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Show Mmiui'm'f nriiiff Mews. Tho telegraphic- ''information"' at j present going from Salt Lake to the newsp qiers in d liferent parts of thai country, is sear-e!y worth t'dntradict- ing, though it often is but n mess of ( falsehood.. The other day the II KU- ' Ai,i mnoru-d that a lady was said to have been thrown from a horse, and it was feared some of her irihg : were broken. The item was tele- : graphed, witli all due regard to sensationalism, sensa-tionalism, that she felloll'her horse, "and broke several of her ribs;'1 the, surgical opinion not having been pronounced, pro-nounced, and the telegrapher, wc . imagine, knowing nothing of facts. ! This is a small matter, very, small, seeing the lady's name was n't-even -known ar.d couldn't be given, but it shows Lue enterprise, of these j tele-' grapic gentlemen. ' i Then last week the people of San Francisco were gravely informed that ( Mr. H. B. Clawson had been killed I by a cave in the Flagstaff mine. As ! the gentleman Jlmdn't been within a dozen miles of the mine, inqniry was made around and this delicious piece : of information proved to. bo a telegraphic tele-graphic ''bull," the news furnished being that Mr. Clawson was President of the Theatre incorporation, and Unit James Decry was killed in the Flagsfcilf, Then, again, under date August 2S, the following is telegraphed "special" to the San Francisco Chronicle, from Salt Lake: The particulars of the recent running run-ning off of valuable stock from the village of Fairvicw, in Sanpete county, coun-ty, indicate a more emboldened and aggressive spirit on the part of the Indians in that section, which it is thought presages further trouble to the settlers. In this instance a number num-ber of people from Fairvicw tracked the Indians to a sort of rendezvous called Jones'. The Indians, however, were, not only stronger in numbers, but had the advantage in position, so the pursuers did not dare to attack them or attempt to recover tho plunder. plun-der. Where did this sapient individual learn that the Indians "were notonly stronger in number but had the advantage ad-vantage of position?" In his own fertile imagination, as no such information infor-mation was received from Sanpete. That was manufactured from the llicuALi) news that the citizens, finding find-ing the Indians had headed oil' towards to-wards Joe's Valley, gave up the pur- I suit and returned to Fairvicw. Under date August 27tli we iiudthc following, also telegraphed, "special," from Salt Lake to the San Francisco Chvonklc, which is not only a falsehood false-hood in its inferences, but u grossly criminal one: ! The case of Colonel Enos A. Wall, upon a charge of perjury, preferred by J. W. Hivskin, which has been before be-fore Justice Clinton for several days past, was dismissed this afternoon, the court fully exonerating the accused by saying in substaucu that the evidence evi-dence showed Wall's testimony before Judge McKean, which was the basis of the charge, was w ell founded and true. This," therefore, as far as the Justice's court goes, establishes the fact that the famous Croat Eastern end ol the (neat western mining claims, in Little Cottonwexxl, were mythical as lo actual location and development de-velopment and have been bought un apparently to devour other valuable mines in the vicinity. It will be remembered re-membered that Hakiii was first arrested ar-rested at the instance ot Wall for perjury per-jury and is yet under $.",00U bail to answer. This dispatch was yesterday laid before be-fore Judge Clinton, by Mr. Haskin, and the following was furnished: Salt Lake City. The alxtvo telegram is not (rue. I did aay that no jury would convict either Haskin or Wall, unlesjiaekcd for the purpose. Jurat Clinton, J. F. The "special'' Salt Lake telegraph correspondent of the Snn Francisco Chronicle is Mr. A. S. Gould; need wc say more? The general character of the dispatches dis-patches from this point is unreliability and recklessness as to correctness, with now and then a dash of deliberate deliber-ate misstatement and downright falsehood. false-hood. Otir contemporaries at a distance dis-tance seeing they pay for such stuff, can feel aUiut it as they please; but wc would hardly think that they would wieh to have the public systematically syste-matically and continuously deceived. |