Show ault PLATFORM first the mayor and city council shall cervo without pay second the rocky mountain bell telephone oo 00 a franchise ahall not be renewed unless said company pays for eaid franchise either by a year rental or makes a aul table reduction in telephone thid if said telephone company refuses pay for the renewal of its franchise the city ceball offer the franchise for eale to the highest bidder fourth all other including street car franchises ahall pay the city a reasonable sum for the of the public streets fifth city shall own its own water system farat by einz the present system at a reasonable price or second by building a water system sixth several of the city to be consolidated and the total salary to be torn one third to one half seventh the total expenditure of the city ahall be reduced to each an extent that the city taxes shall not exceed one half 0 the present tax eighth whenever the city council proposes to pave any street in the city the abutting property holders shall have power to on the to be aeed handle the contracts and funds for such jointly with the city council committee iee on paving ninth the city council elected must to appoint the prominent citizens named by the present city coun cil as the advisory and committee on building and purchasing basing of water works tenth all property holders whether corporations or private owners must pay taxes on an equitable valuation FROM kew york around cape horn by vessel to st michaels and thence to tho Is a more venturesome tur esome undertaking than the argonauts in 19 experienced ASSISTANT secretary of alie ravy roosevelt Roo evelt ia not at all diplomatic for he is too anxious to get into print fie hail arranged for a war with spain the other day and now he is out in war talk against japan YELLOW that terrible disease which is more feared in the south in abo summer months aba email pox beema to be spreading and Is striking down the rich and poor alike but we fail to find any mckenley papers labine claim to having produced this awful scoured uree if the McKi riley administration claims all the bood the elements bring by not algo claim all the bad fanaticism is more ahn half the fighting strength of those who pay horna a to allah the mohammedan god ve read in the dispatches dir patches that the mullah who has led his followers into open revolt the british near klybor pass bad promised that the nuns of ohp british would be silenced tt ahey against the government but their filth has been broken they are now acine for peace we that before their minds were disabused of an expected interposition of a mys cerious power the quick firenz eune of Eo elande soldiers mowed down the fanatics by hundreds THE is after the tracts with heated poker that is thoe that do not amount to much why bother with tho amaba live stock exchange find the kansas chiy julve stock while abero is a creater opportunity preen teJ whereby alt trust i can be made to totter and fall at one blow why not briny the standard oil concern beare the bar ol 01 guetice end by annulling ann its charter ebow abo irueta 0 the count rythe powerful power lul that the tion hae tavor itee and is deerly tn neit tins there will be enow bud frost on the und doring the coldest days sidewalks will bo neglected and coaties coa ot ice will form all of 1 which ia a reminder of a lite decision t the iowa supreme court in a against the council bluffy court held that when ice aud enow ac on a sidewalk natural causes and is suffered to remain the is eo rogeb rounded that it is difficult for ou foot to paes over it with ordinary inary care it constitutes defect for which the city is liable THE court baa lately held that into the windows ol 01 nn occupied lighted residence at the of night when people usually retire constitutes utes indecent or insulting conduct or j behavior had ibis interpretation prevailed during the enforcement of the ed munda tucker law we surmise that more U 8 marshals and deputies would have been in jail than out peeking into the homes 0 the people |