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A Declaration of Voter Independence THE GREAT DEPRESSION dominated the 1930's for The Tribune and all other businesses. One of its first casualties which directly affected The Tribune was the Salt Lake Telegram. The Tribune's afternoon offspring was then owned by A. L. Fish, Thomas G. Mullin and Edward E. Jenkins, the latter a Salt Lake City businessman. Mullin, a native of San Francisco and a newspaper associate of Fish in Portland, Oregon, had come to Salt Lake City shortly after Fish took over the management of the Herald to serve as that newspaper's business manager and together they soon acquired control of the Telegram with Jenkins as a partner. From the time it was launched in 1902 by the owners of The Tribune, the Telegram was beset by economic difficulties. Its deficits were absorbed by Thomas Kearns and David Keith until 1914 when they tired of the financial drain and sold it. Thereafter, under different ownerships, it continued to sink further into debt and by late 1929 the owners found themselves unable to meet demands for payment of overdue notes held, among others, by The Nibley Company of Salt Lake City. Publication was temporarily continued by issuing new bonds, but by September, 1930, with all resources exhausted and the depression tightening its grip on the economy, Fish, Mullin and Jenkins were forced to toss in the towel. In a letter dated September 26, the partners informed attorneys for The Nibley Company, which
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