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Show POLITICALPERSONAL. The appointment of "Jojly" Eidredge as as-sayer as-sayer in charge of the newly created assay office J In Salt Lake, has met with the hearty endorsement of the friends of the county clerk. The appoint-j appoint-j ment has been expected and it is probable that Mr. Eldredge will take office within a compara- tively short time. An effort may be made, how- l ever, to hold off the opening of the office to al I low him to retain his position of Republican coun ty chairman until after the coming campaign. His ' services will be badly needed at that time Mr. Eldi-edge is entitled to the berth he has received. The fight is beginning to warm up already be-1 be-1 tweon Deputy Clerk Farnsworth and Howard King ' . for the county clerkship. Friends of both men are hard at work and the fight promises to b& , close and hot. t w The gubernatorial race has eased around with Cutler a favorite again, as far as a probable election goes. Spry is heading the Federal bunch with Loose and Callister trailing in the dust. The Federal gang will do what they can, of course, ' to cut the wings of the man who sat at the Pres ident's left, and it is entirely possible that tho ( church will swing on the little tailor long before the campaign opens in, earnest, and let him down. 5 t t5 To all appearances Mayor Bransford is standing stand-ing pat on his announced intention of putting tho appointment of Jim Devine as fire chief through tho council Monday night. Ferry and Martin aro with him and friends of the three men have so far been unable to effect a change in their attitude. The move to block Devine's appointment, how-I how-I ' ever, is of a most determined nature and it is probable that if will succeed in the end. The fact I that several councilmen promised the mayor to support his appointment several weeks ago, has little to do with the merits of that appointment at present, in view of recent disclosures of De-vine's De-vine's record when formerly at the head of the department. de-partment. His appointment placing him in tho fire chief's chair would be about as bad a move for the city and party as could be made. His appolnt-ment, appolnt-ment, in all probability, will be successfully About four reports per day are coming from Oyster Bay as to the President's possible movements move-ments after Hhe coming presidential election. The latest i;eport is to the effect that with Mrs. Roosevelt he will visit England next year and remain six months in London, studying the or ganization of the navy and management of the dock yards. There is a little whisper here and there in official circles that a popular-priced mag- azine owned and edited by the President, is" moro than a possibility during the next two years. Jerome, New York's belligerent fighting district attorney, has made the worst break of his record. Chai-ged with having violated the gambling law of New York when he shook dice for dollars and drinks with Thomas F. Ryan's son, he declared . that "citizens of high character, great intelli- genco and distinguished position" do such things and the letter of the law is not violated. Hostile New York newspapers want to know if ' citizens of high character, great intelligence and extinguished position" aro entirely immune to iui Penal Code. Of the convention at Denver, Mr. Dooly, writ-ing writ-ing in the American Magazine for this month lemarks, "It takes all kinds iv men to make up lh' DImmycratic party an thin there are hardly enough." Of Johnson's boom, Dooly professes wonderment at the wish of the popular Governor to become Democracy's presidential candidate, as follows: "A man that is a succisstul idltor, a succissful Swede, an' a succissful Dlmmycrat in Minnesoty, can get a good deal more money with a circus." & j & The fortune of the Peerless Leader has just been appraised at $87,000. v t t The Cutler-Butler fracus becomes more laughable laugh-able daily. Mible has listened to papa and two weeks ago served a summons in a divorce case against Butler. The complaint has not been filed, however, and one wonders what juicy morsel Mamma Cutler has unearthed to spring on the unwelcome son-in-law in support of Mible's action. ac-tion. to to to "Do your shopping in the morning while tho clerks are fresh," advises a Chicago newspaper. Most of them are that way all day. Why hurry down? |