The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-30
HOTEL GOSSIP.


@ Judge A w. Lightbourn. executor Of
the New York Mail and Express, took
hold of the administered ton yesterday AFT
ternoon, tied IFS legs and roasted Id Ia a.
crisp Then he pulled I'll out OF the oven
and dissected it with the keen-edged cary-
ing tool of sarcasm He saidS
q ! he trusts owe their origin ia the high
prrotectiye tariff and their. existence to the
life blood of the individual producer. The
3tarin Is the sentry that guards the goose
that lays the golden egg and as Tong as
the Republican party IS in power the
{ 'Ihis7is-t he-house- that-Jack=built game
will be prosecuted with the utmost yig0r.
The money trust is the worst behaved of
the lot. and it has the administration by
the throat The siXty-siX banks that COM
troll the government as completely as the
throttie-valvei controls the admission of
steam into the cylinder OF an engine: Inc
greenDacks now outstanding are to be re-
called by the government and a new Sc
rieS issued through the national banks,
and the issue will be fndemnitied by q
new issue Of 2 per cent government bonds.
This Will be the nucleus for new money
trust and will put the banks In such a
position that they can loosen or tighten
the money market at will The action OF
the New York clearing house last spring
in passing the resolution to charge a conf
mission on all so-called country checks
was little short of an outrage. it really
means that they intend to concentrate
it will come in handy in case it is needed
to compel recalcitrant legislators TO come
to- time. The money trust owns the adj
ministration. But a day of reckoning is
soon, coming; the people. as Abraham Linz
coin once remarked. can't be fooled all
the time "
W. Wilson. the cattleman from Stock
ton, Tooele county, happened along yester-
day and dropped into the White house. He
spent the afternoon brushing Oft and
washing down some ar the alkalf dust that
has Eeen sitting into his clothes and throat
since last spring. 'tJeI0soptat." quoth he,
its as dry as the average prohibition
town of a Sunday out where came from.
Not a bit of rain has fallen on the THIRSTY
earth or inhabitants since last spring. the
grass has withered and shrtveled; and un-
less the clerk of the weather releases his
grasp on the strings of the rain trust the
inhabitants and their belongings Wit TOT
low suit, dry up and blow away. The cat
tie are suffering from the drought ana
the result is they are poor and tnIns ana
are selling at S35 and S45 per head, which
is SO less than the average we are de-
pendent upon the SHOWS that faW on the
Oquirrh mountains during the winter
months to fill our irrigattng reservoirs.
The precipitation was heavy last winter.
but the long-continued dry spell has ex-
hausted the supply, and unless something
happens inside of the next two weeks,
something else will happen. that's all.
L.
lace in a shop around the corner.
Governor Tanners hunting party, con-
sisting of James P. B, Van Cleve, insur-
ance commissioner, and secretary of the
Republican state committee of Illinois; ii.
w. Loveday, state game commissioner of
Illinois; c. B. Dicks. who owns extern
retired capitalist of Chicago minus the
governor, who is confined to his home by
illness arrived i'm town yesterday from
western Wyoming. where they have been
indulging in norladic pursuits for the past !
thirty days. They were loaded to the /
gunwaleS with bear and fish stories but |
encountered no difficulties in getting them
off as they were fearful they would be I
used against them as political capital in
the next state campaign. They did un- /
bosom themselves to the extent OF saying |
that there was mighty little game OF any
sort left in Jacks0nfs Hole after their |
departure. They fiShed9 all the streams |
dry; they shot every living thing in sight. |
and the near-sighted colonel of tine party Z
blew the stuffing out of some of the de- |
coy ducks. They Went east last night to
hunt for new politicab game and fish for (
compliments on their. sun-burned, robust /
appearance
a gentleman from Scranton. Pa. who /
owns vast coal interests in eastern Penn
sylvania was at the Cullen last evening. I
He said that he had studied algebra once I
upon time; was passionately ford of /
unknown quantities and preferred to re-
main one himself 50 far as newspapers I
were concerned. He was willing to tell |
the public everything he knew except his !
name. He said: Matt Quay Is power
full factor in Pennsylvania. politics. In /
spite of the combined opposition of the 1
most influential men on the other side Of I
tne fence. public opinion. and nearly all /
We newspapers. he was appointed Unfte1
States senator by Governor Stone to ill +
the vacancy caused by the deadlock in /
ne last legislature. 1t IS said that the I
that's all fiddTesticks; Quay is powerful
enough to bullyrag the senate into doing
mis- will. If they refuse to give him a /
seat he'll stand up. He will get there in /
one way If he doesn't in another.
THE industrial situation in the Penn !
sylvania coal regions echoes the song Of !
prosperity that is being cHauted by every (
state from Kansas I'd New York The /
over time. ard of course that means that /
tile coal mines are doing MEeWtse-they (
are mutually dependant, and what affects +
one branch of industry also affects the
other The coal miners in the Scranton, /
WiIkesharre and Mauch Chunk eolferfas
work on a ten-hour schedule on an aver /
age of 1T5 days in the year. and are paid 4
from SEC to S2.l5 per day. They arS COM
posed of every nationality understh sun
Greeks Turks. AITilenians, Hfndoos.
Chinese Russians, and every
thing else that was ever generated except
possibly the Esquinaux. Some of the co.. :
leriess are worked day and night when the +
demand for coal exceeds the visible SUPP
ply. but as rule the single shift Of ten
hours is employed andais sufficient 20 flll
wants. The men and operators
get along amicablys and there has not
BEEN a. strike Ilfthe Scranton mines for
years. -Allthe silk. cotton and machinery
in the Lelfgh and I4acka- T
wanna valleys are working over time tn
fill orders Tie Dickson Manufacturing