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Show HOW OGDEN MAN GROWS FAMOUS The Ogden Examiner Says He Is Ten Thousand Years Ahead of His Time and Proves It by a Letter the Ogden Man Wrote The Whole Story of How an Ogden Newspaper Makes Discovery One Hundred Centuries "Too Early" How "Bill" Gets Slam-Banged for Deed of Poor "Innocent Old Man." A few days ago the whisky trust sheet, known in Ogden as the Examiner, Exam-iner, received a letter from one of its subscribers ordering the Examiner to "stop." The letter was a gem of its kind, perfect in diction and punctuated punctuat-ed according to the modern school, and a letter such as the whisky sheet thought could be edited only by some ono versed in tho art of letter writing. The reception of the letter at the Examiner Ex-aminer office threw tho whole force into hysterics, to think that a subscriber sub-scriber refnembor, only a subscriber of the Examiner should bo able to write such a letter. The editor In chief, Mr Armstrong, put on his "spocs," held tho letter to the electric light, studied the watermarks water-marks In the paper, hoping to find a private mark "Sure," ho said, "the writer of such a letter must lo a private brand of paper But there were no marks. JuBt then gie manager of the whisky trust paper arrived from his homo in Salt Lake and Armstrong said, "Hello. Eldredgc Who did you bring up from Salt Lak this time?" "Better be careful." said old wise-acre, "it's all over town about you taking the Plain City car with that lingerie." "Aw, let up," said Jeddy Eldredgc "What is worrying you" "Look at this letter, and see what you make of it " And the sporty manager of the E aminer from Salt Lake City cast his eyes over the letter and said' "Oh, that's easy. Don't you see? It is a boost for the ex-mayor." Bill wrote that letter himself No one in Ogden could do that so well as Sweet William of tho South Fork waterworks water-works "Sure!" thundered old wiso-acro editor of the whisky trust sheet "We shall smoke him out Here, you re porter, go up to Waggoner's house and make him admit that 'Bill' wroto this letter." Tho reporter called and found the wife home and promptly accused her her of allowing her husband to sign a letter that "Bill" wrote The lady protested and told the over-fresh reporter re-porter that he was mistaken; that she had stood by her husband when ho wrote the letter on the typewriter "We know better, madam Thoro is Is only one man In all Ogden who could write such a letter and that is BUI.' " "Well, I am sorry you think so," said the wife, "but I liavo told the tmth " Then tho Examiner man offered to have the "fool editor" of the paper discharged if she would continue the Examiner, saying that arrangements had been made to drop him soon. When the special investigator returned, re-turned, broken in spirit, and reported to the whisky sheet force awaiting him that he had failed to got a "con fession" nnd failed to get the paper back in the home again, they all wept, and when the reporter told that tho wife said "Bill" had nothing to do with the letter, that she saw her husband hus-band type it on the typewriter, El-dredge El-dredge swore that he had a date at Five Points, and then Armstrong said: "I said I know more than the whole Ogden bunch and I know 'Bill' wrote the letter." After three long weeks, during which time that letter was read day after day with other similar letters coming daily, it was deefded that "Bill" wrote that letter and it was to be published and poor "Bill" was to bo "slam-banged" some more Now, dear reader, when the Standard Stand-ard learned that It was accused of coaxing an "innocent old man" to sign a letter roasting the Examiner, It albo made an Investigation and found that Mr. George S Waggoner Is a machinist, machin-ist, working for the railroad; that he was so "innocently old" as to railroad just 30 summers; that he never spoke to the said "Bill" before in his life, that he, however, held a grievance against the said "Bill" for publishing certain strike reminiscences, but with all Bill's faults, he liked the Standard hest, for It at least tried to he fair and1 just, which was an impossible at Utude tor the whisky trust sheet to assume, much less practice The joke on the Examinpr sporting combination combina-tion was so rich nnd good that the wife was asked for a photograph of ner husband "No, no!" said she "We have had enougli publicity." But the Standaid diligently sought for a photograph of Air Waggoner among the neighbors neigh-bors and finally found a group picture pic-ture of 12 In the background stood Mr. G S Waggoner, whom tho E aminer said could not write that let tor in ten thousand years Wo want tho public to know Mr Waggoner, who is a man 10.000 years ahead of his time and should not be kept hidden away. A man who can throw a news paper force or leuined men from Salt Lake City off lis feot is no ordinary individual, and, while it look tho Standard nlmost a week to got a picture pic-ture of him, here It is at last rCTEBm.mvJ,li,iJ.iu muM-;y urn in n inwiuw ysn i jfy! lhiHilhilinriilrrmiiirT'vT ' 1 "WwSJl I GEO S WAGGONER f The Man the Examiner Says Is Tin Thousand Years Ahead of Time. Of course, the picture will show up 1 poor, because it had to bo enlarged f from a group in which the face was (j only one out of twolvo But wo hope S it will show the Examiner's "inno- fl cent old man" to the public as a I bright young fellow of 30 years who fi knows when a newspaper deliberately lies about its competitor and who will n not have a lying sheet In his house even if the edilor and managers do i live in Salt Lake City. The Stand j ard reproduces the following editor lal from the Examiner, which gives the letter In full, of which the Examiner Exam-iner whines so much THE SLAM-BANGING EDITORIAL "We have the following letter I " 'The Morning Examiner, Ogden. Utah " 'Gentlemen Being wearied of your abusive and "slam banging" editorials in your paper, I hope you will be kind enough to take my name from vour subscription list " 'I hope more of your subscribers will take up the cudgel as I have done whereby a great deal of this strenu ous and undesirable reading mattpr will be eliminated from our homes "'Hoping you will be able to sco where I have done my part In attempting, attempt-ing, at least, to put a atop to the blackmailing in my homo of a good citizen, a man of Integrity, and a powerful pow-erful factor In the business of the city, also in the continued haranguoing and backbiting of one of our cx-presidenlu I trust you will be able to take a hint, at least, from this Very truh yours. GEO S WAGGONER, " '456 Twenty-second Street, City "In Ogden the slam-banging editorial editor-ial certainly is effective It makes the publisher of all afternoon papers take an innocent old gentleman Into the sanctum, and thoro secure from him a j signature to a letter the Innocent old gentleman couldn't write in 10,000 fl years. And a letter, which, If he could write, he would be far too wise to sign. "The slam-bang editorial has the power to make the evening editor do the one thing he cannot get the com munity to do for him testify to his own goodness, and his own greatness It has the effect of revealing, as nothing noth-ing else in tho world has been able to do, tho empty boastfulness, the limitless limit-less egotism, tho passion for self-praise, self-praise, which Glasmann thirsts for. and which careful people never give him. j From the forogoing it is evident that the Examiner Is being haunted by its oun shortcomings. |