Show acknowledge receipt of an invitation to be present at the commence ment exercises of the agricultural col lexe of utah which takes place june flktti to seventh THE office of the salina sun has been moved from salina to richfield and will hereafter be known as the rich field son brother A E howard will continue to publish the sheet BO its u an eastern exchange says borne of be barter boomers haie discovered that the judge wrote part of the new ork state democratic im in 1885 that platform endorsed indorsed indor sed the cleveland od administration ebeo in office over a year and its tariff reform policy thia discovery ie not likely to I 1 elp the judge or his boom among those who recall what happened when the democratic plan of tariff reform waa put into effect IN ALL probability george B cortel yon former secretary to president lie kinley and at present at the of the new department of commerce and labor mil be the next chairman of the republican national committee the gentleman a qualifications fit him ad for this position of honor and trust though there eil i tesa taken a bbb BB 1 albany journal of recent date hayg the democrats had hoped that they would receive like support lor their proposition to tinker etli the tariff republicans of iowa they bad hoped that a platform would be adopted by the booven ion at des monies which could be ased in an at tempt to create a division of sentiment on ibe tariff issue in the republican party they hae been bitterly jis the republican party ot the whole country stands united and firm for he maintenance 01 the pie 01 protection tor american industries IT is propose 1 that there be held a drilling contest at st louis sat 8 tie denver mining reporter and e hope that the efforts now being exerted to that end will be successful it the man adment ran see its way to offer durees purees in alie a mount tM t e 10 to it will bring together in the competition the most expert drillars drillers dr illers in the united states and be an educational object lesain to many thousands of people who although interest d in mm ing hare never visited the operating mines rhose who hava a rock drilling contest know how in te resting it is such a contest undoubtedly be the means of attracting man persona from the west ho not otherwise attend WE acknowledge receipt from abna tor kearns of an abstract of tl e twelfth census a most valuable book for refer ence ahe abstract is a digest of alie tea volum nes of the last congas and i designed for the use of the general public who have not access to the main volumes voi umes or who may find it more con lenient for reference the abstract is divided into four parts population mor bality agriculture and cor responding to the four main lines of in ordered by abe census act of march ath 1890 in each part the first series of tables is for the largest urea the sec ond series is for the states and tern tones the third tor the cities the order being thus as a rule that from the greater to he less the work is quite complete and very handy by the clofe of the eek ending may says harper s weekly almost all the delegates to the republican na dional convention bad been elected more than three fourths of whom had been in peremptorily ID favor of mr roosevelt while not one of the fraction is known to intend to vote against him we are therefore justified fied in assuming that the president will receive on be first ballot a anan imona nomination we should have to go back to the second and first successful cess ful nomination of andrew jackson to find a great political party so absolutely dominated by a ingle man 10 tar as the party machinery is concerned the achievement is still more surprising when we keep in view the circumstances under ace I resident roosevelt acquired the office of chief magistrate and if we commire his triumph with the failures of tl e tour other american citi zens who became president by accident AGAIN tie glorious fourth of july u drawing near and as effort has been made in this city to prepare for its celebration the day is one which should mean more to the true american than any other on the calendar and it should never be allowed to goby nn observed the great and glorious event for which the day is held sacred must ever be kept before the people and young america especially should be taught the meaning and significance of the declaration of independence the day however always brings with it some borrow and suffering and leaves a list of killed and wounded on july ath 1903 persona were killed and 3 injured by fireworks and explosives besides people who died from tetanus following blank cartridge wound in order to Se creaso the num ber of such fatalities alie great city of chicago is going to try an experiment on next july fourth results of which will be eagerly awaited the plan Is to take the celebration out of the hands ot the email boy and run it as a muni cipal entertainment the purpose is not to stifle the patriotism of the cit heui but to bare a one safe and observance of tl e day for t purpose a corporation known as the ci amusement association baa been orga zed with a capital an this corporation will have the in c iree the chil iren will not be allowed to hindla toy antola or laree crackers or and will be watched over dunne the day by fire men doctors and policemen the city will give a erand pyrotechnic in the evening the day a festivities to close with a aham battle on the lake the celebration will coat the municipal ity a handsome sum but it is hoped will save a ew human licea |