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Show I BLACKMAIL NOTE I FAILS TO SCARE : POSTOFFICE HEAD "Thl3 is a sheer caso of black-i black-i mall," said a postofflco omployo Hj this morning, as sho handed a letter to Postmaster G. E. Brown-Ins:, Brown-Ins:, to -whom It was addressed. ' On reading it, Mr. Browning H; agi'eed to the samo opinion as that expressed by his assistant, and handed it to a newspaper ro-porter, ro-porter, asking his opinion also. Ij Tho nowspaper reporter read tho letter and agreed that it was Hft the briefest piece of blackmail ho 1 had ever seen. Tho letter referred to was Hrl signed by Eunice Skaggs of Topo- I ka, ICansas, who wrote asking for Hff information ,0.8 to- whether her ;' two boys, who had been sent by ' express from Topeka to Ogden, ' liad arrived safely. She told the postmaster thoy were addressed too 111 Twenty-seventh street. M' The two boys referred to are the "Picanlnnics" -who arrived in l Ogden by express on Tuesday ana were safely delivered to their fa- "If all black mall letters gave us as much pleasure to reply to sis this, it would be a happy world," said G. E. B. |