The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-06
BUSINESS MEN ARE
HAVING TROUBLE
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of Salt Lake as is the one now in the
hands of the special council commit
tee.
If Nelson is granted this franchise
every obligation should be written In
the grant A personal pledge from him
is not good He is the same Joseph
Nelson who, after the so-called rob
berry of the Utah National bank two
years ago, gave his personal note for
Something over $l2 900 to help to cover
the banks losses, and who repudiated
the note and had to be sued for tho
collection of it In the district court.
He is the same Joseph Nelson who be-
trayed a heretofore reputable young
woman who had substituted as mother
for his children. And when she sought
TO compel him, after peaceablc means,
to keep his pledge of marriage to her,
publicly proclaimed her as a black
mailer.
A councilman who will permit him
Nelson & Co. as one "pledged' to that
Saltalr franchise has but poor con,
ception of his official duties and small
regard for his personal integrity In
this community,
That Saltair franchise should be
pigeon holed and kept there until II
presents itself in a form that would
Justify the support of an honest mem
Der of the city council.
According to the latest circulation
statements Of the Hemorrhage, that
newspaper has sustained a loss Of 20OO
subscribers during the last two months.
This, too, after all its bluff and bluster
about the increase of prestige and popu-
larity. -,
The 1000 loss for the Hemorrhage
is greater than has ever been sustained
by a Salt Lake newspaper, unless IT
were the predecessor of tho "Hemorrh'
age"
It is also stated in newspaper circles
that the Hemorrhage' recently de-
clined to open its books to circulation
actuary who proposed to visit Salt Lake
in the interest of several general ad-
vertiscrs unless that actuary would pay
all the expenses of the investigation
himself. 1t is said that no other local
newspaper declined to be investigated
and that each was willing to defray, as
is the rule, the expense of such an audit
ing,
Every friend of the founder of Fort
Douglas who can do so should attend
the Connor memorial banquet at the
Auditorium the evening of Saint Pat
rick's days.
General Connor did more toward the
work Of pointing out the marvellous re-
of tho mountains of Utah than
any other man. And it Is Just and fit.
ting that on his birthday n company of
loyal men and women should assemble
and make merry over the birth of so
great character as was he.
So far as I have ever heard / know
Of no time when that veteran financier
of Utah, w. S. Mccormick, ever de"
liberately sprang q joke on this COM
But, according TO newspaper dis
patches from Denver few days ago,
Mr.. Mccormick is said TO have threat
cned to have process served on a
Dutch tailor from Cincinnati, charging
that man from the Queen City with
SANDER and defamation of character.
And that is funny.
1t is said that Heinke made some re-
mark charging bad faith or unbusiness
like methods rcflecting on Mr.. McCor,
nick. And the newspaper reports say
that "Mac' was itching to get Heinke
into Utah or Colorado where he could
have him "pinched" and held ac-
Now this is where the joke comes in.
And it was so good a Joke as to make
thousands of good men and women in
Utah split their sides with laughter.
Heinke would be Just as safe from
on such a score as though
ne were pinioned to a post and bonn
barded with mud balls from the shines
Of his Park City mill. He could come
to Salt Lake and parade the streets at
the tail.end of John oHeld 8 band and
ne could not get himself sued for
SANDER for all of his holdings in the
range.
l don't believe that "Maco ever
said he would sue Heinke for SANDER.
Even If it were for one hundred mil
ions, he knows that he can make money
faster in other pursuits than in rocking
,he cradle IN which is ensconced the
reputation he has nursed as the shrewd. |
EST and most active financier in the In
states.