Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-25
THE APPEAL AND ITS BUSINESS.

THE APPEAL AND ITS BUSINESS.
The Tribune of Thursday evening stated
that Mr.. Samuel C. Wright held a mortgage
on the APPEAL office. In response to note
of inquiry on this subject the following was
received:
EDITOR APPEAL hereby state that hold
no mortgage on the APPEAL office nor is there
q dollar due me from any one connected with
it. l further state that never ut any time
held mortgage upon it, nor do | ever expect
TO. Yours truly, SAMUEL c. WRIGHT.
We will state that there is no mortgage
held by any person on the APPEAL, nor is
there q single claim against it in exstance
which cannot be paid on presentation. Nor
is there a single claim against it in the city of
Carson which can be purchased for less than
100 cents on the dollar. With all the houses
in Sacramento and California with which the
APPEAL does business it's credit is unques.
tened and on all bills presented from these
sources discount is made by reason of the
fact that the cash is paid on the spot. Three
years ago the wife of the editor of this paper
husband for the consideration of one dollar.
She exclusively owns the APPEAL Office now
and will continue to do 90. No other person
has any legal claim upon it or any interest in
the death of the maker of the deed no litiga-
ton could follow in settling the estate which
would impair its value. Last week an un-
called for article appeared in the Stock Report
regarding the APPEAL which the Tribune re.
published. For that article we have now be-
fore US manly letter of apology from one of
, the proprietors of the Stock Report, explaining
that the article in question had appeared
while the managing editor was absent, and if
We desired a retraction and apology in the
paper it would be made. We deemed the
apology in the private letter quite suf-
fcient. and this is the FIRST use We have made
Of it.
Our neighbOr has forced us in self defense
u spread our private and personal affairs be-
fore the public, much against our inclination,
as such things interest no one except the par
ties Immediately concerned. We shall now
proceed to take the same interest in his bust.
ness affairs as he has in ours. Since Mr..
Wright has been mentioned, it will suit our
convenience as we'll as any. Some years ago
the house in which the editor of the Tribune
now lives was about to be sold at Sheriff's
sale to satisfy the taxes due on it. Mr.. Sam
Wright, generously appreciating the suffer-
Of in 6istr or
and paid the taxes out of his own pocket. He
took no security for this debt, naturally sup
posing that gratitude would prompt its pay
ment. The debt was never paid, and since
that time the editor of the Tribune, while in
debted to Mr.. Wright for the roof that shell
ters him, has not ceased to cover him with
vile abuse. While the APPEAL office has never
been troubled with law suit or attachment
Of any kind, the Tribune office has been con-
stantly pressed in the courts by creditors it
has attempted to defraud, and the notes and
claims held against the Office would paper the
inside of lbs capitol building from top to bot
TEN an2 enough would remain to make bonfire
in the square which in Virginia City might
easily be mistaken for a general confagration
There is not single case of type or printing
machinery now used in issuing the Tribune
that is not mortgaged, most of it being held
BY Bliss and Yeringtsn as security for the
bends assumed by them when r. R. Parkin.
son, the founder of the paper, was tried and
convicted Of felony in the United States Cir.
cult Court. Claims against the Tribune peo-
pie have been hawked about the streets and
offered for sale at ten cents on the dollar and |
no buyer. The editor of this journal was
himself offered claim against one of the Par |
kinsons of several hundred dollars for ten |
cents on the dollar. The proprietor of the |
Office is to-day nearly if not quite year in |
areas for rent to the society of Odd Fellows,
an association from which the former editor,
now travelling for his health in California, was
expelled in disgrace. During the past year
the Tribune has fallen in circulation and
wsned in influence because we stripped it Of
its mask and showed the whole office to be
thing Of shreds and patches conducted BY