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Show TO SET " THINGS RIGHT. Many Letters Received Calling Attention to Error In Stating Man I fl Carried $170,000 in Gold. H Last week The Tribune published a ktory In which It waa stated that a man camo down from Idaho beirlng a small hand satchel containing tt'OOOO In gold bricks from nn Idaho mine. Tho nmount, as It nppcured In Iho paper, was the result of a typograi hi nl error. er-ror. It was written J17.000. but was set up wrong and a correction was published pub-lished While the error wis a causo ot regret It has also proved a source of some Joy During tho past weelt the office has been flooded with letters from all parts of the West, tho general tenor of lhm aU being that If a man could carry the weight of J J70 000 In gold generally-accepted standards of human strength should be corrected The error has proved what wan already knnwn and appreciated In regard to The Tilh-unes Tilh-unes circulation, nunely. lhat It reaches evervwhere In the West nnd that every article which appeora In the raper Is carefully read and digested di-gested It has also proved that the) nop of humorists this seir surpasses all expctillons Trnni every point of the rompars have come epistles bearing bear-ing on this matter und some of them would wring a furtive tear ftum a poi-relaln poi-relaln lmae ot Dlr Distress A few of the able critics got on tho ho it eaily and had their little contributions In the malls the day the article nppeured. It required several days for tho Idea of "wrltln" to the paper about It" lo soik Into other Intellects ns evidenced by communications from "Reador," "Mathematician," ' Curious hub-scrlber" hub-scrlber" and others, which did not come In until scsterday A few specimen communications might prove of Interest. Inter-est. deer eddltur 1 hav bin a constnntt reeder off yure valyhlo paper pall' I.nko Trybun ewer sins 1 was abel to reed and hav allwavs hid grate re. speck fur yure vallvble papei. 1 hav alluavs consldnd uie statmenta eapeshuly on mlnln maters nmhui- tick butt when I red yure nrtlckle on BH furtuno In a satchel! my confldenso B drlftid back tn the ole homested In B mlsinurl. If thnre Is anny probability M of my ewer belli abel to perform tha M wunderfiill feet of carrying 5 HO 000 In BBJB a s itchell or 720 lbs. nf gold bricks or BBJ that wate In nnny other formln a BBJB smill satihell thru the streets nt salt BBJB Luke I am going to Idaho to git JBJBJ ' dents To decide a bet kindly H stale whether n man can carrj ll'n.ooo BJBJfl 111 gold In a small satchel or not? ' BJBJ 'To the Editor Years ago, so many H now that I like not to recill their num- BJBJ ber, I took a fine bronze medal In tho BJBJBJ Handy Cross Roida district school for BJBJ superior excellence In nfathemattcs. BJBJ Need I state, therefnre, that I wan BJBJ much pained nt observing what must BBH havo ben a mathematical Inaccuracy B in jour paper of Tebruary Sth. It la M manifestl) a phslcul Impossibility for BJBB a 'slender' joung man to carry 5170 01)1 BBJ In gold In n small hand sitcnel so BJBJ theie must have been n mathematical BJBJ error Termlt me to suggest 12874 " a suitable amount to place In tha H satchel and kindly do not let a thing BJBJ like- this occur ngaln us It grates upon BBJB my line mathemitlcnl sensibilities' jBJBJ dear edltur I seen In yure paper H februalry 8 n slender man took 170 009 BJH dollirs In a handbag to salt lake sltty, B and above It vou sayed the doetur In flJH jure taonn nit a girls throat to euro J.BJB; dipthery this so unstrung me I did not BJB nollcs you was rong my wife and me H- flggered nut that no man Is stout enure !BJBJ to pack that )ou ran git the answer by 9JBJ dlvldren by 2 and then ten. naow you BJ better not print anny mora Itsuse of that nnd there's only 1 here at Jim H canllein's store I can gR It and talr It HJH up I dnn t guess nn body heer seen It. tH respectfully, ' Unrle buck." BJBJL Magolon. Oregon. PJl r B my in men Charla onlurn but (BJH they no me by "Uncle buck." jH |