| Show an item detroit free press I 1 was bitting alone in the office the other day about noon when a couple of gentlemen came up who were evidently exceedingly angry their temper had not been improved by climbing the long flights of stairs that led to the editorial room which they bad been compelled to walk up aa the elevator was not between twelve and one look here said one of the men this is cap john boom of northern michigan your paper this morning publishes a scandalous and utterly untrue item about him and we have come up here to gt a retraction anade or there will be trouble yes said cap boom mopping hia heated brow there will be trouble it is perfectly outrageous the way newspapers publish items in which there a word of truth utterly reckless of what damage they may do and of course it is broke in the other but ill bet you a dollar and a half well have that thing fixed well I 1 timid gentlemen I 1 am very sorry indeed but it in my department I 1 have really nothing to do with the matter at all the proper man to see would be the city editor what did I 1 tell you cried capt boom you wanted me to come up here but I 1 knew it was no I 1 they would shift it off just that way I 1 told you we would never find the fellow that wrote it find him in all right enough I 1 said if you call up at five 0 clock five cried capt boom why by that time I 1 will be on the railway for home no sir you correct that item right here now or there is going to be trouble all right I 1 said what is the item I 1 will make whatever cor erections ions there are to be made in it and hand it to alie city editor he will only be too glad to correct it if he has befit in the wrong too glad thundered the other dont correct the damage be has done what is the item I 1 asked un folding a copy of that mornings paper here it is be answered putting his finger on the place the item was aa follows capt john boom if Joga wauk northern michigan ia at the lac he is interested in the devel of some timber limits on the Joga wauk river and is hereto induce capitalists to go into the scheme cap boom haa acquired the right to acres of kalua ble timber land and has engaged mr theo colite the surveyor to go up there and run the line he is negotiating with capt briney fur the purchase of a tug that will navigate the raging Joga wauk well I 1 said when I 1 had read that through what is there wrung about it ite all cried capt boom there a word of truth in it I 1 want you to say in to morrows paper that you were entirely misled and that there a word of truth in the item relating to capt john boom you have got to do that or stand the consequences it cant be all wrong I 1 said there must be some foundation of truth in the matter the reporter has no reason for falsifying things you can take it any way you like but you have got to retract that thing or there will be music now I 1 tell you capt boom said the man who had come up with him it is worth and he dont care a darn what he spends in order to set himself right now I 1 tell you well I 1 answered he need to spend a cent paper ia as anxious to get it right as be is to have it righted but lets see where the wrong is in the farat place capt john boom ot Joga wauk of northern michigan is at the cadillac are you capt john boom yes bir I 1 am very well then that much ia right are you from Joga wauk yea sir I 1 am from Joga wauk la Joga wauk in northern michigan yes it is and are you slaying at the cadillac yes I 1 am all right then there u nothing wrong with the first of it is there no it that I 1 well lets tako the second sentence are you interested in gome of the timber limits on that river now just where the trouble is of course I 1 am inter rested in timber limits on wauk kiver but I 1 want that published I 1 see any reporters and that I 1 told about that I 1 told it in confidence and am not going to have it cast broadcast all over the country well what we are after now is to get this thing right the timber limits are on the Joga wauk river and is it true that you wish to enters inters eat capitalists in the scheme why thata what I 1 am here for aa I 1 eaid but I 1 dont want any publicity about it we are doing this on the quiet there aro other parties that have claims on those limits and if they get on to the racket why they the person who aaice up with him coughed a little and said never mind capt boom that of course has nothing to da with the matter well it gays hero that you have acquired the right to acres of timber land la that true well yea it is true that is tc say it acres ita about 48 acres oh yea aud there id 2000 acres ahro that but yea all right fitly thousand acres is all right but its bodyn business well have you engaged mr ebeo colite the surveyor to go up there and run the line engaged him yes have en him but what it baut business bat his and mine is ft no but that part of the item is correct anyhow 1 am trying to get at what is untrue in the item now it says that you are negotiate ing with capt briney for the purchase of a tug Is that true why I 1 bought a tug from him abia morning yes I 1 was negotiating with him yesterday yeat erday but blut the point well well get at the point in a tha tug is to navigate the raging Is the tug for that purpose or does the Joga wauk not rage oh a trivial matter of course what the tug is for but that what I 1 want I 1 want you to aay in tomorrows to morrows paper that there any truth in that item about capt john boom but my dear sir you have just said it is all true well that loav be but we dont want the thing published and here you have gone and published it you cant expect us to say it is not true if it is true can you captain yes I 1 can well how would this strike you in referenda refe renca to an item in this column in yesterdays issue capt john boom denies that he has any rights to any timber dinits on the Joga wauk river he has not engaged a surveyor and has no thought of interesting capitalists in his scheme he has not bought a tug and does not intend to capt boom read this item over once or twice and scratched bu bead and showed it to his compan ion no he said this ex acely what we want I 1 dont want you to say it you know I 1 want the paper to deny it but dont you see the paper cant tell a lie it is like georga washington in that respect the two consulted fur a minute well said capt boom perhaps it dont matter after all better let it stand as it is I 1 guess the paper would say that you deny it if you want to captain no I 1 dont know that it matters well let it go at that good day |
