Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-08
HALLUC|NATION
Of THE TRIBUNE.
Concocts Infamous Story as to
Suggested Assassination of
Its Editor.
BLAMES THE DESERET NEWS.
Man Who Furnished This Paper With
Statement Comes Forth With Denial
That Should Settle Controversy

few days ago the Deseret News
published an article written by well
known citizen Of Salt Lake, wherein
that gentleman averred that he had
overheard IN restaurant two men,
apparently strangers, discussing the
outrageous rawlings OF local publlca-
ton, one Of them, he observed, said
that IN his opinion, nowhere else in
the United States would such malicious
and terrific TRADES be permitted. Else
where, he said, such character assas-
ssins had been known to be shot down
and that juries had acquitted the slay-
ers,
The citizen In question declares that
he stands as strongly for peace and
good order as any man I'm the COM
munity, and sent his card to the Des-
eret News with no other thought than
to let the public know how strangers
looked upon these matters. This
morning the Salt Lake Tribune says
that It Is the paper referred to and
that the article was manufactured In
the Office Of the Deseret News, with
view to suggesting the assassination
Of the Tribune editor. IL declares that
no such incident as the one narrated
ever took place II then works Itself
into several kinds of frenzy and con-
cludes without doubt that its own
editor is a marked man. The poor silly
thing knows perfectly well that the
Deseret News never did make any such
suggestion and that 1t never Will. IL
knows. too. that this paper Is not in
| the habit OF quoting straw men. The
| Deseret News has the word Of re-
/ liable and highly respected citizen of
! the community that the conversation In
| question did actually take place and
! that he heard e. Accordingly he came
forward this morning and wrote and
swore TO the following atidavit which
eyoneratcs the News" and fnstens the
lie upon the most notorious and VIM
dlctive villifcatlon sheet In all the
! land:
ITO the Editor Since the anti
Mormon organ In this city not only
assumes that the letter in your issue
| of last Saturday under the caption
'Charac ter Assassns,' refers TO itself
but also charges that the statements
made I'm that communication original
| cd I'm the News Office, | believe JUS
tloe TO YOU demands that | supplement
| that brief note by the further informa-
ton that II was | who overheard the
conversation and furnished the facts
"As stated. / was seated mt a table
| I'm n restaurant with other gentlemen,
and happened to overhear the CONVEX
sation related In the letter one. or
them expressed himself to the enect
that I'm no other community would such
outrageous journalism as that which
nj times appears here be tolerated.
And he added that In some Instances
lust that kind Of outrages upon de-
cency had resulted IN murders
81 gave publicity to this incident, not
because | approve OF violence. or re-
yenge I'm any form, upon enemies: but:
IN give the general public some IDEA OF
The impression character ASSESSING
are producing among Intelligent oni-
slders. That is Of considerable public
! interest, ~ "a ~ 80
"salt Lake city March s. 1908
usuhscrlbed and sworn 10 before me
this Sth dag Of March. 1905
wv ~ PYPER,
"Notary Public,
INV commission expires Feb 2bth'
1907"