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Show BABCOCKS RETIREMENT. NEW RAILROAD. MOFFATS Denver, Colo., June 25. The building of the tower of Babel after the confusion of tongues took place, was not more clouded by mystery than Mothe construction of the ffat railroad between Denver and Salt Lake. D. H. Moffat himself says he does not know, the route the line will take. lie points mysteriously, toward the setting sun and says: That way. Town site promoters, real estate boomers, honest men and thirty-thirdegree grafters are all anxious to know from Mr. Moffat just where his road is to go. They beg, they plead, they threaten, they cajole, they offer to bribe and levy blackmail, but all to no purpose. Mr. Moffat sits calmly in his bank window clipping coupons and signing his new issue of bank notes. There are some peculiar features connected with the building of the Mcffat road. No provisions are being made in either Denver or Salt This Lake ' for terminal facilities. assergives rise to the tion that the road must necessarily be a part of some system that now enters both cities. Just at present the Burlington road is granting all the so-call- ed THE 80LE OF SALES Pastes tlie high witter murk of oar beet mid biggest trade movement . d Monday Morning June 20th It swinge Into the third' week with added lustre In Its crown, and with greater values than at any previous time since Its Inception. Whatever your plans, you owe It to yourself to protect your pocket In our Incoin- parable sale opportunities. ( 5T8LlSt D . l?E4 oft-repeat- ed INI PAJlt IQ &lk HtVtP UNOCBSQi - mortal eye could not be offended at its sight. No wonder mobs go mad .when they recall the tardiness of Law; no wonder they invoke Law's swifter sister, Justice. .J . r- - But it is lamentable, just the same. For mankind, once it loses sight of the forms and ceremonies which have made civilization, becomes brutish. But in the history- of the last twenty-fiv- e years we have had. but one single, solitary instance of Law taking Justice by the hand and hurrying the guilty one to his end in the manner it should have been brought, to him, and that .was the case of Czolgosz. And had it been any one, save the president of the United States, or other very high official, he had so brutally and cold bloodedly slain, his case would have beeix. pending on appeal yet, and it is a three to one bet some alienists would have been found to pronounce him insane and in the course of a few years he would have been discharged from some, asylum, pronounced cured by the able and efficient physicians in charge of the. benevolent instiution alluded to. - & It is high time that the long suffer-nipeople of this community made a kick on the extravagant prices strawmen restaurant for charged by g berries and cucumbers.. I have in mind a cafe, and it is not the only one by any means, which charged two-bit- s for strawberries and cream along last May, when berries first came in. One would think that when the fruit fell to five cents a box the cafe keepers would give us the advantage of the drop in prices, but they dont. Strawberries are still two-bit- s per order, and there isnt a box in an order, either. Its the same way with cucumbers. A month ago, ere cucumbers were as common as they are now (and you can get two for a nickel any old place), cucumbers were two bits at the cafes, and you didnt get so many of them, either. Now they are so common the Indians can eat them, still Its enough to drive they are two-bita fellow into going home to eat. . s. o After nearly twenty years of service with the Rio Grande system, S. H. Babcock, assistant general traffic manager, has severed his connection by resigning his position. He leaves with the best of feeling existing between him and his superiors, and it is unnecessary to say that if he so another place of equal importance can easily be obtained, with some other company. Between Mr. Babcock and his subordinates the best of feeling has not always existed. ofThrough him several very popular deficials of the freight and passenger partments have lost their heads, Henry, Wadleigh and Heintz being among the number. It was not because of their ability, but for the reason that Babcocks irascibility prevented cordial good feeling existing. Mr. Babcock is a very competent man. There are few better than he. He has traffic matters at his finger ends and knows the alphabet of railroading from a traffic standpoint from front to back, from beginning to end and from the middle both ways and then some. But he isnt as genial an old soul as he might be, were he to cultivate himself. His moods are something fierce, and whenever one of them struck him it was stand from under. Naturally, some men will not stand for everything, and the three men mentioned, with others, quit. In connection with this matter it is stated, on what appears to be very reliable authority, that George W. Heintz will soon come back here as assistant general passenger agent. It will be remembered that he resigned some months ago as the result of a disagreement with Mr. Babcock. It is not generally believed that his coming back with the road de-sire- s, courtesies to the construction department of the new line. The actual building of the Moffat road begins two miles outside of Denver. For the first ten .miles the grade is on a flat prairie country. The next ten miles is in loose rock among' the foothills. The next twenty-fiv- e miles is a marvel of mountain engineering. It will thus be seen that for a distance of forty-fiv- e miles the road is already in course .of construction. Beyond that no man knows anything about its will affect the1 "position, of Colonel probable course unless it is Moffat Benton, whose presence as general agent of the passenger department himself and his chief engineer. will be needed as much as now, no matter what other arrangements are miles of construc- made. The twenty-fiv- e tion in the mountains has. the pecuMr. Babcock and family go to the on Monday for the summer. coast liarity of being built in a straight o line regardless of the topography of THE UTAH STATE GAZETEER the country. An effort is being made to have a straight track regardless of 1903-0the obstacles that may be in the way. Polks State Gazeteer and Business In this twenty-fiv- e miles there are for 1903-0will reveal the thirty-on- e tunnels, which probably Directory of the past three years, and cannot be said of a piece of railroad changes as it is today. the State represent of equal length in the world. It can names of all The business and profesnever be known as a scenic route men sional of every city, town, vilare . going when the passengers and lage settlement, with full descripthrough holes in the side of the moun- tion of each place. Names of shiptain most of the time. It is currently live stock dealers, breeders, pers, reported that contracts for the next 100 miles will be let on the last day grainmen, nurserymen, dairymen and others in the the of June. The big tunnel which is to towns. Also country surrounding complete classified lists pierce the great divide ,is just at the of names under for each purend of the present contracts for con- suit. Above is aheading mere outline of the struction. This tunnel will be two salient features of the work which will and a half miles long, and its altitude be miscellaneous with Informawill be 10,000 feet above the sea level. tionreplete Utah. If you solicit Its estimated cost is $1,250,000, and it trade concerning in Utah, advertise In the Gawill take two years to build it. In zetteer. It' will pay you. If you are the meantime a temporary road will not in trade, order the Gazetteer as a be built over the top of the divide progressive citizen. You can learn for the purpose of getting supplies more state from the Gaabout and material to the western side of zetteer than your can from any other the range. At the present time 2,500 source. It is you a business educator. It men are at work on the grade and the is a family educator. greatest difficulty is experienced in R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers, getting laborers. It seems extremely Salt Lake City. probable that the new road will pass W. P. COOPER. SecV and Mgr. through the Wasatch range someo where in the vicinity of Heber. The Cambrians have decided to o hold their big annual summer outing DONT CHANGE CARS this year on July 16 at Saltair, and it goes without saying that it will be one Aboard at San Francisco off at of the biggest days of the season. The Chicago. Cambrians do all things well , and The new overland service is via time will make a great effort to the Union Pacific and the Chicago. this even surpass themselves. Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. o Three through trains every day. FUNERAL DIRECTOR. . 4. 4, . . . . THE ONLY HOUSE IN UTAH : Devoted Exclus ively to Ladies Misses and Childrens Furnishings : : : Every department is complete. Particular attention is called to our new Millinery and Cloak Departments. They are unsurpassed in point of convenience and economy. The smartest creations of the worlds most prominent design rs find full representat- ion here. 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