Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-25 | Page 2 | Would Welcome an Investigation

WOULD WELCOME AN INVESTIGATION David Ecce Have Been No o Lanil b AI Special to 10 The Tue News lewt Ogden Oden Feb have ben benno been no illegal nets In which our interests have been beon concerned and we 0 wi will bo be glad to b ro Into cour court find and have hae a ful full Investigation can ont only establish this tact declared David Dald Eles hero today when shown hown art an As sedated Press s dispatch accusing the Pro te Sumpter valley railway ot of unlawful of timber land lands Mr 11 Icle I is a brother or of W v 1 H Eccles to In the dispatch Ho He declared red to Tire The News that the Sump Sumpter ter vale valley roa road never at any line owne owned lands In Oregon We e are arc not wholly surprised to rea read this dispatch though sal said Mr hr Ecles Eceles as In the pat past two years wo uvo have received ni alt altof o of a dozen blackmailing letters lIe 1 mending money n as the price of silence but silence regarding matters matter o of which we wa had no and wo ire presume In lie tho ah absence encl of contradictory tory Information that tho ho cus cause of the lie complaint In the matter could 0 be traced to the tho same source a as the I I letters I I It is In altogether r likely that local lana managers of some Game of our northwest concerns have bought but oven even so there ha has been nothing illegal In the tho transactions and I that wo ivo will be glad to meet an tga an and establish our record The dispatch referred to appear appears on page 10 of this edition lon I