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Show SALT LAKE DEMOCRATS OF UTAH AFTER OFFICE Salt Lake. April 5. Many questions of importance will romo before the Mate Democratic comtntttee when it rocpts this afternoon Among them is tho consideration of a flood of application:-, from office Cekers It Is probable, too. thai a Democratic newspaper news-paper for Salt Lake Will be discussed at considerable lenili Although word . - teceived a few days ago that W R. Wallace would he home from ! Washington today, it It not considered consid-ered probable that be will arrixe for tbe meeting. The question of the "right man' !o succeed each of the present Republican Re-publican incumbents in the various federal offices in the state is a delicate del-icate one, and it Is considered prob able that the applications will be turned over to a subcommittee of the state committee, the subcommittee to i make its recommendations to the state I body at a later date Fudso S R Thurman, chairman of i Hie state committee, said last night I that be would favor such a plan, as he believed that tho lifting process I was too complicated and lengthy to be bandied by the whole committee. At present the keenest eompeti- j tion oeems to exist for the olflce of United States marshal to succeed James II Anderson, the incumbent. Eleven avowed candidates are now I in the field. They are Aquila Nebe-kct. Nebe-kct. Rich county; R R. Tanner. Bea- l ver county, L R. Martineau, Salt Lake county; Wilford Giles. Utah j county; Newton Farr, Salt Lake ! count , .1 Edwards. Sanpete county, coun-ty, Samuel Dowse, Salt Lake county. coun-ty. John P. Howell, Silt hake coun- I ty; L. K. Abbott, Davis county, Jed Mercer, Utah county, and Joseph Kim- ' ball, Salt Lake county. Four candidates have been announced an-nounced for the office of district at-torne at-torne to succeed Hiram 12. Booth 1 All of them are said to have strong following. They are Frank F Stephens, Steph-ens, A. J Weber. W. V. Ray and Ray Van Colt. T. D Johnson has also been mentioned as a possible candidate, although he has not an- 1 aounccd the fact. Only two candidates, so far as is I known, remain in the field for the postmaatership. They are Noble Wur- rum, present city recorder, and David Da-vid C. Dunbar, a prominent member of the party in the state. Page in the Field A number of applications for tbe office of surveyor general of Utah ! will also confront the state Ic-aders ' Tbe leading aspirants at present seem i to he Samuel Li Page of Flute county, coun-ty, member of the state legislature ! lor three terms, and I. C. Thoreson. W U. Jennings is also B candidate end it is suggested that there may be , one or two dark horses. County Chairman T P. Thomas and Brigbam T Pyper seem to he the on- , ly two candidates left for the office of collector of the port for Salt Lake I City. Douglas Swan is tbe only candi- date prominently mentioned for the I office of collector of Internal revenue. reve-nue. There Is a strong movement among the Democrats of Montana to I get this position for i candidate from that state, and it is uot considered improbable that President Wilson will make the change wheu the appoi.it- ment is made. John Clark, secretary of the state committee, is the only avowed cau- 1 didate for the office of United States assayer to succeed J U. Eldredge Jt-It Jt-It Is tbe opinion of some of the members of the state committee that (Mark, who is at present secretary or the committee, is entitled to some- 1 thing better owing to the fact that it Is not improbable that the local office I may soon be discontinued. SAYS PACKAGES ARE TOO SMALL Salt Lake. April A An attempt will in all probably he made by SI itO Food and Dairy Commissioner ! Hansen and City Sealer of Weights ! and Measures Farr to prevent the sale In this city of butter packages containing only flfleen ounces Prac-tlcally Prac-tlcally all of tbe butter manufacturers manufactur-ers are putting up butter In fifteen-1 mince packages whirl.. Mr Farr says. ,ro 1?ins sold for pound nackaces or in othor words for sixteen ounces. Under the state law the manufacturers manufac-turers have the right to put up the fifteen-ounce package, when it le thus 1 labeled, and they cannot be reached, but it Is tbe belief of Mr PaiT that ! toe grocer who sells the package for ia pound can be reached bN the iong irm of tho law and he proves to reach him. y.r Farr estimates that the people of the clt3 r' N'ing roobeii of 80 dio b: the p.ircluc.-'e f short -weigh; butt-ex Mr. v-rr adds that When hoi sewiyes and otheT purchasers go ; into a fijooerv store and ordr a Doond of butter they are given tie nfteen-oance package for a pound and arc thereby cheated out of one ounce j M Smith o' the United Grocery I cmpaBv'and P. J Loess of the Lncaa I company expressed loe opinion yea-itcrday yea-itcrday tbl the Bale o flften-ouncc 1 oackages o'. butter for a pound snojld . i rot bo allow ed. Mr Sm'th snid it was his dc-dro to ustomerf. sixteen ounces of batter bat-ter when they buy a pound and U lDo!esalers do not comiK wlta tbe ; gad put sixteen ounce In potrac ! oec: gc bo will either be compel!?-: to have butter shinned to him from foreign points or will stop the sale of ; butter altogether Mr Lucas heartily approved ot selling a full slxtecn-ouncc pound ot butter, and gald that if retailers per-! jsist in selling short pounds someone Should he marie an example of He; says there is no more re :.on lor sell-htg sell-htg fliieen ounces of Imttr lor a :,and than in giving eleven eus to a customer who orders a dozen |