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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

right of appointment over TO per
sons who are not public Off
Gals. 1t seems 20 have been the
ldca that human nature would thus be
purged Of all selhshncss, all taint. all
desire for lf-seeking, for selfinterest,
ana Tor showing surrcptitious favor TO
friends and relatives. \ very little
study of human nature and of phlloso-
phy might easily have dispelled that
Illusion from the first. But those who
nave been thinking that human nature
was TO be purged by the mere fact that
1t was made non official arc due to
rude and sudden awakening.
The developments in the Senate arc
startling indeed, from the true civil
service point Of view, and yet they arc
no more than has been known right
along by those who have taken pains
TO look into the way the civil service
work was being done And human ma
ture IN the civil service authority seems
10 be Just about the same as human n3-
thre is IN Senators and representatives,
The pmglng of that human nature from
hts official character does not help II
Int, but, while affording no relief, tins
change from the official TO the uon-of-
fclnl method Of selecting candidates for
public positions has removed the mat
Ter from all responsibility 10 the people
and has covered up, so far as possible,
the manipulations of the new COVER
nors of the "spoils'' And so far as VIC
have been able to observe, the general
idea of all "reforms - Of this kind is
that # the matter can be taken away
from all responsibility to and control OF
the people, and the people kept IN lgno-
rance of what is going on, that III itself
IS 10 be considered as the great achieve
mcnt. Every effort for Il good many
years in this direction has been simply
to remove public affairs, so far as pos.
sihle, from all knowledge Of the people
and allow a set of manipulators to work
their sweet VIII without publicity or
recourse.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

finds sufficient votes at it's disposal to
turn the scale one way or the other,
according 20 its own desires or inter
ests, and without regard to or concern
lof party claims or party ties or party
principles. And so party fcalty is an
ldle cry and party loyalty u sham All
snch political arguments as the
Mouth advanced have been thrcshed
out time after time in Utah. There is
nothing new in them, there is nothing
NItaI IN them, there is nothing in them,
IN 1act' worth the least attention.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23
ATTACK UPON CIVIL SERVICE.

he exposure in The Senate of the
| way IN which the civil service incum-
| bencies Of the Census Bureau are man.
aged, rs something tnat will be q rcve.
lation TO the country at large. IT has
been supposed by the public that the
civil service examinations. promotions,
! ana positions were all proceeded with
IN good faith and that the hest and
most worthy applicants in every case,
as determined by the examinations
! upon which fitness was TO be deter.
mined, were sure of being chosen, and
| the result certified III all honesty.
1t appears, however, that in the cen
sus office all this is dclusion; that
there IS no such thing as good faith or
honesty about it; but that The civil
| service is merely n device whereby ia.
Norit,sm, ncpotism, and the same old
round of political ''spoils'' is trans.
TERED from members Of Congress TO n
body called the civil service commits.
SION, It's agents and subordinatcs These
civil service commissioners, their agents
and subordrnates, are working for them
selves the same old ''spoils,' system
which they so heartily denounced when
1t was worked by others Senator Ne.
Cumber showed that whole families are
employed IN Government departments
credited TO States which the Younger
members Of the families have never
seen. Senator Gallingcr also stated
'hat whole families were employed IN
inc Government service in Washington
Senator Lodge agreed that there was q
grave abuse IN the law apportionng the
employees of the Government among
the several States. Senator Carter said
that perjury and false certificates are
given by applicants for the Govern
ment service. And Senator McCum
Der further stated that the census office
has IN ITS employ in one bureau the wife
Of secretary of a member of Congress.
The wives of two officials of the War De-
partmcnt, and he wife of a nromincpi
official in the Treasury Department
And he concluded that "promotiop
seems to be almost wholly for women
who have husbands in the depart
ments.' And. further, that "this is
getting to be a city of official families
holdlng positions under the Govern
ment. Senator Hepburn of Idaho ad.
Nocated 4 limited tenure of Office in tho
civil service. Senators Hale and BAILEY
conceded in a general way with tbc oh.
.icctions to the civil service bord;,c
that tbc so,o., :; 0'i''.a
-. -. - q. disadvantage IN
JUS dispute with the House on this qucs.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Partisan button makers have gone on
strike; but this will be regarded bv
prosecuted man as a great blessing if
only the product may be so curtailed
as to make it impossible to put five
hundred Of the things on each and ev.
cry dress.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

denying those things that are in the
public view and that every one knows
and understands. 1t is Americapism
that has made Salt Lake City what it
is today, and it is idle for the opposi-
tlon TO Kick against the pricks,''
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23
Which is TO laugh-vcry much.

Which is TO lau9h-vcry much.
Becase we came out of the world
for the reason that we do not desire
TO be of the world. We are 10 be a
scourgc 60 the nations and a chastcn-
ing rod 10 humanity. We despisc man
kind, because mankind has strivcn with
stiff-nccked obstiuacy against our SUI
perjor plan of salvation; therefore we
came out of Babylon so that we should
not be partakcrs Of her sin or sharcrs
in her iniquity. We camc TO these
chambers of the mountains TO isolate
ourselves from the outside world, and
we would have had no Genties to come
among us if it had not been for the
powers of evil, among which American
newspapers have been the most active,
and which have enticed the ungodly into
our midst, We had hoped. look you, to
hide ourselves IN these valleys of the
mountains and to grow into such
strength as to have fulfilled the proph.
etic words of our saintcd President John
Taylor, which the Lord inspired him to
uitCi III Tue JdDeIHdcIc on lnc mum udN
of the fourth month in the year 80
\. .J.-aftcr Joscph-(profaneIy called
April 9, 1861, \. D., wherein he said:
After those poor devils in the States
kill each other. the women will all be
left, and we will go after them. They will
kill each other off. they arc bound to do
it; they will use knives. shovels, spades
and pitchforlss in doing 1t.
o, we arc the exclusively righteous
set, we are; and we want none of the
iniquities TO which these hated ''poor
devils in the States have fallen heir.
Boycott 'cm--thc reprobates,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Not necessarily baseball talk, still
the city council is engaged in discus
sion Of popular theme when they
have the question of abattoir up. But
there isn't bit Of reason why YOU
should make such frantic grab for
your hip pocket.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

1t seems that they were Chicago
women who raised the biggest row over
the stocking tax. And that would be
quite natural, too, inasinuch as they
wear so much stocking
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

There's so much carrying on in Zip
ping Zion tnat some Of us don 4 even
realize that the Rio Grande railway is
building a fine new passenger station.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Georgian is said TO have traded his
WIFE on for keg Of beer That must
have been one Of the glorious effects Of
prohibition; but it is not for us to say
which one of the traders got Hsoakcd. -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

President Taft's summer residence 10
to be at place which Oliver Wendell
Holmes called Beverly blythe Depot. If
the messages are to be as long as the
date line, we re up against il for snre
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

And another big hotel building going
lp on State street! Looks as if we all
shall be obliged to learn to say it wax
ing and sleeping: Watch us grow,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Apostle Grant is now so much afraid
Of the subject that he has even torn
the Word of Wisdom story from his
Doctrine and Covenants.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

1t does seem TO be hit undignified
for two great nations like Great Brit
ain and Germany to be making naval
faces at one another.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

selves failed at the job for "nigh on
sorty years. we eau hardly blame the
bogus prophets, seers and revelators for
desiring to turn il over to somebody
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

'fThe sun is kissing the girls with
more warmth than ever,'' says the
Baltimore American. The same may
be said Of the SON.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Spectator Patten has practically
stolen the bread of the entire country
and is still at large. If he really want
ed TO break into Jail, all he would have
to do would be 10 swipe a single loaf
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

And did you imagine for moment
that we were going TO let you forget
that the big G. A. r. National encamp-
ment is to be held here next August?
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Castro appears to be unable to find
2 resting place anywhere on the earth,
in the heavens above or in the waters
rnder the earth.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Since Mr.. Roosevelt departed for thu
jungles of Africa, Senator Tillman ap
pears to feel loud once more.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Just leave it to the office boy tc
frame up some other excuse when he
runs out OF grandmothers.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Marathon be dad-burned! Our proph-
cts have all they want TO do trying to
run the human race.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

No man can realize how really good
the world is until he lives III Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Which would you rather have, four
million dollars or bushel of wheat?
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Speaking of spring styles in women S
headgear, some Of 'em look as if you
could fry Etfapjacks' in EN-.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Well; well! So the organ Of the Nor
mon lord wants business men 20 boycott
The Tribune, does it? Having them.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Mombassa now knows how it feels to
entertain somebody who is somebody.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

Nothing new from the French Ana
MAS annex.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING APRIL 2s 1909

from evident and long-continued harsh
treatment through railroad charges.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23
Where The Tribune Is on Sale.

Murray, Utah-Excelsior Stationery 10
Ogden. Ttah.Temporar office. corner
Twenty-ffth and Washington ave"
der Ogden State Bank.
Provo, Utah-Utah News Co. .u,r,s
New York-Waldorf-A HotanHs %
Broadway and Thirty eighth street o,,as
Chicago-Auditorium hotel; Palmer "o'0e'
Aaron News Agency. .s,a
washfngton-New Willard news stano,
Omaha-Union Station news stand MeH''
and Aronsen News Co.
Kansas City-Yorna News Co. oron
Portland-Bowman News Co; oreEo"
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23
THEY DESPISE 1.-THE WORLD.

There is nothing The Tribune fears 50
much as the establishment Of truly
American conditions here The very
DcmetriuS of old il fights for its own
revenue and prestige. and ii fears that
both would suffer were citizens here 10
unite as American citizens and pull to-
Gethcr.-From DcScrct News editorial,
April II. 1903.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-23

What s the score'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
STATE NEWS BITS.
Minor Happenings Of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.

Angered at the sight of the body of
his dead daughter lying dissected on
the kitchen table Frank McGrath, q
husky st. Paul teamster, drove three
physicians from his home, striking one
of the doctors in the face, challenging
a second to fight and sending the
third rushing pellmell from the house.
The girl who was nine years of age,
had died of infantile paralysis and the
parents had consented to an autopsy,
not knowing that it involved the mutt
lation of their daughters body.
Forest fires caused loss of over
$2,000,000 during 1908 in Minnesota,
according to the annual report of For
estry Commissioner C. c. Andrews
The Chisholm fire was estimated at
$500, 900 and the remaining 100000
IS made up by all other fires, large
and small. A total of 4O5,74S acres,
mostly cut over land, was either Who'll
~ or partly burned over during the
year.
Four hundred horses participated in
the Minneapolis workhorse parade,
one of the most unique parades ever
witnessed in the Northwest. The af-
fair was given under the auspices of
the Minneapolis Humane society,"
Only delivery and other work horses
were allowed to take part for the
prizes given for various classes.
John R. Howard, superintendent and
dispensing agent, has received in
structions from the department of the
interior that all saloons doing bust.
ness within the White Earth reserva
tion be notified to close within thirty
days. The order affects saloons ut
Galloway, Ogema, Waubun and Max.
nomen.
The first sale of lots for new
townsite ever conducted by the state
was held at Gheen, st. Louis county,
and, according to State Auditor S. G..
1verson, who conducted the sale, it
was complete success.
The total valuation of personal
property in the state, exclusive of Bel.
trami county, which has not yet ap-
peared, is $193.4O5,S72. Last year the
total for the state was s193,043,319.
Attorney General Simpson says that
he may modify his ruling concerning
the use Of state money for drainage
work if 1t can be shown that public
health demands such work
j. A. Hartigan, state insurance COM
missioner, was elected president of
the National Insurance Commission
ers at Colorado Springs, Colo
After year of idleness the Chicago
Great Western car rebuilding shops
at South Park, a St Paul suburb, have
resumed operations
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.

Henry w. Fagley, until recently one
OF the owners of the Boston clothing
store at st. Paul, died at Des Moines,
Ia. after al illness of four days of
typhoid pneumonia. He was f1fty-nine
years of age.
Frank H. Tibbits, assistant general
freight agent of the Chicago Great
Western, died suddenly of cerebral
hemorrhage at his home in Chicago.
He was located in ST. Paul from 1899
to 1905.
Thomas Smith, for thirty-five years
we'll known contractor of st. Paul,
Is dead at Glendive, Mont, where he
had been engaged in business for some
years past.
Lieutenant William Budy, one Of
the most popular members of the st.
Paul police force, is dead, aged fifty
seven.
William H. Fredricks, a pioneer pho
tographer of st. Paul, fell dead of
heart exhaustion at his home in that
city.
Sven Monson, aged sixty-nine, an
early settler of Nicollet equity, was
killed by train at st. Peter.
c. c. Aurland. eighty years old, one
Ct the pioneer residents of Fergus
Falls. IL dead.
Thomas Gavin, one of the pioneer
residents Of Minneapolis, IL dead, aged
sighty-thrss.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
BID IN BY MORGAN AGENTS
Chicago Great Western Sold at Auc-
ton at ST. Paul.

Under orders of court the Chicago
Great Western railroad was sold at
st. Paul by Special Master Albert R.
Moore to Fred w. Stevens and George
H. Gardiner of New York, represent
ing ]. P. Morgan & Co., for $4,000
600.
A check for S6,615 was deposited
with the secrNtary Of state as filing
fee, to comply with the foreign cor
porations law, and within a week the
sale will be reported to Judge San
born, will be confirmed by him
and formally closed by the payment
of $11, 100000, 100000 having been
deposited previously.
Then the purchasers will turn the
property over to the new company,
which will be headed by Samuel NJ
FELTON,, president
The Morgan purchasers were the
only bidders
Following the sale the master must
advertise the fact for two months and
call in all claims against the road not
previously filed, for settlement, as
one Of the conditions is that the pur-
chasers must clear off all existing in.
debtedneSS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
CRIMES AND MISHkPS.

Sheriff Riley of Itasca county ar
rested Rev. F. w Hill, a Methodist
minister of Coleraine, on the COM
plant of some saloonkeepers of Bovey
a nearby town, who charged that he
solicited brides to drop his fight
against the saloonmen. The pastor
was taken to Grand Rapids, the coun-
ty seat, and was released on $1,000
bail.
While multitude of people were
watching two acrobats perform on
stage in the street at Hastings Charles
j. RaetZ, an electrician, descending a
pole across the street while working
on carnival decorations, came in con-
tact with high power wires, received
a shock of 1900 volts and dropped
dead on the pavement
George fischer of Duluth, who was
injured as result of street car col
liding with a buggy in which he was
riding, is dead. Fischer was con-
tractor, former alderman and a CON-
missioner of st. Louis county.
Delbert Slayback, an electrician in
the employ of the General Electric
company of Minneapolis, was almost
instantly killed by touching a live
wire.
Mrs. Mary Hagren, a st. Paul wash
woman, ended her life at the home of
q friend by turning on the gas while
she lay on the bed reading the Bible.
Henry Dewitt, the seventeen-year-
old son of Thomas Dewitt of ST. Paul,
was drowned while swimming near
Inver Grove
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
|NBROADDAYL|CHT
Two Bandits Hold Up State
Bank at Wayzata.
ARE CAPTURED BY POSSE
Rounded Up in Short Order and
Loot Recovered.

About noon two men walked into
the State Bank of Wayzata, and,
pointing revolvers at Cashier Snure,
babe him hand over all the cash in
the bank. AS they had the drop on
him Mr.. Snure gave them about $500.
The men then ordered him to step
into the bank vault and as he did so
they turned and fed. A posse, organ
lied by the town marshal of Wayzata,
and armed with rifles and revolvers,
at once started in pursuit of the rob-
bers and they were captured without
the exchange of shot All the stolen
money was recovered.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
MAY FREE INNOCENT MAN
Minnesota Convict Confesses to Hold.
up Six Years Auo.

Frank FAIR, serving a life sentence
IN the Washington state penitentiary
at Walla Walla, may secure his free
dom through the instrumentality of
James Desmond. recently convict at
Saltwater, but now an inmate of the
Rochester state hospital for the in
sane.
Farr was arrested for holding up.
the meat market of Miller Bros. in
Spokane in 1903 and he was convicted
Six years have passed and now Des-
mond, an insane patient at Rochester,
absolves Farr of all completely in the
crime.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
HEADQUARTERS AT CHICAGO
Great Western Offices to Be Removed
From st. Paul.

The general Offices of the Chicago
Great Western railroad will be re.
moved from ST. Paul to Chicago
in the next few months. That state
ment was made by representative
of the J. P. Morgan company in New
York. The presidents Office will be
located in Chicago as soon as S. NJ.
FELTON,, the new president, assumes
charge of the road, which will prob.
ably be Sept. 1.
Just when the rest of the general
Offices will be transferred is not def
Gated there is assured
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
SPENDS NIGHT IN HAYSTACK
President Hill of the Great Northern
Marooned in Montana.

A Great Falls dispatch says Presi.
dent Louis w. Hill of the Great North
ern railway was compelled to spend
a night in a haystack. He started
from Helena to Great Falls in his
automobile. Near Fort Shaw the ma
chine stuck in mudhole. He applied
to a settler for bed and supper, but
was told that he could find a bed in a
nearby haystack and that he could
help himself to refreshment at the
pump.
When he did not appear here on
time searching party started toward
Helena They found the automobile
in the mudhole and short inspection
of the nearby neighborhood revealed
Mr.. Hill and his chauffeur sound
asleep in the haystack.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
DROWNED IN THE ST. CROIX
Three Young People Perish by Cap.
sizing of Goat.

Miss Hilda Peterson, aged twenty,
daughter of Louis Peterson of Lake
land; Miss Sigria Peterson, her cousin,
daughter of Michael Peterson of Moose
Lake, who was visiting her, and Louis
Wendell, aged eighteen years, only
son of a widow Of Lakeland, were
drowned in the St. Croix river at
Lakeland, Washington county.
Harry Staberg, young man with
them, was rescued. clinging to a skiff.
The four in skiff and another
group of young people in another boat
had been at Hudson, Wis They start
ed home about the time a hard wind
and rain storm came up. The st. Croix
is wide at that point and the waves
were running high and swamped the
skiff,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
HORSE RACE FATAL TO ONE
Ten-Year-OId Girl May Also Succumb
to Injuries.

AS the result of a friendly horse
race between Ferdinand Kieke and
August Benoit, who live on farms near
st. Augusta, south of st. Cloud, Mrs.
kleke was instantly killed, her ten
year-old daughter was probably fatally
injured and Catherine Ruhman of ST
Cloud will lose the sight of one eye.
They were returning from church and
kieke tried to pass Benoit. The road
is narrow and steep at that point and
as they were going at breakneck speed
kleke's buggy skidded off of the road
and hit telephone pole Mrs. Kieke
was on that side of the rig.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-08
Fail to Secure Any Booty.

Cracksmen entered the postoffice
at Mendoza, near st. Paul, opened
the outside door of the vault.
blew off the com bination of the sec
ond door and tackled the safe inside.
but were frightened away by the ap-
proach of Town Marshal Thomas
Ryan. Two men were later arrested
at Savage. who closely answer de-
scrirtions of the two robbers.