| Show in response to a 0 request tt W D rishel Il lanager tor for this division told how grant doyle and himself were duped by the tha ogden managers mana eera 1 I was at Love locks nov nev said cald william when sir mr mullett wired me the desert was wag impassable I 1 handed the telegram to sir air grant and told him to go BO at once to terrace and make arrangements w ith the th ogden bridei a to carry the message ge to ucho echo the last thing I 1 said to grant was not to sacrifice time by going sown down to salt lake I 1 hoard heard no more ore 0 of the trouble until I 1 arrived at terrace utah when I 1 found tit at least two armed ogden riders wore were there to capture the message at that point dull and cross crose of 0 this city had bad bee inn strutted ted to turn tho the message over to the ogden riders there which they made an effort to do in the least possible time no gulls eun were to capture es iture it with I 1 proceeded proem led to ogden with w rib mr air grant arid and T W mcdonald a and nd then learned for tho cho faist time that mr air grant had insisted that the message should so go via salt lake I 1 tried to reason with him that it was wan a loss of 0 time but life hl reply was wa that tho the message must go eo through salt lake city at ogden we met schramm and senior 0 of salt lake they Inton far arule aed I 1 us ua that they both had relays to gal salt I 1 lako lake city under these circumstances I 1 told thorn them that it would not be right to ignore either city and that they would have to divide cho distance between them it was then agreed upon that ha hould be the place where n here the trant fr should be made in ill th presence of oc grant senior and myself mr schramm Schram TO gave lit his word ot of honor as a 0 gentleman cent leman that he would do ng as agreed upon this is all we could ask ak 0 of any honest man we ava then I 1 retired to catch a few cw hours rest which wo we s so much needed resting ahsu asuree red that we hail hai lett left tho the letter irk III handa to he trusted tho the people of ogden and salt lako lake can call pass their own opinion on mr schlamm amm in recard to tn the ogden boys ride they did nobly and I 1 doubt it an any riders could have made better time over tho the same bamo roads ant and ogden may we well feel proud of 0 them I 1 have nothing but the best beat 0 of feeling toward them and a ahall always be proud of an opportunity n lly to say boy a good word for or them As to my m y in ogden I 1 tire nm sure tho the better belter cla als ot of citizens did not countenance teri ance the breach ot of faith the there r e in a letter to george mullett Sl 0 ot f his city A R Gra grafft kilt general mail ager cr or oc tho the race tays 1 I was kas duped by me men whom I 1 trusted tru steil and who rave and mo me their word ord of honor in regard to the packet coming to salt bait lake 0 saying I 1 am sorry borry helps nothing but t it you deal lita you must suffer |
