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Show COMSTOCK JOURNALISM. The Way the "Chronicle" and the "Enterprise" ITIake the Hair Fly. A fierce war has broken out between the Enterprise and Chronicle. It runs something like this : Last eveng a small boy was run over at the corner of B and Union streets, and severely injured on the left ankle. Chronicle. To this the Enterprise of the next morning responds : The item in last - evening's Chronicle relative to a boy being run over, is the baldest, tissue of falsehood ever invented. The boy was not run over at the corner at all, as alleged, but two doors below, near Banduzel's bakery. It was the knee and not the ankle which was hurt, and instead of being a small boy he is almost big enough to work in the mines. The Chronicle comes back as follows : The assertion that a boy was run over near Banduzel's bakery is refuted by a card of the baker in another column. The ankle was hnrt, as shown to the reporter last evening. The assertion that the boy is big enough to work in the mines is quite significant. Anybody knows that the Enterprise has always "been in favor of filling the mines with kids, to the exclusion ex-clusion of miners with families. The Miners' Union had better interview the paper at once. The Enterprise comes back at once as follows: The drunken lunatics who mismanage the Chronicle in the absence of the regular regu-lar editor, are trying to drag the Enter' prue into aj war with the bake shops of this State. The dirty loafers know that we have always been their friend, etc. The Chronicle staff ' .?.nhold a cabinet meeting and reply : The Enterprise, this morning, in reference refer-ence to the industrious and honest bakers bak-ers of this city says "The dirty loafers know we have been their friends." Alluding Al-luding to bakers as "dirty loafers" is what might be expected from a sheet whose only humorist had resigned in disgust dis-gust long ago to make room for a man who escaped from a lunatic asplum and has never been recaptured. Carson Appeal. Ap-peal. r |