The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-11
UNCLE JESSE AND
SMOOT At OUTS
Alteration Occurs in Bank at
Provo and Almost Leads
to Blows.
ONE STORY IS THAT UNCLE
JESSE "PASTED" APOSTLE
However, ApOstolic-Senator and
the Heaviest Tithe-Payer to
Church Don't Speak.

Apostle-Senator Smoot and Uncle
| Jesse knight do not speak now as they
pass by. And the reason is not due
| to politics, either. Indeed it is cur
rent rumor that Uncle Jesse came
within All ace, to use slang phrase,
of putting q head upon the apostolic
ambassador from the hierarchy to the
United States senate.
1t happened in Provo last Friday,
and Uncle Jesse was. according TO re-
port, in pugilistlc mood; moro so, IN
fact, than was the pugillstc governor
OF Utah when he thrashed his son-ln.
law. These good saints, who are get
ting along IN years. become moro or
less pugihstic,
Be that as IL may Unclo Jesse knight,
the largest tithe payer in the church
of which Apostle Smoot is one of the
high officials and who has access to
the barrel to which Uncle Jesse con-
tributes, met the apostle in the Provo
Commercial and Savings bank In their
home town. Smoot being the president
of the institution, on Friday last. The
campaign Just ended had not left the
most pleasant taste in the mouth OF
either, and it is said that when both
the parties named met IN the private
room of the bank that the greeting ex-
been in the past.
Knights Speech Caused Row.
They had no more than got seated
when the apostle-senator brought up
the subject of the speech delivered by
Uncle Jesse in Provo a few davs be-
fore the election, in which Mr.. Knight
told few things regarding the early
life of the apostolic ambassador which
the latter thought had been forgotten,
But Uncle Jesse told them and he has
never taken them back. Moreover, The
Tribune is Informed that be never will
recant his uttersnces.
The story be told was TO the effect
that Apostle Smoot had given those
with whom he had worked in the long
ago the double cross. had milked them
when they did not know il and had re-
tanned 10 per cent when he should not
have done So In other words, that
things were so arranged that he,
Smoot. got them both ways.
smoot Attempts Explanation.
The apostle, according to The Trib-
une S information, undertook TO explain
the matter which Uncle Jesse had re-
ferred TO In his speech, but il would
not go, Uncle Jesse laying down the
law, to the member OF the quorum of
twelve.
Not only that, but Uncle Jesse, it
is said, called up matter regarding
corporation in which he, Smoot, and
others, are interested, in which the
sum of $4,000 had TO be paid by
Uncle Jesse. The longer the talk the
warmer Uncle Jesse became, and it is
said that only the interference OF 9th
ers, who had come into the room, pre-
vented the aged financier from mopping
up the ground, or rather the floor, with
the apostle.
why He Wa1ed Wroth
According to current rumcr Uncle
Jesse was like the black cat-he was
skinned unto the tail--which is why he
wakes wroth The company cited, so
it is said, needed 100000. \ note was
brought In, 1t is said, and Uncle Jesse
was informed that if he would sign the
note the other directors would append
their signatures, but some how or other
the note got into the bank with only
the signature of Uncle Jesse thereon,
and when 1T matured be paid it,
Afterward more money was needed
by the institution, and others of the
knight crowd stepped in and furnished
$4,000 additional. This, ii is said,
was with the understanding that Apos-
tie Smoot would take care of portion
OF it when he came home. but the lat
ter, so il is said repudiated the obi.
cation, declaring that the parties who
had so promised were not authorized
TO make such promise for him. Uncle
Jesse, SO it is said, paid the second
note.
Said to Have Struck Smoot.
While the apostle-senator may not
be individually legally held for his
part Of the obligation, the Knight
crowd holds that he is morally bound
so to do. 1t was this matter. it is said,
that caused the rupture Friday when
Uncle Jesse and Apostle Smoot met in
the Provo Commercial and Savings
bank. There were some animated re-
marks, and one story is that Uncle
this is denied. But in any event there
is "wow and a wumpus,'' and Provo
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