Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-11-17 | Page 1 | No Pinchot Ultimatum

I NO Ul lIMA Chief Forester Did 1 lIot 0 Demand the Scarp ca o t ta of a Ballinger Washington No Nov 17 story that thaL I 1 have issued ran an ultimatum to the President is litre the recent eon con conspiracy story merely a silly fa ri cation Oi Of course I have done noth nothing ing illg of the kind nor anything that hat could ho hn twisted into that meaning The Tho President was rood enough to ex express express press his satisfaction with my work and aud r I am going ahead with IL Gifford Pinchot the tho chief forester in a statement issued today thus disposed of the tho reports this morning that he be had sent a letter to the President threat I ening to resign J If Secretary ot of the theIn In Interior in ill the cabinet Secretory Secretary Ballingor was ono one of the lie cabinet caller calle nt at the White toda today and when ho bo left the tho exec offices dj displayed his usual goo good 11 humor In listening to 10 ninny many questions question as to the Ballin feud foud The secretary said ald he had merely taken up tip routine rIc de departmental With the president dent