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Show IS. HARRIMAN 1$ NOT 10 EECT A GREAT UNlVERSITlf j , Morning Yellow Journal's Story of Her Trip Also Exploded. v Accurding to aa Associated Press dis-patrh dis-patrh received in this city Mrs Mary E. Harriman has denied that it it ber intention to build a great univeraity in the west in memory of her husband, the later ICdward H. Harriman. The digfatrh follows: "New York, Mav 31. A report that Mrs. E. H. Harriman contemplates founding a University in some western ' city having gained widespread circulation, circula-tion, Mrs. Hurriman'a omce today said that she n'or has had any idea of such an ur.Ttaking. shortly filer the first news waa re- reived tn litis ctty that Mrs. rlarnman intended to build a great university in the west a local paper quoted Judge Robert 8. Lovett, head of all of the Harriman lines and a close personal friend of Mrs. Harriman, a saying: "I know as much aa the Huhinx and the sphinx knows nothing. Anv public announcement mu?t be made by Mrs. Harriman. if there is any announce menttobe hTr jhue Ho far there appears to be no one in Salt lake- ity who has heard any thing direct from Mrs. Harriman ai to her intentions. Local officials of the Short Line are in ignorance aa to the building of any such university. A yellow morning newspaper nub-i nub-i Itched a story this morning ttiat Mrs. Harriman will spend the summer on a ranch in Idaho owned by officials of the Oregon Short Line and the Union Pacific. The story says that as soon as the owners of the ranch heard of Mrs. Harruuan's intentions they immediately tendered her an invitation through. Judge Lovett.,and that it had been accented. ac-cented. it is Kiip posed that the ranch referred to in the story is Inland Park, Idaho, which ia owned bv William H. Bancroft, vice president and general manager of the Oregon Short Line; D. E. Burley, general passenger argent for the road, and lr. S. H. Pinkerton, chief surgeon for the road. Mr. Bancroft said this morning that he bad heard nothing about a contemplated visit of Mrs. Harriman Har-riman to the west this summer much less that ahe was to visit Island Park. Mr. Burley said: ' First I have ever heard of it. Such a plan of Mrs. Harriman Har-riman s has never been hinted to us." |