Show The ram tVoi93oT60E-Friday- on MarcKj ?200 T Weather i massacre letter a hoax OGDEN (AP) — A descendant of John D Lee and a history professor believe a recently uncovered letter purportedly written by Lee and 'blaming Brigham Young for the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 is a fraud “I’m willing to stake my reputation that this smells so much like a hoax — what’s the saying? It smells like a duck it sounds like a duck it looks like a duck it must be a duck I believe this is a duck” said Weber State University history professor Gene Sessions a board member and former president of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Association Lee was the only person held accountable for the slaughter in southern Utah of 120 Arkansas men women and children In the letter etched in a sheet of soft lead and dated 1872 Lee writes that he and other Mormon authorities carried out the massacre on orders from Brigham Young Lee was executed 20 years after the massacre when Mormon leaden were under federal pressure to solve die case Lee was an officer of the Mormon militia and adopted son of opening ceremonies " : season ends Combined staff reports ' saidr (tynpfn? A 66 Percent 45 81 55 ? i wood-bur- n -- 'Tuesday survey results Do you think Utah wU see an econom-iebo- No Air quality - ter? Numt&f sevenusenior v' The list includes and 1 Indox ComfcstC3 MovieLCache j OUuaitaeU A5 UA4 Opinion SportsB1 v y a wwwhlnewscom' im si- - others believed to Qaida figures have executed die 1998East Attica r enfoassy bombings Ndw York Police Commissioner :i RayinMid petty pid that there was apparentfy “sQme sort of confront ti3n7 between one of the two pas- sengers and a security screener in' HifMtftfifiiaMiiii ‘ LomtoiL'i':ev‘’w- :'v Kelly said dud after die perspri bodeddiefligttdiescreenersaid v The “Red Light Green Light" program which curtails wood burning along the Wasatch Front during win- -' ter inversions ends its tenth season today The program is sponsored by fhe Utah Department of Environ- ment Quality This red lighL green light format is used on' the back page of the front - ' - section every day in the Herald Jour- naL season' During the four-monwhich began Noy 1 the Diyision of Air Quality called eight “red” days ' "in Salt Lake and Davis counties ' thipe “red" days and seyen “yellow’ days in Utah County and five “red” and nine “yellow” days in Weber County In Cache County die Bear River' Health hit die country in AHMADABAD India (AP) — tbeworst rioting to Department voluntarily initio i ated a wood-burnir' program for neatly a decade Angry Hindus set fire to homes in a — Cache in tvidi The! officers stood the hunches County beginning MuslimneighborhoodTbursdayand 2001-200- 2 ''1 season as a proactive then kept firefighters awayfor hours watching as graupaof Hindus ' measure ironrods and cans of gasoto improve air quality wielding dragging out doe former lawmaker ' Cache Coupty has suffered from : line erknosene roamed Ahmad- him alive: At least 76 phdtwn ' high readings (rf particulate matter people died in revenge iffiackstrigv shad attacking Muslims iit their (PM) 25 recently — a pollutant ty a Muslim askauk on attain homes shoos and vehicles gem s Nearly lXX) soldiers arrived in "'vV Of the 76 deathsin the state pn x mainly finked to automobile emisv Ahmadabadin weriem Gujarat stare sms PM 25 along with PM10 is lliursday 55 were in Ahmadabad : Said a officer the Stale after indie had police police primary winter pollutant Wol duly Friday 1 di attacks in Indian state ' 'j ng ' : C5 Classified See BLOOD on A6 Blood transfusion equipment used bags and tubes are displayed Wednesday in the doping control office of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee in Salt Lake City NEW YORK (AP) — An Air India jetliner carrying nearly 400 people was shadowed by fighter jets to New York on Thursday after authorities were told there was a suspicious passenger aboard It turned out to be a false alarm ' Flight 101 landed at Kennedy International Airport from London without incident Two passengers 1 were questioned and released and ' FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette were of no investigative— youths armed with swords and sticks rampage through a street of Ahmadabad : : We qn Henadi u!s official in Washington A speaking 6n the condition of anonymity said authorities were told that one rf the Mirtnww immiMh! Today question Did you catch a cold or the flu this win- : AP pboto with ‘suspect’ aboard to NY newspaper for results and a new question Answers Yes oxygen-- carrying track plane read from the washed my hands of it and immediately turned it over to SLOC They are so up on this doping” The home in Midway Utah near the Olympic Nordic venue at Soldier Hollow had been rented to the Austrian team which kept 10 athletes there Doping officials will analyze blood residue for any sign they contained banned substances Dr Charles Rich SLOC’s chief medical officer and a member of the IOC medical commission said he found it difficult to believe the Austrians had any legitimate medical reasons for using blood transfusions during the Olympics “where capacity is so important" to winning from Twenty eighth-gradeMount Logan Middle School can ' hardly wait until Sunday ' The girls are choir students and have bran selected by audition to perform at the Olympic Village in Salt Lake City to celebrate to beginning of the Paralympic Winter Games Nearly 130 groups from schools all oyer Utah sent audition tapes to the Salt Lake Organizing Committee said Mt Logan's choir director Gary Dunrn but only 46 groups were chosen The students will sing "See Us Shine" from the Olympic-lheme- s music produced by the Governor's Music and Education Council which was the required audition piece' Dunn said “I feci like this is a real honor" he said “We'Sent the tape in back in the middle of November and heard from them (SLOC) about the second week of December The audition was specifically to sing this song at these ceremonies and ‘ we had to sing it along with the music on the CD” The singers’ accompaniment at Sunday's event will also be prerecorded which puts their usual pianp player Raelrane Clawson Brent StevmsMerakJ Journal V1 out of a job for that day She claims practice Thursday afternoon for' the upcoming Paratympic Winter Games' See SING on A8 MemfiSra oftAounTLog SesdSa Yea No Maids find transfusion kits at team’s house rs See LETTER on A6 Go to The Herald Journal Web site (wwwhjnewsxom) to cast your vote on today's survey fine b)- iL’oganJUtahJt© 20021S50 J7 By Sally H N Wright staff writer The National Park Service said the letter was found Jan 22 by a volunteer who was cleaning the floor of Lee's Fort on the Colorado River The Park Service would hot identify the volunteer and declined to speculate on die validity of die document The letter “has an enormous number of markings of a hoax" Sessions said The language of the letter and the placement of the letter above concrete that would likely have been poured after the letter was written were among things that led Sessions to question its authenticity He said die letter referred to Brigham Young as “Presidilit Brigham Young” which is mggpsis-te- nt with the time period Mormons then referred to the pioneer leader as Brother Brigham or simply Brigham a) Logan boys' season comes to end at state — B1 Mt Logan girls to sing at Paralympics Young Quick -- Cl ©Awnsl© Professor says v jnfusion of technology revives snowshoeing BridgerlandrsDaiyFJJewspape SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — House cleaners found used blood transfusion bags at a home where Austrian Nordic skiers stayed during the Winter Olympics International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge opened an investigation Thursday into the find ordering that “all scientific techniques” be used m die probe “including DNA testing" The bags were found Wednesday along with blood transfusion sets including tubes and needles Wasatch County Sheriff Mike Spano gathered the evidence and turned it over to doping control officials for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee Spano said the transfusion bags were drained of all but residual blood indicating they had been used “I didn’t monkey with it” Spano said “1 had gloves on we stuffed it in a huge bag I ' f ' ' ‘ : ' See BURN on A6 fir"— a v:' de |