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Show NOW HE IS SERIOUSLY ILL. "Hon. William Glasmann. President Inter-Mountain Four-State Fair, Ogden. Og-den. Utah. "Sir: To prove that we will not allow al-low the Denver & Rio Grande and th Bamberger outfits to outdo us, we hereby grant for your Four-State Fair a single rate for the round trip from all points' between San Francisco and Omaha And between Los Angeles and Butte and Portland. (Signed) "D. E. BURLEY." The above, purporting to be a real telegram, was brought to the President and Director General of the Four-State Four-State Fair this morning at 9:30 by a messenger boy who possessed all the (formality of ono conveying a real message and the envelope 'wag marked mark-ed "Charges prepaid." The Joy of Mr. Glasmann was so great that he gave the messenger boy a "quarter" and the promise of freo tickets for every day of the. Fair, and also to all the side-shows. But, on second reading of the message, a cloud of disappointment was visible on the face of the president of the Big Fair. The gentleman fell back in his chair and gasped for breath the telegram failed to show the hour of filing or receiving the message and It dawned upon the fair chief that either Dr. H. M. Rowe, or some other equally mischievous person had Inflicted the cruel joke. "Pshaw," Bald Mr. Glasmann, "that is a very clumsy forgery. Any ono could do better than that and it Is not even a good joke, for this rate business is a very serious affair." A telephone message from Mrs. Glasmann a little later was to the effect ef-fect that the recipient of the bogus message was developing a high fever |