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Show El SILT LUKE j II W1DEBERTH Twenty Men Read Governor's Slander on Town and Prompt-, ly (to Elsewhere. Hi BELIEVED THAT. TERROR REIGNS HERE, INDEED H , First Hand Evidence That 1 Spry's Infamous Action Is Hp ; " Bearing Fruit. hhI ' . SPEY'S "BEIG-N OF ORIME " ; .j. IS FAST PETERING OUT !; ' X Governor Spry's "reign or urlmp" f ' bavins petered Itself out. bhcriif . I . Joe Sharp Friday night found him- y H j self with a bunch of deputies on ' r his hands and nollilntr to do. The J result, was the discharge of L hunch of tho special deputies. The .J; .j. deputies woro very Inactive I-J- y dav nlh'ht. and aside from a few v i stragglers, failed to mnkc any ! ' . rests. i Twenty men Just through with government gov-ernment work .on the Minidoka Project . decided to give Salt Lake a wide hcitli- ; All save one went to other places to cc the sights, and this one. Kl W elch, came l(. down to this city to see his irlciic s. It . ; was all on account of the slanderous let ter of Governor Spry, which showed this city to he In a reign of terror, that these men. good, honest worklngmcn. 1 who had completed their seasons con- , j tract, decided that It would not he wise ' 4 to visit Salt Lake. They had been paid off nud each one had from ?200 to JoOO i with which to purchase his winters otil- lit and take In the theaters and cnJo 1 a little recreation after a long summer at the reclamation project. . But thev had all read the stones that tl,c governor had been compelled to have J : f)ftv deputy sheriffs appointed to pre- i I f, serve peace and order in this, place, and so they went to Kolsc. to Portland and , to various other places. I : Mr. Welch "was personally seen and ! he stnted that all had heard of Fait Lake's reign of tnrror as alleged In tho . governor's letter and for that reason they. t one and all. with the exception of Mr. : ' Welch, decided to go to other places, bc-I bc-I 'j licving that this was no place for thorn. Thus Is Salt Lake harmed by the slan- ' J dr Those nineteen men would have patronised stores, hotels, restaurants and ;J the like, but thoy saw fit to seek some hi "less terrible" city. It Is an illustra-f illustra-f tlon of the achievement of the federal MM bunch, the rough-necked Smoot gang. |