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TRUTHS.
Samuel Thurman is an able lawyer
Hut it is safe to say that if lie hadn't
been a Mormon he wouldn't have
. been employed to defend Chief of
Police Sheets.
Lewis II. llccson, who for a num
ber of yeacrs has ably conducted the
mining department of the Dcserct
News, will today sever his connection
with that paper in order to entci the
stock and mining brokerage business
' in partnership with Louis T. Gordon.
The firm name will be Gordon & Bee
son with offices in the Herald Build
W ing. Mr. Gordon was the discoverer
of the Round Mountain Mining dis
trict, from which he reaped a golden
harvest.
Mayor Thompson, in his annual
message, the Tribune says takes
special pride in the excellent showing
of econmony and cflicicncy in the
various departments of the city gov
ernment. It would be interesting to
hear what the Mayor and the Tribune
1 would consider extravagance and
inefficiency. Presurnrbly special ef
ficiency is exemplified in the police
i and the street departments.
Miss Blanche Kimball entertained
I the Bridge Club Monday at her home
j on Main street.
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I Speaker Joseph of the House of
1 . Representatives is taking a course
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of athletics under the direction of
' Captain C. Vandcwatering. Harry
has perfected himself in dumb bell
and other elementary exercises and
is now going in for boxing. Whether
be will need the latter art in keeping
order in the House during the last
days of the legislative session re
mains to be seen. Captain Vaudc-
watering is director of physical cul
ture at the Alta Club and is very
competent in his profession He
fought on the Boer s;dc in the war
in South Africa some years ao, and
gained distinction ' an officer
The Tiibune is about ihe biggest
grafter the city has to contend with
at the present moment. The city pays
the Tribune 6oc. an inch per inser
tion for the publication of legal no
tices, while the county which adver
tises for bids and gives the business
to the lowest bidder gets its legal
priitting done for about ioc. an inch.
If the members of the legislature
want to do the taxpajers of Salt Lake
a service they should enact a short
bill making it compulsory on the city
officials to advertise for biJs for pub
lishing legal notices and directing that
the lowest bidder should get the
work. The Tribune has as nice a
graft as anybody could desire. No
wonder it yells about patriotism and
the great efficiency and economy of
the city government.
State Senator Benncr X. Snii'h it
appears, has come to the conclusion
that he made a great mistake in de
manding a legislative investigation of
the official acts of Clerk Anderson of
the State Land board. It was noth
ing but raising a tempest in a tea
pot. If Mr. Anderson has violated
the ethics of his office (and that is
the most serious charge against him)
the Land board has sufficient juris
diction to deal with the matter, and
as a matter of fact, had taken steps
to do so. Why the legislature should
be burdened with such a trivial mat
ter is not quite clear. The legislative
investigation, it would appear, has
lost its vigor for two reasons. First,
Mr. Anderson's case was too small a
matter in itself to require their at
tention and second, (he investigation
of Mr. Anderson's acts might have
involved others who arc good friends
of Senator Smith. Mr. Smith should
either not have started the investi
gation or having started it he should
have pushed it to a finish.
A good tine story is going the
rounds at the expense of Kx-Scnators
Kcams, Cannon and Dubois. A while
ago the two latter Kxs made over
tures to an influential gentleman who
is a republican and a Gentile, with
the view of enlisting his aid to induce
the Gentiles who have hitherto re
fused to join the Kearns band wagon
to get aboard and thus consolidate
the Gentiles in an anti-Mormon fight
so that Tom Kearn could get re
venge on the Mormon church and
people because they would not re
elect him to the United States Sen
ate. The gentleman so approached
told the Ex-Senators that before neg
otiations looking to that end could
be opened it would be necessary for
them to hire a good sized hall and
invite all the Gentiles whom Kcams
and the Tribune had slandered and
villified, and that Tom would be ihcre
also and go down on his knees before
each one and humbly beg forgiveness.
The reply of the ILxs was that was
impossible. "I knew that," said the
gentleman and the interview abruptly
terminated. '
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Elsewhere in this issue of Truth is
an article on taxation, disapproving
of the plan before the legislature to
raise the limit of taxation. The limit
in our opinion should be lowered in
stead of raised. Up to 1896 the limit
of county tax was 3 mills with which
the counties got along very well. In
1896 the limit was raised to 5 mills,
and the actual levy for some years
has been 4'i mills. The advance was
made because the county a few years
ago had large expenses to nlccl on
account of the building and furnishing
of the city and county building. It
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Maryland Casualty Company. Fidelity dfc Deposit Company, or Baltimore.
Allemannla Fire Insurance Company. Guardian Fire Insurance Company. German Fire Insurance Company ol Pittsburg.
Southern Insurance Company of New Orleans. Spring Garden Ins. Co. of Fhll.
These Fire Companies not Involved In San Francisco Disaster.
Liability, Fire, Accident, Casualty, Llevator,
Burglary, Plate Glass, Steam Boiler and Bonds
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Mutual Sav. Bank Building, SAN FRANOISGO,
has never been lowered since and
never will be unless the legislature
takes a hand and reduces the limit.
If the maximum taxation for the city j
was fixed at ioo mills or 200 mills or
more, the office holders would find a
way of getting away with Ihe money.
Instead of raising the limit of city
taxation three mills as the present
city council demands, the legislature
should lower it. The present city ad
ministration has squandered every
cent it could get hold of, ran the city '
in debt and now wants more. The
legislature should see that they don't j
get it.
It is a matter of wonder how the
Tribune and its satelitcs have the
effrontery to attempt to justify the
robbery of the McWhittcjrs and many
other strangers who fall victims to
the robbers and thieves who operate
here under the protection of the
police. Such brazen audacity is sel
dom seen, but when one comes to
consider it calmly and intelligently it
is not so very astonishing after all.
The fact is the city is in the relentless
grip of Tom Kcams and his gang of
crooks and-' blacklegs, and Chief of
Police Sheets has the immortal cinch
on Thomas. Sheets and a few others
on the force know Tom's secrets.
They for years have done his dirty
work, and if Kearns and the Tribune
"went back on them," they would
squeal and utterly ruin their master.
Places have to sonic extent been
changed, the servants arc now the
masters and can and do command
support and backing. The people arc
becoming more and more disgusted
with the Tribune and its gang every
day.
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Henry
Wagener
Brewing
Co.
LAGER BEER and
PORTER
Special attention given to bot
tled Beer for Family Trade.
Free Delivery to All parts
of the city.
Office:
74 E. First South St.
Phone 2:8.
