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Show THE CITIZEN 4 SUMMER RATES Tourists have been given an unlooked for opportunity to visit all points of interest in California because of the cheap summer rate of $40 for the round trip from this city to San Francisco, Los The Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce has requested the state board of equalization to investigate the alleged inequality in assessing property throughout the state. Salt Lake county appears to be the goat and furnishes the bulk of the money to run the state. Former Governor Spry is in the city to take a much needed rest and is stopping at the Hotel Utah. Spry is glad to be home among his life long friends. City Dads have been warned by Auditor Keddington to pull in the reins on expenditures. Keddington appears to forget that this is election year and we need big payrolls for the city campaign machine. This is a heavy bill the taxpayers are forced to meet, but we must have elections and we must have officials. Picturesque Lake Tahoe, internationally known as famous summer resort. cellent trout fishing and beautiful mountain scenery. Ex- Angeles and return. The rate is now on and is good until October 31. Stop overs are allowed at all points, going or coming, and side trips can be made at reasonable rates. The Southern Pacific takes the tourist to all of the scenic won- - Democrats from nine western states will meet at Ogden Mon- day to try and decide behind whom they should get for president. We suggest that Coolidge is a pretty good man and they could save big campaign expenses. Storm floods have created much wreck and ruin in the vicinity of Price, Utah, during the past two weeks. Hardly had the effects of one cloudburst passed over when another came along, damaging much property and intercepting automobile and train service for several days. John Dempsey, who crossed the continent to murder his wife and then committed suicide, is being brought back to this city more as a hero than a murderer. Really, how are we drifting? They are holding secret sessions at Geneva, but the public pays these experts for their time and labor. Some say it is easier to work in the dark. The prarie dog and ground squirrel is a food delicacy for the average Indian, but that does not deter the federal government from its poison campaign to wipe out the rodents. Sing Sing prisoners wanted to have the lives of three drowning men within a few feet of them, but the guards said NO. Appears to us that the wrong men are wearing the Sing Sing stripes. Probably some of the guards go to church every Sunday. Gorgeous American Canyon View from Southern Pacific Railway System ders of California, many of which are unequalled in the world. Those who wish to go to special points of interest can secure all necessary information by getting in communication with the company. If the farmers can find a way to reduce taxes it will not take long to reduce population in the cities. The city dudes are surely getting tired of working hard every day to pay the politician all their This city is one of the chief transcontinental airmail centers, and is also one of seven cities to which the federal government has turned over all government airmail ground equipment for future earnings. A SUFFERING PEOPLE use. It Uncle Sam has finally insisted upon naval parity with Great Britain. So out of the Geneva arms conference, instead of cutting down our equipment, we have the ambition to step to the front and displace the British as the mistress of the seas. International jugi gling has evidently become quite a political pastime. President Coolidge has seen his first western roundup. Much more of such entertainment and the President will refuse to return to the east and will become a wastem plainsman. Jack Dempsey says he is in excellent condition for his fight with Sharkey scheduled for July 21, while others say he cant get into condition. Surely Jack is not fighting for the short end of the purse? His many friends still have confidence in him, but he has a tough boy to put away. Senator Reed Smoot was in the city for a few days and has left for his home city, Provo. He has accepted an invitation of President Coolidge to visit him at his summer home in the Black Hills and Senator Smoot intends to leave in a few days for that . used to be a common saying and a song of the average Irishman, Theyre ahangin min and wimin for the wearin' of the green, but in Russia the native not in sympathy with the present regime are taken out and shot upon the slightest pretext. There can be no opinion in that country among the classes. The leaders are stern and rule with the sword and woe to any one who crosses them. The czars ruled with an iron hand, but their successors have usurped all power and govern with the belching musket and innocent people are shot down like rats. Judging from press reports, the people have all become political slaves that are being exploited by a band of political and merciless rulers. They not only refuse to pay their legitimate national debts, but they have also confiscated all property of any value. Nero, the tyrant ruler of Rome, was an amateur as compared with the Russian political ring. The Turks have always beepfl noted for their fiendish and inhuman crimes against the populace, but that country is a saint as compared with the Russia of today. How long the Russian people will stand for the present abuse is a matter for the future to decide. Millions of terror stricken people have the power in their hands to put to rout the unselfish rulers, but the lack of organization prevents justice, |