The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-11
COURT CITES
sNOOT EDITORS
FOR CONTEMPT
United States Judge Mar
shall Issues Order on At
fidavit Filed by Sena-
tor Kearns.
OFFENDERS TO FACE
JUDGE ON JUNE IL
Commanded to Show Cause
Why They Should Not Be
Attached "for Their
Contempt

at is therefore considered and ordered
by the court. that rule be. and Is here
by awarded against the said George +.
Hale, Arthur j. Brown and Fred Bag
ley, commanding them and each OF them,
and they are hereby and each of them is
hereby commanded to appear before this
court on Monday. June l., 1911. at 10
O'Clock m. OF said day. and show
cause. II any of them can. why they and
each OF them shall not be attached for
their contempt OF this court in publish
ing the aforesaid articles"
The above statement is the concluding
paragraph Of an order signed yesterday
cult court Of the United States in and
for the district OF Utah.
The order and the action taken by tbs
court was the result of an affidavit fled
on Tuesday by former United States SEN
ator. Thomas kearns. Joint owner with
and The Salt Lake Tribune, setting forth
that during the recent trial OF the case
of Frank ]. Sefrit against the Salt Lake
Telegram Publishing company the Her
aid Republican published and caused 10
be circulated garbled reports OF the trial
which We're calculated and intended TO
not Inhibited from reading newspapers
during The progress of the case
The substance of the affidavit of Sen
ator kearns upon which the allegations
The Tribune of Wednesday morning.
After stating the title of the court and
cause the order signed yesterday reads:
In the matter OF the charge OF con-
tempt against George r. Hale, Arthur J.
Brown and Fred Bagley:
Whereas, on May O. 1911. an affidavit
was filed in this court by Thomas Kearns,
charging that while the above entitled
case was on trial in this court before
the judge thereof and jury-viz., on
May and 3. 1911. the said George L.
manager OF the Herald Republican.
newspaper printed and published in The
English language In Salt Lake City, Utah.
ard Arthur j. Brown. acting as manag-
ing editor OF said paper and Fred Bag
ley. acting as city editor OF said paper,
published and caused to be published in
said newspsRer and md TO be circulated lin In
same should fall Into the hands of the
jury trying said cause, TO prejudice the
said jury against the said defendant in
articles of the tenor and form following.
Viz.
(Herc are set forth in full the articles
and headlines relating 10 the trial as
they appeared in the Herald Republican,
as we'll as the affidavit of Senator
Iiearns) The order then continues:
Whereas. II further appears from said
affidavit that said articles were pub
Iished In said newspaper and circulated
in Salt Lake City, and whereas ii fur"
ther appears from said affidavit that the
therein was substantially Il
controversy between the said Thomas
Kcarns and David Keith on the one part
and the said plaintiff. and that the said
VIZ: the Salt Lake Tribune
and tile Salt Lake Telegram, referred to
in said articles, are the property OF the
said Thomas Kcarns and David Keith.
and that the policies of said newspapers
are and for several years past have been
controlled by the said Thomas kearns-"
Then follows the paragraph citing the
manager. managing editor and city editor
of the Herald Republican into court.