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"-!- LAST EDITION LAST EDITION SWlELL SOCIETY SHAKES ITS FEET AND SHOWS ITS SKIN AND JEWELS FOOD SITUATION IN EARTHQUAKE ZONE BOOSTS THE DEATH USZ THE DAY BOOK An Adless ftKDspaper3 Dmty Except Sunday N. Cacfcta Editor and PuMtifier. 500 South Peork 9G& 3tp Telephones: Editorial Monroe 353, CiiLiriatJcn Mnnme 382,. VOL. 4, NO. 93 Chicago, Saturday, Jan. 16, 1915 ONE CENT PEOPLE WIN FIRST VICTORY IN WAR AGAINST STREET CAR BOSSES State's Attorney Hoyne Given Leave Ty Judge Goodwill to File Information Against Surface Lines Pros ecutor Issues Hot Statement Against Trao tkm Lines Explains Their Tricks State's Attorney Hoyne won a vic tory for the people, today when Judge Goodwin granted htm leave to file information against the traction bosses. Glenn E. Plumb, special counsel, and John W. Beckwith and Charles Hafft are representing Hoyne. Information will be present ed Jan. 25. The Chicago Surface Lines now running all over the city is an out law, a nobody, an organization' with out a responsible head. If it breaks Jhe law and is fined it has no money the fine can be taken out of. It it "neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good iped herring." It is not a corporation. "It is only a committee. These are points in petition foi quo warranto proceedings brought before Judge Goodwin by State's A torney Hoyne today. He asked tb court for a hearing on the legality of the "unification ordinance" passed last year. Under the unification ordinance the city gave the Chicago City Raflj ways "Co. and the Chicago Haflwayj