Show I 1 EDITORIAL EDI NOTES the christmas Chist mas edition ot of the deseret news wag was published last saturday batur day it vas an 88 page paper being devoted to the interests of utah and idaho the mining industry of the state was thore covered and the district came la in for an excellent write up un der the present management the news is rapidly becoming one of the be beet t pa pera pers in the west and the holiday numbers of 0 that paper eclipse all others the following paragraph appeared in the park record of jagt under the head of city council proceedings councilman button sutton suggested that it would be a good move it if the recorder daT wae was instructed to get nut out a detail stat state ment merit of the receipts ree rec eirts and expend turee of the city from january 1 1902 to jan 1 1903 and publish the same so the cit zeus could see what had been done and what their money was expended for fhe council concurred in the saz suggestion an I 1 the recorder was instructed to make such 9 a statement t it has hits been over three years sine since the taxpayers ot of eureka were furnished with such a statement notwithstanding tho th fact that both the state laws and the or f finances din ances of eureka city state that dt the he city recorder shall compile I 1 and a ad publish regularly a financial statement of the re and expenditures scarcely 4 day passes that the new or binante regarding peddlers and solicit is not violated of all 11 kinds have been doing business in the camp since the new ne law was enacted but the city officers appear to be pow powerless erles 11 to top stop them two or three wagon lo 10 loins is of groceries hare have been disposed ot of within the past pact two weeks by bt representatives of salt lake houses two ladies from salt lake made a heuse house to house canvas selling medicine last week and were not intern apted another lady has ha been selling all kinds of small articles this week and several agents of picture houses have done a good business during the past two weeks without digging up one cent of li 11 I 1 cense the city recorder rec erder inform informs the writer that out of the dozens of produce peddler peddlers which visit the camp regularly only about two lia gases have been collect el ed during the month of december Is it any wonder that business is somewhat somi what slow with the merchants of eureka |