The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-18
WHY THE EDITOR FLED.
How the Harmony of Rival Publish
ers Was Rupturad.

Steve Jennings, who recently passed
through Kansas City on his way to
Port Arthur, used to run a little coun-
try weekly up in a Nebraska town. and
he knows all about the yicissitudes
of rural newspaperdom, afirms the
Kansas City Times
Sheets" said he, were established for
! business purposes; another third We're
set on foot to boom the interests Of
some candidate for Office, and the re-
mainder are printed for fun. You see,
the expense OF getting them out is very
little. Your patent insides cost you
about 9 cents q, quire, considerably less
than a half cent a sheet, and all you
have to do is to set W. enough type to
print one side of the paper. A good
many of the editors don't even do this,
but fill up with dead ads, pot metal
plates and stereotyped cuts that may
or may not have a. relevancy to the
subject matter in which they appear.
THE three or four columns of news
and editorial are set by some girl or
! boy of the village who is learning the
| printers trade and who Will work for
! little or nothing, and, as the office is
usually the home of the editor, you can
readily see that the cost of issuing the
Jonesville Investigator is, to say the
least. nominal.
$50 the editors waste their space and
their time in various ways. l remem-
| Der once there was a movement on foot
| in Clay county to hold a special cleo
ton to vote bonds to give bonus to
q railroad that had surveyed q right
of way through Jonesville. The con-
tract for printing the advertisement,
| which was to appear in five consecutive
issues, was awarded to both the Inves-.
tigator and the Register, the opposition
sheet
'sThe Investigator received the copy
and set up the ada column and a. half
/ of long primer Then the Register edi
| tor called to get the copy ready for his
| printers
There's no use, said 1, with jour
nalistic courtesy of your setting that
thing up. After we've gone to press
Friday, just send the boy over with
galley and get the type. You're per-
fectly welcome to it.
''This seemed satisfactory, and so for
the next five weeks that column and q
| half of long primer, typographical er-
rors and all, was used interchangeable
| by the Investigator and the Register
| 1t appeared in the Investigator Fridays
and in the Register Saturdays, and in
all that time I verify believe it was read
only by the printer who set it up.
/
week the Register devil brought the
| type back for the last time. I thought
he seemed uncommonly cheerful as he
accOsted my apprentice and jeered at
me from a countenance frescoed with
parti-colored inks, but dismissed the
! subject, picked up a handful Of the
| long primer and began distributing it
in the case.
six o'clock came and my devil went
| home. | remained to throw in my case.
! About an hour later Ed Hilton, a
-abOut-tOwn and a warm friend Of
! the Investigation, entered the office in
i q, highly excited state.
Say you better hide said he; 'Kriel
has gone after his gum
''KrieI was the editor of the Register
Why, what's eatin' of him?' 1 ask
! ed, using an idiom of the locality.
That type you changed on him,
| said Hilton. He's mad because you
made him call himself a jinber-j awed
/ hyena in his own paper
| Still [ didn't understand. and I re-
manned in the dark until Hilton pulled
a copy of the Register from his pocket
and pointed to the advertisement of the
| special election.
Can you believe it, It was literally
| peppered with irreverent interpretations.
Long, tedious descriptions of land
| tracts were frightened up with bursts
of pungent slang. in which Editor
Kriel, with wonderful self-abnegation,
was made to call himself several kinds
of a jibbering idiot.
The editor of this paper escaped
from the lunatic asylum. Better watch
him. read one paragraph, the spelling
of which I readily recognized as that of
my devil.
THE outcome of it all was 1 took a
night train and dropped down the road
about 20 miles to the home of a rela-
tive, where l remained until it was time
to begin work on the next weeks issue.
/ and in the meantime Kriel's ire had
cooled down somewhat But he never
was able to collect his fees for the pub
LEGATION of that adj