The daily sentinel., 1905-05-17
HIT HARD

HIT HARD
The Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety must have been hit hard by the
exposures of young Hyde's manner
of investing the funds of that great
association and by Tom Lawson's ex-
posures Every day this Office is in
receipt of letter of some kind from
some journal or other soliciting the
publication of an answer to Lawson
or giving the side of the Equitable
st. George Kempson, editor of the
New York Insurance Journal. very
graciously sends the office a copy OF
that journal, and says that anything
contained therein relating to the re-
cent troubles of the Equitable. which
is fully set forth from an Equitable
standpoint in the journal and for
which doubtless the Journal gets big
pay. may be copied without further
consent.
St. George Kempson may think
that the people of the west, and es-
pecially the newspaper men, are ex-
tremely gullible; but they are not so
soft as to take up and repeat arti-
cles for which that publication un-
doubtedly gets big pay from the
Equitable. under the delightful lit
tie commonplace and subterfuge that
the stuff that appears in the New
York Insurance Journal may be pub
lished with or without credit.
If st. George wants to boost the
| business of the Equitable, which has
received such severe shock lately.
let him send on his stun and pay for
| IL like a man.
90.
Whether Nan Patterson was gull
| ty or whether she was not guilty, it
would seem that Judge Davis of the
New York supreme court. who charg-
es. since her trial. that she was gull
| ty of killing Caesar Young, is in bad
taste. 1t is his business to maintain
the verdict whatever it may be. with
out expressing his judgment upon
the matter.
90.
Sheriff Ed Bell of Cripple Creek
was held up by armed desperadoes
Monday. The tables were turned in
short order, however. later. There
is law that forbids the carrying of
concealed deadly weapons. If it was
enforced there would not be half the
crime that there is in the country
Here in Grand Junction, it is said.
| that many men carry weapons that
have no permit to do so. So far as
Mayor Bunting is concerned, he says
he will grant no permits to carry
weapons to anyone, save under con
ditions where mems lives are imper-
| illed or where they are engaged in
work where weapons are neces-
sity We do not believe that any
such conditions prevail in this city
that neoessitate men to carry con
cealed deadly weapons.
90.
Raiumaker Hatfield. who has
caused or who says he has caused
an 1S-inch rainfall in southern Cali
fornia, has been interviewed by Gar
,ett p. Serviss. the astronomer But
Seryiss found out nothing He found
Hatfield just as subtle as men are
made. without being overawed in the
least by Serviss' reputation. He
would not tell how he made rain to
fail nor would he adduce any scien-
| tific reasoning for his theory. So
Mr.. Serviss was bound to acknowl-
edge, after his interview with Hat
! Held, that the latter was not fool
by any manner of means. and doubt
less would retain his reputation as
rainmaker until it was disproved by
operations for rain, when rain would
! fail to materialize. Serviss does not
believe that Hatfield can make rain
TO fall any more than he could cause
The stars to change their course in
| the heavens.
90.
There are quite a few people who
affect to think that the Civic I'm
provement League is a more or less
fanciful or sentimental organization
/ We have heard such expressions and
have been compelled to smile at them
simply because such expressions ex-
posed the ignorance of those who
thought they were saying something
really smart. Now the truth Of the
matter is that some of the best and
most successful work in civic i'm