Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-30
THE KNocISER CAUGHT.

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There is not an interest of5this State
that the Tribune does not attack, atone
time or5tanother. In harmony with
ITS established policy of s "knoock ins3'
Utah, it, had the other day an article l'
in which IT was alleged that Southern
Utah Is being depopulated by some Sltiliti
of d fever. .rhis ,falsehood is met by
the Lone Cedar. published at kan ;
as follows:
.'s1'he Salt Lake Tribune. In ! ts Ga
pacity as I.yre-in-cfief of the 9tatl
press, published an article last week on l
goat fever. sr-called.
3ys.' According to that sheet, southern
Utah will soon he depopulated BY that l.
mysterious fever. The truth is that
no man. woman nor child has ever died
Of goat fever. a. IN
THE extremely unsanitarS conditions
in and around the kidding pens every
spring has given many Isanah herders
d severe variation of typhus, 35-53 Is
only reasonable 10 believe that sheep
lanbed In the same manner that goats
are kidded would cause the same als-
case. That goats alone are responsible
Ia only the Imagining OF some mental
danger of decaying filth.8
s5 9sPhe Tribune says men are 81 wing OF
this fever AL through the towns or
( Orderville. Glendale. etc II, Kane
County, all through washington Gonn-
& tysai,d oyer the line in Arizona. Inat
bis straight lie, made up by man
too lazy to hunt news for his pa per
There isn't a goat owned in Wa shlng-
ton County norsnnywhere else IN SCUM
3ern Utah except in ISanab and john
son, and one herd In Cedar City; nor
has there been a case Of goat fever
outside Of these two towns flrstSnamed.t
ITO make the Tribunism complete,
it should state that Joseph F. Smith
the goat fever TO xii off the
male population of Southern Utah SO
he could have all their women and
wealth for himself. The Tribune claims,
to be an authority OH mining; and We
hasten: to suggest that 1t contlne itself
to its speciality. Y p
Al contributor to the same number OF
the Lone Cedar takes up the same q ues-t
ton. He observes that there are only
two ways in which to account for the
origin of this foolish TTribunel writing,
viz: the person or persons that made
the so-called complaint was an enemy
10 tho goat Industry and simply sought
To revive the old fight between the e
livestock men: or else the g complaint Amt
was exaggerated beyond all bounds OF
reason by the Tribune itself, as is often
the case with that paper with no other 't9l'el
smotiye@than to make its columns fleWsy
and sensational, Then he says.
.'rhe Angora goat industry Is In its
infancy and so few people understand
the value aud real worth of this animal
that d blow such as was given 1t by
the Tribune, rnay suffice to discourage
many who we're otherwise intending TO
Invest. 1t cannot be questioned that.
the angora Is money maker along
with other live stock, and is a. growing
industry in TTtall therefore, il the Trib-.
sune were aSfriend toEi Its subscribers, AZ
would have endeayoTed to procure the
facts instead of telling such utlandish
lies. The facts are, there hasn't been
Ii, goat man or any etnploye die With
my fever 4s5ss5
OF course not. Whenever it is in the
Tribune, 1T is not SO.
Ii The Lone Cedar by the way, is a live
sly and vigorous little paper published
sat KanabS I represents tina s. section
of the state very well. is devoted to its
Sinterests stands for purity in morals
and deserves support.