| Show OBSCENE ft c salt lake book C jera arrested by wednesday rich B shepard of salt lake ye old book store at south tate street was brought to ogden by i inspector sharp and before united states commissioner maloney on two charges of having used the malls for the purpose olt furnishing information as to where obscene pbs cene literature might be obtained al was admitted to bail in the sum of on each charge the bonds belaf signed by george W moyer J P medreath Me greath and shepard the first charge alleg os that shepard sent matter through the malls containing information e 3 to how certain books pictures and prints might be obtained the second count alleges that shepard sent a printed advertisement through the mails in obscene books and pictures were the evidence which iad to the swearing of a complaint ajas obtained by 0 G latimer a inspector into communication with shepard and from hims received through the malls the literature on which the action is based i the master was sent to lumer to box in denver colorado the point from which he carried on his correspondence with lat ime rafter receiving the may which shepard Is accused of having dorward ed in violation of the postal laws came to salt lake the forepart tot this week and visited shepard at he lat place of business without being suspected of being an officer v in an interview that mr shepard granted a salt lake paper he baid dont state this on my authority but I 1 understand that there have been agents of some new york city parity league in salt lake recently ana I 1 be surprised in case this were true that they had a handlin this said mr shepard last when questioned as to the charge against him why he continued the books which were advertised in the cata logue which latimer claims was sent him are sold by every dealer in this city of any importance mand I 1 am not charged with sending any literature through the mall of any obscene nature but simply with sending information as to where certain books might be obtained there was not an objectionable picture or phrase in the printed advertisement or so far as I 1 remember in any correspondence between myself and latimer y this is a charge which I 1 have nota seen brought against any and I 1 did not understand that the lav forbid the sending of such cataloguer catalogues catal the cataloguer catalogues catal referred to listed mayy books of an anthropological nature the books themselves can be soli by any dealer in the city although there are restrictions for sending tl ie books themselves through the mall but then it there was a deseife to interpret the law strictly the sending of the bible through the mail could be prohibited MUCH FREE GOLD new discovery followed by another big rush A message from out of reno nov indicates an extraordinary discovery of gold in that old dl strict just now beginning to experience a new life the discovery is reported la the ora group which is absing prospected under a option running in favor of dewett bovee and associates of pittsburg pa it was whilo driving a tunnel to intercept tho ledge by which another group Is als that the rock was uncovered it vaa at a distance of feet from the mouth of the tunnel and 75 feet below the surface at this point according to a message in the reno gazette tho nuggets of gold began to appear they found that tho heavy stringers of the precious metal ran entirely across the tunnel a distance of ten feet of them are as large as the palm of the hand and almost pure gold As soon as the strike became known it caused a stampede to the vicinity of the mine claims are being staked out by hundreds of men who aro leaving other parts of the district to investigate old prospectors say tha strike Is one of the most important ever made in the stale the reno journal says the rich streak affords sampled assaying from to per ton A miner from the camp says the showed values from to per ton |
