Ed. Shoenfeld. Edward Salt Lake City, July 31st 1890 President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother, Being one of the Committee of Supervision over the affairs of the German paper, the "Intelligenz blatt," I deem it my duty to make hereby to You a report about some of the recent occurrances. Last Tuesday morning Mr. Jos. W. Dittrich, the Editor, wrote to me, in my capacity as Committee member; and told me, to take notice and bring to the notice of the other members, that ...

He further says, that he will take lawful steps to secure unto him his literary rights, acknowledged in every Country, if the Committee should refuse to tpurchase his ownership or right from him. I paid him a visit and there I learned that he intends to leave Utah and thinks we shall pay him enough for this right or ownership, to get away. I tried to encourage him from the standpoint of the Gospel, but aggreed to nothing concerning the other matter. We aggreed however, that the present number (now ...

alltogether, unless we satisfy him for his claim of ownership as founder of the paper. He bases this claim on the following points: 1. He is the founder and qualified under the law. 2. It was not his intention to issue a paper in the interest of Mormonism purely; that he has been asked in a correspondence from Washington, whether he had read the article "robbery of Church property" before he published it. 3. If the paper ceases to exist, the Committee still remains responsible to pay him said recompence ...

paper, and only 1 of the present advertisements is left therein, such act would be punishable under the law. He demands therefore a sum large enough to enable him, wife and 4 children to leave here and go to Paris. He thinks by going thus away with a good sum, he saves us the ugly lawsuit, and a scandal, which the American press eagerly looks for. Dear President, I bring this to your notice, and if you have to give to the Committee some council, as we meet next Monday at ...