Show IS N 11 WS do not a ak aak k nor expect the express to omit your nann from some fracas that is id up before the court news nes is news tind the express is 13 or tra tr ing to be a nev news a paper people pay for a paper to got get the news and what they will get us as long as tho the present owner can make a live of it subscribers may not get all the news but they NN will ill get all we can get the lapress dont care ana anything thing about 3 bour our private poker games there is no news about it that we can discover but when jou aou are brought into court are arc found guilty of gambling and fined legitimate news and becomes public gullic property at least the line fine you pay does and the people have a right to know what their courts are doing and they are going to know as long as the express is able to tell them it may not be good business policy we may lose and business by doing so bat news is news nes and we e are trying tring to give the people of this county a newspaper chere are private poker games as well as professional poker games in vernal as well as every other little town in the country and everybody knows it A blind man would not hav have e much difficulty in finding a poker gune game in vernal if lie ho wanted to but the laprees dont caro care anything about the games until there is some item of news connected there with the is not running the poker gomes gernes nor trying to control them we are sometimes asked w iv wo we do not expose this gai gambling ard stop it ilie express is 13 not running vfrnal city or uintah ustah county and is not going to try to bince a are elected for that purpose we are arc trying to run a readable newspaper if the officers dont do their duty turn them down while it may be true as aa assef asserted ted that these little private games were exposed through a combination of mallee malice and a desire of one to bring others before the public in an unsavory light the fact remains that it was brought a public transaction by public officials and is 13 legitimate news while it may be true that some of these parties had not blaed before in months and eve even n then quit the game in less than an hour while hile others are gambling every day and for big stakes the fact remains that it is a violation of the aas a a of the land to gamble at all while perhaps 1 a I man would not have been the possessor of six bits bita if ho he had broke the game or whether there was six bits bita or a hundred dollars dollaris in the game matters not to be sure it hurts and goes against the grain to hold up the name of a close personal friend to the public gaze as aa participating in an unlawful game and paying a fine but the newspaper man hug has a duty to perform as well as the marshal 4 the judge and the attorney |