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a pear or peach, or any fruit in fact, of higher 

 quality or flavor than the fruit of Dixie. 



One feature of Kanab is its weekly news- 

 paper, the Lone Cedar. This is perhaps the 

 smallest newspaper published in the United 

 States. The editor, Mr. C. H. Townsend, sets 

 the type and prints it himself on a hand press, 

 and I understand that every family in Kanab 

 was on its subscription list. It is pungent, orig- 

 inal, and typically frontier. One or two para- 

 graphs quoted from the issue of August 20th, 

 1 9 10, will serve as illustrations of its aggressive 

 and characteristic style: 



"Mr. Townson 

 "Please to not let us see Cora Button's name attacht to scandel 

 in the Lone Cedar once more 



"her Freind 



"Kanab Utah 

 look out for trouble if you 



DO" 

 "Such rot as this shoved under an editor's door never has nor never 

 will gain the writer of it any consideration from a newspaper. The 

 Lone Cedar will not be intimidated out of publishing the Court News 

 by any such trash especially when we know who writes it. . . . No 

 one ever saw a word of scandal in the Lone Cedar. This is a newspaper 

 and the news will be printed regardless of threats of any character." 



Another news item closes with the statement 

 that "J onn R. Findlay sustained all the local 

 Forest officials without being shot." 



And again, — "Altho the editor cannot go to 



