Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-12-11

d The dlilv press OF December 9Th wa,
burdened with extracts from Secretary
Is Francis message. In all relating to
e Utah reservation matters It was signifi.
d cant. Rehipd II Is tale that will make
d all Utah howl The Utah people would
e have "howied" last week had they
:, They NAV now know it. My Wishing
I ton "grapevine" was never in the past
e delusive, nor is it now. Listenl
We have within our state big fnan-
ciers. little financiers and would be
financiers. Corporate eyes have looked
greedily upon the mineral lands on the
reservation. Different interests have
silently come together and clashed on a
mineral land lease. Yet the spirit never
died. But all the while it was nearing
that acute stage where the Survival of
the fittest" 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 go to
enhance the public welfare. That's the
polite way of putting it in print.
Now then A good three weeks ago
two people of this city went east One
of them WASH capitalist.c manipulator-
the other banker The banker was
going to New York, said the daily press. I
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 Y
and therr picked up United States s
Senator, who accompanied him to S
Washington, where they caucused with "
the other Salt Lakeron bringing to bear II
upon Secretary Francis a battery of
well trained argument and promises b
that go so far to dazzle big men and pull IL
off the plum. | forbear publishing the C;
names, nor will | specify the expense n
account represented by certain four
igures. thai the "clique" have made up
consider the money well spent-why ii
lot? in
On the reservation are rich deposits G.
f gilsonite, elatoerite. ssphaltum and ge
ther things, that would go far towards G
making a fortune for each and every N,
iember of a successful "clique" in the an
remises, and If signs or words count viz
'r aught, they have palled off the bus as
less. me
The Salt Lake Argus was hot thing
hen Tim Bloor, all alone, worked him for
If to deaths door upon 1t. To regain 70
IS health he let go of 1t, and my friend, q
lima KATE took it and essayed to run it. the
his he did-into the ground-the lines Isl,
though and action upon which 1t Ku
as reared were decidedly too heavy Ga,
r Alma to master. But now its a
tier thing than ever. and is still heat ,
y-the natural sequence to being run
such newspaper team as Kantner al,
Bloor. If II csc two bright news a,n
per men are permitted to follow lines ~,
indicated to date, they will set the
gus upon a pedestal that will be for s'e'
~, nro,d ,,o,,,,,. h.h,.,5 - east
y have gone into that shoreless and iNeV
'erless realm beyond this life. nam
be II
The Rio Grande Western will, on favo
cember 18th, abolish the office of ger
Yelling live stock agent. necessitatine to 81
retirement of the genial Lawson TO p
east temporarily. story
rs "a
he G. NJ. & St. Paul will, on the first
the year, allow General Agent
cnell to put on travelling live stock H.
mt. We will call him Jimmie Gin ~,
and let 1t go at that. tn
,ss.,. pork
tern lines is all shot to pieces, and a -
up in such earnings cannot as yet "a
. - N''' e''" - '"e A'u u " MI hogs
wise
the {
{ sincerely trust that the advance food
t of prosperity so glibly promised potasl
= the victors, will strike our young clude,
before the first of the year, else the r
Ireds of men familiar with the Glove
less done on iron rails will be given anv OF
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