letter from bear baar lake konor elios JOL my attention hi jutt just been called to a communication in bour paper of matell match enst under cinder the he tile the Sheriff of bear lake co this was in answer to an all article published antho in the JOURNAL of the 1501 dinst the file writer bibi tho real dead eive evily in said article is the atie last self booming paragraph which reads BS as follows 1 I it the former Slie riff joo joe jc jones ines h had ad been there at it tile time lie ho would required no assistance it would have taken a bettea man mail to bluff liim birn I 1 ft tit this is lasts ba back ck and is is what ita hurts urla the all thoi s of this thia article h I 1 want fallt to say liny that I 1 did not boom iny illy elf lor for 1 I know knew nothing about tho the article articie referred to until I 1 saw haw it in your paper but I 1 will state that I 1 have been weighed in the balance and never have been found ingria hundreds of 0 people will testify fr in ill this thia and other counties the writers of 0 this communication say aa this ex sheriffs favorite stamping in ground seems to be in the vicinity of logan anti and where it is und understood er he is besting endowment for united mates Ila marshal in ilaha and t then I 1 lc n they start in fb b wonder where t those hoge two tso are who broke jail while I 1 was bli criff about four our yeara aso ago jt is true that logan is quite it ecamp ink ing ground for me is as I 1 haive four litt little 0 children chil dien living there going to sell school col but as for ogden ogdan I 1 have been there but once in ili two years so SD far as is endorsements are concerned for or U S marshal of idaho I 1 will indol inform ill hope writers thit that I 1 could if I 1 needed them set get tile the hundreds eds of the best citizen of utah und and idaho men atho ho would mako inako these off ol licious writers liick never asked ked for illy any endorsements hile there of an any person had I 1 done ro I 1 could get hundreds hundred of them now as far as those two persons who broke jail is concerned I 1 have no ile doubt but that one of the parties par tiei villo wrote that article defered to or J 11 II pierson Piers could tell roc ine where those prisoners are as lie he is well acquainted with them and kiowa news concerning the whole t trans rr Klion lion their escape estape aza s through no lie neglect of mine as alio t lie grand jury records of thi county will show allow and I 1 left no estone unturned to capture luieco I 1 did not yet get within athin pun gun shot of them or I 1 would leavo layt taken 11 ell them in and 1 I did not walk alk abound with willi my illy hands in my city pockets 1 hink ing they avo would uld come to me I 1 ed a I 1 reward art of each for their capture and traveled peveril states and territories and spent over eight i h undred hundred dollaus doll iia out of lay luy own ph pocket t and never asked tile alie county for a tent cent to effect their capture now in regard to fishes fisher and murphy as I 1 understand it tile sheriffs deputies t tried r to bring fisherback fisher back fisher Fishe however told him that tile tho boy aalur murphy could vo go back with him but as fo for r fy him IM tie he would not no lia so the sheriffs posse left eft him and fisher is still at large Ii Ili creon ereon says lie did not telegraph I 1 bednall to come up and arrest fisher and yet before the ink sets gets dry lie says says that lie he consented to his name being signed signed to the message the facts are bese lie he feigned his own name naine or put his mark on tile messa message gp as lie cant write himself so eo that many persons could understand 1 pierson Piere goes further and says sheriff belnap met me first and showed shoved me line the inc messa Esage pc thuinli tb inkins rig that aliat I 1 would gise gho him some gome information informal ion outside of the it is true that showed me the ines message sage but several gereral others saw it also I 1 could give jim him no information as fisher anti and murphy broke jail two to weeks or more before I 1 left for ogden in which place belnap met me with tile the message hut but the writers say eay further who ho but foe jones carried the facts to the p salt ailt lake that be nap was wired for by james 11 II fienson Piers to arriet fisher now I 1 dont see ece why tho the two gentlemen who nho wrote this thi 1 communication al muni 11 nici cation tion for pierson dierson should charge me with telling the salt lake tri rn bulle they know it la is a falsehood but it is ia their policy iio licy towards toward 4 me and acid is one of their many lies te they ale aio uttering against lue ilie to injure uie ine I 1 defy them to prove rove the assertions 1 do not subscribe lor for the tribute nor do I 1 know any person or pet poisons sons connected with that paper it if there has been anything in tile tribune Tri butte about this affair I 1 knew nothing no of it 1 1 I never saw it I 1 aro am sorry to state that two of my mot most bitter enemies wrote this tom om ed to and J I 1 II 11 I 1 pier eon signed it in regard to pierson I 1 will state that there is not a person it in this county lio ho worked hartler harder for his el election than I 1 did because he be WAS va nominated by a I 1 democratic convention ile he claims to be democratic and I 1 considered consid eted it my duty ti 0 support him hill and I 1 will ill state still that thail I 1 a am sorry in common with a good many other democrats that lie ho was ever nominated for as a sheriff lie ii a complete gailute fai lute as nearly everyone in this co knows and io i o disgusted ate are liis his bonds bonda inen that tv two 0 of them notified him today that they would withdraw from his Of fiLial bonds while four others intend tudo to do so BO I 1 understand tomorrow to morrow I 1 liao have on occasions told hita that 1 anything I 1 could do to assist liim in 1 in I tile the discharge of his duties I 1 would glad gladly lido do at any time day dav or ight but lie does not know who his hid friends are several law already have been instituted against him and his bon bondsmen benjimen and yet lie lias has not been in office three months Noti nothing ing would have pleased me better tean to have seen reen my illy mako a bright and brilliant record I 1 would laae hae paid no attention to the communication but when it was ae written by political ener nied and pierson was foolish tooliah elou enough ii to sign it I 1 kit felt it my imperative duty to place myself ri right ait before my many frie friends Lids costim jo ait ex sheriff