Show doe tax collectors reply sly attention has been celled to an article which appeared in TUE on saturday evening under tue caption of city DOR law and the whole thing s a con fabrication but may be accepted as truth by of your readers I 1 desire in as arlet manner as possible to answer the same so that I 1 may not be dented to boar reader A to the first count charging me of employing boy to put up dogs which tollow the owners to the city and take them to the crematory receiving ae a ransom 25 I 1 deny as falde and challenge alie writer to point to due instance in which such a course was pursue 1 again I 1 am charged or the boy dog thieves alleged to be employed by me of taking to the crematory anil destroying a very valuable doi belonging to a nian living near the corporate limit nor Is this all for in this instill I 1 am further charged with keeping night and when the owner appeared knorn ine and offered to the 3 tax I 1 de 1 for keeline the animal one night the owner refused to py the 4 and the dor was consequently condemned to death in this instance your correspondence displays almost incredible ignorance or it 1 a desire on ills part to make me apgear tile as himself when I 1 collect the tax on a dog I 1 urn allowed 50 per cent thereof or cah but on tuis occasion I 1 that amount in order to obtain 1 in city how magnanimous alila makes me appear and now I 1 11 to make your afi er if in will confront me with the 11 liliom he eliat treatment frn me I 1 will guarantee to and valuable a specimen of the canine species us he ever dreamed of possessing and will cap this with a free forone year and 50 to boot how let your 0 bow hig manliness and come forward and prove hi assertions As to the expense to the city of the office of dog tax collector let me that the tax collector has not this year cost the city 10 per month the almost entirely self supporting again let me correct your well informed T correspondent upon another point he alleges I 1 have a bill before the council for for dogs during the last six months the canines referred to were killed darine toe month a the presentation of the bill to the council and were found run nine wild between the ogden bridee and thirtieth etrest and nowhere near the corporate almite communication must now be apparent it is the clention cren tion of either a fool or a knave and I 1 believe the latter one who hadj not the manhood to father his own assertions but assumes a meaningless initial and above this makes the most dastardly char of the first water P M TOUT log tax collector |