The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-21

As outlined in The Herald, the separate
answer of H. NJ. Ryan. which will be
| filed today in the district court, wherein
defendant denies he is indebted to Gus
Holmes of the Knutsford Hotel COM
pany for any money due as alleged, for
the Jackson day banquet one year ago,
! is = warm one, and one calculated to
cause Gus Holmes to become tropical in
the region of the collar. The document
is lengthy, and is as 1ollowS, aIter ute
of court and cause:
Separats Answer of H. NJ. Ryan.-For
answer to complaint or the plaintif, and
for first defense herein. this DEFENDANT:
!. Admits paragraph numbered one IL
of said complaint.
2. Denies each and every allegation con-
tanned in paragraph numbered two CD of
said complaint.
9. Denies each and every allegation con-
tanned in paragraph numbered three 90
of said complaint.
And for further and second defense,
this defendant says:
l. That he is reliably informed and YER
lily believes, and upon such informa ton
and belief alleges that the sum sued for
by plaintiff herein is the amount alleged
by plaintiff to be due to it for goods
furnished and entertainment given at the
hotel of plaintiff to the Democratic party
at their Jackson day celebration on or
about Jar 8. 1897.
HOLMES A MUGWUMP.
Z. s
managing agent. Gus Holmes, at present
a mugwump. formerly a Republican, well
knowinI that such celebration was
planned and brought about by prominent
of Democrats. and that none except
Democrats were expected to partake
therein or thereof, went out into the
highways and byways and invited great
multitudes of Popuiists, Prohibitionists.
muSwumpS and Republicans, to come 10
said celebration; and vast n1ultitudes OF
said strange persons, none of whom were
Democrats, believing that said Holmes
was giving the feast and not knowing the
nature of the occasion, cana TO said cele
bration, and when they had arrived there
as aforesaid. the said Gus Holmes, part
ly for the purpose of acquiring a repu-
tatiOn for generosity and partly for the
purpose of making an eXorbitant and
enormous profit out of the few Demo-
Gratis present. whom he expected to make
pay for the whole of the entertainment,
began to dispose of all the old and un-
salable portion of his stock OF so-calIad
cigars With lavish hand.
8. That the refreshments served to the
guests at said celebration. and TO the, said
canaille aforesaid. most of whom were
either the guests OF said Gus Holmes or
were there pursuant to said invitation so
extended as aforesaid, consisted OF a GER
tain kind of vile and offensive cigars,
vulgarly called onions, manufactured,
as defendant is informed and verify be-
lieves. from a kind Of tobacco known as
sheep dip and a kind of noxiouS drink,
alleged by him to be punch, but which
this defendant is informed and believes
was a mixture of alkali water and a vile
and noxious compound known as Holmes
elixir. That on account of the multitude
assembled there by said Holmes he found
il necessar.' so 70 dilute the so-called
punch with aikali water that said punch
became very offensive and noSious and
was unworthy of the occasion and a
party.
MERELY DROPPED IN.
4 That this defendant at the time of
said celebration was a guest and boarder
at said Knutsford hotel. and merely
dropped in" as said celebration was in
progress and partook thereof and therein,
upon the invitation of said Gus Holmes,
and one Fisher Harris, both OF whom were
then and there agents of plaintiff
). That the said cigars furnished by
plaintiff TO said multitude were of no
-reater value than 81 per thousand and
the total number furnished by plaintiff
was rot greater than 800: that said So
called punch was totally valueiesS and
none of the same was consumed by this !
defendant o. any of said Democrats or
their guests.
8. That the said amounts credited to de-
in plaintiffs complaint represent |
and are full and complete payment for all |
the entertainment. meals, cigars. punch |
0r other goods furnished to said defend !
ants or their guests at said Jackson day /
Therefore. this defendant asks to be |
dismissed without costs and without pay. /
w. II. BRAMEL,
ATTORNEY for RYAN