The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-19
HICKEY WANTS TO KNOW.


One Hickey is trainmaster of the ORE
gon Short Line at Pocatello- Also be
IS regarded as a pretty fair single
handed raconteur of fish stories IL fol-
lows that he loves the truth above all
Things and is panied when he finds his
toricaI inaccuracy in type That ac-
counts for plaintive letter addressed
10 Everybody's Magazine, a copy OF
which has fallen into the hands of The
Herald and is published for fear Ev-
eryoody,s may give il to the office eat
Tor lunch Mr.. Hickey has apparently
overlooked the fact that Everybody s
published the Lawson articles. but that
Is tmInaterial. The plant follows:
Pocatello. Ida. Feb. Is. 1906.
Everybody's Publisher: Please refer
10 10 last paragraph of article sowing
the Bible In your January number.
reading as follows: "A Cree Indian and
his son, fishing in the northwest some
years ago during the winter season,
travelled on snowshoes across the
plains, thinking they carried what they
called The Book Of Heaven in their
pack When they reached a hunting
ground. however. 140 miles distant from
the fishery, they found the book had
been left behine~ 1t is a fact that ore
of them went back on his tracks walk
ing in four days ESQ miles through the
Wild bear-infested forests to regain that
Bible"
Also refer 20 line %, page SO. list of
awards Louisiana Purchase exposition.
from which you will note that ] was
awarded the gold medal (hiShest
award for best exhibit of handmade
lies. do not know Mr. Fitzgerald. the
author of the article above referred &c.
and viii, therefore. send you by ex-
press the geld medal spoken Of. which
please present to him with my COM
pliments. Writhing in the anguish OF
utter defeat, abased in the realization
of my inferiority. clothed I'm the sack
cloth OF shattered vanity. 1 hail him as
the greatest exponent of the Bible
truth that .-Ail men are liars" Tied
TO the curb. the shame-faced author of
the gentle doings of "Dea dWood Dick"
will eat his hitching pest while the
Russian war correspondent, disgracel
and mortified, will hurl himself upon
the point of his regimental corkscrew.
For the benefit of the Missouri read
eTs of "Benzined Romance" please
show us as follows:
Why We're the Indians fishing in the
winter? Where was their camp, if their
fishing and hunting grounds were lao
miles apart2 Why, If they were such
devout Christians, did they not find
the Bible had been left behind before
they had gone 40 miles? What kind
of a handicap did that Indian have on
himself who made $50 miles in four
days on SnOwshOes2 What strange
metamOrphOSiS of nature was il which
SMlICneQ the l4U miles OF plains INTO
$50 miles of "bear-infested forests" al
though he went back on his racks %
Forgivins the liberties taken with ma
ture, what tell were the bears doing
out in the winter time, anyway, when
they should be holed up? And. lastly,
as a boon to unimaginative writer's, ]
pray thee impart unto us the name OF
Richardson's favorite brand of hop.
Weep not, dear editor, there is solace
in the thought that in this as in other
lines of literary effort you certainly e&-
eel. In the November Munsey dill hys-
terica1 account of reformed prize
fighter describes him on the one pase
as short and stocky; on the other as
tall, 1.-the. sinewy; while Mr.. Rolker in
his Truth About the Rattlesnake'' in
the February Parsons, speaks of him
sending home his fangs an inch or two
and in that fraction of an instant he
mas squirted a tablespoonful of canary
yellow vicious fluid into the wound"
Yet even from this new field where
blossom the blood red poppies of lit
erary untruth thou hast plucked the
reddeSt. Oh, Shade of Ananias. an
other wears thy lauTels and broken is
thy pick; get thee hence, thou art GER
tainly entitled TO a new trial Yours
truly, CT. Z. HICKEY.