The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-18
AN INDEPENDENT ACCOUNT.

There is not the least doubt in the
world that the following letter, received
by The Tribune, Will be read with deep
interest by those to whose attention it
may come. II relates a little personal
experience that tends to enlightenment
upon subject that has lately attracted
some public attention. We give the
communication in full as follows:
Editor. The TrIbune.-In today's issue
OF your paper | see where B. L. Grant
denies running saloon In Frisco. l will
tell OF where and when he did run a sa-
loon and sold blend OF whisky that
would put To shame the Valley Tan
pared with that stuff IL was like Vltrio
10 a milk shake.
In 1879 went to York: Juab county
as a brakeman, and b. f. Grant
truckman in the warehouse. The Utah
Southern railway was building to Frisco,
Is, +. got tired of pushing, the truck and
the Government ever put a revenue
stamp on. Al Deseret, Bishop Sharp let
him have an old. crippled box car, Il.
i. put a plank across one end OF the
car, and coopcd up behind that with two
glasses and a four-g gallon keg OF taran-
tula juice he commenced his business life.
At the California. ranch, twelve miles
south OF Deseret. he made his first haul
by getting up a footrace between Fred
Rich and a Mr.. Hadcn. Haden was
known as a peer of all runners. but b. f.
bet his all on Rich. Haden had visited
B. F-'s booze box car so often that his
legs were paralyzed. Haden was The
favorite OF the southern country. Four
horse teams and wagons We're bet. One
man bet thirty head of horses on Eladen.
Haden fell down and Rich won the race:
B +. scooped up sacks OF the coin OF
the realm: some people there said he
took in anywhere from 500 10 $1,000.
AS fas, as each five miles Of track was
along with the frontier cars, all the way
TO Milford, His pioneer car did more
to pollute the young of the south. and
to introduce so oarIqrs9 bins W.M Mpov Of M
ford his stock was too small so was his
car SO he Put up ~, salGoGIana loon, I'd OF orod all
OF It was he that he invited me, together
Salt Lake city. to go with him and see
his his hod1S heS d out nf There e back d
shed / saw eleven men laid out In n heap
like bundle Of snakes. Some had lain
there for two days. He had TO use for
them after their money was gone. No;
b. +. never kept a saloon at Frisco, but
he kept vile one on the railway from
fSoS' Now. I hope Mr. Grant Will try to
cleanse Salt Lake City as hard as he can.
His conversion to Christianity | hope VIII
forget the faults OF others. You. Mr.
Editor. may give this space IN your pa
per If you will,
Lake Shore, December lS, 1909.
p. S.-Mr, Editor. II makes me laugh
TO read Joseph +. Taylor's $1,000 offer
| think II is like the burial suits he puts
on the dead at a big price 70 the be,
mighty little front l. y. w
We agree with the conclusion stated
nv Mr. Whitaker in the main portion
of his letter, that we should '' forgive
and forget the faults of others, If
MI Grant is now sincerely engaging
himself in a good work, he should have
the appreciation and encouragement of
all. no matter what the past may have
been for him But there should be no
hypocrisy about it. The Tribune did
not like the manner in which the b. F.
Grant Of today evaded the real issue
by simply denying that he had ever
kept saloon at Frisco, without man
fully admitting that he did so at Mil
ford and elsewhere. IL WAS an unfair
thing for him 10 do, and he should have
known that il would have brought out
some observations from individuals who
are advised of the facts and who despise
deception. However, even in this latter
fault, Mr.. Grant is entitled TO chari.
table consideration. in the event that he
shall forsake such course for the
future.
As 10 the post scriptum, in which
Mr.. Whitaker pays brief attention to
Elder Joseph l.. Taylor's notorious of
fer Of reward in the matter of new
polyganfy. it would seem that, brief rs
! is that mention, it is altogether un-