The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-11
JOSEPH MULHATTAN.
For THE HERALD.

For THE HERALD.
A few years since it was our good for
tune to meet the happy little gentleman
whose name heads this article. We were
fellow passengers on a southern-bound
train on the Louisville and Nashville
Railway. Perhaps it may be in order
for US to form ally introduce Mr.. Null
haitian to the public of this far west.
To the press, he is known full well and
Is the enviable possessor of the title B.
L., which properly translated, would
read Big Liar" joe is now, and has
been since his advent into journalism, a
commercial tourist, representing a large
hardware establishment in Louisville,
Kentucky. So he fills dual position,
and creditably too. His writings are of
the Jules Verne order and eyincea talen
rarely met with in the United States.
He, as all will remember, was the Drum
mer candidate for President of the
United States and at the same time mott
he'd the travelling men to all work for
Cleveland. Though not strictly hand
some, Joe is SO very loquacious and
polite as to win high place in the esti-
nation OF all who may meet with him.
Strictly business man, sober ,perserver-
ing and truthful, he controls a large
trade in the section over which ne travels.
Oftentimes he is the recipient of offers
from the leading journals to accept
staf position. For all he has the one
answer. He writes for pastime. not
money, and distributes his articles
among them all.
On the day We were travelling together,
Joe was In his happiest mood, and to
confess the truth we never saw him
otherwise. In reply to our query as to
his writings, he told us that he was the
author OF the rumor which commenced
going the rounds of the press shortly
alter the assassination of President
Lincoln, that John Wilkes Booth had
been seen and was still alive. The start
ling news of the purchase of the Nam
moth Cave by party of Eastern capt.
tallsts and that it was to be moved East
lin sections" was also the product of his
pen. A bank robbery in Cincinnati, he
also planned with all the exactness
known to the profession and all Louis
ing the news in Sunday, morning Argus.
OF course there were thousands who be-
lieved it to be true. The escapade Of a
Kentucky drummer in Alabama, where
in would-be robber was killed ,emanated
from thesame fertile brain. The gigantic
Texas meteor story, which set the entire
world to thinking and caused Fort
Worth (Texas) paper much annoyance
by receiving thousands of letters in
reference thereto, was concocted in his
room at Galveston hotel. Joe is the
author OF many more articles of start
ling nature; only one more we will
enumerate. The story of the Yankee
Syndicate who were to use the waters
of Niagara Falls for milling purposes
and which was favorably commented on
by the foreign press, was only a spicy
remark from Joe's ''faber." The worst
feature in the "make up" of this genius
is his antipathy for the society of the
fair sex. tits words spent without re-
ward to attempt to present him to a
lady; yet to speak disparagingly of any
lady in his presence, would meet with
instant resentment. He is the most
temperate man we ever met With in our
life, using tobacco in no shape, and
never drinking anything intoxicating.
Inougn prO1eSSeQ MEMBER OF no
church, he reveres religion and is never
known to swear. We remember while
President Garfield was on his deaSh-bed,
Joe procured some mineral water from
famous Kentucky resort and sent to
the President Its receipt was duly
acknowledged and Joe felt proud as he
showed the letter to few of his most
intimate friends.
He is a thorough Democrat and pos
sesses electioneering qualifications farm
excess of any newspaper tits said Joe
was the originator of the scheme which
nominated him for President. 1t has made
him only the more popular. He is now
pursuing the even tenor of his way and
no doubt meeting with the success which
has crowned his efforts in the past.
May he live long and prosper is the sim
cere wish of friend.
SCOUT.
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