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Utah. 1 THIS report of the Commercial club on the water situation in Sait Lake week. This is practical Christianity, and the Army is deserving of all credit. To visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan is among the highest acts of mankind, and all of them should be practiced more. More power to the Salvation Army. For there is more joy in heaven over the bestowing of one warm suit of clothes and a sound pair of shoes upon a shivering, barefooted boy than over the dropping of ninety and nine twenty dollar gold pieces into the box containing the pastors salary. OMAHA and other points along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers have been having some very cold and wintry weather. In the meantime light- weight underwear and spring overcoats are still in good demand in this section of country. There may be better climates than Utahs, but if so they do not advertise them. colleges. ANOTHER short line from Denver to Salt Lake City is announced. If this keeps up it will be possible for us to run over to Denver for lunch every day and our restaurant men will suffer as a result. and the plans proposed for increasing the supply are very good in the main, In fat the plan is the only thorough one for giving the city an ample water GERMANY denied having landed supply, but it will cost a good deal any marines at Puerto Cabello, but of money. The preposition to pay PERHAPS when his term expires the kodak man was there with his for the improvements by the issue of bonds to be repaid by revenues from Senator Kearns can remove to Idaho snapping box, and proved the asser the system is a sound business plan, and be sent from that state to Wash- tion to be untrue. It is hard to outbut even if this plan is adopted it ington. A Tribune special gives him talk a photograph. will necessitate a . permanent raise credit for establishing rural delivery PETE was boasting MEXICAN Payette. in the tax levy of at least 2 mills.' At routes ni Boise, Caldwell, Nez Perce, Moscow, Weiser, and about standing before Jeffries four present the revenue from the waterworks amounts to about $60,000 a Genesee. The senator is indeed a rounds a fewr days ago, hut Wednesman according to the Tribune. day night four drinks put him to the year, which goes into the citys cof- great bad that a policeman had to take fers. If this revenue is diverted to a It is stated by friends of Reed charge of him. bond fund the citys general funds Smoot that if elected United States will be short to that extent, and as it senator he will appoint a Utah man IN sentencing William Brown, the is impossible to run the municipal government on less revenue than at his private secretary. This will be murderer of Gee Jam of Ogden, to present a raise of at least 2 mills in going Senator Kearns six better. The forty years in the state prison at taxation would be inevitable. That latter has two secretaries and four hard labor. Judge Rolapp did not give him a minute too much. plan is all right and in the main clerks, all from Washington. should be adopted, but the citizens should be fully informed that they will have to pay the piper. The provision for the appointment of a water commissioner to handle the water system and improvement is wise and prudent. It has been suggested that The Oldest Music House in. Vtah. the commission should consist of five members, two to be named by the mayor,, two by the city council and one by the governor. We have been in business 40 and still retain D. IT looks to a casual observer, that the anonymous member of the Ministerial association who speaks so freely through the columns of the Telegram anent Reed Smoot, should give his name, so that we may know who it is that is advancing the arguments. This fighting a man in that fashion is too much like these letters we see every once in a while signed Pro Bono Publico, or the well known citizen so freely quoted about election time. well-mad- e, years We offer, you hon reliable goods, at honest prices and easy terms. THE STEINWAY, THE MASON HAMLIN, Standard of the World. Sweetness and Purity f Tone. THE KIMBALL, - THE Salvation Army distributed about a thousand pieces of underwear And clothing among poor children this 0. CaJders Sons Co. the confidence of our patrons. est, Ever Reliable and Satisfactory. The Lea.dii D. ry Sale! r Big WE hope that Marconis statement that he will transmit words for one cent at the rate of 200 per minute, is true ,and that wireless telegraphy will supplant the present system, which charges customers toll for DAVID THOMPSON, of Montana, breathing the air of the office while prospected one neighborhood for sev- inditing the message. enteen years, and a day or two ago found an exceedingly rich ledge. He THE price of oil has been increased died ten minutes later, a clot on the by the Standard Oil people one cent brain resulting from an excess of joy per gallon. This does not mean a at the discovery causing the same. The large increase in ones living expenses, poor man is perhaps better off. He but it adds $8,000,000 per annum to is saved all the litigation which now Rockefellers dividends. Perhaps the attaches to mining on a large scale. old man is preparing to endow a few IF the loss of the records of a conviction for murder is sufficient to release one condemned to death, as stated by a morning paper, then in future, in order to escape infliction of the death penalty, all the convict will have to do will be to instruct his attorney to steal the files in the case. What a silly proposition. Pre-lovepto- The People's Favorite. Music Dealers. 0. CaJders Sons Co. Money-Savin- g Opportunity. Mens Suits, $10 .to $13.50, choice.. . Mens Suits, $15 Mens Suits, 918 to $18.00, choice 11.75 to 927.50, choice 14.75 MENS SHIRTS All Shirts 91.25 to $1.75 values, choice. 95 CENTS The Early Buyers will get the PLUMS. &rau co... ...rowe CLOTHIERS. 132 MAIN STREET. GEORGE A. LOWE. 1 Were it not for the fact that infinite wisdom is greater than finite we might question the motive for calling George A. Lowe home at this time, for, although well on toward the three score and ten usually presumed to be man's allotment, his life had been such as to warrant his friends in believing that many years of usefulness were yet before him. There are dozens of derelicts floating at random on thie sea of life here in Salt Lake City which could have sank into the darkness without creating a ripple on the surface of the waters, while the passing of this one man brings sorrow to hundreds of hearts and checks for a time many enterprises of a more or less public nature. Mr. Lowes life has been a busy one and he has been a leading factor in many of the business undertakings which have made this city and state great. His personality was most pleasant and his private character as near blameless as it te possible for mans to lie. He was almost universally esteemed and had fewer enemies than any man in the city and perhaps none at all. To the bereaved family and friends this paper extends its sincere sympathy. o- $ THE Provo Enquirer regards the disposition of the Venezuelan trouble, as a diplomatic triumph. We think there is enough Missouri blood in Castro to cause him to say show DORA MEEK, of Oentralia, 111., has been asleep for over one hundred days. She ought to- be thoroughly rested by this time, - i'WVWAAAAAAAr $ 7.75 |