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I 4 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY
Hi SALT LAKE HERALD IS SOLD.
Ml The Salt Lake Herald has been sold to Daniol
Mn C. Jackling, and those who own the Inter-Mountain
HH Republican.
HH This announcement is absolutely authentic,
Bf and no matter what the source of the information
if may bo, the readers of this journal may be ab-
HH solutely nssured that Mr. Jackling and the crowd
BhL that contiols the church Republican rag
Hm now own the Salt Lake Herald, and that
ffj just as soon as it is possible to make
m the move the organ of the federal bunch
H if will move over to the quarters now occu-
B i pied by the Herald, and following the move the
M Herald-Republican will make its appearance, and
H there will be one less daily paper in Salt Lake.
The finishing touches are yet to come, but the
M deal was consummated on Wednesday of this
M week, and nothing now remains to be done but
1 j arrange a few of the minor details incident to the
consolidation.
I At this writing no announcement has been
made by either the Republican or the Herald, and
i it is possible that nothing will be said by either
i paper for sevc days, even the staffs on both
r being ignorant of the definite arrangement en-
tered into on Wednesday.
l The purchnse price is in the neighborhood of
I $200,000 and inasmuch as this is more than double
I what was paid by Senator Clark, although he has
w since added many cosily improvements, the ven-
J ture has not proven a bad Investment to the lIon-
m r tana senator.
i People who have been discussing the probable
sale and speculating on the successor of Senator
Sutherland have not considered the matter very
deeply, or else we are greatly mistaken.
Mr. Jackling is about as busy a man as the
President of the United States, and in the opinion
of his best friends he -would not accept the Sena
torship if it were handed to him, owing to the
enormous interests with which he is identified.
Not only do they demand practically all of his
time to protect his own interests, but there is a
very great amount of other capital Involved which
would necessitate his refusal of the honor were
it thrust upon him, for the greater part of that
money is invested simply because D. C Jackling
is on the job.
One thing is certa'n, D. C. Jackling no matter
, what he says, will bo a great power in the poli-
m I tics of the state, and whether he Is a candidate or
J not, he will probably dictate who will go to Wash-
Hf ington and who will stay at home.
M i
H I ' The Western Federation of Miners has erected
H ' a monument to the memory of the late lamented
H j ' Pettibone. It is now in order for the National
H i Association of Undertakers and the dynamite
r trust to follow suit.
H1 PRICE RAISING.
Hf. The agitation over the prospect of Salt Lake
H'rf restaurant and hotel men raising prices for ac-
Icommodations and meals during the coming G. A.
R. encampment is beginning to bear fruit.
There is nothing more contemptible nor more
indicative of the lengths to which some people
will go to get the money 'than to raise the price
of beds and food at a time such as will be upon
Bj, us in another week or two. By the same token
Hi as restaurant and hotel men claim the right to
1 raise prices on such occasions, when there is an
HI unusually heavy demand for their wares, every
HE merchant in town might say he would be justified
HR in raising prices. There is only this difference.
Hff The throngs are not absolutely obliged to buy
HB clothing and luxuries to keep alive while they are
&HI here, so that were a dry goods man, a shoe man or
In a milliner to raise rates, the move would but result
KjK in greatly cutting down the volume of their busl-
HR ness. People must sleep and eat, however, during
Hil their stay and unless they want to v, alk the streets
they pay whatever charges the hotels and rest
aurants exact.
The commission men and one or two restaur
ant and hotel keepers have already paved the way
for a raise by nicely worded little interviews stat
ing what a hard lot theirs will be during the en
campment and how much trouble they will prob
ably ha , etc, etc., all of which is preparatory
to menu cards with new prices and $2.50 rooms
for $10.
This prospective hold-up game should be
headed off before it is too late by a city ordin
ance that would make it very unhealthy for any
one to chai'ge exorbitant rates for board and room
the next month or so.
The superior quality of the mathematics ped
dled at Annapolis is evidenced by the testimony
of the young naval gentlemen in the Sutton case,
by which they prove that a man on either of
whose arms is seated a comrade may kill himself
with the third arm.
THE .EMERGENCY HOSPITALS.
There is undoubtedly enough work and worry
attendant upon the details of the arrangements for
the coming encampment without their being ad
ded to by those on the outside, but with the con
stantly recurring mention in the dailies of the
emergency hospital being prepared for the vet
eran" on the sixth floor of the Boston 'block (the
only emergency hospital to be established down
town, by the way) it is impossible to Ignore this
conclusion, that a very serious mistake has been
made in the selection of such a place for the
hospital.
A veteran drops from his horse or from the
marching ranks from heat or over-exertion
to rush an automobile to him, place
him on a stretcher and race to the Boston
block is a very easy matter. To get him through
the lobby of that building, thronged with people,
into an elevator that cannot possibly accommo
date a stretcher and then carry him to the sixth
floor and from there to the doctor's offices is
very much another and much more serious af
fair. Those who have attended past encampments
know that with two and three emergency hosp't
als and a fast automobile ambulance service that
the success of those hospitals depended almost
entirely on their accessibility. They have in
variably been located on the ground floor of
temporarily empty store buildings. There is too
much delay, danger and inconvenience in attempt
ing to take a man on a stretcher Into the lobby
of a busy office building, Into an elevator and up
sixth stores before aid can be given him.
There are at least two empty store buildings
on or near Main street that would be far better
adapted for emergency hospitals for encampment
week than the location that has apparently been
selected.
Gertrude Hoffman was arrested by the New
York police the other night for dancing the
"Spring Song" in diaphanous draperies. Gertrude
will now give herself an extra pat of powder when
dressing for the stage and proceed to make a for
tune, and some police captain will make an addi
tion to his bank deposit.
BRING A TRAFFIC SQ'UAD.
In providing for extra police officers for work
during the coming Encampment, the matter of
appointing an expert traffic squad seems to have
been entirely overlooked. Without any intention
of disparagement, there is scarcely an officer on
the entire local force that has had any experience
in handling great crowds at street crossings, and
it would be a mattgr of economv t0 ask San Fran
cisco to loan usi a dozen of L wir "finest" during
Encampment week.
KHHHjH
It was the greatest wonder in the world that
people were not killed during the circus parade
on Monday last. After it had passed, the conr
gestion at the corners of First and Second South
and Main streets was something frightful, and it
tooki at least fifteen or twenty minutes to bring
any kind of order out of the chaos which ensued,
and this without the help of any bluecoats. The
demands on the force during the Encampment
will be so much greater than on any other time
that a real traffic squad at each busy street cor
ner would be a blessing.
RATHER PERSONAL.
P. Ji Moran w'll not go to Europe until Mr.
Harrlman returns. It would not do to have them
both away from America at, the same time.
To judge from Councikaan Stewart's remarks
anent the granting of a license to the Doull drug
people, the only mistake they made was in serv
ing the councilman poor whiskey. Even the iras
cible councilinanic stomach will turn.
With Hurry Joseph in charge of the mineral
exh'bit at the State fair, we may now expect a
replica of the United Bingham demonstration how.
the dividends are paid, and also an explanatory
chart detailing the method of extracting Irish
dividends from the stockholders in Silver Shield.
If D. C. Jackling has put a large amount of
money in the Herald-Republican deal, a new prob
lem in milling presents itself. In other words
how much two per cent copper will have to be
shipped to Garfield dally to make the consolidated
journals self sustaining?
The way the Reverend Goshen persists in
keeping the block In front of his church torn up
because he can't have his own way is certainly
commendable, especially for anyone having the
beautifying of the city at heart.
At the present writing, Governor Spry has not
yet asked Cocoa Jimmy to resign his position on
the fair board. It is up to his excellency to do it,
but the chocolate dipper is an odds on favorite
with the brethren, and its a bet that he will hold
tight until the last drop of chocolate is shed.
Most of the dignity in the office of the
President's representative here is contained in
the poor sleepy old nag that Fussy Jimmy ties
outside when ho goes up in the federal building to
opon his mail.
Good mudders will find splendid going when
the Republican moves close to the Tribune on
Main street. The heaviest track will be between
the Thompson and Walker skyscrapers on the
east side of the street.
W. H. Bancroft evidently has his own good
ideas on the manner in which the new Short Line
station is to be conducted, and the lady who went
to see about the waiting room certainly found
one.
Governor Gilette is having a row with, two con
panies of San Francisco militia. This is abra't
the hardest service either commander or troops
will ever see.
The .English police are greatly worried for
fear the Czar may be killed during his coming
visit to King Edward. If it were only the Em
peror of Germany, now
A telephone girl in Philadelphia killed herself
because the manager addressed her harshly. Ho
probably got his "hello" twisted.