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Show SENSATIONAL NEWS FBAUDS. The following presj dispatch, dated Salt Lake City, Sept. 2S, we take from a San Francisco paper. It is a fair specimen of the falsehoods and misrepresentations almost daily sent to tho press of the country. It maybe may-be that newspaper publishers in other cities expect and require a daily sensational sen-sational item from this city, or that their agents here imagine their tenure ten-ure of office depends upon their ability to dispatch striking romances roman-ces of the blood and thunder style, but it" so, we have mistaken the requirements of respectable journalism. jour-nalism. Facts and legitimate news are the usual demands of journalism, not mere rumors or sensational views. There is not probably a worci of truth in the appended paragraph. Resistance to any legal process of the United (states Court is not dreamed of in any part of thia Territory, as the Federal officials well know, and such reports only tend to injure the interests inter-ests of the Territory and give outsiders out-siders the impresion that Utah is always on the verge of civil war. If newspaper editors would discourage such reports by refusing to use them unless they bear better evidence of veacity than they generally do, they would serve the cause of truth and decency: Private advices from Beaver County, in the southern portion of the Territory, ro-pri ro-pri a determined spirit on tho pa:t of the Mormons 10 rv-i-t the exported leal process from U10 District C' urt for ihc arrest of prominent i:-,ts hull- t-d hv the Grand Jury lo- the murder committed bv participiiion ia the Mountain Mu.-ulow inas-tacro. It is aid a demand is about to bo madeon lh- Governor lor the n-i-t-an-.-O of United States tr. ops. |