| Show I Test of New Government I SALT LAKE citizens will feel relieved rehe that some sonic method of getting the commission form of government government gov gov- before the thc supreme court of Utah for a definite dec decision as to its constitutionality has at nt last been agreed upon by those most interested It seems that the city recorder lies has agreed to refuse to todo do something which it is his duty to do the first firs case cas which was brought to keep him bim from doing it having been a failure The Tue moot case which it is in reality having been n agreed reed upon the supreme court it seems is to take it under Advisement Salt Sit n will 11 o T ol o n t i nt B D 11 I I n n UA u. u lU J UlU UI Ul UI 1116 Ule matter although h the general impression is that the tho law is in no danger It Jt is entirely proper that there should bo be bp a tes test of Df the law before it becomes operative if there 1 be any my doubt about its validity One wonders whether however a dangerous precedent is not being be be- ing ng established it may runy now no become the fashion in in Utah for those who feel feci aggrieved over o the provisions provis pro ions of a n new w law Jaw to agree with the indirect beneficiaries bene bene- of the statute to have hae a test of it just forI forthe for forthe I the pure amusement of the thing The Tho aggrieved agg I ones having nothing to lose and all to gain can I contemplate the outcome whether they win in or lose with that Christian fortitude which thich is said to bethe be bethe the We hallmark of high character r. r The astute m mind nd however which devised de the thc latest lat lat- lat lat- es e est cst st form which this case is to take is entitled toome to s some ome public recognition In the first case which wo w was as thrown out of court with cheerful dispatch the o wh objectors to the new form of government go bore the h heat heal eal of the day the thc burden of proof being upon t them hem Now that the cause is is to take the form of oL p petition for a writ of mandamus the newly elected c commissioners must assume the aggressive it being t their heir dut duty to make a clear case ease for the law their p position of mere defense having haying been vacated by y t them hem for one much more exposed and dangerous It is apparent that the rapidity with which the d district court grasped the first st case case by the tho hair a and nd threw it into the discard did lid not stupefy the fhe c clever lever gentlemen who are managing the Ithe fight for forthe t the he present adminis administration ration They may have ha been t temporarily shocked but they exhibit a complete r recovery th that t indicates recuperative powers power of no mean menu order r J. J Pierpont Morgan Iorga while engaged in the highly high high- l ly y religious auty fluty of passing the collection plate last Sunday at St. St Georges George's ge's Protestant Epi Episcopal copal church New York slipped fell and scattered th the money allover all nil allover over one end of the church chinch And it is a matter of record record rec rec- or ord that so opulent are the members rs of the Yest vestry at t that hat fashionable church chinch that while the eye eyo of a few of them glistened listen d none attempted to hold bold out anything on the thc senior warden i i iA A news dispatch from Kentucky carries the in information information in- in information formation that Curliss Curtiss Jett and Henry Youtsey l leading inmates inmates' of the state penitentiary are earnestly earnesty earnest earnest- l ly y competing for the presidency of of- the prison pIson Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian Endeavor Endea society It is understood that the campaign is being co conducted ducted in good order with the minimum of disturbance In Litchfield Ill Til t tic widow t 1 widow i and son of a man who drank himself to death sued saloon for damages under the law which prohibits the sale ale of liquor to an hab habitual drunkard They collected 16 by a 3 settlement of th the cs case ou out of court Now 0 every Litchfield Litchfiel smells his customers customer's breath before he sells him any liquor The Metropolitan Street Railway company compan of New York has bas ordered police for all its its its' conductors con con- the idea being suggested h by th the fact that one of the conductors recently prevented a n holdup b by sounding a whistle which he happened to o have ha It will vill certainly he be much easier easier caSler to produce the whistle than the policeman I If some city editor with a paucity of real news suggestions will ill kindly inaugurate a. a symposium on what shall we do with our surplus change he lie may perchance fill a long-felt long want c i |
