Show WOE AT THE CAPITAL financial results fall far chort or expectations of the managers the actual fun is just commencing down at salt lake the three days performance of last week was a feeble eide chow to the delightful round of hilarity that has been set a going with in the past twenty four hours it seems that the executive board of the carnival committee have been patiently awaiting the cash amounts realized from privileges and side shows there has been no announcement as to the receipts from the sale ot seats in the tribunes bunes it will not be as announced in the salt lake papers but a great deal more as the committee have had their re spec tive ears to the ground and have heard something there is a colored gentleman located in the hedge fence somewhere the contractors on the work did not pay the laborers and mechanics engaged in the and a great roar went up on friday evening which very nearly culminated in the men serving a notice of attachment on alie beats attorneys were hired for the purpose and affidavits made the men were desperate one laborer who had toiled all week offered in the presence of a large concourse of people to sell his time for twenty five cents on the dollar others made similar declarations and after all had wasted considerable onside rable time in the region of the atlas block an appeal was made to E G rognon who promised to see what he could do and that at once jake moritz was at the beach and rognon went down there the result was after considering the situation and knowing that plenty of money would bo forthcoming mr shelp and mr moritz decided they would stand good for the amount and accordingly issued a check tor the sum due the men which was cashed and distributed that ended that incident then it appears that ou saturday evening the stands were well filled mr went down and kept cases on the northwest gate he estimates that the receipts as given out were at least short from the calculations made on that occasion whether this was the result of a lot of bogus tickets being issued or a lot of genuine being distributed or sold on the outside he cannot tell but he is certain that be has not made any miscalculations on what be asserts the whole aftermath has caused no enu of talk and many other changes are likely to be sprung the end is not yet |