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Show SMOKE FROM THE WEEKLY PIPE ,j What sweet, Bisterly spirit of sympathy is this new brand Willard Hansen, state diary and food commissioner, has assimilated that convinces him U would be unfair to give tho public the names of the three purveyors of spoiled meat who were caught using the preservati js this week? Will Mr. Hansen tell us what degree of "fair treatment' ho thinks is due a red neck who has deliberately sold putrid meat to his customers after fixing it up temporarily with 'Icine" or "Freezerine"? These abbatoir rodents sprinkle aroma suppressers over their rotten meats every time Hansen and his associates turn their backs, and when they are caught red handed, and their only excuse is that a careless employee must have used the chemicals, the astute officials think they had better not tell the public who the offenders are because of this or that -or the other thing. It is nice to read these nameless stories every few days with the Involuntary thought that maybe it's your butcher and maybe not, but with no help for it, on account of the extreme delicacy of the authorities in doing anything that might injure the finer feelings and sentiments of the dealers in rancid meat. If the reputable meat dealers of the city and there are a few, popular opinion to the contrary con-trary notwithstanding could see further than the last key on their cash registers, they would themselves demand of the pure food authorities that the names of the men who make their trade a bywood, be published, that honest dealers need not suffer under the stigma. What a relief if out of the riff raff of office holders in this valley one or two could be found in the pure food department with enough stamina stam-ina to give us names occasionally of some of the gentlemen who churn the dirty milk, make over the rancid butter and powder up spoiled beeves, to say nothing of vinegar that tastes like gasoline gaso-line and the sales of candy at a dozen prominent promin-ent places downtown so ancient that it is unfit to eat if it were physically possible to masticate it. The latter case is hardly to the point, however, how-ever, as it is asking ordinary confectionery a little too much In expecting it to survive the I classic and familiar physiogonmy which adorns ' the wrapper. I The statement of former President Lane of th'e Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company hat the directors of that concern haven't had a dividend in some time, dovetails nicely with the remark Wednesday of President B. B. Field of the Mountain States company, that dividends and service on a telephone system go hand in hand. By the same token, if the Bell service continues con-tinues as it is at present, when will Na. dividend be paid? Echo answers not. u News of the promotion of Arthur W. Copp to the superintendency.of the Pacific coast division of the Associated Press, has been received by his" hundreds of local friends with the greatest of pleasure, as it will again put him in closer touch with Salt Lake and is a well deserved promotion which will mean a good deal to him in many ways. Step by step since entering the service he has gradually risen until he is now in one of the most important positions in the country. Incident to the change is the appointment of Christian Dane Haggerty from the Chicago office of the Associated Press to the position recently held by Mr Copp at Denver. This will bring another leading brave, yearned for by his many friends here, into the west, and who can tell, there may be a grand reunion yet that will ' awaken quite some echoes in these va'leys of the mountains. The appointment of A. W. Raybould, formerly of the B. P. O. E. No. 85 here, to the passenger department of the Western Pacific railroad, with headquarters in this city, under I. A. Benton, was a pleasant surprise for his friends here, who feel confident that he will fill the position with credit and that the appointment will mean aug- mented business in the passenger department of the road. After an absence of eighteen months, during which he has spent the greater part of the time in Now York City, Willard F. Snyder, one of the most prominent mining men in the state and formerly a leader of the American party here, has returned, and will be here for a few weeks on business connected with his different mining enterprises. He, it is understood, is on a special deal of importance, which will be made public before his return to the east. He has been welcomed wel-comed by his many old friends in the mining and political circles. No more interesting or thrilling aerial experiments experi-ments have ever been conducted in this state than the trips R. N. Campbell and J. Frank Judge of the Aero club of Salt Lake have made in the club's big silver balloon the past few weeks. And it is doubtful if a more valuable advertising adver-tising medium for Salt Lake has found its way about the state than the big bag. The daring and courage of Mr. Campbell and Mr. Judge in taking the balloon into the air alone Wednesday of this week and making a hundred mile trip over the mountains, reaching an altitude of over ten thousand feet, can hardly be appreciated Dy the rest of us who watched them go, and the flights are having their affect on those adventurous adven-turous ones who have "become interested in the Aero club but have held more or less skeptical views of the advisability of any of its members attempting a flight without a thoroughly experienced experi-enced balloonist along. Both Mr. Judge and Mr. Campbell can qualify for the latter, now, however, and requests are pouring in on club officials for an opportunity to go up. The Commercial club and every other organization with the interest and advancement of Salt Lake at heart should give the Aero club every bit of backing possible, for the two or three intrepid aeronauts who have done the flying fly-ing to date should be aided in every way in their efforts to perfect the organization and secure for the city the benefit of the advertising that is bound to follow the succeeding flights tlrl are planned for the "Salt Lake." There can be very little question but that the state fair which opens the first Monday in October at the Fair Grounds will surpass all the expositions heretofore held in Salt Lake. So much money has been spent in constructing construct-ing new buildings and the grand stand and new racing track that the fair has held a greater inducement than ever before for the taking of space by exhibitors and the latter have responded respond-ed in such numbers as to insure the success of the exposition. Several new amusement features have been provided and experienced horsmen who have inspected the new track declare that it is one of the finest in the entire country, and that in the harness and saddle events some new records are certain to be made. |