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Goodwins WeeMr 1 Vo1- 26 8ALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 19, 1816 SJJ.X IdKS OITR Xo 10 I 7b Our Readers L .HE management Cf GOODWIN'S VWEEK LY is pleased to announce that arrangements have been completed for a bigger and better Weekly. The editorial depart ment will be conducted as in the past by C. C. Goodwin, who has made GOODWIN'S WEEKLY a thinking paper for thinking people and who for fifty years has been a representative moulder of public opin ion throughout the western and intermoun tain states. Guy R. La Coste, for the past year one of the editors of the Telegram and who, preceding his arrival in Salt Lake, was prominently iden tified with the leading papers of St. Louis and Denver, Joins the editor ial staff and will write exclusively for the WEEKLY. Amy Armstrong, whose authoritative ar ticles in the woman's world combined with a rare felicity of expres sion, have made her f name a household word throughout the state, will contribute exclu sively to these columns. Baron Chevrial " will write the Inside story of society each week, with some side lights on its fads and foibles, another exclu- ' sive feature of the WEEKLY. T. L. Holman, who is one of the best posted I men on the political sit uation in the city and state, will contribute to the political depart tf ment, and J. T. Good win will edit a page de voted to the stock mar ket and have something to say In other depart ments of the paper. In addition to the above, special writers Successful Men of Utah : - -5 JBF.BSPx''' j!?lissHH3B &?; j.;i i!,;:1'!1 T.T:lii:J;lJllii;' .vvi: .h!:!;;1!!;1,1,'.!:1!;,;; ii'iiin. i :!,'i;ki rn.1 'i.. ;i,i i -..,i.'li.,i';.i j-,,;!!':!' iiu'ir.1!!"1!':; '. '' "V AVID KEITH was born in Mabou, Cape Breton Island, May 27th, 1847. While yet a boy he foull(1 employment in the coal mines near his homo. Before he reached his majority he VM 9 wen; t sea L-- Reaching a port of the United States, lie attempted to enlist in the Union army in the great war, but his sea captain, who liked him, put an estoppel on that by giving away the fact that he was under age. He Anally reached California, from where in 1867 he drifted to Nevada. For a time he was "con struction boss" on-the old C. P. railroad, which was then being built down the eastern slope of the Sierras, between Truckee and where Reno now is. The lure of the Comstock soon attracted him and he went to Virginia City. He at once found employment in the mines, a little later obtained the contract to sink the Caledonia shaft and still later he sank air-shaft No. 3 over the Sutro tunnel. Ho was engaged on the Comstock all through the Bonanza days. There he took his post graduate course in mining and graduated with the degree of A. M., which in his case meant "master of the art of mining." The seven years spent there broadened his vision immensely. (Continued on ipage 4) nationally famous, in- H eluding such authors as H Charles E. Van Loan, H Harry Hedrlck, Harry H B. Kennon, Jack Roylc, m :S Arthur W. Copp, Angus t H K. Nicholson, Isaac H Russel and F. B. Mc- i H Gurrin will from time to rii H time contribute to the .', H WEEKLY columns. MM HI Editorials J I TO read the dispatch- 4 H es one would imag- f H ine that the whole east H had gone insano on the H subject of prepared- j H ness, from President "" H Wilson down. , H If the men across the ''':'! Atlantic receive the '-H same news, it must be vH with them as it was ll'l with the gods on Olym- tj" H pus when Vulcan raised ,jj H his yell at Mars, and & H "Unextinguished "laugh- jH ter filled the skies." H -l Think of it! We are three thousand miles 4 H front any foe on the H east, forty-five hundred 4 ,H miles from any possible H foe on the west We , H have a navy enough to H biitertain any force that ' M could come from either , H way. We could not be H surprised, for the wire- & H less is in perfect work- M ing order. Moreover, H Japan is in no condition H to make an offensive H war forty-live hundred ' H smiles from her nearest H base. 'H Again, we have no H cause of quarrel with H I The English and H French navies are busy H keeping the navy of H Germany blockaded. H Moreover, we have no ' 1 I quarrel with either of 1 I those powers. 1 H But to believe the "-" H news, so soon as the H present great war clos- H es, all the belligerents B of Europe will sudden- H ly become brothers and H join their forces to , H come over and smash H ' H