Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 299, 4 September 1909 — Page 4

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THE KICHMOM VLmaD1V3L AND SUif-TELJ-GKA31, SATURDAY, SEPTE3IBER 4, 1909.

The Richmond Palladium

and San-Telegram Published and owned by the FAJLAXIU3I PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morning'. Office Corner North 9th and A streets. Home Phone 112. f, RICHMOND. INDIANA. Radolpa G. Leeds. . . .Manas-lnir Editor, Charles M. Morgaa Manager, W. RV Poaadatoae ........ News Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL. SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance Six months, in advance One month In advance . . . . RURAIj ROUTES. One year. In advance Fix months, In advance One month. In advance .... .$5.00 . 2.60 . .45 .$2.50 . 1.50 . .25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please .remit with order, which should be given for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mall matter. Advertiser (Now York City has L SIS wised aad eartifixi a tba rfnmhttM pmbUeatloa. Omly Us flaws t 1 sosmum u its resect V us Assoetettoa. Items Gathered in From Far and Near Down With the Bilboards! From the Milwaukee Wisconsin. It is evident that the billboard nui sance will have to be attacked serious ly in every community, as it is grow ing. not only in the number of the boards, but also in their dimensions The boards represent business enter prise, and there will be a struggle to save them as against the claims of property owners who feel aggrieved because of Injury to values caused by the glaring advertisements. If pub lic sentiment cou.ld be cultivated in opposition to the use of this form of advertising the cure would be rapid. The value of advertising cards thus offensively blazoned is largely overestimated, and If this could be made clear there would be an abandonment of the boards in favor of newspaper advertising, which is far superior and attractive rather than offensive to the public, which reads newspaper advertising, while It merely glances at the billboards and wonders whether such prominence pays. Tip to the Commissioners. From the New York Evening Post. The authorities at Washington, D. C, who have devised a muzzle for the matutinal rooster, might have learned a thing or two from Herbert Spencer. That philosopher, having suffered tortures from the early crowing of a young cockerel, discovered that the posture of crowing required the tail to be elevated at a certain sharp angle. He attached to chanticleer's tail a weight too heavy to allow the proper elevation, and there was no longer any Interruption of the morning nap. It was a real discovery in social statics. The Age of Progress. From the Harrisburg Telegraph. How rapidly scientific history is being made in the conquest of the air we who are privileged to look, on while this is being accomplished can but feebly appreciate. When was there ever an age in the world when a single . lifetime would compass such a scale of progress as the telegraph, the dynamo, with all its marvelous applications; the telephone, the phonograph, the automobile, the wireless and the flying machine Talk about your golden ages and good old days! The world has never seen such vast progress as ta orA Vkdinl Artr ilrti Tiriur onH Ivi conscience and sense of responsibility as much as in more material things. , Sign of Autumn. From the Birmingham Age Herald. The foot ball rules are out, and this Is a surer sign of autumn than the locust's song. TWINKLES (BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.) k; ; Purity. "Is that food absolutely pure?" asked the timorous man. "Yes," answered the dealer, heartily. "The benzoate of soda we use is guaranteed not to be in any way adulterated." "I suppose you meet a great many amateur photographers?" "Not as many as I used to," answered Farmer Corntossel. 'You see, I've heard these summer folks talkin among themselves, an" anybody that wants to take home souvenir picters of the 'funny old Rube that kep' the boardin' house will have to pay extry." Thoughtful Consideration. The summer landlord soon will close His hostelry and disappear, Since patrons must have time, he .' knows. To earn enough for board next year. Fully Informed. ''Do you ever have any secrets from your wife?" "No, answered Mr. Meekton. "I have sometimes thought I had, but I always found out my mistake." "Losin yoh temper don Tayf' said Uncle Eben. "In a heap o cases it don' do no mo dan put you to de expense of hlrin a lawyer to show you whah you's wrong. Be sure to use Gold Medal Flour. . UlBKM.4.

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The actual life of an asphalt years. . The average cost of original yard.

"After the repeated failure of the city to get bids, the company made It plain that it would not move a plant to the city to do the repair work until there were ten thousand yards of work to be done."

The practical monopoly of the asphalt trust prevented the city getting Its repair work done when it was badly needed.

The city health authorities protested on the unsanitary condition of the streets caused by the failure to repair.

Not a single city official who has anything to do with the street department is in favor of asphalt paving and declare it a failure.

The streets paved with asphalt five or six years ago have for the most part been torn up and resurfaced with brick.

THE THROTTLE HOLD. The Asphalt Trust promised the city of Muncie that it would promptly repair the streets when necessary. After the repeated failure of the city to get bids for the resurfacing of the streets, the company made it plain that it would not come to repair the streets until there were ten thousand yards of repairing to be done. In the meantime the conditions got worse and worse. By the time the company actually got to work there was almost fifteen thousand yards of repair work to be done. Why was this possible? Simply because the Barber Asphalt company has a monopoly. In other words the trust had a throttle hold on the city of Muncie. For the Barber Asphalt company has no competition.

The way that Muncie did was to revert to brick. - The reason was that the city health authorities were protesting against the unsanitary conditions caused by the non repair of the streets. Another reason was that the streets laid with asphalt only lasted five years. The third reason was the great expense ($2.80 per sq. yard). But the real reason, when all was said and done, was the lack of competition caused by absolute monopoly.

It is the same way all over the country. In Des Moines, Iowa, this last month an account of asphalt troubles appeared in the Des Moines Capital. Paving hadi been started on Walnut street, one of the principal business streets. The price suddenly increased from $2.15 to $2.45 per square yard. Simply the throttle hold. It costs the city of Indianapolis $1,000 a mile every year to keep its streets in repair. Why? The monopoly of the Asphalt Trust. The citizens of Hamilton have to have asphalt streets whether they want them oc not. Simply because the Asphalt Trust has controlled the council. They pay more than do the citizens of neighboring towns for the same reason Monopoly.

Yet while Richmond may smilingly congratulate herself that there is no asphalt trouble here, the trouble is not over. In fact it has iust commenced. Thanks to the manipulation in the realm Of legislative lobbying by Mr. S. S. Saxton, the head of the S. S. Saxton "Construction Company, it will be easy enough for the Asphalt Trust to get in its work here if the citizens are not vigilant. Whatever the manner of approach whether with sweet phrases, or corruption or legal technicality born of its own lobbying, the asphalt paving situation is nothing but the struggle of a small community against the resources of one of the most unscrupulous corporations in the county. It is the throttle hold.

This throttle hold and all the disadvantages of asphalt paving are typically illustrated everywhere. Can it be that the citizens of Richmond do not know when they are forewarned? Look at Muncie.

Christian Endeavor Home Missions

BY REV. S. By KEV. S. it DOYLE. Topic Life lessons for 'me from the book of Romans. Rom. xli, 1-21. (Consecration meeting.) The epistle of Paul to the Romans is the superior of anything to be found in epistolary literature. Paul was a master in letter writing, and his letters written to some of the churches which he had organized and some of which he had visited afterward form a most Important part in New Testament writings. Paul was to Christ what Plato was to Socrates. The gospel writers assume the attitude toward Christ that Xenophon did to Socrates. Xenophon was the historian of Socrates. The evangelists in the gospel tell the history of Christ. But Plato and Paul occupy the higher positions. Plato was the interpreter of Socrates' philosophy; Paul was the interpreter of the doctrines of Christ. Interpreters occupy a much higher ground than mere historians. So that Paul as the Interpreter of Christ's doctrines occupied the supreme attitude toward Him. By him the life and teachings of Christ were formulated Into the great doctrines which are the main foundations of the beliefs of the various Christian denominations. Indeed. Paul and his writings have been so thoroughly preached that some have claimed that Christ has been overshadowed by His great apostle. But not so. To preach Paul is to preach Christ, for no disciple was ever more devoted to his Master than Paul to Christ. He preached not himself, but "Christ and Him crucified." His glory was In the cross. "God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of Christ" was his guiding star. Great as all the epistles of Paul are, the greatest is the book of Romans, in which he sets forth so forcibly the doctrine of justification by faith, which doctrine, seized on later by Martin Luther, revolutionized' the formality and deaduess of the Catholic church and led to the reformation and the institution of Protestantisin. Romans had had a tremendous influence. By studying it Luther learned that Christianity was by faith and not such works as the since called Roman Catholic chorch demands. : The result was the Protestant church. Luther's commentary on Romans led to the conversion of John Wesley, who la his struggles against similar conditions in the Church of England to those in the time of Luther In the Catholic church founded the Methodist . Epjscopai

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street has been found to be about five " .' asphalt paving has been $2.80 per square H. DOYLE. church, wh'ich has Teen and" Is'stm n great evangelical force in the world. The Tresbyterian and all the reformed churches base their doctrines upon Paul's interpretations of the life and teachings of Christ. Protestantism almost entirely still stands firmly upon them, and under the blessings of God they have been wonderfully progressive and successful in their work. No one was better qualified to write this epistle than Paul. It is no local letter, but one for the world. Jews and gentiles alike are shown in It how to be saved, and there is no difference in the method. Jews and gentiles, as the apostle proves, must be saved, if at all. through faith in Christ and His death. Only Paul was really adapted to write such a book for such a purpose. His father was a Jew who had been made a citizen of Rome. His mother was a Greek, which bound him to the gentiles. He was thus related to the three great empires of his day Judea. Greece and Rome. Related to all, he could naturally appeal to all. He was raised a strict Jew and educated in the highest Jewish schools. Yet, his mother being a gentile, he would understand the gentiles better than Jews alone. What better equipment for a worldwide influence? He belongs to. all nations and has led members of all nations Into his Master's kingdom. He was a great thinker, a master of philosophy and of logic, and the logic of the doctrinal Bystem has never been successfully refuted or denied. The book of Romans Is readily divided. It consists of two parts, the doctrinal and practical. The doctrinal part is found in chapters L 16, to rl 36; The practical part Includes chapter xii. 16. In Bom. L 18, is the text of the doctrinal part. In chapter xii, 1. the text for the practical part to found. Every Endeavorer should commit to memory these two verses. Life lessons for me: 1. A living and not a dead consecration to God (xii, 1). 2, Nonconformation to the world, but transformation by the spirit of God (xii. 2). 8. My duties toward other disciples of Christ (xii. 9-16). 4. My duties toward enemies (xM, 17-21). " BIBLE READINGS. Rom. L 1-7; sir, 21 ; III, 19-31; iv, 1-12; t, 17-21; vM, 1-5; xxvilL 39; x. 1-4; xt 33-36; xlv, 1-12. PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.

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i - . WAS DECIDED Oil Democrats to Place City Tick et in Field on September 22nd. MAY NAME A FULL TICKET PETTIS REIO AND CHARLES BECK ARE OUT IN OPEN FOR MAYOR ALTY PLUM OTHERS ARE AL SO MENTIONED. wun considerable animation has the democratic pot begun to boil and at a meeting of the Jefferson club last evening it was decided to hold the democratic primary on Wednesday September 22. While the place for holding the convention has not yet been fully determined, it is very probable that the city building will be the scene of activities, it is said. The pri maries will be in the form of a dele gate convention, and, it is understood the party will nominate a full ticket at this time to represent them in the next city election. Merrill Still Mum. Pettis Reid and Charles Beck have already announced their candidacy for the democratic nomination for mayor and it is thought that before the con vention is called there will be several other names added to the list. City Clerk C. W. Merrill seems to be hang ing fire. His name has frequently been mentioned in connection with the mayorality nomination, but he refuses to discuss the matter. His announcement is expected almost any day by his many friends. The other city of fices are also coming in for their share of attention and while no candidates have declared themselves yet, it is un derstood that a strenuous campaign is being waged at present among some of the most prominent democrats of the city. Henry Farwig, formerly councilman from the first ward, and a right hand man of Big Chief John Bayer, is wear ing a mysterious smile whenever he is asked If he is a candidate for the may oralty nomination. SCHOOLBOYS IN SHOPS. Cincinnati's Plan of Industrial Train ing Arouses Unionists. According to a rumor from Cincin nati, tbe boys taking courses in the in dustrial departments of the high schools of that city are to be placed in shops and receive a certain stipend for their services. Tbe rumor has it that the boys are to be taken into shops in their second year and shown how to do different sorts of work. After watching others they are to attempt it themselves, receiving 10 cents an hour. In the third year they are to receive 11 cents and in their fourth year 12 cents an hour. They are to work in pairs, one at tending school while the other is in a shop, and they are each to receive $552.75 for the three years' work. The plan is said to have been carefully woricea out In the University of Cin cinnati, and it has aroused trades unionists because it means, if carried out generally, that schoolboys will take the places of regular apprentices in open shops and hence will be qual ified to act as strike breakers in case of trouble. Brooklyn Eagle. Growth of Trades Unions in Francs. Over in France there is a statute under the title of "syndicate professionels" that regulate not only labor organizations, but also associations of employers, joint associations of em ployers and work people and agricul tural societies. According to the re port on these associations for 1908-9, Issued by the ministry of labor and of social thrift, French workmen had on Jan. 1 last 5,524 trades unions. with an aggregate membership of 957,102. as , compared with 5,322 organ izations, with a total membership of 896,012. on Jan. 1. 1907, the Increases being 3.8 per cent and 6.8 per cent re spectively. The remarkable growth of trades unions in France is indicated by the statistics for a period of ten years, which show that their number and membership have doubled in that time. Ths Right Kind of Unionism. It isn't always that an Irishman can Invade German territory and win out In a union election, but this is pre cisely what John Sullivan, secretary of tne united Brewery Workmen. No. 59, New York, did in a recent election for member of the international executive board of the union for the New York and New Jersey district. In a membership of about 45.000 there are scarcely 9,000 English speaking members, yet Mr. Sullivan won by 3.000 majority over his German comDetitor. The election clearly turned on the qualifications of the candidate regardless, as It should be. of nationality or other considerations. The board will meet In Cincinnati on the first Tues day In September. Brooklyn Eagle. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL, APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must laite internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall s Catarrh Cure is not a quaes: medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription, it is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the muc- ? '?r?cl Th Peot combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results In curing Catarrh. Send tor testimonials free. F- J CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo. O. j Sold by rwTigrgists. price 75c -T Hall's Family Pills for constipation.

1 UNION FEES AND DUES Cost of Maintaining Labor's Organization In New York. EXPENDITURE OF INCOME. Ths Principal Charges Against Tradss Unions Ars Administration, Bsncfits and Psr Capita Taxes Avsrags Cost to Membsrs. The New York state bureau of la bor statistics has been engaged In an investigation of trades union initiation fees and dues and has just issued a valuable report on the subject a part of which is here quoted: Generally speaking, the principal income of trades unims is derived from initiation fees and regular dues. Moneys thus collected are in the main devoted to administering the business affairs of the organizations, to the pay ment of sick and death benefits and (in cases where unions are affiliated with national or international labor as sociations) to the payment of capitation taxes for tbe support of parent bodies. Levies for special purposes are occasionally made. For example. the district council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join ers of Greater New York found It necessary in August, 1904, to Impose an assessment upon its membership to obtain sufficient funds for tbe defrayal of the expenses of a trade dispute then in progress. That levy extended over a period of thirty-eight weeks, during nineteen of which each working mem ber paid into the treasury $1.50 peri week, while for each of the remaining nineteen weeks the amount paid was $1 per member. This netted about $261,000. As a further illustration of the need for such exactions In an extreme emergency the action of Typo graphical union No. G of New York city may be cited here. In the year 1S93 the effect incident to the Intro duction of linotype machines In tbe composing rooms of tbe large met ropolitan daily newspapers began to be felt by journeymen compositors in this city, and statistics at that time gathered and complied by tbe officials of the union showed tbat in a brief pe riod 662 members had lost their posi tions as a result of the sudden change in the method of production. Quite a number of these printers bad advanced to a stage in life when they felt un able to master what they considered to be a new trade. Many younger men were also deprived temporarily of a means of gaining a livelihood. This occurred at a time when a severe in dustrial depression was sweeping over tbe country, and the compositors thus thrown into idleness when all 'industries were paralyzed by the panic fail ed to obtain employment at otber oc cupations. As a cousequence there en sued the greatest suffering ever experiuced in tbe printing industry. It therefore devolved upon the local typographical union to devise measures to relieve the distress occasioned by this displacement of band labor, and on Oct. 1. 1S93. a plan to create an unemployment fund was put Into execution. Members at work were required to contribute a certain proportion of their weekly earnings for this object. Tbe assessment then inaugurated continued for exactly fourteen years, during tbe greater portion of which it consisted of 1 per cent of the wages earned, and the aggregate amount realized and disbursed was $532,551.55. Ninety-five per cent of the 2.459 unions in New York state sent in answers to the questions propounded by tbe statistical bureau of tbe state department of labor as to initiation fees. The figures ranged from 25 cents, charged by a few organizations in tbe clothing industry and public employment, to $200 fixed by two unions in the constructive Industry. During a single year 74,778 new members were accepted by 2.223 unions, and these initiates paid $075,105.85 for admission, or an average of $9.03. Every trades union lias its own method of collecting dues, some organizations requiring payments weekly, others monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annually. The lowest amount of dues demanded was 50 cents per year by an association of stationary engineers, while the maximum reached $10 monthly, which an organization of flint glass cutters and workers required to be paid. The average monthly rate for the 403.032 members affiliated with the 2,329 unions reporting In tbe combined industries was 65 cents. An interesting fact developed in the Inquiry was that the percentage system of levying does has gained some favor In this state, fourteen unions baring successfully Inaugurated this plan of gathering their revenues on a certain . basis of tbe earnings of their 2.577 members, whose payments varied from. v 1 jper feat to. 3 net cent of the

Wages "euriYed. Among them were three unions of hatters, one of gold pen makers, eight of compositors and two of glass workers.

Accidents to British Workers. According to tbe annual report of the British chief Inspector of factories and workshops for 1908. the total number of accidents occurring that year throughout bis jurisdiction was 122,154. a decrease of 2,171 as compared with 1907. Of these 1.042 were fatal accidents, a decrease over the previous year of 137. Machinists Plan Boom. Thomas I. Wilson. International vice president of the Machinists union, announces that several new and big lodges are to be soon formed la the Immediate vicinity of Boston. Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.isht, J 908, by Edwin A. Nye iiii ; ji rERlNG. Don't be a "good fellow." Ths the fellow gets the fun. and you pay the bo rtlor. Warning of a Uoei Fellow. Joseph Graeser ef Cbicago. secrets r of a loan and building associatiot stole from time to time $20,000 tror the association funds. He took small sums at first; but, bn ing once crossed tbe line of honest;. other thefts followed naturally or a necessary act. Sobbing is his cell at tbe police st tion. Graeser grew calm after a tin: and issued this note of warning t young men: "Do not think you can take a sma amount from the till and pay it back You can't. Once started, your need become greater all tbe time until yo have no alternative but continue, theft, flight or suicide. "Do not live beyond your means Once in debt you will never, never go out. Do not gamble. You are drawi tighter and tighter into the toils. "Do not spend money to pretent what you are not. You get tripped U in tbe end. to the shame of yoursel' and friends. "Since I took the first $25 out of th. till I literally lived In bell. I took tu first money to 'play tbe ponies. 1 took more to win back what I tost. I have long known what tbe end would be. and my -wflking hours have been filled with agony and my nights with horrible dreams. "My arrest came as an actual relief." But fhame and. city foe bis family of

Threaten Arrest the Mayor If the "Lid" Tilted Sunday

Atlantic City, Sept. 4. Every saloon in Atlantic City may be closed on Sunday as a result of the avowed Intention of reformers to force the arrest of Mayor Stoy if be refuses to follow the dictates of the order from Attorney-General Wilson demanding that he force compliance with the "bishop law." Under the terms of the state law failure to comply with the order places Mayor Stoy in a position where he can be arrested and held under bail for the grand jury on a charge of misdemeanor. Decision in the matter will probably be reached tomorrow at the end of a series of conferences between the mayor and political leaders which has been in progress all day today. The limit of the ten days notice served on Mayor Stoy by the attorney general to force compliance with thlaw has expired, but no attempt will be made to force his arrest until afteSunday, when the reformers will have men on duty to prove whether or not the law has been enforced. Meetings were held behind close J doors, and every effort made to prevent news of the proceedings becoming public. High legal authorities were called in effort to discover some loophole In the state law that would allow the mayor to remain passive, but it is known that they failed, and that advice was given that the reformers an raiiins nair DSMMftasfT

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Flour 6&si Rtees wire anu Iwu ;rui children succeeded the dread of discovery. "My wife to standing by me. She ought not to. 1 should have made her happy, but did not It nearly kills me to have ber so faithful after what I have done." And se tola man bas alternated between purgatory and hades. His weakness was In being a "good fellow." A friend said: "Come; let's go to tbe track. Pre got s tip." In tbe desire to be a sport and a good fellow be took tbe first money. His to tbe old, old story so old as to be stereotyped. It to the stuff of human tragedy weaved Into tbe warp of human sinning. And out of It was long ago coined this essence of human experience, tbe divine dictum: "Tbe soul tbat sinneth It sball die." In the years of his apprehension, shame and remorse tbe soul of Joseph Graeser died a thousand deaths. It was spiritual suffering, not mere physical pain. Tbe prison was a relief. Tbe man's soul suffered. Man's punishment of a sinner Is one thing; God Almighty's to quite another. NEW YORK SWEATSHOPS. Evil ef Lang Standing Has Been Practically Wiped Out. Daniel O'Leary, superintendent of factory licenses In tbe state department of labor for the city of Now York, made a gratifying snowing respecting tbe sweatshop question at tbe recent Rochester convention of tbe International Association of Factory Int pectors. Mr. O'Leary , characterized tbe "sweater" as be wbo overworks and underpays his employees, leading to overcrowded workshops and living apartments, to tbe "piece and team" system, to generally unbealthful conditions and finally to exhaustion of mind and body. ' Tbe sweatshop evil began In 1870 and -continued without effective opposition for upward of thirty years, though in 18S2 tbe legislature prohibited tbe manufacture of cigars In living rooms, snd In 1892 sn sttempt wss made to regulate tenement bouse work on certain other manufactures. These laws, however, only touched tbe outer edge of the abuses, snd It was not until 1899 that a comprehensive measure, of which Mr. O'Leary wss tbe author, passed tbe legislature and became law. Since tbat period tbe measure bas been amended and strengthened, snd under and by means of It Superintendent O'Lesry to able to ssy tbat there are practically no sweatshops In tbe greater city at this time. Tbe Jspsnese method of lacquering to said to be at least 2.000 years old. Pieces made ten centuries ago ars stl" exhibited. PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY. in position to enforce their demands that Stoy take the leadership In clov ing down the resort. Failure of legal experts to find any technical Haw in the proposition of the angry crusaders to force tbe arrest of the high official has left the question at the point where Stoy must enforce the law or suffer the odium of arrest, and unless some better plan to found the saloons will be notified to close at midnight on Saturday. Aside from his political affiliations. Mayor Stoy has slways been an honored citizen of Atlantic City, and bis family connections In Camden county are of a class that would resent his being made the victim of the crusade which has wrought Atlantic City to fever heat during the past few weeks. Saloon men who have enjoyed privileges not accorded anywhere else In the country are said to be willing to submit to the closing order rather than force the mayor to become tbe victim of the reform agitation. Even close supporters of Mayor Stov are admitting his mistake in refusing service of the papers from Attorney General Wilson ordering him to force obedience to the law. Tbe open letter from the attorney general In which he refuses to further treat with the resort government has aroused friends of the mayor to the danger of his position.

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