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Show H Smoke from the Weekly Pipe H Tho disappearance of Milton D. Joseph to- H gather with a roll of currency amounting to a trifle H over $54,000, was the most enlivening proceeding H of the week in financial circles. At this writing H it is rumored that one answering his description H has been apprehended in St. Louis, but whether H he has or not it is thought that ho will be found H and brought back. H In brief, the story of the fellow's disappear- H ance is as follows: Having made a transaction H with Thompson-Towlo & Company in New York H in which one thousand shares of Utah Copper H stock were involved, he borrowed tho certificate H from his banker upon its arrival hero for the H purposo as he stated, of delivering it to a client Hj who did not want it known that he was dealing in H stocks nnd for that reason did not want his check H deposited. Joseph then went to Badger Brothers H asking them to sell five hundred shares and after H they had reported the sale gave them a second H five hundred to sell. This they did and asked H that the endorsement on the certificate be guar- H antced. Joseph secured this guarantee from an- H other bank with which he had done business and H returning to Badger Brothers asked that he be H paid in currency as his client wanted the money H that way. H The unusual request was complied with, Bad- H ger Brothers turning over some fifty-three thou H sand dollars which they secured from their bank. H Joseph then carried the money which was mostly H in twenty dollar bills to his office in a suitcase, H and after telling his stenographer that he was H going to Ogden and would possibly go to Park H City and not return until the following day in- H structed her what to say in the event that an of- H flcial of his bank called up. Then he flew. Mr. H Cosgriff, president of the Continental National H Bank immediately made the amount good with H his personal check. H Joseph for a long time has enjoyed the confi- H denco of the bank with which he did business H and of a largo number of the brokers and business H men as well as a select coterie of poker players H who frequent the back rooms of leading saloons H when not otherwise engaged, and they will proD- H ably miss him as much as anybody. He has been H an inveterate card player for a long time and H while some attribute his action to that, there are H others who say that he never lost enough to get H him into any trouble. The air is full of rumors H and speculations as to what really caused the H fellow to disappear with the money and the in- H clination on the part of some is to excuse him on H the ground that he was temporarily unbalanced. H It would have been quite a remarkable feat for H any one unbalanced to have planned the series H of transactions which were so carefully carried H The pitiful phase of the matter is fcund in HI his cowardly desertion of his poor wife left to H bear the brunt of the matter. Without a mo- K ment's hesitation Bhe pledged her own property B to cover part of the loss and is bearing up un- H dor tho blow in a way that stamps her as true H blue and worth a thousand Milton Josephs. H H There is a hard campaign on in Nevada for H woman's suffrage. As yet they have not en- M tered any of the various art galleries there and B cut up the pictures; they have burned no 1 churches or houses as have the ladylike Eng- M lish militants; they have not destroyed the con- H tents of letter boxes, or tried to kill anybody as Hi they have abroad, but they are meeting with such H strong opposition that perhaps we may hear H something interesting any time. H George Wingfleld, tho millionaire mining op- I erator, is tho last to express his disapproval of H equal suffrage and he is quoted as declaring that Hj if women are allowed to vote in Nevada by the adoption of the suffrage amendment ho will close his interests there and leave the state. If George Wingfleld said that it means that he will do it and as he is tho richest and most influential man in Nevada at the present time with diversified diversi-fied interests all over the state and is probably the best friend Nevada has, it would bo a blow to tho good old place if ho pulled up stakes and moved away. Mr. Wingfleld is quoted as believing that "Woman's suffrage as a whole has been farcical and unproductive of results claimed by fanaticB who agitato the minds of womanhood. The state's development is proceeding slowly and conservatively conserva-tively and tho interests behind this conservative and consistent development are warrantable in avoiding radical innovations." The public would be rather interested to know the course of procedure gone through with when bail money is put up at the police station for the release of those arrested. Whose hands does it pass through and is it not compulsory for all the money to go through the same course of proceedings when it is cashed? When a check comes through a bank with no other endorsement endorse-ment than that of the party who accepted it as payable, it would seem that the system is either very lax or else there is something going on of which tho proper city officials know nothing. The question occurs on account of a little incident similar sim-ilar to the above which recently took place following fol-lowing an arrest in this city. In the course of an interview on the subject of the alleged shakedown of a Chinaman In Chinatown, the mayor is quoted as saying "Well, these Chinese are not going to put anything over on us." Ah! it is nice to have a dignified mayor. Commenting upon the fact that C. W. Poat the world's most successful manufacturer of imitation imi-tation food, has appendicitis, the San Francisco Wasp passes a joyous tribute to him as follows The news will fall with a dull, sickening thud upon the vermiform appendices and solar plexi of the nation. Post's appendix has been throb1 bing with anguish for twenty years, and now he is to surrender It with all the honors of war. Post's masterpiece in the near-food line is Grape Nuts, which electrifies the nerve centers, delights the juices of the stomach, animates the solar plexus, and causes the vermiform appendix to laugh in the redundance of strength. He sells also an imitation coffee, which is much better than a correspondence course for making the brain active and acquiring a raise of salary by unanimous vote of the board of directors. In behalf of both Grape Nuts and the Un-serious Un-serious Coffee, Post has always insisted "There's a Reason." What the reason was, nobody with a frivolous mind ever discovered. Intelligent people peo-ple ate and drank thereof, and perhaps discovered. discov-ered. We assume that Post himself consumed large quantities of Grape Nuts, assimilating its vital phosphates, and drank his just-as-good coffee, cof-fee, and knew just why There's a Reason. The heroism of the man is marvelous when we consider con-sider that he put off the surgical operation for twenty years, so as not to interfere with the business of the company that sold his product. All that time ho struggled to rehabilitate himself him-self with Grape Nuts and Impostum Cereal Coffee. Cof-fee. But it was no use. Beneficial as these foods are, they could not subdue the stronc will of a vermiform appendix, assisted by a stubborn so'tir plexus, inflamed with tho rage of intestine war. Post gave up at last. He has ben hurried to Rochester, Minnesota, for operation. There's a reason. After a period of quietude, under advices from sources that were such as are usually heeded by places of such character as the Dunbar club, the place Is again welcoming all comers, irrespective irre-spective of color. One of tho most notable parties par-ties which has taken place .there recently was I en by a (lashing young scion of one of our iiominent families, accompanied by another young man and a couple of white ladies. If the Dunbar club is to be allowed to exist under the rottenest police administration Salt Lake ever had, but which cannot be helped, apparently, ap-parently, until three commissioners wake up at . the same time, white people at least who pose as respectable -should keep away. Monday morning's Tribune contained tho headline "Two Miners Shot Down One Fatally Killed." As we ga to presB no announcement has followed as to whether ho died or not. An A. P. dispatch to the Ilerald-Republlcan which appeared March 17th, said "The Astors plan to spend their moneymoon motoring in England Eng-land and Prance." That is surely one typographi cal error that hit the nail on the head. An interesting cross-country run took place near Murray on Monday, participated in by Theodore Theo-dore Covey, James Ellerbeck, Clarence Milner, William Rowe and others. Mr. Milner won the race, but there are to be two other heats before the final decision iB made. Larry Sullivan has been arrested In Los Angeles, An-geles, the allegation being that he defrauded u trusting lady of a bundle of greenbacks she brought from an eastern pay streak. Absurd! Larry would not do anything of that kind. Ask anyone who" used to live in Portland. It is a delightful spectacle, is it not, to see a man who gets most of his pleasure out of reading read-ing vice statistics and who Is frequently observed ob-served standing on street corners with a lecherous lecher-ous leer topping the cloth of his calling while oogling passing women, so active in an attempt to attract attention through a supposed vice crusade? cru-sade? Vulnerable ministers are the last people in the world who should pick to pieces other men or things. The current report that Hugh Glenn is endeavoring en-deavoring to secure his reinstatement on tho police po-lice force on the ground that he was "double-crossed "double-crossed and made the goat of the pollco department depart-ment and Mayor Park" is nothing for the friends of good government to worry about. His attitude toward the mayor, we should think would preclude pre-clude any possibility of reinstatement, and if that did not enter into the subject, his record while head of the purity squad is enough to keep hiiu from ever again holding an office in the police department. Inasmuch as a resolution had been prepared asking for Glenn's resignation on the morning of the day the mayor filed it with the commision, and from the further fact that every one of the commissioners is against tho fellow, the best thing for him to do is to sink into the oblivion which surrounded him before ho made himself obnoxious at the head of the purity squad. Wo were under the impression that when Glenn was dropped his resignation would be followed fol-lowed by that of three or four others whose work on the force is very dirty to say the least, and the sooner they are let out will be the better for the community at large and the esprit de corps of the entire police force. |