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TRIB FACES $100,000 SUIT ATTORNEY CLAIMS HEAD ON STORY HURT HIM On the night of August 12 a tired copyreader over in the Tnb local rooms was handM -acourt story to edit He made a few corrections, changed the "lead," slapped on a "head" .and passed the story on to the city editor. The copy wentthrough the city editor and was printed something like this: LAWYER TURNS AGAINST CLIENT Attorney for Wife, He Testifies for Husband, Who Get Divorce Then the yarn went on to tell how Att'y Josiah Calef Bartlett had testi fied for the husband of Mrs. Olive L. Mathews, his client, when the divorce case came up for trial. It explained that the attorney tes tified with the permission of Mrs. Matthews because she wanted a di vorce as badly, as did her husband, who had filed a cross-bill. But the "head" on the story left a different impression in the minds of the Tnb's boasted 300,000 readers. It, according fo Bartlett, meant that he had "put one over" on his client. Bartlett says that after August 13, when tie story was printed, business began to fall off. Payment on checks was stopped, clients refused to deal with him, many called him up and asked an explanation and his stand ing was hurt So he filed suit for $100,000 in the superior court yesterday to "see whether the Tribune can write what iLpleases about the people of Chica go," he says. His reputation legally and socially has been injured severely by the head which was tacked on the story last August; he has been damaged to the extent of $100,000, he claims. "I called up the Trib the day after the story was published," Bartlett de clared. "I got no satisfaction. "I then wrote to the city-editor and received no answer. Again I wrote to him and this time I was called up and told that 'it would be fixed up all right' But nothing was done. "There is one way that I can make an impression on the Tribune and that's through its money bags. I am going to try this through the courts. "I suppose in the meantime none of the other trust newspapers will print the story about the suit That would never do, you know, for they seem to have an agreement among themselves to protect each other, when trouble of this kind comes up." No other paper so far has run a line on it DUNNE NAMES UNEMPLOYMENT COMMISH HERE THEY ARE Springfield, III., Oct 15. Gov. Dunne appointed following as mem bers of unemployment commission: Representing Labor John H. Walker, president of DL Fed. of Labor, "Springfield; Mrs, Raymond Robins, Chicago; John Pitzpatrick, Chicago, president of Chicago Fed. of Labor. Repreesnting Employers A. H. R. Atwood, Chicago; Oscar G. Mayer, Chicago; R. H. Smith, Toledo. Representing Geenral Public John E. Williams, Streator; Graham Tay lor, Chicago; Jolin Wallace Dunnan, Payton. o o YOUNGSTER DIDN'T REALIZE SHE SAVED HER CAT Boston, Oct 15. Mildred Dunn, 11, found her father lying on bed with gas tube in his mouth and turned on early today. Her pet cat was lying half unconscious on the floor. Mil dred doused the cat in water and then waited 6 hours for her mother to come home before telling any one about her father. He was dead when Mrs. Dunn reached him. The bachelor girl is merely an old maid who don't yet look ft, " i h rjf, V ti.T,-- BifitfHiiMIIHHflHHHH