The San Francisco call., 1898-01-19
The Matter Not Beyond the Stage of Rumor
 Yet.
An Evening Papers Silly Story Marked by an Absence
 of Facts.
Colonel Trurnbo Never a Mormon and His Career in Utah That of
 Business Man.

According to an evening paper. which seldom permits itself to be hampered by facts, Colonel Isaac Trumbo has been sued for divorce at Salt Lake City. About this circumstance, which, by the way. never existed. there has been woven a romantic story. The story naturally lacks verity as well as grammar and the pleasing coherency possible in story not largely imagin- ary. The whole matter is that Colonel and Mrs Trumbo agree only on the one point that they are happier apart There has been no suit filed. They have simply separated and any suit must be matter of the future. It would not come as surprise to either Trumbo or his friends. The evening fairy tale had Trumbo not only a de- fendant, but a Mormon. It had him invested with great power in the church, and had him living in the Mormon cap 1tal in all the splendor of potentate. But he never was Mormon He was born in the Episcopal church and still adheres to it. The palace in which he lived in Utah was rented from the Federal receiver who had taken posses sion of some of the Mormon church property. If there were anything else in the evening paper story 1t might be
 
 Bishop Clawson of Salt Lake happens to be in San Francisco and to have noticed the rumors. As an official of the Mormon church he feels some in terest in the charge that Trumbo has belonged to the same organization. T have known Colonel Trumbo for many years" said the Bishop last night. He has never been a Mormon. He did, in the dark days of the church, conduct some business for us, and for the skill with which he did so he is gratefully remembered. He is a self-made man. much of his fortune having been ac- Quired in California and elsewhere in mining. He never squandered the money of the church, and so far as know and believe never squandered his own. l cannot accept the story published in an evening paper. The charges 1t makes are malicious and in my Judgment untrue. So far as relates to his public career l am certain about this'
 A dispatch from Salt Lake last night stated that Mrs. Isaac Trumbo was arranging for a suit for divorce. AL though the rumor has been current for months 1t has been consistently de- nied. Up to date, however, the suit has not been filed. Some time ago a cloud appeared on the Trumbo horizon. in the shape of the revocation of a power of attorney given by Mrs. Trum- bo to MT. Trumbo. This was then eX- plained by the statement that the pa | per had merely been given to further | a certain sale, and the object having been attained, the necessity for its ex- l istence was at an end.
 Judge Powers of Salt Lake, Mrs. ! Trumbo's attorney, was asked by wire | as to the truth of the evening papers story. He promptly responded that | there was no truth in 1t. It is under stood in circles where Colonel and Mrs. | Trumbo moved that the case will be settled out of court, a statement that was virtually confirmed by a brother | of Mrs. Trumbo last night. There is l said to be an understanding between the couple that if Trumbo can again gain a fortune his troubles will be at an end