Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-12
Chicago News and Gossip Of the Week

and social club was the signal for Il
sensational curiosity concerning the
state of mind of the owners of the ad
joining property. They very wisely re-
Trained from talking. The public was
given day by day the developments in
the case and it was finally proposed
by the .'syndicate's' lawyer that the
lake villa be put up for auction on the
real estate board, he promising that
his clients would not be bidders. He
emphatically assured all comes there
that there was no connivance between
him ard the owners Of the property
such as would be expected if under his
proposal some side profit was going to
be made. There now are many negroes
in all large cities, especially among the
lawyers, who are wealthy enough to
buy ANYTHING offered Tor sale in the
line of summer homes and brownstone
fronts in ease they should decide to
capitalize the prejudice that is shown
In northern as well as southern cities
Johnson's lawyer showed unusual pa
uence and forbearance, and it is said
that wise counsels many times pre-
vail in similar situations WREN the
black man holds the advantage
The commission form of government
OF cities as il affects public service
corporations is declared by Chicago
management Of those corporations in
many western and central cities to be
proved an incubus that destroys the
enterprise of the individual officer and
elnploye and checks the investment of
capital Public ownership is predicted.
lDiSrPp9 ri inc ha
the disadvantages seen in wide expert |
ence were stated to be many The re- /
suit of this policy if carried along the t
lines OF its present extreme tendencies
will be TO simply stop the further ener- |
getic development OF these enterprises |
to destroy the individual initiative of I
these corporations this critic pre- |
diets, and this policy. if persisted in t
along the program of the political aei- /
tators Of the present time leads ineyi- I
tably and logically to .sederal and nu- 1
nieipal ownership
What in defense the Chicago hotels
cal the relaxation of New Years eve"
-Whlch IS identical with what was
denounced at mass meeting as IAN
infamous saturnalia, towit, the up Il
roarlous celebration of the chance to n
celebrate, seems TO be getting knock
cut blows regardless of the 1913 occa-
sion. IT has become so expensive that
some who feel bound to attend are get
ing sick of il, the women because their
gowns are sure to be ruined, and the 1;
men because seats in cafes are not II
obtalnable at much less than SIS and II
-hey nave found that with taxi bills
ma others chat the glad occasion of /
lnpfldied mirth is getting shopworn
lhe Law and Order league got after
ne matter weeks ago and as result
ne ministers from their pulpits and /
he good citizen associations and otb-
1rs have rather been damaging the
equation OF the New Years occa-
dohs as they have been observed in
'ecent years, The First ward bah has
,een declared To have been, at its |
worst, by no means the profligate
ouree of domestic woe. divorce court l
narratives and youthful tragedy that
he cafe episodes have been. with the
concluding hours drenehed with aIco-
lol, inandlin with the defiance of con-
entlon and finally risque to the limit.
9fonlscnous IoVemaking and its ini- l
atoms rave got in bad at the testify :
ties, What matronly and maidenlv /
eVeiiers have done under the iasurine.
influence of the wine-agent,s stock was
eyond anything which the habitues of
he bars could expect and the septi-
aent that has been made against the
vents threatens TO cut down the pro-
T. next year if not this.