Show AMERICAN ART LEAGUE EXISTENCE QUESTIONED Attorney Jones Says the League Has No Standing in Court Even if it Could be Found The loving art-loving women of the city who have had no end of trouble over their subscriptions to an alleged American Art league now feel that so far as they are concerned the matter is is- ended They held a a. meeting yesterday and listened to th the report of their attorney Elmer B. B Jones who stated that he had been unable unable unable un un- un- un able to discover the existence of an any Art such Institution as the American league For this thia reason the men who claimed to be its representatives would have no standing In court should they attempt legal proceedings The history of the affair is familiar to many in Salt Lake It Jt was nearly a tongued smooth-tongued agent year aso aZo that a who claimed to be the representative of the palue learue secured from many of the i leading omen tv-omen women subscriptions to what purported to be reproductions of the work of Americas America's best beet artists After securing such advance payments payments payments pay pay- ments as were obtainable the agent decamped decamped de de- de- de camped and In a short time a young woman who wasted no words in ex made the delivery The so- so called portfolios of art were discovered to be fakes The women rebelled against further payment and the matter has been in the hands of Attorney Jones since then It will now require more more- I than fashionable clothes and a plausible plausible I ble tale to convince the women of Salt L Lake ke that it is their duty to foster the I American Art league |