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"The police are supposed to be 9
neutral force, rot taking sde6 A
neutral party does not receive gifts,
favors, bribes", sandwiches or coffee
from either party to a controversy.
"How do you explain the neutral
ity of the policemen who eat their
lynches and dinners and do not pay
for them each day in the eight Knab
restaurants where the cooks, bak
ers and waitresses are on strike?
"From thirty to forty policemen
are given two meals daily by Mr.
Knab. H thus pays out money value
toward getting the good will of po
lice for himself and creating preju
dice against the strikers.
"Now, free passes for -members of
the legislature have been abolished
pn the. principle that men are not
likely to bite the hand that feeds
them.
"How does this principle apply in
vyour department? Do you, as su
perintendent of police, authorize the
acceptance of freemeals by your de
partment members?"
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MILITARY COMMANDER SAYS
FAIR PLAY WILL REIGN
Trinidad, May 7. Colorado coal
strikers, encamped on San Rafael
heights, just outside of town, told
Major W A. Holbrook of the Twelfth
Cavalry "that they would surrender
their arms to U. S. troops. Similar
meeting of strikers were held at Val
dez, Starkville and Segundp.
Col. Lockett, military commander
in Southern Colorado, issued a pro
clamation announcing where and
when mine guards and strikers must
surrender their arms and promising
fair treatment of both sides in the
" strike controversy.
Strike leaders told ,Lookett an4
Holbrook that the rifles were the in
dividual prqperty.of 'the strikers and,
that while- the leaders would urge
that they be given up, they would not
eompel their surrender. -
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$81,000 estate of Frederick Barn
.ard goes to family. ,
TELEGRAPRBRIEF
Pomeroy, O. Because she refused
to marry him, Lloyd Robinson, 30,
Boone,, N. C-, a l?rakeman, shot and
killed Olga'R. Landis, 22, then sui
cided. ,
Cleveland, O. "A monument
should be erected to John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., with words 'Shame of
America' " engraved upon it, accord
ing to Helen Keller, noted blind girL
Jacksonville, Fla. Tattered ranks ,
of Confederate veterans of Civil War
holding their annual reunion in this
city.
Tangiers. Lieut. Legue instantly
killed when his aeroplane capsized
and fell 1,500 feejt. Bonnereau,
Legue's mechanician, escaped with
merely a scratch on the arm.
Concord, N. H. -.Appeal of stata of
New York in Harry K Thaw extra
dition case, charging him with con
spiracy in escaping from Matteawan
Hospital for Criminal .Insane, will be
filed in U. S. district court on Friday
Cedar Rapids, la. Because his
wife left him for another man, Ben
Weil, 38, drankpint of carbolic acid,
'Dead. v
Vera Cruz. American as "well as
British war vessels in harbor here
"dressed" ship in celebration of
fourth anniversary of King George's
succession to throne.
Newcastle, Ind. O. W. Cobb, 30,
Piqua, Or, and Lark Kibbel, 25, struck
by fast Pennsylvania train while in
specting signals Killed.
New York. Don't kiss your hus
bands. Sit with your hands in your
pockets and they'll come running
with the-ballotf" said Mrs. Havelok
Ellis to suffragets here. Location of
pockets not specified.
St. Petersburg. Ex-convict at Du
bovk, who confessed to. murder, al
lowed his freedom on condition that
he accept office of public executioner.
London X-ray photographs dis
closed 15 gold sovereigns in stom
ach of-suspected woman thief at
Glasgow. Recovered.
