The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-03

A Few Hints, Suggestions and Some
Facts.
There is no dou BIT but that the Amorines
will do their best to knife Mayor Baskin,
if one is able to form an opinion from
hints that have been dropped by several
members of the tribe lately.
A "Putrid Renaissance: SIT is
likely enough also that some criminal
prosecutions should be begun against
members ofthe council and their sopar-
ceners for deals in the sale of city prop
erty and jobs in connection with pur-
chases of land and materials. - Tribune,
dug. %. This is one of the reasons why
the Liberal party should again be given
the reins government.
The big scheme to obtain control OF the
city waterworks is still on. But little is
said about it, however, and it may be
possible for it to sleep until the early
spring. The mere mention OF the posi-
bility of the sale, however, arouses such
storm of Indignation that the men at
the bottom of it do not care to say much
about it just at present. Boise city,
Idaho, furnishes a most excellent ex-
ample right now OF what private water
companies do for city-the grasping
gang in control being DESTROYS of charg-
ing the city so much per pint for the
water used in putting out fires
Some of these days a trust will prob
ably be formed to bottle up the atmos-
phere and sell it to the people at 80 much
per Whit. In my humble opinion the
city council has as much right to sell the
control of the atmosphere in this city as
it has to. part with the water rights of
the people.
Nightwatchman Dobson had rather
novel experience the other night-he was
presented with two cigars by DR.. Bene-
dict. In company with couple of po-
licemen he was standing on the corner
discussing the best brand OF chloroform
to ba used in the capture OF burglars and
hoId-ups, and the air was full OF fragrant
smoke. All of a sudden ''Fiz-z-z!'
went the cigar. The policemen broke
and ran; Tom dropped the cigar, and
after recovering from the fright said in
his choicest English, ssI'll bet - Bene-
dict gave me that!" Benedict doesn't
deny that he inserted the heads of
couple of parlor matches in the Havanas,
but says he had no intention of causing
the only DoDson such serious fright.
There is considerable agitation in
medical circles over an editorial in THE
SUNDAY HERALD concerning certain
practices INDUCED in by men whom,
unfortunately, the law allows to tag M.
D. on the end of their names. l am not
yet ready to go into detail in a number of
these cases that have been brought to my
attention recently, because of the short
time at my command in which to gather
the facts, or corroborate the information
that has been given to me. If half the
facts have been truthfully represented,
then will a certain M. D., probably two,
who have been exacting large fees from
silly women, follow in the wake OF a
certain Rev. De Witt, who few years
ago found the boundaries of the city
entirely too narrow for him.
The report of Food Inspector Kendall
for last week, published in THE HERALD
of Sunday, was a s'corker.', He alleges
that he made in six days $50 official In
spections and condemned 1876 pounds of
food producns. Now, this reads very
wei, and gives out the impression that
the gentleman is earning his salary. But
let us see: 526 ''official'' inspections
must have been made, allowing eight
hours to day, in forty EIGHT hours, or
an average of over eighty -seven each day
of eight hours, which would be an aver
age OF eleven each hour, or one every six
minutesl
Rordame's comet can be given pointers
by Kendall how to get move on itself.
An explanation is awaited. Also what
became of the two and a half tons of
truck that the dealers were preparing
to shove down the Threats of the masses?
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