The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-11
Utah's Chief Executive, 1t Is
Said. Is About Through With
Booth and Callister.
ATTACK ON JOB LYON
CAUSES THE BREACH
Conferences Are Held in the
Governors Office: The Com
mon Gossip.

with the federal bunch'
This question is being asked rather
frequently nowadays aud it is said that
he has. Moreover. there have been sew
eral recent occurrences that lena
strength 10 the statement, The reason
is said to be the silly attack Of the
Brewers Own upon the county attor-
nev. ostensibly for his alleged failure
| TO proceed against The stockadc, Dut
| in reality because of his prosecution OF
the county commissioners Tor thcu
barefaced raid upon the county treas.
ury in connection with the printing OF
the 1905 delinquent tax list.
Although the governor rs n stock;
holder in the beneficiary of the rad
by the commissioners on the county
treasury, he is not IN sympathy with
tbe Smoot Mouth - attack upon z
county official merely because be is ful'
filing his duty and il is said that he
has told the .'hunch so. 1t is also
insisteu,ly reported that he has gone
even farther.
Ii is said that ire governor. If he
did not actually urge the 'Mouth ~ to
desist in its absurd but yeugeful as
sault upon the county attorney, warned
it TO moderate It's tone. AT any rate.
the Brewers Own did moderate It's
tone. 10 q considerable extent. too, i
few davs ago. but after its masters,
the federal bunchers. got after ii. II re-
newed lis spiteful attacks upon the
county attorney. Now, 1T IS SAID, the
word has gone out from the Sauctum
sancjorum of the rod-hght organ thae
Job Lyon. the county attorney. is not
right with his party. and that war 10
the death viii be waged against him,
unless he drops the suit against the
county commissioners. ono or two of
whom arc stockholders in the bcnc-
fciary of the raid upon the county
treasury 10 bolster the failing finances
Of that organ.
It Lends Color.
Another thing that lends color TO
the report that the governor is not TAX
ing orders to any great extent from the
federal bunch any more Is the fact
that ,'Kinky" Booth, president. and
"CurlvH Calhster, secretary of the
"Mouth,' . have held two or three Sc
crct and deeply mysterious conferences
with the governor recently. The pur-
pose Of the conferences remain myS-
terry. but the result did not appear TO
he any too satisfactory TO "Kipky'
or "Curly,' Judging from their ap-
pearance after the conferences broke
up.
The last one OF these conferences WAS
Thursday morning, twcnty-four hours
following the ovcTruliao by Judge Arm
strong of the commissioners demurrer
TO the county Attorney 5 sUIt 10 conf
pei them TO put back into the county
treasury $5721.50 paid the "Mouth -
without warrant OF law for printing the
1908 delinquent tax list - kinhv'
and ''Curly' snd the criminal editor
Of the "Mouth were closeted with
the governor for almost an hour.
What took place inside is unknown, but
when "kmkyn and "Curly' came
forth their faces were as dark as A
thundcrcloud, and "Kinky' lost no
time IN making a vicious verbal assault
upon a reporter for q morning paper
for the manner in which he had re-
ported the overriding of the demurrer.
The reporter defended himself and both
"Kinlsy' and "Curly' left the build
ing in a white heat
Whether Booth aud Callster called at
the governor : office of their own ac-
cord or whether the chief executive
summoned them there is unknown but
ii was freely intimated around the
state. Offices Thursday that the COVER
nor had called them TO his Office to
urge them to desist in their asinine at
tack upon the county attorney. If 50
the conference was fruitless. for
+" Curly is reported TO have declared
that the bunch is out after Lyon s
scalp, nothing short Of blood will sat
isfy him, aud ''Kinky" piped in with
''me. too,
The federal bunch, OF part Of II.
never did like Sprv very we'll. any
way, it is said, and gave in for him
to run for governor in the place Of
! Callister. who wanted to be chief cx
ecutive Of the great state Of Ctsh so
bad he could taste II, simply because
spry was, and is yet, more popular
than Callister.
The governor knows these things and
when some of his friends came 10 him
a few weeks ago, it is said and told
HIM he was losing caste throughout the
state because Of his liaison with the
federal bunch, he began breaking away.
The adverse result Of the state capitol
election widencd the breach, and the
federal bunch & vlcious assault upon
a competent county Official to satisfy A
| spite threatens to bring the final Ella sh.
persons in position TO be cognizant
Of the true situation declare.