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Show TtlACKAY AS A NEWSPAPER MAN Owned a Publication, But Finally Demolished De-molished the Office. (Chicago Inter Ocean.) John W. Mackay was once a newspaper newspa-per proprietor. It Is said that he swore and gave more violent exhibitions of temper on two different occasions during dur-ing the short time that Fred Hart was editor of his paper the Territorial Enterprise En-terprise of Virginia City. Nev. than he ever did aarain during his lifetime. Hart was the editor of the Enterprise for three months in 1SS0. and they were a llvelv three months. He had a deserved rer-utation as a brilliant and caustic writer, and the circulation of the iiaoer be-gan to go up after he took charge of it James G. Fair was at that time a candidate for the United States senate, and politics was sizzling throughout the tCEefore Hart had been in Virginia City many weeks he one evening overesti mated his capacity tor a ccnam numing red fluid dispensed in great quantities in that mining town. He was filled with a desire to do something startling. Aes a consequence, the Enterprise came out the next morning with an editorial headed "Slippery Jim." Under this caption were two columns of cutting sarcasm about Fair's character and history, ana ridiculing ridi-culing the idea that such a man should be sent to the senate. When Mackav read the paper he nearly near-ly burst with wrath. He fairly ran to the newspaper office and upon the head of the first man he met let loose a torrent tor-rent of invective which wound up with: "1 won t hav my partner i air abused and belied in my paper by anybody. I ve a mind to take a sledge and smash the bloody press." After Mackav had cooled down a little, he was raioled into keeping Hart as editor. edi-tor. All went well for a few weeks, until un-til one morning Mackay noticed an editorial edi-torial headed "The Alta Steal. 1 1 was a vigorous denunciation of the Alta Mm ing company and its methods, and intimated inti-mated that the controlling spirits ought to be in prison. Mackay and a number of other prominent men controliea tne company, and they swooped down on the office. Bokinir fut o the window of his office. Hart saw them coming. Betore thev reached the door he had vanished out' of the rear entrance to the building. The next heard from him he was in California. Cali-fornia. He never returned to Mrginia Citv. |