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Show H THOSE PETITIONS " SB ' H i Attention is respectfully culled to H tho resolutions on the railroad inat- H tcr, iircscuted to the county conimls- H doners at their meeting last Saturday H printed olsewhere In this. Issue. H In tho first place the resolutions B and petitions in behalf of tho Lognu BBl Hapld Transit company ask for the BBa granting of a frunchlKc of n 'irason fBl ably liberal" nutuio, "such us will BBfl conserve tho Interests of tho county HBl and at tho same time not be designed JBl to dlscourago tho Investment of cap M Itnl." Thcro Is no spirit of antagonism M manifested, Blmply n plain request M (or something In the Interests of nV BBl parties concerned. M . The second petition, antagonistic. M to the local company, asks tho coin- M mlssloners to "refuse to grant to the H Logan Hapld Transit Company a 1 franchise," for ccitaln i canons. Note M tho first reason. Ilccnuso a blanket H franchise Is asked for "over every B county road In Cache County." And M "for what benefit to the County. JBl None. No compensation, revenue, etc." m i Ouo would be led to think that tho H ' signers were afraid of ton many roads, M and that it Is necessary to make n BBf campaign to keep them nut. As lo BBl 'benefits, revenues, compensation, etc., BBl one would bo led to think the sign- fBl ers could get along Jwtt as well with- JBf out tho $20,000, or mora taxes paid fBl by the O. S. L. annually, and that tho fBl instalhitlon of as many miles of rond HBl as tho O. S. L. which would bring H some $10,000 or $lli,()(io In taxes In M , .to the county tieaKury annually Is not HBl "ruvenuo" and "compensation" at all. JBl - One would bo led to think that tho BBl signers iuo of the opinion that tho M ,- 11) do Park hoy Is not ns good as tho BBl Logan boy, and that the operation of JBl ' a road wheio tho Hyde l'urk boy can fBl i hoard tho car and go to Smlthflold m dally to high school, returning In Hi" BBl ' evening where he can bo at tho par- M cntnl hearth, at tho same tlmo have PB the advantages of a high school edu- BB cation, is not "compensation, levenuo HBJ or leuiuueratlou." HBl In the second place tho objection Is BB that the kind of motive power to BB used Is not stated "steam, electricity. HBl I '" gasoline or mules." With Just us HBl much consistency tho local company BB X might reply that they did not suj BBJ "hot air" either. BBJ lint tho most hlgli handed, dog in BBJ the manger piece of Kngllsh that per BBJ haps was over presented to a body BBj , of public officials Is tho last para- BH graph which reails: "To the uhule BB thing wo most strenuously paotcst BB' and ftuther object to granting any BB kind of a franchise to said company, H etc. Think or It. Objecting and pro- BB testing to the gi anting of n franchise BB of any kind to David Kccles, Joseph H Howell, ThnmuH Smart, 11. K. Hatch, H l' It. Arnold, Hubert Anderson, John Bh ' II. Audeison, M. S. Drowning, 1). C. B lludgc, T. U. lludge, John A. Wldtsoe, B 10, D. Hall, II. 1. Barber, George H B Champ, ("anion Jewelry Company, V Joseph Qulnney, H. P. Hlter, Ceorgo H Thomas, William II. Thaln and a host BB of others oi. our fellow citizens. This H is tho attitude, that the petitioners H havo placed themselves In. It Is tho H attltudo that Tho Journal ban assum- B ed, .tho rnlo it has played, and no B doubt Is chuckling up Its alcove on the BB accomplishment of its desires. The Journal, however, gives Its H' readers to understand that some one Bft Is waiting to accept tho franchise BB' that is waiting for a tnkcr, and wo BB hope It has the tight hunch. Wo ro BM Iterate that we do not care who the ' fellow, or tho corporation Is wo will BB get behind tho move, and wo think all !tho gentlemen above named will do llkowlsc, so If tho Journal push aio contemplating tho organization of a m, company to build tho road, got busy V i gentlemen you will find plenty of BE good support. All that will bo neces- B snry for you to do Is to bring forth Bb tho money, as tho company you havo BK , recently blackballed has done, and B the right of way Is yours. H' 'j d d a BB , CITIZENS-NON PARTISANS BB DITCHED Hi B T.ognn City now has an auditor BB' . and tho action settling name places Bk r , BBBfei. ,l10 c" government In tho complete BBBBBBflBflB contiol of the Democrats, notwlth tttnndlng the apparent deal entered Into between tho Democrats and noil pnitit-uiiH befuro tho election. Should one of the commissioners resign It would naturally be expected that the place be filled by one of tho snino putty. Likewise It wns certainly ex pected that In the case of tho auditor the vacancy would be filled by ono of the s.'imo party. In this enso tho Micnncy was caused by the res ignatlon of one of 'tho non-partisan party, and Judging from the many statements, published mid signed at (hut, on the pail or tho commission. era. to tho effect that they would be "non-partisans" In tl'io administration of city affairs it was certainly expected ex-pected that one oftho non-partisans would get tho Job, For somo days An attempt has been brewing to land tho Democratic candidate for auditor, but without success, but tho thing was accomplished on Tuesday. Just u lit-tlo lit-tlo maneuvering on tho part of the ( commissioners, and a transfer of Jobs "to tako tho curso otr," brings about a condition of affairs cntlrelv satisfactory to tho Democracy. It would bo too much of a slap to name Mr Nlelson ns auditor to tako tho place of tho nonpartisan resigned, a he was tho Democratic candldato anj the third In tho race, but In order to accomplish tho desired ends Mr. William Wil-liam Kvons, a democrat In good standing Is token from the electric light office and given tho nudltorshlp, and Mr. Nlelson Is plnced In his position, pos-ition, and us both positions pay about tho same salary, both gentlemen aro Just ns well pienseu an oiuvrwinu. j Anil the peeullnr part or It is thy vote was unanimous. How Conimls sloner l.lndqiilBt could swnllow such ii progiam Is a miracle, and how his ucii-i'UitlHiiu friends must feel, Is easy to Imagine. They were chagilned bo )oud measure at his attltudo on the ch attorney, but now that hg 1ms oted for a candidate on an opposing ticket, when by all tho rights that per tain to political ethics tho place ought to have been rilled by ono or the same party as tho ono resigned, their Indignation must be unbounded. Ver lly the ways or the polltlcnn aro do vlous and many. D DIFFERENT IN IDAHO a While Konm sections or our wont-em wont-em communities nre dolics all In their power to keep homo capital from building Inter-urban roil'?, for He i dviincomi nt of our eivillia'lon, gi"lng woiW to our own people, ar.d tho creation of an Improvement that would pay nioro taxes lu tho long run than any other entitle, othr sections are after Investment, and are so eager for Improvement and de-elopnient de-elopnient iilong this lino that they aro donating rights of way, lalslng money to offer as a bonus, and holding hold-ing up every possible attraction to tho capitalist and easterners nt that, In tho hope that ho might bo attracted attract-ed their way. Ono of tho latest In tho field Is tho proposed electric road at Idaho Kails. On this inntter tho .Morning Post writes ns follows- "That tho Idaho Kails Klectric In-tcrurbnii In-tcrurbnii railway will soon bo a reality re-ality Is becoming nioro apparent ov-ery ov-ery day, as tho entire -population of this section seems to bo getting behind be-hind tho movement with a spirit that bids fair for an early completion of tho pioect "The other day a meeting of the resldeiuH of tho Poplar district was held, with tho soliciting committee for right of way, and tho meeting was very enthusiastic and much was accomplished. ac-complished. Four miles of tho right of way wero secured, and flvo acres of land nt Poplar, for terminal facilities, facili-ties, was donated. In addition to this tho Poplar people pledged thumselves to raise two thousand dollars in cash as a bonus foi tho building of tho road. "All tho right or way Ib now secured secur-ed with tho exception of a strip he-tweon he-tweon Iona and Loorln, and it !a anticipated an-ticipated that this will bo secured In n shoit time. "With a complete right of way, and somo monoy subscribed, oastorn capital cap-ital stands ready nnd willing to put up the balance needed for construction construc-tion work, and unless somo unforsecn matter comes up dirt should fly on tho grading as soon as tho snow is off tho ground." If sonio local concern would offer to bulla the road, they would "grab It like n hungry trout after a fly." Idaho don't loic nny of the good things. She looks out for Idaho. . ' a a a V COMMISSIONERS' CONVENTION D III Idaho they have what Is known as a Commissioners Convention. This convention assembles annually at Poise, or such other place as may bo determined, nnd Is made up of nil the county commissioners of tho state. The deliberations laBt over a number of days, and matters pertaining to the welfare of the state, tho promotion oi the people's Interests, aro thoroughly discussed nnd acted upon. Hon. L. L. Hatch of Kranklln, one of the county commissioners of Oneida On-eida county, has Just returned from tho convention nnd reports a very Interesting In-teresting session. Among the matters that wero discussed nnd nctcd upon the following are mentioned: "Tho convention went on lecord ns opposed to a $2,500 tax exemption on small homes nnd voted that It bo $1,000; opposed to the stato tax commission com-mission plan, although no official action ac-tion wns taken; opposed to the law prohibiting sending out of the stato for county printing; opposed to hie rond overseer system; favor the work lug of family deserters on the count roads; favor six year terms for com mlssloncrs, favor the recall of coun ty officers; favor more stringent marriage mar-riage laws; favor biennial Instead of quadrennial assessments; favor exemption ex-emption of cities nnd villages from county poll tax. ,, The commissioners devoted nearly all of one day to a thorough jllscus-Blon jllscus-Blon of tho proposed revenue Iftw to be submitted to the special session of tho Idaho legislature and the sentiment senti-ment displayed Indicated -that tho proposed, law has few friends among the commissioners. Ity formal action the commissioners refused to Indorse the provision for exemption on Improvements to the amount of $2500. There was not a slnglo vote In favor of this amount. On unolher vote reducing tho amount to $1,500 thcro wero several voted In Its favor, but tho largo majority was i against it. A motion to recommend nn exemption on $1,000 of Improvements finally carried by a voto of IS to 12, Many of the commissioners 'present & nt the morning session were opposed to nny exemption at all. a a a Tho nepubllcoi) congratulates J'osl master Joseph Odcll on his recent appointment as postmaster of Logan City for another term. ana it is reported tbnt Mr. ''Ncelcy" Pptorsqn. is n candidate for tho posl tlon pf'deputy shprlff to succeed Mr. Fred Smith former deputy who has teslgncd to accept a position In the Logan city government. Shoriff Crookston, a strong prohibitionist, It Is sold is considering very seriously tho appointment of Mr. Peterson. "Ncelcy" Is n persistent Tollow, and If he cannot land ono Job apparently, he Intends to Innd another. D D Idaho is after more railroads. Like Mr. Will O. Farroll she believes cap-Ital cap-Ital must be sought after, or like tho girl she must bo courted, and Idaho Is going right after It. Wherever any loose money comes to light Idaho is after It. It takes money to bulla railroads. D D D If anyone doubts tho accuracy ot tho Republican's report, and the Inaccuracy In-accuracy of The Journal's report on tho matter of consideration of franchises fran-chises before the bonrd of county commissioners last Saturdny they aro respectfully referred to tho report of the committee on Intcrurban roads presented at the meeting of tho Commercial Com-mercial club Tuesday evening, and now on file in the office of tho secretary. sec-retary. n n n ARE THER JUST BEHIND THE TIMES? In the rush nnd hurry of modern life do wethlnk as much as wo might of the happiness of those who aro growing old. They 'have lost so much Their youth, often their health, most of tho friends nnd companions who started with them on life's Journey, Jour-ney, and yet we often grudge them the brightness and Joy wo might so easily eas-ily put Into their lives. We will not stay to hear the recollections of old and happy days which they lovo to toll us, wo let them seo so plainly that their day is over, and ours has come! That those who havo borne tho burden nnd heat of tho day, tolled nnd struggled nnd worn themselves out for others, should bo left to feel lonely nnd neglected Is sorrowful. We can and ought, each and all, in out own place nnd way, do something tc bring the glow of summer nnd tho re membrance of tho days of roses am love Into tho lives fast nearlng their winter nndthclr end, AmerlcniL ICnglc. D D (' Mean Trick. A "Mississippi, man bclioved, to be dead woke up and admired the fldwerg his friends bnd sent lilm. Some of, them probably .felt Hko sending blm the bills. |