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Show The Tribune's Fake Story. WHEN Bishop Scanlan composed himself to rest on .Wednesday night, little did he dream that cn the following morning he would awake to find himself richer by one hundred thousand big, hard Mexican dollars. He did not expect ex-pect any such windfall as a rcsjul; of the division of the Pious Fund; hut the Salt Lake Tribune, which is better posted than ecclesiastical authorities, knew all along that this would be his share of the award. The Tribune made a prediction to this effect samo tims ago. To be explicit, not long after the decision rendered at The Hague. It recalls this prophesy with no litt'e unc tion, and felicitates the bishop of Salt Lake on the result. Great prophet! Most . wonderful, most enterprising Tribune! There is nothing now in the way of applying this sum towards the completion comple-tion of the new cathedral, which the Tribune suggests nothing but the discovery dis-covery that the Tribune's story is only a pipe dream. No such sum of money has been set apart for the diocese of Salt Lake, nor has any sum Wen set apart. Neither is it known that Utah will receive any portion of the Pious fund. No information has reached Bishop Scanlan concerning such matter. mat-ter. This being true, everything said in the Tribune and purporting to come from Bishop Scanlan ia false. He had no interview with any Tribune representative repre-sentative touching this disposition of the Pious fund, although it is made plain in the Tribune's report that the bishop furnished the information upon which the sensational account is based. Such liberties constitute an offense to clean, -reliable journalism. In attempting to run down the person per-son who might have given the Tribune tips for its sensational "scoop," the writer has been informed that a commercial com-mercial drummer told a friend in this city that another friend in Idaho told him that Utah and Idaho would get a good lump of money out of the Pious fund. So, "putting this and that together," to-gether," it needed only an enterprising reporter to place a hundred thousand Mexican dollars upon Bishop Scanlan's porch bright and early Thursday morning. |