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Show moa "I'lioiitsioxn. touii. TI.ST." Oun attention haa Uen called to ome lllnatured remarkalnour evening contenifiorary. We aeldoraaea ItanJ tnuit rot be expected to notice alwaya what It may cboole to aay of the Dmkiict Nrws. Hut aa It takea en an aggrieved tone) we will give It brief attention. Tho Xnva Is accused of uttering a "miserable falsehood." Haturday evening the term used waa, "a base, miserable He, without Ibe shadow ufa relexteven for It." After burling these choice aspersions, the hope la expnued that the Xkua Is "an lionvsl rajer, and waa li'l Intotlie error unwittingly," and It waa urged that the J'K e"retrect tbeatatement." , .Nw we are twilled with a lack ol "l rofenlonal courtesy" because we took no notice of thla coarse and petu. lent and contradictory attack. The occasion of II all waa a cora lal nt we entered tbat Information concern Iiir a suit limited ty Powers and IllletlnlhoThlrd District Court, waa withheld from our reporter by the deputy clerk, on the ground that the attorney filing It iljected to giving it to the press, and yet It appeared In the oiber evening aicr, whereupon we said i "It la umierstoot that Hon Powers la financially Interested la the I aj er to which thla item wu given. iNow, If he la allowel to dictate to tbe deputy clerk what Heme shall be given or nnl given In thepnsa. It Is potable) that lllii IHJI hit .StUH will be revtnted from obtaining considerable Information." Informa-tion." Judge Powers subsequently Informed Inform-ed our reporter that be bad no desire hi keep anything from the Dim. (KI.t.Siws, and alao that he did not holl a dollar or capital stock In the aper referred to. The "baae, miserable He," which with auch "profeaslokal oouiteay" la chargfd up to us, then, la thestati raent that It Is understood that Hoes Powers was "financially Inter. eited'Mn that "courteous" aheet. Ttow, we had too much refer I for Judge Powera' well known sharpueaa and shrewdness to think for a moment that he had Invested money lu that concern, tut we had Information that when It started It waa through hla In llurncei and offlcee that money waa obtained to help to start It. That waa what we meant by hla being financially Interested In It. If that Is a "base, miserable He" we are not responsible lor It. It came to ua from one of the talTof the 71m, an I It la well "understood" "un-derstood" among local uewsi aper men. 8 the 7lmti can swallow Its own "rul.eral.il. falsehood" If It pleases, and we merely mention the matter out of the "trofrsslonal iourtesy"uf which lhat taper roves Itself to be such a iirllllant exemplar. |