Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-20

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SALT LAKE DEMoc..saI o.sont Iom
0ftice-6s and II w. Second 9oa.n y. -.
- TnE4 Asvlum dSnciency bill is still In
..the hands af ,ssovernor. .Murray.-@We-take
it that ;ts return to the Legislature will
be accompanied by another veto mes
ysRY, little respect, is shown for our
navy afioat OF ashore, says the San Fran
cisco 41tc. Rear Admiral Ammen was
run down and run over by sleigh while
he was tacking across Pennsylvania
avenue last week.
"GEoaeEs q. cANNoN'si arrest by the
Federal authorities in Utah. says the
Chicago Herald. ''is considered a great
triumph because he has been in hiding
for more than year. The, next time
this Cannon goes off it will be in the
direction OF fsthe-Penitentiary." ~
THE-sacriligeeus- San Francisco Post
has this: George Q. Cannon, the cap
tured polygamist, has been released,
pending trial, on $4,000 bail. After
drawing such asheovy eharse 90 that from
him, there is small danger that this
Cannon will again 90 off prematurely.'
Poor John From Wyoming to Cali
fornia, from Washington Territory to
Arizona, he catcheth it in the neck. The
Oakland (Cal) Times has come to the
conclusion that white labor in California
has suffered long enough and if the
lovers OF all mankind wish to save Johns
soul they will have to do it either in
China or in Til. East. I - 5SAI IlAE
THE Utah Penitentiary has accommo-
dations for l50 prisoners. A week ago
the institution had 1873 inmates, and that
number has been literally augmented
, within the past few days. A few weeks
more and MARSHAL Ireland will be under
the necessity of sending the unlawful
cohab. conyicts back East to wear out
their days OF martyrdom. -
GOVERNOR HoUsER and Colonel A. T.
Saunders, says an exchange, are booked
for the Senate, or believe they are, from
Montana, il the Territory be admitted as
State Colonel Saunders is so tall that
an lrishman describing him to some one
who desired to meet him, said: "When
yez foind a man who, can wear double
barrel shot gun for trousers, that's him."
OF the $4,000 appropriated by Com
gress last March sfor- public surveys,
Utah's allotment is 10000; while Ari
zona gets 22,500, Idaho the same rs
Utah, and Montana $4,000. 1t is, re-
ported that; owing to cloud hanging
over the official conduct OF Nevada's
Surveyor-General, the allotment for that
State will mot be forwarded for some
time
THE Washington people haven't got
through talking about the appearance of
NJ. Mesia of the Spanish Legation the
other evening at a ball in knee breeches, |
silk stockings, and silver buckles at knee
and instep, There was much speculation
as to who he was One thought he might |
have just come from a fancy ball, an
other thought he might be IA star actor
from one of the theatres, and, worst of
all, he was taken fora butler and told to
bring more terrapin to staircase group.
iTALk OF religioni The Navajo Indians,
says an exchange, ''have the best supply
of any people on this Continent, for they
have seventeen different and distinct
kinds, each with its separate cult, creed,
priests and rites. In some the rites num-
ber four hundred" And the nastiest |
feature to be found in all these seventeen
distinct kinds of religion has been seized |
upon by the Mormon leaders and intro. |
duced to the world as coming from Al |
mighty God 1t should be wiped out as
with sponge.
Our new City Council have now
afforded them an excellent opportunity
TO do some work-that is, supposing them
to be something more than mere ma
chimes behind whom the Church rau-
thorities sit and pull the strings. Spring
will soon he here, and when Old Sol has |
done his work in thawing out the ground,
the city should be thoroughly cleaned of
the winters accumulation of refuse. The
Council should see that this is done
at the earliest possible moment. remem-
berng that-in cleanliness lies one pre-
ventive of disease. et
The Boston HerdId's Washington cor
respondent quotes President Cleveland as
talking as follows: 81 have tried to be
true to my own pledges and the pledges
OF my party. We both promised to di-
vorce the offices OF the country from be-
ing used for party Service. Ihave held +