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Show Bill Glasmaxk has been convicted of criminal libel. The fine is up to 81,000 and imprisonment for a year. Bill had not been sentenced when this paragraph was indited, so just what part of the above was given our poor friend, cannot be guessed at. We hope, however, that the law will hit him light because Bill is a light weight journalist. The punishment should be graded as to the ability of the victim to bear it. The revolution in Cuba is etill growing, grow-ing, with the chances favorable for a big row before it is finally overthrown. If Cuba is in earnest either for independence inde-pendence or annexation, no is her time. Things are ripe for annexation; however we do not regard her as able without American or Mexican help to accomplish independence. Cuba would make an ideal American state, but a yery indifferent independent republic. Salt Lakb is to have another paper, pa-per, the Evening Star. It is labor and ' free silver. It has a big mission and we hope the ability to make the most of it. Therens room for it In Zion. We shall seek an exchange with the new comer and be yery much disappointed i; we don't cet it. The new editor of the Tribune has no mercy, it would seem, upon the scissor He uses them incessantly, Well,perhapB his readers are cainers by this arrangement. But still, with all of old man Goodwin's all immeasurable immeasura-ble meanness we miss him dreadfully, lie can m8ke."the worse appear the better part' with greater skill than any man in all the broad west. The new idea, that of a wife orating over the remains of her own husband, is not growing in force. The only time when the ordinary man gets a word of praise is at his own funeral. To put his wife up as the speaker of the occasion oc-casion is to effectually block this one solitary chance; she Knows too much about him, as a rule.- - The bar association's judiciary article arti-cle is withdrawn and it will not be offered in the cocsti utioral convention. con-vention. A doctor hardly ever prescribes for himself, and when he does he makes a mtssofit. This case and its result is no exception to the rule. It ib melancholy to relate that Ben Rich did miss that private secretaryship secretary-ship after all. .Poor Ben: it is better to be poor than rich, in such a cause. But how infinitely sweet seemed the dream a few weekB since. Mr. Wadleigh's old associates in Colorado are giving him many fine sends off. Frank has old friends in Utah who will warmly welcome him upon his advent to Zion. Salt Lake city has the natural j gas, and of course she is happy. She j had a rather fairish supply of the arti- J cal before, but evidently she doesn't think she can have too much of a good thing. j Congressman Cannon, of Ills., says the fifty-third congress was more than a billion congress. This may be so, but there is very little consolation in the fact, so far as we see. The Pittsburg miners are trying conclusions with the mine owners. This strike will turn out as all others have, a failure so far as the working '. men are concerned. ! The experts are devoting themselves strictly to U. P. pay checks. Forging, or raising pay checks is an easy, albeit a dangerous, way to make a living. There is a very lively fear that Charley Crane has lost one constitution, constitu-tion, if not two. Such careleEEnesa is most unpromising. The Price Advocate ia sound to the boot heels on the subject of the free coinage of silver. That's the ticket for a silver country. Old Dana now wishes it were not he who slandered Mr. Noyes of Washington. Wash-ington. He i3 a devil of a Dana anyhow. any-how. Now they.are saying that there was corruption somewhere in the Idaho senatorial race. "Mebbe." George L. Snoop is finally elected senator in Idaho. |