The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-03-22
a RESUME.

The Intcr-Ocean of this week contains most
infamous and libelsus attack upon DR.. f. T. Gauy-
rcau, iii relation to the late sickness in Mr. A
frankfort's family. The article in substance,
charges the doctor with gross ignorance, and be
cause Of such ignorance, places him upon Il level
with the common murderer. II the editor of the
inteI-ocean has 50 soon become the plant tool OF
others in this direction the character and stand
ing OF every man and woman in the community
Is III jeopardy, for the one who wrote or indited
the article alluded to. would scruple al nothing
To gain u selfish end. We have no reply to make
To the attack because pr Gauvreau is abundantlv
able To attend To that matter himself and he will
doubt do SO in course of due time and in his
own W&y.--Tilnes. Feb. 23rd.
our neighbor the Times comes out in a silly
article last week III regard to matter of news
published in this paper, which it had not been en-
terprising enough to pick up. We expected that
he would find fault with us for printing what he
did not dare 10 say, but we never thought he
would accuse of libel without reading the arti-
cl., as he seems to have done. DR.. Gauyreau, we
believe, does not think so bad of us as that The
Times reminds us a good deal of the Jersy farmer
who taking load of hay into Philadelphia. up
set it on Market street hill, and then commenced
10 holler and shout out and kick about in great
way. \ bystauder took hold of him and wanted
u know what allied him. but he kicked and shout
ed the worse. Finally they got him down to rea-
hay" We guess tina. Is what is worrying 1T, Pap
-Inter-Oce,ln Feb 18th
We have frequently heard of the
boy who always whistled when he went
past a graveyard as prop to his
courage, but the above silly effusion
from the combined brain of a large
corporation given in the desperate eff
fort to draw public attention from the
serious facts in the case is about the
weakest" display of courage ever
heard of. The editors of the Inter
Ocean are quite right in saying we
would not dare to publish such All item
rs they did either against one of our
own citizens or citizen of any other
place, chiefly because we have no
wealth to squander in the payment of
libel damages as they Will undoubted-
~ have to do, and secondly we would
not for our own self-respect vent our
spite and feelings Of hatred for fell
lowcitizen-even if we entertained it
in that way. We have made no
previous reply to the above extract
from the Inter Ocean because we were
satisfied that legal proceedings would
be commenced against the concern by
DIR. Gauvreau, as soon as the necess-
AIRY steps could be taken to that end,
and we preferred to wait until that
time that the absurdity Of the
item might the more plainly APP
pear when given in connection with
the complaint of Mr. Gauyreau, who,
as the item would infer, treated the
whole matter as a huge joke upon
himself We would say also, that our
comments as above were not made
without seeing the Iibelous article as
published in the Inter-Ocean. We
had seen it and read it through care
fully twice before making any COM
ments, and then justice to an honora-
bic citizen, and we believe Compel
ent and reliable physician, required
that we should say at least what we
did say.
Last Thursday, Mr. Gauvreau,
through his attorneys Mr.. H. n. Set
ger, of Taylor's Falls, Mimi, and Mr..
D. +. Roberts, of this city, placed on
record his complaint and caused a
copy Of the same to be served upon the
Inter-O Ocean Publishing Company. 1t
Is only necessary to say here, that the
complaint sets forth the libelous nat
urc of the article Ca matter easily
done), and asks for damages in the sum
Of $1,000, in which last respect the
complainant has certainly been very
lenient, and clearly shows that it is
not so much money consideration he
seeks, as it is public and a legal vim
dication of his personal honor and pro-
fessional standing. The doctor evil
IDENTIFY does not view the article in
question in the light of ''only a joke. "