Show JEFFRIES'S FRIENDS WORRY TOO SOON 1 Grieving ng Over the Rumor That Salt Lake Elks Blackballed Blackballed Black Black- H balled Him i HE DID NOT APPLY HERE i I But if jf He Ever Does He Will WillS S Surely Meet That Fate I i Tin TIll friends of or Pugilist Jim J Jeffries according to a Los Angeles dispatch I I I I are borrowing a lot of or n needless neediest trouble I elected but the grand lod lodge c stepped I In and ordered a reversal re of the cIccI election elec I Hon tion and FItz had lied to bo be expelled Thru is wh why 1 U I-U say s had Jeffries applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied for membership hero heio he hc would ha have hab b boon been n turned down In lit the meantime those friends of the ex pugilist t who are arc complaining of the treatment the hero received a athe at atthe th the hands of the Salt Lake Lako antler herd I mn may reserve It until he makes the I I mistake of applying ing for membership 1 I i T a i I I and wasting much unnecessary smI sympathy sym sm I path pathy and Indignation over the tho statement statement state te ment which says s li h he nas b been blacki black- black i balled b. by b th the or of the Salt Lako l S of Fiks FHi f f ollow f t i t t Los ct ct Tu ro th he M and mollification of or his friends I hero here Jim Jeffries retired heavyweight heavyweight heavy- heavy wel weight ht champion pugilist of or the world was blackballed when his application for membership In the Salt Lake lodge of Elks was voted voled on last Thursday night Friends of or Jeffries think that lie he should have ha received better belleI treat treat- ment The They think that although he is Ig isa a a. retired pugilist and aud saloonkeeper r j that he is one of the squarest men In sporting circles and that he conducts his business In an ord orderly manner i iThe The foregoing foregoing- message mesag-e was cas shown I Ito to Secretary A A. AV V V. of oC the local lodge who laughed when he I read it It and arid Said ald If this were true I would be unable In Information Iii In- to give Ive you ou an any formation concern concerning It but as it Is not I can say sar that docs not hot reside li here rc arid and under tho the rules of or the tho order an applicant for membership must live within the jurisdiction of or orthe the lodge to which he applies for forI for I membership nt at le least t six months before his application can come orne before the lodge for action and Jeffries' Jeffries name nam has never been before this lodge as asan asan asan an applicant for fOI membership Sf so manifestly thero is n nothing whatever in the story stor Would o Turn luri Jeffries 1 Down Parley Christensen Chritensen happened happen ell to he be I pre present ent wh when n n the dispatch patch was shown tho the secretary and said aid I have no ito In saying that this dispatch Is a l pure canard There is nothing in It cl but had Jeffries es made application for Ol membership to this lodge he would undoubtedly have havo been turned down I do cIo nut not say av this because of or the unwritten law mentioned men mentioned men men- I in the tho dispatch regarding saloon keepers but pu pugilism is quite I another thing and I can site a precedent precedent prece prece- dent for you ou which will help to show 1 you ou wh why hy I say sa- this Bob Fitzsimmons made application tion for membership In an Indiana Indian I lodge and he was so well thought of b by the local members that h he was 05 |