Show fcitcrul Note ii Arrangements for the speedy erection of the gas works are going forward at an encouraging rate The City Council meets on Friday afternoon af-ternoon to deliberate on the welfare of the commonwealth Abe Newberger S Wollman and other gentlemen from New York are at the Broom Hotel E C Helfrich one of the leading Democrats Dem-ocrats and antiMormons has come down from Shoshone Idaho where he is doing a rousing business Let no Liberal Democrat or Uepub liclI1 be beguiled into the Statehood net Its all a snare with Apostolic drum accompaniment ac-companiment and underground composition composi-tion J D Negus the Utah Wyoming sphinx and Joseph A West the great railway surveyor and engineer were in earnest consultation in the Broom Hotel rotunda What does it mean THE DEMOCRAT is now the only non Mormon evening paper in Utah This is surely a hint strong enough to our Gentile Gen-tile friends to know where to get their latest and best news The placenta of the Nations birthday yesterday was visible in the accumulated accretion of heavy heads empty beer barrels vacant purses exploded firecrackers fire-crackers depopulated streets and disconsolate dis-consolate collectors A friend in Hooper tells me that inconsequence in-consequence of the newly dug artesian wells in that region the oldtime springs I are drying up so that those wells are considered as being by no means an unmixed un-mixed good Still what does it matter which hole the water comes out of Commissioner Rogers is about having an elevator put in his office in the Outline y Outli-ne block so as to save those fat bishops and asthmatic deacons the arduous trouble trou-ble of climbing the stairs There is nothing like accommodating the public and the brethren In addition to the report of the Syracuse Syra-cuse inauguration I am pleased to say that the affair was a success not only for the general public who paid but also for those who got it up viz the Ogden Firemen who deserve as much support and encouragement as a generous Ogden public can afford to give them It will 4 encourage them to go at it again On Friday evening in Union Opera House there will be a grand benefit performance per-formance of The Lancashire Lass by the Ogden Home Dramatic Company Inasmuch as the performance is in behalf be-half of Alma D Chambers one of the most popular young citizens of Ogden and a first rate man all through it is desirable that the house will be filled on that occasion to overflowing The play is good the players are well known the beneficiary is deserving and everything thus augurs favorably The Liberal County Convention of Weber to elect eight delegates for the Territorial Convention on the 20th and to nominate a ticket for county and precinct pre-cinct officers to be elected in August will be held at the County Courthouse on July 16th 11 a m S 1 0 f I i r I r I |