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Show Smith Replies. Piovldeticc, Utah, Dec 7, 1U0I. Kiinoii Ri:ruiii.icA.: -My attention atten-tion has fccon called to an aitlote In join Issue or the 2uth till, in which the wtltcr. Mis. JohnA. Hendrickson, attempts to cast upon me the icspoq-siblllt) icspoq-siblllt) for hei having leased a store building In Logan for saloon put poses. As Icannotentei a discussion in the pnbllc press with a woman who for-relts for-relts so lightly the respect due to her sex, 1 am debaired fiom going into particular and must content myself with a geucial denial of her statements state-ments Outside of making wiltten application for the building In question, ques-tion, I held no commumlcatlon with Mis Hendrickson vei bally or othet-wlse othet-wlse until weeks after it had been leased leas-ed to Mr. Hurst. The woidlngof the lease was a matter arranged by herself her-self and hei agent and she signed It, as 1 believe with a full knowledge of its meaning. Hut Mr. Editor, the public surel) cares but little vvhcthei Mis. Hendiiekson Hend-iiekson leases buildings for one saloon or for a doon, and as to hei reasons for leasing them it does not care at all. Onlv an exaggerated sense of personal Importance could have suggested sug-gested that it does For this reason and because 1 do not believe in airing private grievances griev-ances in the columns of a newspaper, 1 decline to entei Into any futthcr discussion or this matter and will merely add that 1 am amenable to the laws of the land and the discipline or the church and am prepared to meet Mis. Hendiicksen with cither. Hcspcctrully Josi'.fti A. Smith. |