Show 7 JOHN L SULLIVAN acet denies the recent anter dispatch disaba our readers will remember a 1 denver dispatch published on wednesday wherein john L sullivan and his suite of sturdy slug gere gers were represented as d drunken rill aken loafers and rowdy ruffians similar S in reports were contained in denver papers as to the disgraceful deportment of the chaman champion and his chums in leadville these ese reports appear to have been greatly exaggerated if not woven entirely out boutot ot whole cloth an associated press rem dispatch from butte mont gives gives the lie to those colorado account afta as the persons in in question wa ar before th the e ogden public bli C ftp elext monday mody even evening hig in in U union i opera 0 pera house wo we deem it justice to them to give their aide side of the affair as promptly ae as we accredited the original atory story the dispatch received hero at am on the ath reads hugh atle coyle advance agent for the jahlil john L sul sullivan I 1 ivan combination arrived here tat today to day to arrange for the ap ti ra ranco of the preat great champion in this city mr cyle is much exer acied over the dispatches which have been published broadcast representing sullivan and other members ot of thy the combination as getting drunk and in broils at denver lead and bolher points which he de tie bounces uli qualifiedly as a untrue especially specially ally regarding retarding the denver story of sullivan engaging in a fight in front of the arcade saloon en on the to mornine orning of january ad and running hilo into the american house where he lie demanded a revolver which h was re fusel and he was run out of the house atias at its muzzle he lie call calIR attention to the fact that the american house louse is five block blocks the A arcade saloon and says that now that sullivan and the entire party are engaged in a bus incus venture which aside from their well known reputations for sobriety necessitates strict adherence to busis busi ness and sober habits and a business like prosecution of their renter enterprise dispatches of this chaputer cha muter have followed them along the entire route rome he attributes the authorship to jeal ausy and denounces them a falee false in in toto the denver deaver dispatch he stigma as designing des ignio and sent with the evident object of injuring ofin jurin sullivan Sul as is shown by the expression of opinion which it closes intimating that some of the sluggers would bite the dust before if leaving colorado he ile says that similar falee false reports were sent from scranton bc ranton and but they were promptly corrected by the associated press when the facts became know known n we will add that this message has no signature te to it hence we do not know mr coyle vouches fur the truth of his assertions we give it for what it is worth leaving it to the public to form their own judgment to decide as to the relative credibility of the two statement or to wait till mon day when all will have an opportunity to form an opinion as to the men |