Show 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 41 card from front mr nr R it IL slater EDITOR HERA LD since has been a great deal of wind and but little aarm in regard to a little affair which is said to have occurred at tho the hot springs some f four our days since and published in iu both 0 ogden den papers tilot and air MALD I 1 task rash permission to say a few words through your columns in the first place all persons arriving at the age of twenty one and abd being capable of judging for themselves and knowing right from wrong know it is not right to gamble even if our count rys laws did not prohibit it in many ways and 1 instances us it is only a polite way of stealing As it is generally known that a greg reat it many people visit tho the hot ap brings rings during the year I 1 have had at least one proposition per month mouth from sports or gamblers to come out to the springs and start a faro game or a ame game of poker or some other enticing game for tho the purpose of winning money from guests stopping here and when giving them to un der stand that I 1 am bitterly opposed to anything of the kind and would not allow it I 1 have had men abuse me and tell me I 1 was a d d fool and s stood tood in my own light whether as your paper states any person or pers persons ons invited mr coleman to come out to the Springs and have a game or not I 1 cannot adfor sa bay for iche if he was wil s invited it would all bo be kept dark from me the first I 1 knew of the affair was by a lady boarder who came over from the pavilion building and told me she was afraid there w was as so something methin going r on oil there that I 1 would not tie alow low if I 1 knew it I 1 walked over as fact act as possible and when I 1 arrived it was allover all over except that I 1 heard afew unpleasant words exchanged the parties who were then in in the billiard room I 1 told the parties to hush up or id throw svery every one of them out of doors mr coleman p proceeded roc ceded to tell me ib bis story ibold I 1 told him I 1 did not want to hear a it word from him but w when lien the tile train arrived to get on and never come back on the same errand or id have him arrested on sight eight on making inquiries what the tile trouble arose from I 1 was told this story by two of the parties As you slater were at the tile hotel or restaurant building there was a game proposed by coleman an and d we went up stairs and locked ourselves e v c in a private room to have a game and seeing coleman was dead lead on the steal we beat him bill at lis his own game and the old kicked or squealed about it t this happened about 1 to p m and I 1 presume from what I 1 could learn froin both parties it was not more than twenty minutes from the beginning to the ending of the tile affair and as I 1 am closely confined to the hotel or restaurant building from 12 until p 1 in while dinner is is going on these parties took advantage of my ray absence from the pavilion building all guests who haye baye stopped at the springs long enough to get acquainted quain ted with tho way affairs are run know that I 1 emphatically forbid anything of thu kind but as one man cannot bo be in all places at one and the same time it is easy enough for someone some one who is on the alert to take the advant advantage a e it 11 II S SLATER HOT SPRINGS U T aug 30 |