The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-03-27
tcopyIsh, 1910, by BENZ. B. Hampton.)

fK-N T isn't often that town Ike KIlo has
uEmH II q real journalist In its midst, and when
HXB u \ 1t does have. 1t ought to be proud and
bs4kH thankful; but right at first Kilo WAS
GTFNal moro dazed and startled than anything
HRSVSGN else. ] should say that Fllo. when 1t
- acquired the real Journalist. was like
a nice. motherly old that had gone into the
back pasture with the best and mildeSt in;en-
tions In the world to have ordinary. gentle. wob.
bly-egged calf and then found. all OF sudden that
she had given birth TO a wheelbarrow loaded with
fireworks Lighted fireworks at that; with pin
wheels. and Roman candles and skyrockets. and
red and blue lights all going off at once AT first
that COW would be surprised, then she would be
panied and disappointed, and then she would prob
ably get used to It Next to a hen or the American
Public the cow Is tho biggest fool on earth. and
Will get used 10 anything q yellow Journalist.
When Thomas Jefferson Jones sold the Kilo
Times he had been editing and publishing It and
working the old Washington hand press for about
ten years. and he had made 1t ono of the most slow.
going, respectable desccated weekly papers In Mid
die Iowa, one of the kind that, II he was sick
week, he could reprint week bofore lasts paper and
nobody would notice the difference; and Kilo had got
used to that kind Of paper and liked it
=. ou. LAWS was different sort of man. He saw
,nat tne Times needed ittlo life put into It. and
nc put IL in On the paper for which Davis had been
seeung typo before be came TO Ko, life meant red.
INK headlines. and scandal and crimo on the first
page and tho very nrst number of the Times ne
got out had Wave of Crime" headline across tho
Top OF the first page In red, with subheads of "lio
Police Ranb1y Inefficient AMI THE Criminal stil
AT Large" That was the best no could do with the
STOLEN from Doc Weaver's hen coop but he made up
lot II by startling Later item at the bottom of
inc page In doube-spaced lines telling that Just as
tne lfines was going to press 1t was learned that
the chlcken had not been stolen. but had been dis.
covered By Mrs. Doc Weaver under the back porch,
setting on eleven eggs
Davis hadn't been publishing tho Timer moro
than month and half before he saw that n u,nc
going to strain him to keep up the speed he had sot
for himself LOU SUI
Tho minute Davis stepped off the train when he
came to tilo he set his eyes Old Billings and gave
him his proper news value There was Old Billings
punched up on an egg against the side of the
depot right In the heat OF the sum- with his hat slip
ped down onto the platform and his head lollIng
over onto one shoulder. and snoring like an automo
oile horn. with Grunt the full blast and tren-
olo on the ln-tnke, and his face nose as red ms
tho side OF the Kilo Livery. Feed and Sale Stable
Nobody can deny that Old Billings looked drunk
III Mrs farley had wanted to make waxwork figure
and had made one with palpitator Inside OF Il TO
mako tho chest rise ind fall and tooter to snore
and had called 1t Sleeping on His e7toXlcatlon"
she couldn't hnvo done better than to COPY Old Bill.
lings just as he looked when Davis stepped from tho
train Old Billings perfect imitation OF him
self as he would have looked IL he had been dead
drunk. only he wasn't drunk and never had been in
bis hfe. He was teetotal. hard-shell blue.ribbon
Iowa prohlbitionist. don't wonder II riled Davis
news values were one OF the things Davis was
especially strong on. man who IS modern Jour
nafts with gallons OF red Ink and fourteen assorted
tonts of wooden type has to be strong