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Show HE IS TOLD TO QUIT. ! A Salt Lake Photographer is Given Twenty Days to Laave the Town, HE ISN'T SCARED ONE BIT.' And Says no is Ready to Receive His Coat of Tar and reathers at Any Time. Mr. E. W. Comfort is a photographer by profession and came to Salt Lake from Pueblo, Col., about two months ago. Ho opened a gallery on Second South and Fifth East, and by dint of good work, low prices and liberal advertising ad-vertising succeeded in working up a good trade in tho short time he has been here. Yesterday Mt. Comfort was surprised to receive thefollowingcommuiiication: Salt Lakb City, Feb. 9, ML "TIMELY WAHMINO! Take advantage of this and arrant; your affairs and be ready t ljave this city nnt laterthan March 1, 11. and If you do nut go hy that time your outfit w.ll be burned, and something else will be dono with you. You will receive a emit of Tar and Feathers, and perhaps worse than that. We have irlven you ample time to yet out. aud see that ynu make good use of It. You will be watched from now until that time, but will nnt be molested if you are ouc tiy the time stated, but If you are any later than March 1st, you will fare rough. Bo get out without delay and save trouble. Blgiicd by Many Mohmonh, Who mean business and nothing else." The letter was enclosed in a plain, every-day envelope, superscribed: "Photographer in tent, comer Fifth East and Second South, City," and lacked the skull and cross-bones devices de-vices which usually accompany such white cap messages. Mr. Comfort told a Times reporter that he supposed the letter waB sent by some of the photographers of the town who "have it in" for him. Mr. Comfort took the letter to police headquarters, and offers a reward of $25 for tho discovery of the senders. |