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Show HMMMMMW. THE CITIZEN ftA Thinking Paper for Thinking People Published by THE GOODWIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY. matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Entered as second-clas- s Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Can- -, ada and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all for-- i eigh countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Editor ANGELS PLEAD GUILTY ! WIJORRIBLE is a mild expression for the destruction caused by the Los Angeles water supply dam. The break occurred were at home in their beds sleeping, in the night when and little could be done to warn them of the impending danger. The high wall of water turned loose by crumbling of the million dollar cement dam washed down the gorge in a raging torrent j the-peopl- I j e Copjrlght,''lS28, lit York Tribune, i,.c. Courier of Now York Herald Tribune SENATOR WILLISS PRIVATE PARTY Darling in the New York Herald Tribune. swept everything in its path. Several hundred people lost their lives and millions of dollars property damage was done. H. S. Tanner will try for the district court, and John Morgan will try again for the city court. Ranchmen living below the dam report that the structure There is some talk of Judge Wight of the district bench i had been leaking badly for ten days. coming out for the supreme court. Did the dam give way because of poor workmanship and COMMUNITY DRIVE poor materials! Cement sections ought to be analyzed to see if the contract-- j ; Business will be temporarily suspended to aid in the comors strictly adhered to specifications, as well as to find out I whether the specifications called for first class concrete forma-- j munity chest drive. The objective is about $150,000 to take care tion. The people should know whether the concrete mixture pro-- J of this citys poor. Prominent men and women of the city are vided was solid or of rotten formation. If insuffiicent ce-- I enlisted as workers to get the money. Last year there was contributed about $123,000. ment is put into the concrete mixture, it is worthless as far as The drive will start next Wednesday morning, so open your strength or durability is concerned. If the dam was faultily j constructed, it was nothing more nor less than a veritable death purse strings and contribute your mite to a worthy cause. j trap to be sprung at any moment. And if such it was, someone BORAH COMES TO RESCUE ought to pay dearly for the great loss of life and property which is irretrievable and beyond recall. Senator Borah has appealed to prominent Republicans for I The dam was built and constructed over the protests of the funds in order that the party may honestly acquit itself of any to anyone. And Borah will get the money people living in the path of any flood waters which might come obligation it may owe from that source. Now Los Angeles, according to the daily because the people have confidence in him. Borah is of the opinion that all people who expect favors should not contribute to press, admits its guilt and responsibility for the great loss. any fund nor should such money ever be accepted, because trouble invariably follows in its wake. POLITICAL RING and ! 1 I I ) i j The national interest in possible candidates for president temporarily screened local interest. However, some of the j boys are moving about and are canvassing their friends for support and it looks like both the Republican and Democratic contentions will be swamped with eager candidates for office, Prank Evans of the Farm Bureau is being broadcasted j by bis friends for governor on the Republican ticket. Evans has I is an attorney and has been prominently identified with the Farm Bureau of I late years. Another good man suggested for governor is Roy Bowen of Logan. Bowen is a professional engineer and has held two terms as mayor slate and his of Logan. He has many friends throughout the weight is being felt in many places. Raymond Brady may come out for county attorney if Wallace B. Kelly decides not to run again for the office. Kellys juanv friends are trying to talk him into running for district Horace Beck and Ross Hutchinson are also out for pi strict attorney.'. 4 at-jtorn- ey. MUTUAL LOSSES Baer In Fargo Courier-New- s. |