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Show THE, INTErRMOUNTAIN AND COLORADO CATHOLIC. If you look at the right-hand corner of this paper, pa-per, you perceive the words "Colorado Catholic, Twenty-first Year." Those words are readily understood under-stood by our subscribers in Colorado. They are not so familiar to subscribers elsewhere. Hence this brief explanation: Twenty-one years ago, in the city of Denver, the Colorado Catholic made its first appearance. The name of its founder is unknown to the writer. He remembers only that in 1898, during his attendance at the International Typographical Union convention, he was introduced to Father Carr, the owner and editor of the Colorado Catholic at that period. Father Carr is now at the head of a parish in California. Cali-fornia. Rev. T. H. Malone was the owner and editor of the Colorado Catholic in 1899 and for some years previous. The paper was widely known throughout the entire western country. It had a large circulation circula-tion in the mountain states outside Colorado. Father Malone enjoyed more than local popularity as a writer and platform lecturer. His individuality glistened in every line of the. editorial page. Vv A. H. TARBET OF SALT LAKE About this time Alexander H. Tarbet, a Salt Lake capitalist and Catholic, was moved to do something for the spread of Christ's Kingdom. He perceived that a knowledge of truth could be best promoted through the establishment of a newspaper. The handful of Catholics in Salt Lake and Utah, even if all contributed in patronage, was inadequate to support a paper like the Intermountain Catholic appears ap-pears at this day. So he bought out Father Malone. The subscription list of the Colorado Catholic was brought to Salt Lake. The Intermountain Catholic started out with this list as its basis, in addition to subscribers hastily canvassed in Salt Lake and other places in Utah. And this explains the legend with the heading of the paper: Intermountain Catholic, sixth year. Colorado Catholic, twenty-first year. Mr. Tarbet spent $20,000 in bringing the paper up to its present efficiency, and then turned its management man-agement over to Bishop Scanlan. Through the instinctive in-stinctive tact of Father Kiely, who acts as business manager, the income is now ample to meet expenses. The staff of the Intermountain Catholic comprises Philip Corcoran, editor, Father Kiely and Miss Nora Gleason. Miss Elizabeth Keily takes care of the li erary end of the paper in Colorado. . ; - |