The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-10
THE PET OF THE TRIBUNE.
The Sensible Views of Cleveland
Journalist,

When the readers of the Leader had
waded through the CORY column on the
eighth page, headed "Satan's Balliwick, "
and which described the blood-curu-
ling alleged adventures of one ]. ].
Wyatt in Salt Lake City, the irresisti-
BILE conclusion in the minds of the
majority of them must have been that
the 'saw-my-legs-off' reporter had re-
turned and that a new joke had been
played on him.
The man Wyatt, as described by the
reporter, occupied a modest little cot
tage in the Eighteenth Ward, the mod
esty of which doubtless suffered BY
comparison with the startling adven-
lures, description of which must have
frozen the blood of his listener. Wyatt
starts out with the statement that he
was willing to sell for SIS property in
Salt Lake which the year before he
would not have taken SIS, 900 in cash
for, and for fear it might possibly be
inferred that the property was wild cat
mining stock or the gilded certificates
of some Utah sand bank. he proceeds
to describe his possessions as real es-
tate. houses and lots in the city of Salt
Lake, having definite location aud
stated rental value of over 500
month. To the untutored fnancier
Mr.. Wyatt might appear as a real suf-
ferer by such an enormous depreciation
of his alleged landed estates, but to the
man who has ever owned house and
lot such statement about property in
the metropolis of Utah will give Wyatt
the credit of being bear" OF the most
terrific proportions. As a matter of
fact real estate in Salt Lake has lust as
solid value as corner lots on Euclid
avenue, and to declare that Mormonism
would affect its value to such an extent
as Wyatt CLAIMS, would be to admit
that a riot among the Methodists of
Cleveland would send Superior street
property to the dogs. On Main street
in Salt Lake, property can be sold any
day for 81 900 a foot front. and on the !
side streets, within 4 block or two OF /
Main street, it tells for from $500 to $fO0 !
foot front. In any part of the CITY 1t /
has fixed and permanent value, and |
yields larger return by at least four /
atei in Cleveland. The banks of Salt /
Lake hold several millions of dollars in !
their vaults which they are always will |
ing to loan on property upon the same |
terms as to principal that similar in. |
situations here demand. Both Mormon
and Gentle banks would be yerv glad to |
lend Mr.. Wyatt money on his depreci- /
ated real estate, and If this is not salts !
factory to him, syndicate of Cleye. !
land gentlemen having interests in /
Utah are willing to buy his property at
a very considerable advance on his Of
fered price of SIS.
Regarding his being aSsailed, insulted
and almost murdered by the Mormons,
It is only necessary to state that more
than one-third of the population of
Salt Lake consists of Gentiles, that two
thirds of the business is done by Cen
tile merchants and that for the addi-
tional protection of the GentiIes there
S United States fort, gaTrisoned with
several companies of soldiers, on the
of the town, who are ready at
| moments notice to protect both life
md property.
The scene in which Wyatt describes
he loo Mormons gathering on Main
treet to mob him, If true, would have
,een telegraphed to the four corners of
he earth by the vigilant associated press
gent, but it does not appear to have
yer gotten into print until the Lender
ypo made it public.
Wyatt says: "Only few months be.
ore, saw an inofensive Gentle hung
o lamp post, and before he was dead
lie was taken down and dragged through
he streets. Tue "inoffensiye Gentle"
.lluded to was negro desperate, one
# the hardest criminals that ever in
ested Salt Lake. and he wa lynched by
. mob composed of both Mormons and
TEXTILES because he shot down IN co d
'looe the city marshal of Salt Lake.
The story that Miss Kate Field was
bused shamefu1ly by the Mormons
While in Salt Lake is an atrocious false
lood. She lived. while there at the
Continental hotel. and was frequently :
by Mormons families.