Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-12-11

Salt Lake City, December 9, 1896
[Salt Lake City, by virtue of her geo.
graphical location and commercial SUI
premacy, is a great and recognized news
center, yet withal the great dailIes pub.
liShed here signally fall to chronicle
many passing and pending news mat
tiers. thus making excellent opportunity
for forty or more inter-mountain news
papers to give to the public important
news in advance of the former. The
proof of this will not be questioned by a
reading pubIic.-CoRREsPoNDENr.
The daily press of December 9Th was
burdened with extracts from Secretary
Francis message. In all relating to
Utah reservation matters It was signifi-
cant. Behind 1t is a tale that will make
all Utah howl. The Utah people would
have "hOwled" last week had they
known the true status, but they didn't.
They may now know it. My Washing
ton grapevine" was never in the past
delusive, nor is 1t now. Listenl
We have within our state big finan-
ciers, little financiers, and would.be
fnanciers. Corporate eyes have looked
greedily upon the mineral lands on the
reservation. Different interests have
silently come together and clashed on
mineral land lease. Yet the spirit never
died. But all the while 1t wac nearing
that acute stage where the Survival of
the fttest" in diplomacy would be
manifest. Washington was the end to
work 1t from, and there are men In
public life about there not averse to
standing in" on propositions that 60 to
enhance the public welfare. That's the
polite way of putting 1t In print.
Now then A good three weeks ago
two people of this city went east. One
of them was capItalist'c manipulation
the other banker. The banker was
going to New York, said the daily press.
That's as far as the d. p. went. The d.
p. did mt know any more, is the reason
why. The cold facts In the case are this
The banker went direct to Milwaukee
and there picked up a United States
Senator, who accompanied him to
Washington, where they caucused with
the other Salt Lakeron bringing to bear
upon Secretary Francis a battery of
well trained argument and promises
that go SO far to dazzle big men and pull
of the plum. torbear publishing the
names, nor will l specify the expense
account represented by certain four
figures, that the "clique" have made up
and presented them with. And they all
consider the money well spent-why
not?
On the reservation are rich deposits
of gilsonite, elatoerite. asphaltum and
other things, that would 60 far towards
making a fortune for each and every |
member of a successful "clique" In the
premises, and IL signs or words count
Tor aught, they have pulled off the bus.
mess.
The Salt Lake Argus was hot thing
when Jim Bloor, all alone, worked him.
self to deaths door upon 1t. To regain
his health he let go of 1t, and my friend.
Alma KATE took 1t and essayed to run It.
This he did-into the ground-the lines
of thought and action upon which II
was reared were decidedly too heavy
!or Alma to master. But now its a
hotter thing than ever. and is still heat.
natural sequence to being run
~ such a newspaper team as Kantner
ind Bloor. If II csc two bright news.
'aper men are permitted to follow lines
Is indicated to date, they will set the
Argus upon : pedestal that will be for
hem a proud monument behind after
hey have gone into that shoreless and
'aperless realm beyond this HE.
The Rio Grande Western will. on
December 18th, abolish the Office of