| Show ADO ABOUT NOTHING lit Lake Morning Papers Trying to Make I a Mountain out of a Mole Hill today morning Salt Lake by a slight earth It was not even a and yet the dailies of this city came spread large letter P reaching clear across that Lake Is Bd by a Fearful MW deliver our city from Hind side-show picture falsest Salt Lake rocked by a Bl when f its population did not not one person received injury and not one Boreal damage was nr morning papers saw Bounty to sell a few extra the people to sensation that never They informed timid in the loudest B that Salt Lake Fearful Earths' nd would please and enjoy a fearful B capitalists will in-By a city if they be-B sensational falsehood great reeds in a wind many tourists-to spend their sum-E fearful earth-uld it to Ki though shaken vio-R Titanic The papers were ore sensational k tremble of the IK 7 than ma Papers were about their real earthquake four years that meant and really shook down buildings and rocked the The idiotic danger signals that the morning dailies hoisted over a slight earth tremble that one-fourth of our people did not notice at will do more to stop travel through our beautiful state and will do more to injure our hotels and public than an epidemic of smallpox or Their The morning not only told silly stories over but they visited the jail and state and tried to bolster up their by getting evidence of petty and hardened The Tribune even went down to the hotel and got the evidence of some chickens scratching in the back yard page Another paper rushed up to Jerrold Lecher's home to get his Lecher was sprinkling his he did not or smell and yet they tried to ring in his evidence that Lake was rocked by a fearful it did not it's the Salt Lake morning Salt Lake was not rocked by a fearful and yet it was in the The Sad but No Damage Was The following are a few of the sad tales told about a fearful earthquake that did not apartments UK- At the slumber of the guests was rudely awakened when the building began to roll and Many thought that the comet had at last gotten In Its and that this mundane was about to be engulfed In the fiery tail of the swiftly moving ball of fire No damage was Quiet at State Convicts at the penitentiary were not seriously alarmed by the Many of the prisoners did not feel the It was not until lunch time that the convicts learned of the repeated The buildings were not And the poor earthquake was accused of the Druggist Clark Druggist W. R. Clark of the Sugar House drug store was shaken out of bed by the and as this was the first time he had so early the store was opened for business somewhat ahead of Barring the falling down of some bottles of perfume and other toilet articles on the show no damage was The shock was generally felt In the but no serious damage to buildings was We know Clark the It was the morning of a good soda water Clark was s ill A pair of feet was placed in the center of his pedal extremities suddenly Clark landed in the middle of the floor and upset a perfume Clark thought it as an earthquake but it Another Collapse That Did Not Saw the Buildings Samuel one of the in The Tribune was on his way home when the quake was just opposite the Wilson hotel when he observed the small buildings east of the hotel rocking to and The he was perfectly visible to the naked and wonder s expressed that the buildings did not A few more sad and lamentable effects on people who were rocked by a fearful earthquake that did not and damage wae reported by the daily The Western Union and Postal telegraph companies report no damage to line or B. at the i says the Japanese light over his bed oscillated to and fro In a most tantalizing While the shock was very apparent at Manager Whitley of the smelters reports that no damage wae done and operations were not All along the north and cast benches buildings were windows rattled and curtains flapped as If struck by a sudden gust of but no damage was earthquake Jarred down two piles of bookcases In the News bindery on the sixth floor of the annex and scattered them over the floor And then the gave the startling information on page 2 that the water of a scrubwoman slopped in the county clerk's Only One There is only one excuse for the daily papers in printing such weird and that is the Salt Lake dailies arc with each other as to which can get out the most pages of reading matter and advertising with each Their ten and twelve pages must be filled up with and here was an opportunity for sensational reporters to get in their work over and they did The Commercial The Commercial club will have a big job to knock down the fearful earthquake scarecrows the daily papers have put up to frighten away settlers and |
