| Show legislature passed a memorial to congress against moving the colorado indians to utah 9 AT LAST the press after being lashed into lino by its evening competitor makes a toot for the poor man better lato than never is the press motto the press dropped that tribune 4 per cent premium bond business like it would a red hot poker NEW city now has decided to take in all the cities and villages villa ees in eight and she will then be the second largest city in the world london alone exceeding new york city in population if new york would annex chicago she could then boast of being the first city of the world THE CITY of ogden has men on its streets that boats salt lake by twenty five but salt lake asked alie territory for 2000 poor salt lake it brags on being all there is to utah yet she made tho poor farmer pay her half of that 2000 wo sincerely hope that 2000 will be at once distributed among chrich poor what a miserable farce this is people with millions of dollars begging for a few cents to teed her poor a A bulletin just issued shows ogden has 2737 families and 1212 of them own their own homes 1018 homes are free from mortgages while are mortgaged bather a fine record for property owners in ogden by figuring five to a family ogden would have a population of salt lake city according to the same census report has families and at five to a family would have a population of where oh where is salt lakes people this census report cuts population down 1000 and salt lakes pretty good those capital city people are they would claim the earth and a slice of alie moon it they had a chance A of the cities in lie world the size of ogden have only a volunteer fire department and there is no sense for ogden city to haven fire department that would grace a city of people it cost ogden city tor her fire department last year and this talk of injuring the fire department by cutting off two men is all rot denver was four times as large as ogden before she biad the force or spent the money ogden docs the fire department expenses should be cut down to at least 1000 per month denver paid wo believe 40 per year to certain call men and extra for every call at a firo such a system half volunteer and half lay would work all right in ogden TUB STANDARD is strictly in favor of economizing even in the fire department in the words of a prominent legislator wo would rather bo burned to death than to be taxed to death as the former ia quicker and more humane let the city council do its duty the people are at its back and approve every effort to economize A GENTLEMAN has handed us a copy of a contract which a man by the name of will snyder is asking the people of hooper to eign binding themselves to cell all alie beets they may raise for the next eix years to eaid will snyder but eaid snyder has protected himself so that while the hooper farmers must raise alie crops if snyder wants it yet snyder docs not have to bay any beets unless lie notice on or before february of each year thus binding the farmer for six years but not snyder wo would ask the farmers not to sign any contract unless they know what they are doing and alo who the man ie with whom they are dealing if the utah legislature passes a augar bounty bill and the governor does not veto it then there ie a certainty that another sugar factory will be built and it will either bo built south of provo or north of lehi and it the weber county tie theme elvea up to a salt lake becomer it may possibly work against locating the sugar factory up this way for a man would hesitate to locate a factory in a community where all the land is contracted to other parties for all the beets it might raise and yet alie other parties may hold the contracts for alie very purpose of defeating a factory being located here people who build sugar factories do not sneak among the country people for contracts they como out boldly and advertise for what they want |
