The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-20

the shoulder and wrinkling his immacu-
late shirt front In order to fudge few
Inches extra,
Yes, they are telling about this. 1t is
said, and that honest and busy little man
OF Navajo blanket fame e said to be
shocked because of Judge Miners recent
ly developed propensity for double salary
and per diem.
Elder Sutherland has cotton his foot
into it with the Mormons, II Is said, be-
ingston. Livingston Is that intemperate
young man who sought Judgship OF tho
Seventh district and who is so well know
to tho voters of that district that al
though posing a Republican he lost
the district when Theodore Roosevelt ana
other candidates on the ticket carried IL
by many hundreds OF votes.
IL is said that Sutherland told IlVlngS-
ton that the reason he could not indorse
him Is because he Is q Mormon. Now tho
Mormons nre making quite stir because
Sutherland has urged this as dlsqualii-
cation
What Mormons Are Saying.
The Mormons arc saying that they were
given to understand that when Elder
George was taken into the church no
would not throw II up TO them that they
the self sacrificing Livingston, q mnn who
braved the Americans of Salt Lake and
hurled epthets at them from tho sSags
of tho Salt Lake theater in the teetn S on
considered fevorably for an appointment
in the Government service II he were not
a Mormon, is entirely beyond the pale OF
the average Saints forgiNnessr
Knives Being Whetted.
Elder George will hear something when
he comes home, and II Is said that scy-
eral knives have already been whctted In
anticipation of his early return
Just who will succeed Joseph Lippman
as United States District Attorney IS u u
bor n Tho President Is
believed to desire only honest men In that
and since he had so narrow an escape a
little while ago, 1t is likely that all nPpn,
cations from Utah Will be scrutinized
with almost religious thoroughness
1t is said that the Department Of JUS
the interest which Chief Deputy United
States Marshal smythe is alleged to have
been taking recently In an attempt 10
send postotfice inspector on on colo eoIa tT@,r, tnnr
two weeks was Investigating charges
against Postmaster Thomas, Postotitce
Inspector Sharpe and others In SAT- Lake.
and among things which he is said to
have been looking Into was the use OF
Postmaster Thomass private office and
the office of the postoiflco Inspector Tor
immoral purposes.
Unduly Active.
1t has leaked out that Postmaster
Thomas Postoflce Inspector Sharpe. Dop-
others have worked like beavers 10 at
tempt to dlsprove the charge. Whether
Symthe Is guilty or not VIII probably De
determined by representative Of tho
Department OF Justice. but 1t is charged
that he was unduly active and without
cause He. too. n Federal officer.
Something Sure to Drop.
There have been ell sorts OF doings in
Salt Lake since the visit of the special
Inspector from Washington. and while he
has been entirely too discreet TO have
permitted any one TO know the result
Of his Investigation. he Is said TO have
gone into the charges so thoroughly that
there s little doubt that something VIII
happen OF n very interesting character
before many days
One Pet Hos Lost Scalp.
In fact. one OF tho postmaster's pets
already has lost his scalp, and others arc
said TO DO thinking seriously Of taking
to the sage brush in tho meanwhile
head that wears the crown also wears
frizzled locks that for many sleepless
nights have been furrowed by hands
much occupied during the past fifty years
signing the psy-rolls of Uncle Sam.