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Show THE GRAFT OF THE ANTLERED HERD. Who Got to Them the HardestAn Aftermath. After-math. Soak 'em while they're here, for they'll be a lo.ig time gone; good enough for Elks, and make 'em pay, pay, pay!" That has been the warwhoop of too many far-seeing far-seeing business men the past week, and they have done Salt Lake more harm than good, making carnage car-nage out of their killings. They have taken the money away from visiting Elks and their friends faster than a house full of brace games could have clone it, scraped them clean of every penny, and told them to kiss themselves them-selves good-bye. The "Welcome" sign has blazed from the front door, the con smile has blazed from behind the counters, and the schoop-shovel mit has been held open for the jingle on the mahogany, for "Jolly Elks are good fellows"; we'll be wise as a tree full I of owls. Stick 'em from soup to nuts, and they'll neer know the difference." But they did, and they hollered, and wherever you go in the next few months you will see their smoke which started in this little city. The hack-men hack-men first that is always expected but in all justice, jus-tice, only a few cut in deep, and those grafters were not among the ones who are reputable outside out-side of convention weeks. Of course, there were a number who always are holdups, but there isn't half the fault to be found with such men as with some others, who are supposed to be right. "With the hackmen it is the big rakeoff for the year, but it isn't with such places as the Knutsford bar, the Royal cafe, the Tavern, the Kenyon and Palace barber shops and other places supposed to be in the front rank of their respective businesses. Three New Yorkers and a local man went into the Knutsford Tuesday evening. They had an inward in-ward fever that was fierce, and a deep yearning for something cool. They asked for four glasses of sweet soda, common ordinary "pop." It was sened in small glasses full of ice and there were probably two 5-cent bottles in the whole thing. A dollar was thrown down and. no change. "All drinks 25 cents, gentlemen," was the news the informant gave them. This is only one incident The maximum wholesale rate for this is 30 cents a dozen bottles. The new improvements -at the Knutsford bar are .beautiful, but when the management man-agement insists for paying for them in three days' trade it's a little strong. Any number of bars raised to 10 cents for beer, but in comparison, beer was a cinch. One Mueller, who runs the Royal cafe must not be overlooked. Beginning Monday he had a list of prices that would drive any one to bankruptcy in three meals. Two regular customers walked in on that day, took a look at the list of figures and roared like th angry sea. Immediately a man rushed up and whispered that regular customers would be served at old prices; that he was stationed there to in- fi foi m them that, and that the printed figures were B for visiting Elks. If that isn't holdup in broad I da light, what is? H B The only difference at the Tavern was in the B fa that there was no discriminating; that is, the B Prf es were raised to the robber scale, but it cost B lof 1 people the same as outsiders. If the Tavern B ten out of debt after this week, why? B The Kenyon barber shop made no bones about B rai-mg shaving prices to 25 cents, and the Palace B sol ' "imported" tonics made in the cellar and put B ln Pencil bottles, and the smile on the barbers' B fa s said "Good enough for Elks." B Hie grafts in small resorts around town cannot H be ekoned, but they were legion and will be long rer umbered by the antlered herd. If all business B mf had been disposed to treat people as the ones B & 'ioned there'd be a lot of paved streets here fl ' "f re another convention, |