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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
WAR UPON HIGH PRICES.

| We hope the efforts OF the ladies who
have undertaken to bring butter down
Will be crowned with success, and II
they are determined to do without rath-
er than paying an exorbitant price,
they will come very near accomplishing
their object And to do without Is
perfectly legitimate mode OF warfare
against the high prices OF combinations
and trusts. But what about the high
prices on other commodities? We can
not do without everything.
Salt Lake City has the reputation OF
being the most expensive city in the
Union. in which to live. That is the
verdict of travellers, Remarks to that
effect can be heard at hotels, restau-
rants. and in railroad cars, and 1t is
probably true. The laboring man es-
pecially knows how difficult 1t Is to
make both ends meet. notwithstanding
steady employment and reasonably high
wages 1t is a shame that the City
should have acquired this reputation.
1t would be a mistake to blamo the
valling high cost of living. They would
Just as soon sell their goods cheap as
not. Salt Lake shares with the rest OF
the country the conditions entailed by
the wave of prosperity as 1t has been
called, and In addition to that the peo-
pie hero have to support an admins
tration that has proved itself utterly
Incompetent and reckless in expendi-
lures Such an administration costs
money. and that money is taken out OF
the earnings of tho consumers. 1t Is
paid for in the form of higher rents,
increased prices on butter and egSs,
meat, clothes. and other ineoessaries of
life. The house owner, the banker, the
grocer. the butcher, etc. are made, as IL
were. the agents Of the ..Amertcan'
party to collect from their patrons
money with which to pay for an ex-
travagent. administration, The. land
to the sums the renters pay him. The
merchant Is taxed. and he adds the tax
to the cost of the goods he sells. The
grocer and butcher, as all other 'busi-
ness mon. are taxed exorbitantly: the
amount Is added to the cost of the food.
1t is necessarily SO. 1t can be no other
way. But that Is the reason why Salt
Lake Is more expensive to live in than
other cities. The people pay for an ad-
ministration that cares nothing for the
people except as they can be used as
mich COWS. 4ll aaitE haA hs4.ss-.
We hope the war against high prices
will go on. II there are trusts and ille-
gal combinations they should be ex-
posed and punished But . first of all.
the extravaganza of the administration
should be. checked II We. had "a COM
petent business administration, tho coat
of living would be reduced. perhaps,
twenty-five per cent. --,7rs-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Some tlrno after the death In 1882 Of
Thurlow Weed, ! chanoed to meet tho
executor and. administrator of the es-
tate, Dfr. Charles c. Clarke, who was
for many years vice president of tho
New York Central system. To him l
expressed surprise that Mr.. Weed, who
had no sostensible business except that
Of his Albany, N. Y, newspaper, should
have been able to accumulate so large
a fortune as q million one hundred
thousand dollars.
Well" said Mr.. Clarke, how he got
all that money Is very interesting
story
'"Thurlow Weed was a good deal like
Horace Greeley in one respect-any-
body could borrow money of him. Hc
seemed to have no money sense Ho
would go out In the morning with pcr-
haps twenty dollars In his pocket, and
before night 1t would be all gone. most
OF 1t being paid out in small sums to
some OF the innumerable political satel-
lites that hung around him.
AT last some Of Mr.. Weeds Albany
friends, who werc extremely good bust
ness mon, realized that something must
be donc by them to protect him In
two bankers among these conspdrators.
and one of them-a Mr.. Benedict.
think 1t was-proposed a plan to which
the others readily gave their assent.
Then they sent for Mr. Weed.
t.'ThSrlow. at the appointed hour.
walked into tho private Office where the
little group was assembled. deposited
the high stovepipe hat that he occa-
sionally wore upon the desk. and took
out some papers from Its crown. owl
IDENTIFY thinking that his friends de-
sired to talk over with him some po-
litical matter. r,s1it-
"'Mr. Weed asked Mr.. Benedict.
how much money do you think you
could get together IL you turned into
money everything you possess except
your newspaper and your household
furniture?
e''Do you want to borrow any?' be-
gan Thurlow, speaking in fun. Then
he caught the serious intent of the
gathering. Well he said. after
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Lr<.r-
him in his leisure eight hours for
unless he has this sort OF culture ms
unspsnt energy Will md vent 70 '"e
dctriment OF his neighbors and his rs-
ton as well as TO his own desraoa-
tlon.s .at .aEr .sa,s
still more are these elements 'neces-
sary In the training of the lawyer. the
doctor. the teacher. whose power ior
good or evil in society is so muon
greater than that Of the industr1aiist'
1t must be conceded that DR.. SuS-
zallo's argument is as sound as ills
far reaching. and that culture can not
be denIed to the masses without en-
failing vast losses. burdens, and dan
gers upon organized society ITSELF
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

moments mental calculation, at a
rough guess I think could turn into
forty thousand dollars everything I
possess except my newspaper and my
home So, Isss.Dp -3-isr7
Very good replied Mr.. Benedict
We have been talking over your mat
tors, Mr.. Weed and IL seems to US
that you are little reckless with your
money. You are so generous that you
never can say no to an application for
loan. Il don't think you know exactly
where you stand. ga -As.sI Is y
so we have been considering
whether. in view of your4imPortance
as public man and as a Journalist,
your friends ought not to look after
your money matters a little.4And- we
are going to make proposition to
you You turn into cash everything
that you can and bring US the money.
Let us handle your estate for you; and
don't you make any lnvestm eL2ts
with any money you may hereafter get
without consulting with us. In this
way we who are your fricnds will see
to tt that you will have something for
your old age. VIII you do it9' g.
"Thurlow thought moment. Yes
he said ,.-
"One day. about ten years after
Thurlow had placed his forty thou
sand dollars In tho hands OF his
lriouoS tn6y sent TOT hlm lot the sec
ond time. C-t. i.-.t ot 4 t- soe
Mr.. Weed they said. an all these
years that we. have been handling
your money you have never asked us
question about what we are doing
with 1t. But now VIC think it's time to
make a settlement, especially since
you have become dircreet and know
how to handle your own financial af-
fairs. Here Is this statement. 1t shows
that there stands to your credit with
us the equivalent of six hundred thou
sand dollars, most OF 1t In good stocks
and bonds ~ sr...7i-o ogl -- l.A
''Thurlow was thunderstruck His
friends had made him rich. m And
through his judicious investment of
this sum of money. and by the ap-
probation OF the securities that he
bought, his estate inventoried after
his death million. one hundred thou
sand dollars"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

California papers tell about the open
Ing of San Francisco hotel and say
that on that occasion women flocked
tions' began to give way; that they
stood at the bar in rows; that they
drank and shook -dice-grandmothc
mothers and naidens.'" That is evil
IDENTIFY the condition to which Salt Lake
City will -be brought, unless the de-
cent part of the population rises in
protest against the iniquities practised
here under the rule of the so-called
American s->-~
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

can't afford to buy himself q new hat
Ye've caused tn boost In prices. WhIn
ye had less wurrk we ato less an wore
cut fewer clothes. Whin ye got a steady
job ye raided tn grocery store, tn
price Nv pork chops took a sudden leap
an ewhin tn profissor at Harvard wint
down to tn foreman an got his pay
check that had been ample while We
were- unemployed he found har'ly
enough in 1t to pay tn butchers bills.
When ten millyon iv -th' likes iv We
gets twinty-hve cents a day more pay
there's just that much added to what II
costs ivrybody TO i've
But what am goin' to do about
lt2' said Mr.. Hennessy. ..t-s
Some pollytickal economists ara in
favor iv ye're not eatin'.' said Mr..
Dooley. wud say stop wurrkIn' If IL
gives ye such an appetite"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
AN EVERLASTING PAVEMENT
Chicarol Nonus

A new paving material. devised by a
French engineer. consists of tho iron
shavings from lathes and similar ma
chinos, which are mixed with cement,
making combination which Is almost
indestructible. In making paving blocks
according to this process a mold is
filled with these iron shavings and the
dntersticcs filed with cement grout
sufficiently fluid to- penetrate the entire
mass. The blocks thus formed are said
to possess great strength and resistance
to-sbrasion and also twhat seems less
credtble) elasticity under blows or Jar
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

The efforts of Mayor Bransford and
the Play Ground association to desig-
nate coasting hills where boys and girls.
and some mature boys and girls, may
coast with the greatest amount OF
safety, is most copnmendableA Our city
abounds in natural toboggan slides,
and they should be utilized to the ut
most extent for that most exhilirating oh
winter sports. sliding down hill
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

The State pure food commissioner Is
holding an impure food exhibit This
seems absolutely unnecessary as any
one can see such an exhibit any day he
chooses to visit q market where food
products are on sale.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
Next to None

Hardupi There was a time when peo-
pie used to say that had more money
than brains. but they can't say that
now.,i f-i-f --ri
Wife. Why not?
Hardup. Because I've como down to
my last shilling. ''7" -
Wife, you've still got a shilling
Illustrated Bits.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

1t seems that the intercepting sewer
has not been repaired. after all. There
are more holes. Never mind! Would
another $4,000 OF the peoples taxes
stop the new leakage7 The council
should not be backward about showing
a few thousand dollars of money be-
longing to others, into the sewer.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

When a railroad rate is unreasonable
in a specie case In a given territory
1t is also unreasonable from all points
In the territory that took the same
rate on traffic transported under sim
liar circumstances and conditions, ac-
cording to the interstate commerce
commission. In other words, unreason-
ablo in uno. unreasonable in omnibus.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
Modern Version.

President Hadley of Yale. visiting
a childrens school in Bridgeport. once
asked a little boy who Esau was.
The. lads reply was astonishing.
"Esau," said he. 7"was the author Of
a book of fables. and he sold his copy
right for bottle OF potash. -
WaShinpton Post. ..---..- -------
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

nisappropriation stopped. moro work
can be done at less cost than now,
and that the present taxos and revenue
are ample for ell the legitimate needs
of tho city"
Suppose an honest and competent
commission wcre to inquire into the
conditions prevailing in our City dur
ing American misrule. Would not
such q commission be justified In COPY
ing this report almost verbatim? Talk
about high prices. 1t Is the ''Ameri-
can" government for which the citi-
zcns pay.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

.If tho penalty clause is not to be
enforced, what Is it there for?' asks
a morning contemporary 1t Is there
for the same reason that Becky Sharp
wanted chaperon-for appearances
sake
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Did that Philadelphia man give his
wife a quarters of million dol
lars Christmas present? There was
much talk about the matter before
Christmas. but there has been an omin-
GUS silence since
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

The advance in tho price of butter
is to equnlize the loss in weight. IL
Is wrong to complain OF such methods
for every one knows that butter would
not melt in the mouths of the butter
men,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
The Real Facts

A woman went to a bank She no.
ticed there was a new face behind
the window HAS the cashier gone
away to take q rest?" she inquired.
NO" replied the new man; s'he has
gone away to avoid it"-Chicago
Tribune --.-.-. -------.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

.A-larger police forco is one of the
needs of the "American" party. .Po-
licemen are. handy at election time, to
work for the party and draw pay from
the CITY, --. ,-..,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

ring. Tests made of such blocks are
said to have shown a resistance TO
of about 10000 pounds
square inch and at a tensile strength
four times that of neat cement.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
JUST FOR FUN
A Glover Writer.

Patrice. You say she is q clever
writer? -i-
Patience Very Why, I've known her
to use a fountain pen without getting
ink all over her fingers.-Y onkcrs
Statesman
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

'Tnsurgent' he Is, Senator La Fol-
lette has no more sympathy for Estra-
do than President Taft has.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
His Status.

What makes that young officer so
bluo?"
1T don't know, but perhaps II is
because he Is submarine. ."-Balt-
more American.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
A Conundrurn.
greatest

Bones-Who was the greatest
flnancier ever known2 ss tf h,A
Exchange-Noah: because he fioated
his stock when the whole world was
in liquidation.-Tit-BitS
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
THE FRIENDS WHO MADE THURLow WEED RICH.
BY ]. E. Edwards.

Incidents that
Edwards Init
with many
81 Yesterday
pSTtaht history
a distinctive value all their
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
Provided For,

Caller-Snip Sc Co. have employed
me to collect the bill you owe them.
Owens-You are to be congratulated.
Sir. on securing q permanent position.
=Tit-Bits.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

s"Why does 1t cost so much to live?
aeks an exchange. Because there Is
such great prosperity, of course.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
Used EN- All Up.

At any rate, most all the bad things
were said about the late King of Bel
gium before he died.-C1ncinnati
Times-Star.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

According to Zelaya's' claims. Mad
riz at best is but the heir apparent.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

!, tMadriz has a moro pleasing counter
ance, than Estrada. If newspaper pic
lures of the two may be relied upon.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Some Of the enthusiastic reformers
would confer q public benefit by re-
forming Themselves. ---.-.--
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

with no accident md doesn't get sick
He should have added another II: II
man doesn't de .--~
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

expose money from the government
Parr adventure, he will.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Once In q while the Sultan heeds
an ultimatum. For instance, when his
cabinet resigns.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

The thing to do In tho case of DR..
Cook Is to send out relief expedi-
tion.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Zelaya calls himself ''titular presi-
dent" of Nicaragua That Isn't what
other people call him.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Everything is being kept in cold
storage this kind OF weather.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30
No Getting Around II.

Virginia can't deny. anyhow, that it
has three men who are willing to
marry Aunt Carrie Nation.-Chicago
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Fair. weather tomorrow" has come
to mean cold weather tomorrow.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

According to .Brokaw's standard Rir
Van Wrinkle was not a drinker.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

There are only two hundred In San
Franciscos "400." Multum in parvo,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

= Minister WI says that man ought
to live two hundred years If he meets
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

The home-stretch is just before ono
has to get up for breakfast
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

As yet the switchmen strikers haven't
made much of a hit.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-30

Sometimes the straight-laced arc
tight-laced.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12

of attending the funeral of Brother
R l.. johnson. Sojourning brethren
fraternally invited. 5. ]. Nicholson.
w. NJ.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12
At THE THEATERS

Both the Coliseum and Majestic were
thronged at both shows last night. The
Coliseum had the largest Saturday
night attendance for the last five
weeks. Sherlock and Holmes proved
the best act of the evening. The COM
ing week Phoenix will have two strong
bills AL Bini at the Majestic viii
prove the great attraction that he has
been all down the coast. GlasscOck's
three trick elephants at the Coliseum
need no introduction An act that can
make good in Chicago for six weeks
running can certainly draw a packed
house every night. The Coliseum
will probably enlarge the house for
the week.
The Grand opens with a vaudeville
bill Tuesday evening.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12
Majestic.

Mile Wanda and her dog tricksters
lead the bill here and it is an act that
pleases the women and children espe-
cially.
Jack Harrington in a cartoon act de-
picts several clever reverse chalk
pictures that have made good.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12
CR|TTEAToN HOME
ORGANIZER HERE
Miss Brandt, National Organizer Has
Called a Heeting of the Board
for Next Monday
Morning.

| Phoenix has the only Crittentor
Home in either Arizona or New Mex
leo A large and substantial home
with, room, airy, sanitary bedrooms
| all neatly and artistically furnished
| throughout One of the best homes
for friendless girls and women in the
southwest. Phoenix can well be proud
of it, And proud of the fact that
there is such an exceptionally large
field of work for the home. The home
should be filled to am over lowing and
there should be demands made for
larger quarters for surely a territory
SO large necessitates such demands,
and Phoenix would be only TO glad to
fulfill them.
But the home is empty. Most of
the white beds are made day after
day waiting for some one To sleep in
Them but no one cofses. There are
chickens on the place to furnish eggs
and tender mest-a hundred chickens
There are cows on the place which
give fresh milk every day. But no
is growing overly fat because of a
lack of exercise. \ big hcme built for
the express purpose of helping those
who need and crave help but there
is no one To be helped Something
is wrong, for surely Phoenix can al
most herself fill the home to say
nothing of Tucson. Globe Prescott,
Douglass, Albuquerque. and a hundred
other towns in the two territories
which have frIeldisss .irlc and w1m-
en- who desire to lead a better life
and would like nothing better than to
be in the Crittenton Home in Phoenix.
Something will be done at once.
Miss Virginia Lee Brandt. national
travelling secretary for the Crittenton
Homes arrived in Phoenix Thursday
and hos started an investigation. Mrs
Jones of Pasadena, an earnest worker
more for the love of the work than
because of a lack of finances has
been acting as matrOn Of the Home
here for some time since the leaving
of the former matron but will return
to her large home at Pasadena in a
few days. and Miss Brandt will have
charge of the Home until a new mat
ron is found. Invest cations will con-
tinue in the meantin.H and a new or
der of things WI be naugurated
which will give the C:ittenton move
ment n new impetus. A meeting of
the board of directors will be held at
the Home Monday morning at 10
O'Clock. At this meeting it is UNDER
stood that the situation will be dis
cussed thoroughly. Directors of the
board, who since having been elected
have found the work for the Home
too much with their other business
obligations. win have chance to re-
sign should they desire to do so. al
though Miss Brandt stated yesterday
afternoon that she wanted IL clearly
understood tha= n chance to resign
did not have n note of imperativeness
in it. II will simply be meeting to
take new start and what may de-
velop is not Known.
Miss Brandt also announces that
meetings viii be held at the Home
every evening this week for the pur-
pose of arousing interest.
Miss Brandt is young and also very
attractive. II is a pleasure to meet
her, not only for her personal charms
bue because of her new ideas Of the
work. ideas that have worked wonders
all over the country in the Crittenton
work.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12
SAN FRANCISCO VETERINARY
COLlEGE-

Catalog mailes ree. DR.. Keane,
1918 Market St.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12
BYRON sp sSa

Guarantees to cure rheumatic govt and
sciatica where no other organic disease
exists. 9 1-2 hours from San Francisco.
Buy tickets and check baggage direct to
Byron. Cal. Delightful environment: one
of California's best hotels. Address Man
aser Byron Hot Springs Hotel p. o..
Cal, for booklet.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12

Brescia. Italy. Sept 10.-There was
no aeroplane flight today on account
of high wind. The crowd in the aearo-
drome became indignant because no
flights were made and threatened to
invade the cource. Cavalry oarbneers
repulsed the people. A committee final
~ placated them by issuing a notice
that tickets would be good for tomor-
rows exhibition.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-12
Ell PASo AUTO ACCIDENT.

FL Paso. Sept. 10.-Running at a
high rate of speed tonight an autoho-
bile came into collision with a wagon.
Five occupants of the auto were in
jured, three fatally. Judge II. j. OAR
wood suffered fractured skull and
will die.