Masonic temple. One Federal building. Two medicinal and thermal springs, located upon street car lines and Just outside of the city limits, rising out of the base of the Wasatch mountains. The springs are Improved by large hohouses. tels, sanitariums aud hath These springs isissess remedial virtues of the highest order, and have effected many phenomenal cures, the curative properties of the water being equal to Arkansas Hot that of the world-fameSprings. One brewery. Nlneleen canning factories. One artificial ic plant. One led sugar factory and refinery. One ore sampler and smelter. One opera house, seating capacity, Inter-mounta- I per-json- Matters Pertinent and Impertinent Red Theatorlum (315 South Main), Moving pictures. Model Theatre (319 E. 2nd 8outl. Moving pictures. Orpheum (State street, below 1st South), Vaudeville, 25 rents to $1. Salt iJike Theatre (First South anti State), Eastern suer esses, 25 cents, up. Grand ( Second South, east of State), Melodrama, 25 to 75 rents. Lyric tMain. below 3rd South), Vaudeville, 10, 20 30 rents. Electric Theatre (264 S. State), Moving pictures, 10 cents. Family Theatre (West Temple, below 1st So). Moving Pictures, 10 cents. Nlckletideon (Main, between 1st tnd 2nd So). Moving Pictures, 5 cents. o How much ltmger does the street railway company propse to manipulate the street to Its own purposes? Its Improvements are good things and all (Continued on page 4.) One sewer pipe and tile factory. Fifteen hotels. Two telephone systems. One electric light system. One gas plant. One cracker factory. Twenty-fiv- e jobbing houses. . Three steam lauudries. Five flour mills. Five randy factories. Three broom factories. Twelve brlrkysrds. One salt plant.. .... Five electric wood planing mills. Two pickle and vinegar factories. Two foundries. One mattress factory. Three machine shoita. miles of street railroad. Twenty-onFive lumber yards. One hospital. -' WA e FgaiiizdTlons. Excellent fire and police detriments, amj all the adjuncta and for running a city much larger In size. It material strength Is derived from the railroad shops and factories, largely supplemented by the agricultural, mining and live slock Interest. Excellent school system, well attended, well equipped, aijtl High school with four' years course, anil two years commercial training. All desirable business and residence properties are occupied, and from 100 to 200 six and eight-roocottage could be rented at once. No business failures of any note. City Is having a healthy, substantial growth. Business blocks are principally brick structures, with plate glass fronts, and itosseHslng many modern conveniences. City is most attractively located, with broad sidewalks and wide and para-phenal- la first-clas- j be-jlle- PASSING C0MMEN- T- Amusements. There are a number of trusts now operating in this city, in ad- .mut have food, they must have coal for heat. Depriving people of hese necessities may mean dition to the Butchers and Grocers. Among them are: Costing human life. (.an Salt Lake City afford to take chances on having its people ; Wholesale produce dealers. suffer for lack of warmth just liecause a few scllish men have set Wholesale meat dealers. such a high price on coal that the poor cannot afford to Wholesale grocery houses. buy? Must prople suffer from hunger because a few men in their Butter trust. greed and with a desire to mb the people of all they can, have put Lumber dealers. pyiecs up until the jmor man can hardly exist any longer? Wall paper dealers. San I'rancisco is known for having terribly high prices. A Electrical houses. gentleman just relumed from that city says that Salt Lake prices Druggists. are higher than San Francisco's. Paint and glass firms. Butte, Mont., is known as a "union town." Wages there are Real Estate association. much higher than they are here, and there are few necessities raised Coal dealers. there, nearly all the commodities being shipped from adjoining And others. states and cities, some even front Utah and this city. Yet Butte nf be these Any organizations that conflict with the law should prices arc cheaper than Salt Lake's. investigated at the coining sitting of the grand jury. What is the matter? Is it that the people of this city can live The wholesale produce dealers meet every Saturday, at which on less, or is it because it is "Easy town?" time they adjust and fix the priccss of all those goods in which The grand jury lias been called by the four district judges, it they deal. This includes fruits, vegetables, jMHiltry, oysters, etc. will sit some time in October. The time between now and then Asking quotations from the wholesale grocery houses demon- will be devoted by the officers of the law to securing evidence to strates the fact that they have a uniform scale of prices. They stop all these illicit combinations which exist only for the controllhave passed a rule demanding settlement from the retailer each ing of prices and the mulcting of the poor. Let every citizen who knows anything of any of these matters Monday. If accounts are not settled they will sell that dealer that I is owing them no more goods after Monday has passed, until the Breeden, whose offices give their proof to either Attorney-Generaccount is paid. in E. the Walker District or I). block, jre Attorney Frederick C. The wholesale meat dealers have set an arbitrary and prohib- Mooflxiurow. whose offices are in the Commercial block. itive price on meats in Salt Lake City. These officers of the law need your assistance and effort. If AH lumber dealers give the same quotations. are' interested in this movement, which means cheaper prices, Electrical houses the same. 'the breaking up of these unlawful combinations, and lower rents, The same condition exists with the paint and glass houses. sd which will permit of Salt Lake acquiring more citizens who If one coal firm raises the price of coal, all the firms follow Wjllnot be afraid to settle here on account of high prices, do all you suit, this regardless of the cost of coal to themselves. Some dealers cii'n, ..Keep your eyes open: note everything tbat indicates to you in the city have raised the retail price of coal, although they arc tjfe jyactices now indulged in. then lay vour information before the , getting it from the mines for the same price tliev did liefore. IS The Real Estate association has fixed prices on con'inn'ssi1si,crgiislstaWe?l7he"figFit: ft has been fertrfesV'ifr loans, ami have an understanding with one another in other lines. Tin-- people are aroused: the law has been invoked; the machinery and in many cases a uniform rate on rents. of the law lias been set in motion, and the result will be the repudi- Not one of these organizations, if they are acting in good ation of people who are crushing the poor, faith, will object to giving heed to the demands of the people, and The Argus turns the fight over to tbe state officials, witb e requirements of the law. suranccs that it will give whatever assistance is needed in helping Some of tlu-control the very necessities of life. 1 lie people them calling a halt on these practices it lias so fearlessly exposed. But there is a condition that requires concerted action to overcome, .and that is in tbe fart that there will be four American and one Democratic holdover in th council; the Americana being Martin from the First; O'Donnel from the Second; Ferry from the Fourth and Black from the Fifth, while Holley, a Democrat, will be a holdover from the Third. Therefore, the Americans will have before election four members of the council The First, Second and Fifth They wards are their strongholds. claim they will elect their men from these wards. They claim they can elect four more Americans to the council, thus giving that party a f four; Democrats, six. and NO. 31 15, 1907. Investigated and Exposed. Ever since early summer there has been talk of fusion between the There and Democrats. Republicans have been many followers for and against the move, those who were opposed to the movement finally winning. But, it seems, there has been a string to their chortles of triumph. While those who opposed fuBion saw in the move a great danger of creating an actual condition of Mormon those who favored and it claimed that anything was legitimate that would permit of wiping the Americans off the face of the earth, without even leaving them any clouds to hang to. It was for the very reason that it was not desired to create a n that feeling of pro and the move was killed, as It was believed It would be better to light the question out on strict party lines. j 1 SALT IiAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER LOCAL fifteen. 1 US up to mm jury. Food and Other Local Trusts to be II j MIV UNION OGDEN. DEPOT. cultivated country seats, many of them devoted to fruit growing in almost end- The story of the conception, birth less variety. and growth of Ogden, the "Queen No city in the northwest can show City of the Mountains, Is so intricate- i stronger financial standing than can Ogden. The banka of the city show ly associated with the history of Utah s stronger and more established posithat it is difficult to determine where tion the line of demarkation begins or ends. of thethan any other city in that section country. A sum of over $6,000,-M'9.0- 0 The city of Ogden Is delightfully is shown to be on deposit in the situated. Bounded on the one side by five banks of the city, and each Instituthe Wasatch mountains, and on the tion retains the utmost confidence, not other side by the Weber river, the par only of the citizens, but all over the allclogram thus described, crowded country. with the highest order of Improv.Su. Five vaudeville theatres. position ements, including massive buildings, in Ogdens splendid railroad One water works system, with exwhich the din of honest toil is hrard. lives her an inestimable location for anufacturers of water fresh from mountain cellent with commercial every description. centers, private residences, the homes of wealth, in- The delicious climate for whirh Utah snows. telligence and liberality; with gardens, ii noted is a part of the daily life of One public library, donated by Anresorts and other sources of prosperity Ogden. Pulmonary diseases are im drew Carnegie, 6,000 volumes. and and content, completing a picture of ,adlately relieved, and in a majority of Three dallies, one felicity and exquisite perfection rival- Instances permanently cured. Humid two weekH newspapers. Five banks, with over $15,000,000 de- ing the masterpieces of artists who Itf in the atmosphere Is never perceptouched but to beautify, while In the tible; the weather is equable, extremes K)MitS. distance can le seen waters of the Great Bait Lake sparkling in the sunlight. Exceptional care has been exercised In the laying out of the city to afford unsurpassed drainage and sanitary facilities, and all modern equipments and appliances, such as water works, gas works, electric light plant, union made electric street cars, etc., provided. The Smoke "Baltimore" public buildings are models of archcigars. For sale everywhere. itectural superiority, while the private residences are designed to supply the comforts of a home Imb-cd- , as also to exemplify the most recent developments of artistic excellence. The landscape surrounding the city Is ihrtted with beautifully arranged and higbly level streets. Beat of State School for Deaf. Dumb and Blind, with about 100 pupil. Seat of State Industrial school, attendance almut fifty. The Weber Stake Academy, also the Sacred Heart Academy are located here, the two having an attendance of nearly a thousand pupils. 1 semi-weekl- y OGDEN CANYON. Ogden Is justly proud of her mountain retreats, rhief among which i The the Ogden canyon. Ismlevnrd through this canyon hugs the mountain side along the Ogden river banks some ten mile. Electric street car leave the Union depot every fifteen mimites for the many resorts along this ennvon. where camping, hunting, fishing, heating and mav be other outdoor amusement found. The hotel famish every luxury. while the magnificent cafes are famed tbe count rv over for the trout and chicken dinners. |