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Show It looks sis if the Hague tribunal wont out of business after disposing of the Pious Fund contention. con-tention. . , . - - -. - - 4 ; ' Some Republican, newspapers exploit half a column col-umn of type denying that President Roosevelt said "When Senator If anna returns from Ohio he will i either have 4o fish or cut bait."' 4 . i ; Everybody will be pleased if old John Reck re-eutips re-eutips his fortune through the discovery of a rub-i rub-i bcr plant growing in these mountains. It is dc- 1 scribed elsewhere in this issue, j f ! Government engineers will darn Salt river iu Arizona, says a press dispatch. This is passing j I t-t range. What about all the Democrats who have damned Salt river for the past forty years? j - According to the director of the mint, Utah held i first place for silver production in lt03, being cred- iteu with .$S,100KK. compared with $7,517,Sl'2;-in Colorado. . f I ; Ihe builders of the cruiser Denver, which, re- cently failed to make her required contract speed !i of seventeen knots an hour, have arranged. with the navy department to give the vessel another trial within a few weeks.-: weeks.-: I . . i .The czar of Russia, if we are not mistaken, first ? ' suggested the Hague tribunal as the most enlight- 1 ened and efficacious means to bring about arbirra- ! lion and peace among the nations. Why should be ' refu-e to take his own medicine 'i j : . I . ; Those who claim that secular education is suf- j fi' icnt to promote morality should read up the ox- 1 ploits of Ilattie Pilcher. ihe Iowa schoolteacher recently arrest as the marked bandit who ehloro- I forms her victims before robbing them. . j - 3 I The Denver News says that under modified mar- tial law Oovcrnor Peal ody?s patent an important I ."onression lias been made to Americans in Tel- hiride. "Those going to and from Professor Sto- val's opening dance will not be stopped by the I guards.'-" 1 . i " Tditor Graham of the Bingham Bulletin is more r than half right when he says that "Salt Lake, with 1 , 2 1 si daily list of murde rs, highway robberies and j i grafts, has become a mighty good place to keep i . away from by those who can do business by letter f ! . ; find are not forced to brave its dangers."' ! I ; The stockholders of the Catholic Publishing i company of St. Louis, publishers of the Church Progress, gathered in annual meeting last week. The past year proved one of the most prosperous in ili- history of the corporation. Congratulations extended. John Paul Chew, howdv ve do? I .; ! ... : 1J I j I hirteen union miners charged with conspiracy ! i' the blowing up of the Sun and Moon transformer ; at Idaho Springs, Col., were tried and acquitted the other day. One triumph, at least, of civil law over military law in Colorado, and a black eye to the assertions of the mine owners' association. . , ! It is estimated that there are in the f-emi-arid zones about 000,(100,000 acres of vacant public lands with sufficient water available under the storage system to irrigate one-sixteenth of it. In his ad-I ad-I dress to the Irrigation congress at Ogden last sum- mer, President Clark stated his belief that if the . government would expend $10,000,000 annually for j thirty years in providing reservoirs &uflicient,tq re- I -lawn 20,000,000 acres, the land reclainied would I provide homes for 12,000,000 to 15,000,0)0 people. I ' ' , 5 As-this sum might be easily realized, from the sale of reclaimed government land, a magnificent contribution con-tribution to the wealth of the nation could thus be made with but, E-mail outlay. ; : r - ; 1 The Roosevelt administration declines to adopt the suggestion that it go before the Hague tribunal to justify its action in aiding the Panama secessionists, seces-sionists, alleging that it would be an admission of wrongdoing towards Colombia. , Which reminds us of Pontius Pilate washing his hands after passing sentence of death upon the Savior. The cable from Berlin makes a fuss over the ! .fact that Iferr Schaffner forgot to propose three J cheers for Emperor William, who, as King of,Prus- sia, made a speech to the diet the other day. Poor j Herr Schaffner!. It was Ids place, as oldest mcm-I mcm-I ber, to do that very thing. But schnapps and ! v.einerv.urst cause old men often to be forgetful. j : ! The Barry monument bill, introduced by Con-j Con-j gressmaii Driscoll, calls for an 'appropriation of $50,000 to erect a monument in Washington, D. C, with the inscription : ''To the memory of John Bar-j Bar-j ry, Father of the American Xavy." Members of j the A. O. H. and all Irishmen are requested to write j their respective congressmen urging the passage of i the bill known as If. R. G2. ! 71 . I During the last thirty years there died in Europe Eu-rope alone of alcoholism a total of 7,rCK),000 people. That-is more people than were ktlledin all the wars of the nineteenth century. The authority for these statements is Matti Ilelenius, a member of the faculty fac-ulty of the University of Denmark, who goes on to show tlixt in Denmark one out of every seven men who die between the ages of 35 and 55 is a victim of alcoholism. ' 4 : Professor Willis Moore wanted an increase in reau, and stupidly appeared before the congressional congres-sional committee on a sunny day, while the weather card road "partly cloudy and falling temperature' If the professor desires to be absolutely accurate iu his forecasts, we suggest that he hire for con-, .sultatiou a go.ood Latter-day Saint afflicted with a large size corn on his left foot. It was only after readiug the funeral obsequies of the late General Longstreet, that the general public learned he died a Catholic. The press biographies bio-graphies gave no inkling of the faith he embraced fifteen years ago. Bishop Kiely of Savannah delivered, de-livered, the oration on the occasion of the. funeral at Atlanta. It was a word painting such as would thrill the soul of the poet-priest, Father Ryan, could he awaken from his death sleep under the willow of the, southland. : V The American Citizen of Boston, one of the few A. P. A. papers left, is agitating the starting of an American party, and publishes quite a number of letters from its "aroused" readers. One of them wants General Nelson Miles for president on a platform denouncing Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. Rebel-lion. Unless we are greatly mistaken, this bigot has taken gross liberties in associating the name of General Miles with such an infamous platform. Some friend of the distinguished soldier should hasten to rebuke the A. P. A.'s suggestion, bearing in mind the Burchard who destroyed the hopes of Blaine. ' , 1 j "Isn't it better to live in Logan than die in Salt ! Lake City?" queries the editor of the Logan Re-i Re-i publican. The answer depends on whether the in- goras, who taught the mystic philosophy of the transmigration of souls. If such believer, for instance in-stance died in Salt Lake and his soul took flight to Logan and became the ego of a poor country ed- iter, we could imagine that boul having the power j of speech. Assuming it had utterance (in order to carry out the mysticism of the cult), it might cry j : opt as Artemus Ward did when he exclaimed that i it would le. ten dollars in his pocket if he had never i m i been born. Hence it is better to die in Salt Lake i than take chauces of living in Logan; providing i you are satisfied to remain a long time dead, and Logan is closed as a port of entry for the trans-i trans-i jiiiffratory souls of Theosophists. f ' i Millions will be spent this vear in Denver for j improvements that include building of new rail-J rail-J road shops. Architects and contractors unite in i saying that the outlook for the coming year was never more promising and that the present low prices of building material are being taken advantage ad-vantage of to an extent never before realized in Denver's history. The .'Frisco .and. Rock, Island systems will be extended. . Employment will be giv-. en to over 1,000 men. These, are the facts which indicate that Denver is. on the eve of a great build- ing movement. Contracts already let for some of the biggest buildings Denver has ever" liad; the I . -i l 1:1 i i l ii .i xuxij l anu jiurar.y iieariy cunipjeieu, or 10 ue oegun ; with work on nearly a dozen down-town buildings, mostly for office buildings, well under way, and with the steady sweep of business southward all theso are vital facts which show how Denver's business district is growing and what may be expected in the city in building in 1904. f j The announcement Jast week that the Board ! of Erin and the. Ancient Order of Hibernians had' i settled their differences, it now .'appears, was premature. pre-mature. A latcr dispatch from New York denotes that the two. organizations are as, far apart as ever, and that the Board of Erin which must be a small fraction, for. few Americans of Irish parentage ever lieard of, it preferred charges against their national delegate for assumiug to bring about reconciliation and. unity. The board passed a resolution reso-lution declaring'that "the only true Hibernians in America belong to the. Board of Erin." There you hare it. The senseless action of this "faction reminds re-minds the writer of a certain Patsey Haley, a : labor contractor and a "tarrier" in ward politics back in Buffalo years ago. To any of his country-1 ment seeking employment, Patsy would put the; question: "What county man are ye?" If the poor man could not answer that he was from the ; County Clare, he was sent away with a maledic--tion. Patsey Haley is dead or, if he isn't, hec ought to be. The same sentiment applies to :the, Patsey Haleys in' this Board . of Erin, who coddle; the thought to" their 'souls that they are' Catholics'- i if they pbstah from meat on Fridays and. damn the Orangemen on the Twelfth of July. ,'' Those . arly pioneers of the west were made out of pretty tough wood. They gained and lost fortunes, nd usually died penniless at an advanced age. Francis A. White of Everett, Wash., who died on Sundav last, was an exception. He piled up vast; wealth in his eighty years of .rough and ready life. Like all ambitious youtlis who amount to more than a pinch of snuff in the development of character char-acter and country; Frauds- A. White began life on a farm, afterwards "tending store.". He was one j of a parly of passengers on the first train to run j from' New York. to Albany. Tiallroading and other. I means of transportation had a fascination for him, just as it has for Jim Hill. H-' was one of the j projectore and owners of the first stage line to run j between Omaha and Denver before the Union Pa- j citic was completed. The short biography accom- j panying the news of Mr. While's death mentions no j instance where he took chances along with the miu- j ers iu the hills. Perhaps that explains the fact of j one pioneer dying wealthy. ' |