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Show If " Hi II Jackling's Happy New Year To The Federal Bunch 1 Tiring of the campaign of personal and pub- B lie abuse and villiflcation which the Herald-Re- B publican has persisted in for so long, and doing Hn the only manly thing to do under the circum- Brj stances, inasmuch as he is a minority stockholder, Bfj Daniel C. Jackling resigned as president of the 1 Herald-Republican Publishing Company and of- H fered his stock for sale to the other owners, glv- K ing them to understand that unless he heard from Yj them regarding it by January 1st, 1911, he would Bjj sell it to anyone who might care to purchase it. ij For several weeks well founded rumors have come thick and fast to the effect that Mr. Jack- nj ling was tired of the Herald-Republican and those H'l who were conducting its policies, but not until H' the past week were these stories authenticated, Hi and Mr. Jackling's letter made public a day or B. two ago caused a veritable sensation. H There has never been a time since the pres- H I ent methods of the Herald-Republican were B I brought into use that Mr. Jackling's friends were H,j r not confident that he would withdraw from the H company if they were not done away with, and H for that reason the news of the withdrawal and H the subsequent offering of the stock was not a H great surprise to everyone. We regret exceed- H ingly that we have not a verbatim report of the H remarks Mr. Jackling may have made to some of H the Curly, Kinky, or Fussy stockholders in out- H Jinlng what he thought a decent newspaper ought Hh to be. We will leave it to the imagination of H! those readers who know Mr. Jackling, and those Hl .who have not the pleasure of his acquaintance H must be content after reading his letter, which is B; published below. According to his own statement, Hl Mr. Jackling became associated with the men who Hj conduct the policies of the Herald-Republican be- H) cause he had an idea that in this way he could Hj( effectively aid in pouring a bit of lubricant on the Hl troubled waters locally, but notwithstanding the H; sincerity of his motives, he quickly discovered K that it was not the good of the community that Hj the bunch had in mind, and hence his determina- H tion to get out. So the only glow on the New H Year's horizon for the Herald-Republican stock- H holders will be the garish lettering on the front Hj page of their remarkable organ. No little inter- H est attaches to the future course of the paper, H and just what its committee on ways and means H will decide upon at the next meeting of the trou- B bled board. As someone remarked when Mr. Jack-H Jack-H " ling's letter was made public, "I wonder what the H hell they are going to do? Smoot will have to B put the money up, and he won't." B The Silver King Coalition, in the opinion of Hv well informed mining men, made a pretty good B bargain when it gathered in the Uintah Treasure B Hill at Park City for one hundred thousand dol- B lars. That Is less than $3,575 each for the twenty- B eight claims, all located where the probability of B ore is yei'y strong. Of course the King held tin- B divided interests in a number of these claims, but B the proportionate Interests varied so much that it B would have been impossible to make a division of B profits from the ore they might produce, without B friction. The Treasure Hill company made the H charge that some of these community claims had B been entered without notice. In preparing their H case the officers found themselves not only with- H out aiy convincing proof of the alleged trespass, B but face to face with the same difficulty that H would have beset the Silver King had it under- E taken to work the joint property. The exact place H from which every ton of ore was mined would H have had to be noted and a different settlement H made on the product of each claim. The difflcul- The former president's Christmas billet-doux runs as follows: December 22,1910. "To the Board of Directors of the Herald-Republican Publishing company. "Gentlemen: I desire hereby to confirm my verbal message conveyed to you through your general manager on tho occasion of your last directors' di-rectors' meeting, hela on Tuesday, the 20th of this month, whereby I tendered to you my resignation as director and president of your company and offering of-fering my stock and interest In your institution for sale. I will appreciate lmmedlite acceptance of my resignation. "The price of my interest in the paper will be that paid for it by me, including such amounts as are due me on open account, plus a ruling rate of interest on the investment from the time it was made. If you, individually or collectively, are prepared pre-pared to make purchase of the interest,, I should be glad to be so advised prior to January 1, 1911. In tho event of your not being so prepared, my interest in-terest will thereafter be for sale to any person or institution wishing to purchase it. "My reasons for taking the action herein outlined out-lined are so well known to you that it is unnecessary unneces-sary for me to refer to them here otherwise than briefly. I entered into the negotiations and incurred in-curred my proportion of the expenditures necessary neces-sary to the organization of your publishing company com-pany as a matter of personal consideration to certain cer-tain members of your board and of your controlling stockholders, following their individual and specific spe-cific solicitation of my assistance and the request you collectively made in a similar manner that I become associated officially with it. These solicitations solici-tations and requests were at that time and subsequently sub-sequently concurred In, if my recollection serves me, by each and every member of the existing board. I undertook to comply with your wishes as you outlined them to me upon the distinct understanding un-derstanding that I should enjoy, by and with the advice and counsel of certain of the members of the board with whose policies and personalities I was more familiar, the exercise of a controlling influence as to the business and public policy of your publication. I stated at that time that I exacted ex-acted such privilege as an assurance that I might be, to the fullest extent, instrumental in making the publication a dignified institution that would be useful in the community and a credit to those associated with it, and one whose operation would result profitably to those investing in Its securities. securi-ties. I made It clear that I would not expect any consideration or preferment from yourselves or the |