Show THE CARIC caricature ALTURE ridiculing men ghio do not subscribe to the bt om mm fund there Is a eption list being carried canted about to raise money for the purpose of at advertising the resources of the territory some have donated MOe rally lor for this purpose and ot othern herti among them several moneyed men tove have not given anything feeling that under their personal circumstances it Is would be unwise the latter have ha ve men been soundly berated by some interested parties and by a portion of the public press because they chose to follow their dmn convictions the attempt to bulldoze these men into handing banding ever l heir cash for the purpose stated has i tot lot been very successful cess ful as most of them appear to have backbone enough to conduct their own business affairs la in their own way wa this IS statement of the true condition of things will serve i to throw sufficient light on an ah mccurr ince of yesterday afternoon to enable the people Veople to understand der stand the inward ness of the af fairA boom meeting wa a held last evening in the afternoon ban ids 49 were out adver it A number of banners bearing various legends were being carried about in the crowd by instruction of a committee the li ii ou these banners were S cinkle finkle and pave the streets of zion come to the meet in ing t decide on the future oi of sait salt lake and others of like import there chere was one banner however that attracted special attention on OB one me side was the picture of a negro and the inscription this is the colored gent who gave a dollar on the other was another portrait and the words this is THE WHITE MAN who the application to io gentlemen who had declined to accede to ithe the importunities to donate was contemptible to say the least but might have been passed as a joke were it not fo for the fact that the white man portrayed on the sheeting bore a 4 strong resemblance to the well known banker r f B R jnes esq the portrait was there box hat features form gold cane and all even to the manner of holding the cane it was as well done as it if nast himself had bad been at the work at the cirit arst glance those who were acquainted quain ted with the banker would start with the exclamation jones 11 A few minutes after appeared W S mccornick and another gentleman appeared at the city hall that mr mccornick WAS displeased is putting it very mildly he stated briefly what had bad been done and informed the officers that everybody could recognize in the caricature the intent intention i on to expose mr jones to ridicule he wanted to know whether there was not an ordinance against such a proceeding he was informed d there was not out but an aggrieved had recourse to a civil action for damages am this mr mccornick thought would not do and suggested t that hat the bearer of the banner bo be taken in for disturbing the peace there would be a disturbance of the peace said he if that was my picture they had put up further inquiry was made and finally the law against libel was cited as it affords protection against persons be ipg ins exposed to ridicule by pictures etc mr mccornick asked that the banner bearer be arrested but the lie city officers declined saying that application should be made to the sheriff mr mccornick insisted in his DEMAND THAT AN ARREST should be made so marshal solomon and one of his men went down and took the banner bearer into custody he stated that he be was from spanish fork and that his bis name was duval he had been hired tor for 1 to take on one e of the banners that were to be carried about th the e street and had picked this one up the arrest caused quite a flurry adlarry and aad a large crowd followed to the city hall the majority being real estate men some of them were pretty loud in their denunciations of the officers and the idea that the fun should be interfered with harsh demands were made upon the off officers leers to know what they were about but finally the shouters cooled off considerably it was ascertained that mr harlow had bad painted the sign ac the request of the committee and that a young man named glass had hired duval for hardy bishop co complaint was made against a dinst duval harlow glass an and aad bishop for libel major stanton was chairman of the committee who ordered the painting and said 1 I told harlow to paint the banner with a white man on one side and a black man on the other and gave him the words he asked me if he be should paint mccornick as the white man who give anything and I 1 TOLD HIM NO that would be too personal and we want any of that on the street elliott told me the picture was a caricature of T R tones jones and I 1 went up ad to remove the banner but just before I 1 got there the man was arrested arthur brown was employed as attorney for the defendants who were arraigned before justice and pleaded d not guilty they were released on belr own recognizance for the preliminary hearing on monday next |