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h beeir indicted on two counts, $20,000.' Then, just to show the govern ment could be lenient when it felt reil gbod, Wilkerson had the cases against the traffic manag ers of the Lake Shore and the Michigan Central non-suited. He- didn t say a word about the case against William H. Underwood and Harry J. Rhein of the Bjg Four, however, and Willie and Harry are going to get what's coming tovthem. e Conspiracy charges also ar,e stip standing against-Rudolph K. Hynicka, secretary of the Colum bia Amusement Company ; Jas. E. Fennessey, secretary the. Em pire. Circuit Company; Hurtic, Seamon and Fred Irwin, "who, betweeiv them, control pretty nearly every burlesque company on the road in the United States. 'They also are the gentlemen who sliced, up, the advertising pie the railroad hapded out. The real funny thing about it is that the railroads, when they de cided to get out from under, never said anything tp ftase, theatrical high financiers, and therefore, the theatrical gents will" "be. "brought to trial, and the plea of guilty en tered by the railroads will be used against' them, and they'll get it right where Maymie wore the beads. Wilkerson let it be known to day that' the government will de mand the maximum penalty fpr the theatrical, .gents and the two Big Four officials, which is a fir of $ji 0,000 on each count -and two years' imprisonment, Ever-since the rebate laws; were passed, the railroads, have been kidding the government and get ting away with rebating thrbugh that advertising gag: v Their plea of guilty and Car penter's maximum fnevidea will make prosecution -.of other rail roads' on the sane count much easier for the-g&vernment, and now, maybe, the railroads will stop that game. , -O; Oj 6UR PRECISE "ARTIST. t ZlrlM GV.V a , - "A standing joke.' o o- '"You say you were held up this morning by a footpad with a rer yolver. At what time?" "Five minutes to oneJ' -"How can you -fix the time so precisely?" , "Because I could see the church clock and Lnoticed its hands were exactly in the same position, as Itnyo-wn" Boston Transcript, iifiirii tttfifiiifMiilg.lJflM