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Show AcccpJs Goverr.mcut Job Oscar 0. Mollno, manager of the Fulaoo Drug Storo, has accepted n government nppoiutmnt as meat Inspector, In-spector, with station nt Rouo, Nov. IIo is Instructed to roport for duty December first, nud will consequently hnvo to leavo for his now Hold of labor within two or throo days. During Dur-ing his brief sojourn iu Cedar Mr. Mollno hns made mnuy wnnn friends, and soiuo enemies. Without question ques-tion ho is ono of tho very best phnrraaolsts that ovor cumo to southorn Utah, nnd us n eulcemuu nnd careful busluoBn man ho has few cqunls. Under his management tho stock of tho Pnlnco Drug company has been grcntly inoroaeod, usoful prepnrntous never before known to tho trndn hero having Ifoen added, nnd a groat many drugs whloh hnvo recently found favor with tho nitdicnl profession. Tho subscription business of the storn hns incrensed fully ouo-half, tho snlo of patout preparations, toilet nrtiolos nn rubber goods hna moro thou doubled. Besides his pharmaceutical work, Mr. Mollno is a grudunto of n school of optics, aud bis dono oousidornblo of this class of work since locating hero. Mr. Mollno cntno hero n Btrnngcr last August, nnd Is yot comparatively little known, nud as some Industrious persons hnvo been circulating stories dotrlmontnl to his obnineter, wo bo-liovo bo-liovo it is duo to Mr. Moline and to the gouoral publlo to stnto tbe facts ns near as wo are nblo to give them. It has been chargod tbnt whlJowork-Ing whlJowork-Ing in a drug storo nt Amerlcnu Pork Mr. Moliuo was arrested aud lined 875 for soiling liquor to minors. The person who set this story on foot did so with n letter iu his pooket from Dr. Noyes of that plaoo, which plainly says that uot Mr. Moline but another olork In tho storo was fined for the nbovo olfonso. Tbo lottor speaks of Mr. Mollno's qunllflcntious and businoss ability in tho liighost tonus, nud tbe only dorilicbion ohurged is tbat on ono occasion ho imbibed too freely of intoxicants, and out of sbnmo voluntarily resigned bis poaition tho following morning. Mr. iloliuo will wllliugly ngreo to tbo publicutiun ot tho lottor if tho holder desires it. Fjr moro than n yenr Mr. Mollno ba ,ion n total abstainer from all fortiof intoxicants. ' Aud now 'in relation to another mutter: the olmrgo that ho bos been diepouslng liquor contrary to tno ordlnniices of tho oity since nomlng-to nomlng-to Cedar. Tbe writer, who is u part-nor part-nor In tbe stdfo in whloh Mr. 'Moliuo works, cannot stuto from personal kncwldego whether thoro is any foundation for tho stories or net as 1 nm but little iu tbe ttoro. I only know that iu othor matters 1 have found Mr. Mollno truthful, honest nud honorable and ho Hssuros tno that he baa sold, no liquor oxcopt ou doctor's prescriptions. If ho bus broken the law ho should bo punished, und I wouldjjo tho lost person to place one straw iu tho way of tbo luw taking its course. But to convict a man without a trial, ou moro suspicion, sus-picion, la hardly my stylo of doing .lsinegp To willully Ho about a iii'ti in or.ior to crento publlu soiitl tilt uij.iluat him in a strange laud, is cowardly, to say tbo least, and will eventually recoil upon those who follow Biioh practices. Persons who go about saying that tboy know u man Is breaking tho law nnd rofusu to give testimony nro too moan and content! con-tent! tiblo for anything. Thoy should bo brought into aouit nnd either uiado to give thoir tesimnny or bo sent to tho stato pen for perjury. luusinuoh bb Mr. Mollno is leaving Cedar, wo bolievo bis true and im partial statement is duo him. He holds tho highest recommeudntiouH from the government, which ho served ns hospital Btuword for 'four yours, ho has tho best of credentials from W. A. -Nelden wholsonle drug hougo in Salt Lako nud from vnrloos firms throubgont tho oountry lor whom he has worked. IIo assures us that he Imp novor in his lifo beon nrrostod or ohorged with tho com mission of a crime. While in tho government frevioo, ho wtb novor so much as reiirnrandcd. If bo has dono vrcng tdiico coming to Cedur, IIo should bo punished for It. But In tho courts is the plaoo to prosecute him; not on the street corners and nbout tho publlo plnca. Inconoluslon will oay that this is n matter In whloh tho paper la in uo wise ooucerned. Tho o Is no oounoo-tlon oounoo-tlon whatever between tho Record nnd tho Pnlaoe Drug Storo Tho stuto-mont stuto-mont Is rnndo voluntnrlly by tho undersigned, becnuso I hellovo it Id duo to tho publlo. to Mr. Mollno and to myself, and tbo space Ib paid for. CIIAS. S. WILKINSON. |