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ith 5 Te _ If it takes all the money collec &W Smith's office to square bebailf of Mrs. Darrow, incapacitat bullet, what proiiteth it the cou COLLECTED the fines?~ We may RED side of the ledger. Indicating the difference iA bids on building in this section comes word from Highland Park of the opening of bids on the addition to the Railroad Men's Home. One bid was $149,000. The low bid was $105,000. --Imag-- ine a difference of $35,000 in the high and low bids on a job of this sort! Another bid was for $140,000. There were two at $126,000, one at $119,000 and another for $115,000. The contract has not yet been awarded. "I note,"' said a Waukegan residGont. yY Cubtel2c}s "that the Tribune today for the first time since a Lake County jury of twelve men acquitted Governor Smaill, said something nice about Lake County. --It's the first kind word of any sort that sheet has given to our fair county and it's about time they said something decent." He had reference to an editorial commending State's Attorney Smith. Others were heard to say something that summarized was like this: That the Tribune *had paid Col. Smith for going on with its nefarious persecu-- tion of the governor, that they tried to pay in full with that one editoral. And they probably think thry well paid the coloncl for his work.. BUT, did they ? _' It is not hard for the citizen, juryman or judge who holds confidences as SACRED, to grasp the viewpoint of Ralph King of the Sun, who was willing to go to jail before BETRAYING a confidence; however, the citizen, juryman or--judge who has been in the habit of treating lightly confidences imposed upon him and who would sooner tell a secret than keep it, finds it hard «o analyze a character like King's. It's too deep for them to under stand; they can't see why ANYbody should go so far just to protect a friend--THEY would far sooner blat it all out because CONFIDENCE in their lives doesn't mean and never has meant anything. Don't you kno'w a citizen, a jurymian, a judge, whom if you want any-- thing REPEATED that you'd teH to "keep it QUIET" --and in that way it soon would be spread all over! Well, King's not in that class and he is in' jail because of secming inability on the part of jurymen and jurist to und'eré%and the great--underlying principle of news-- paper sucéess. _ FIRST--A report was circulated in Libertyville by énemies of the Sun--that: King was being sent to jail "'for perjury"--this is a dastardly lie or misunderstand-- ing; he goes to jail for declining to mention the name of the man who gave him a "rumor"' relative to alleged . --There are two reports afloat about the 'jailing" of Ralph King, assistant eity'editor of the Sun, which we wish to make reference tg: . .. _ _ _ __ __ _ ft in North: M ago, -- gra Anan.mn | MWhzskkts. K : __SECONXND--There's a persistent report that the Sun will ask Governor Small to «ommute.King's sentence and that there was assurance that, because the governor is friendly, he will do so. This is the worst kind of a canard. ~In the first place the Sun had no thought and his none, of asking the governor to interfere, in fact,*we would prefer he did NOT do so because if he did, his ene-- mies would seck to make capital out of it. And so, if we have anything to say about it we'll not permit '"executive clemency" to be shown through the q)vernor----and he's not likely to volunteer it or force it." And seeing that it was the opinion of Judge Edwards that King be given this severe jail term, we want the circuit court to be fully satisfiecd that the "law"' is being upheld and meted out. After the Essington exrowd had striven with might ande niain to get labor in Mindis to support their cquse against Governor Smaill, after THEY had left no stone unturned, after THEY had catered to the laboring vote as no campaign managers have ever catered before, they eome out now that labor has formally endorsed Governor Smail, and try to RIDICULE the proposition and BE-- LITTLE the importance of TIlinois labor having en-- dorsed the governor. L If labor had gone WITH ESSINGTON it would have been a great thing in the eyes of the--Tribune and the Essington gang and they then would have PRAISED labor very much. -- Bo all along up to right now the anti--Small gang hasn't said much about labor's position in the guberna-- torial campaign, Now that labor HAS formlx en-- dorsed Governor Small the Chicago papers and all the Essington crowd has started propaganda to belittle the rtance of this move on the part of labor and in ' so are injecting into the present situation almost every labor leader who has ever been punished for be-- h'&g the interests of unionism in various ways. These men who may have betrayed the trust, some of whom are in prison now, others who are waiting trial, ete., have been resurrected and put before the public in a BARCASTIC and VICIOUS manner in the hope that vhdoi:'nitwfllrefiect on all labor an'd may readt in «. Howerer, labor all over the state understands the wmatpn crowd ,| or _ 8 sup-- LABOR'S POSITION IN UGUBERNATORIAL said a Waukegan resident Wednesday, THE KING CASE. le Independent oney collected in fines by State's to square up the claim made in incapacitated for life by Brune's it the county of Lake to have t -- We may find ourselves on the -- Waukegan Weekly Sun port of GOoL -- _' Lambor has united behind the governor and when the votes are counted on April 8 the Tribune will see what labor has done to live up to its policy of supporting an executive who has not particularly catered to its cause but always HAS GIVEN A SQUARE DEAL-- and that's what they want most of all. Essington's and the Tribune's policy has been openly AGAINST labor and the answor is seen in the decision to back Len Smail. . Y# 2. }AND THE STATE DIDN'T LOSE A SINGLE DIME! Ed Brundage asks Len Small if the latter, when state treasurer, ever took the trouble to "see or enter" EALM CC CLCELGILE NA Y AP C OVE EC OOR PAE C ut "ar huicts AB. onfi ons tss the Grant Park Bank at Grant Park where state funds were on deposit--and he seeks to make eapital out of the answer by innuendo that Mr. Small did NOT. Well, the records showed that Len Small was treasurer, he had gv?osited funds in THREE HUNDRED AND TWEXN-- --NINE banks of the state, distributing state funds all over so to give every community a chance--at handling state moneys. Brundage might ask with as much con-- sistency : "Did Len Small see or enter the other 328 bank$ in question?"" He would have had some time, wouldn't he, to have endeavored to do such a thing? The treas-- tirer naturally felt those banks were state--supervised and it was no more incumbent upon him to "see or enter" every bank where he deposited state funds than it was for any of his predecessors. Governor Small could con:-- sistently ask Brundage: '"Since you have been attorney general of Illinois, how many offices of the State 's attor-- neys of Illinois have you SEEN OR ENTERED®'" On the same theory as Brundage applies to Small when he ;was treasurer, it's just as essential that Brundage ""see and enter" the offices of the prosecutors who are directly connected with HIS department.. Of course, that's a lhorse of a differént eolor. But, it's the fact just ,the same, isn't it? _ _ __-- s f § > Along this line we wonder if the various Waukegan banks and those of other parts of Lake County ever con-- sidered it necessary for Len Small, when treasurer, to "see and enter" their doors to see just how and where they kept the stite funds he had deposited with them. And, do they expect the present state treasurer to do that? Yet state funds ARE kept on deposit in all the banks of Lake County, now as always. -- "See and enter" seems to be something coined by Brundage but if he'd apply it to ONE former treasurer why not ask it of all and also of the present treasurer and also of himself as regards the attorney general's office? FURTHERMORE, another interesting and import-- ant fact IS that Bfundage and his gang fail to mention the fact that NOT ONE DIME of state funds were lost as a result of Small's depositing the-- moneys in tho 329 banks. That's important enough to at least merit mention, isn't it? Apparently the l;z:ks selected by Len 'iSmall were substantial enough to make it unnecessary for: him, as treasurer, to "enter" each one, note.if the raults [wexq burglar--proof, fire--proof, etc. <Every dollar came back to the state. Significant, wasn't it? & TRIBUNE GETS ONE MORE CRACK IN THE EYE. _' We notice that Michael J. Faherty, former president of the Chicago Local Board of Improvement, has been found NOT GUILTY of theft of.--city funds in conneéc-- tion with the building of the Mickigan Avrenue Boule-- vard Link. It took a jury a very short time for a ver-- dict after hearing the exhaustive evidence that had been tmmg('l"np against him by various sources including the Chicago press, which has been attacking Former Mayor Thompson so viciously. And thus the last of the cases started as the result of the agitation of the Tribune, News, etc., against former associates of Mayor Thompson has stopped. & s This is one of the casrs which those sources hoped to get a convietion in and dagain they fell down pitifully! That marks one more case added to the list of those brought against the former associates of the mayor which have fallen down. Up to date there hasn't been a SINGLE CONVICTION! In the School Board cases and all those trumped up by the Anti--Thompson faction, the jury did not take long to find the defendants not guilty. So it is in Faherty's case, the jury found the evidence was not substantiated by the facts. ~==> _ Before he was ever indicted Faherty admitted that| he had paid extra on the Michigan Boulevard link over the contract but he felt his responsibility in doing so. He said he was doing it in order to get the bridge open two months earlier and no matter what happened he felt as though he had been serving the interests of the taxpayers in 'doing so. 'The big fight agaist him was that he had spent $28,000 without having it in the origi-- nal contract----and.his defense consisted of an admission that he had paid '"extras" totaling $28,000 and did in order to finish the job two months earlier than other-- wise would have been the case. tux'g Since the above editorial was written, George Carl-- son, and Arthur Henderson, on trial before a (mm jury, have been acquitted of Attorney General =-- dage's charge that they robbed the city of Chicago of $200,000. 'They were tried last summer and the jury disagréed; now comes the end on Friday of a long triah-- and the jury acquits them. Ni And thus another defeat is added to the list which Brundage has sustained all over the state. He WILL INJECT Rimself into county affaire as he has done re-- peatedly in the Chicago crusade against former associates of Mayor Thompson--but the nice thing is that all the juries see the stiletto methods and NOT ?)NE VERDICT OF GUILT out of the forty or fifty indietméents wfil Brundage secured against these men has resulted in con-- victions wh::':he other iside was h"it:f Docén't that ghow : bqow Abey 4rrm»; fp their hefore the|grand juries t# It's leasy to'h&t"but 'm mfii&%" of Governor &mall is NOT going to do them ANY ue AY. convict on the same sort of evidence, when the defense has TTS:chanee to refute. -- k And" with© the Carlson case comes the end of the many cases in Chicago with Brundage acting as the prosecutor instead of the state's attorney; with Thomp-- son men rounded up as défendants; with politics the entire background and with victory for Thompson and fi !fis&m and the defeat for Brundage at--every turn C. : £4 is f s c THE HEAD OF TELEPHONE COMPANY OPPOSES SMALL -- IS IT BECAUSE SMALL'S COM-- MISSION REDUCED PHONE RATES! The Chicago Tribune on Monday: UNINTENTION-- ALLY gave Governor Small que of the best boosts that he has yet reccived in his campaign from any large Chicago paper." -- It quoted at length the expression of Dz,. Shannon, minister in charge of the Central church, Chiug, and told how Dr. Shannon amgg other things had-- said: "*We have a chance to get rid of a governor who is allied with a corrupt political machine," and then the same article goes on to quote at length B. E. Sunny, president of the %mu'd of trustees and. prefident of the Illinois Bell Telephone company. Referring to Mr. Sunny the Tribune's article said: . * Dr, Shannon followed the general line of -- . thought in this morning's editorial in The Tribune entitled *"Superior to Seandals,"' said Mr. Sunny, 'and showed that the nation and Ilinois as a state could rise superior to its present condition of bad politics, and could right itself.' " . | i h t No wonder Mr. Sunny is against Governor Small! It is the Commeree--Commission APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR SMALL which investigated the status of the American Bell Telephone company in Chicago and ordered a drastic REDUCTION IN RATES in Chicago not many weeks ago. Pss es & _ Natarally this did not PLEASE Mr. Sunny and he instructed hi» attorneys to appeal the decision to the federal court and the case I8 NOW PENDING THERE. In the meantime the commission app'oinfiby Gov-- ernor Small, in trying to save some money FOR THE PEOPLE of Chicago, is fighting (the case and. insist that the telephone company MUST reduce the rates in the big city. :s . According to Dr. Shannon, it is a case of "getting rid of a governor who is allied with a corrupt political machine." 'The "corrupt machine" apparently is com-- prised of men who have the nerve to go ahead and inves-- tigate a rate situation which naturally the president of the big company does not like. f C etaw If, after an exhaustive investigation of the Chicago Telephone Company's assets, carnings, etc., the Illinois Commérce Commission saw fit TO ORDER A BIG RE-- DUCTION IN THE RATES in the city, that comprises "corrupt political machinery" then IT IS A FACT that the governor IS surrounded by that kind of an organiza-- tion. ---- It is an organization which is trying to give / COMMONX PEOPLE a FAIR and SQUARE deal Mr..Suriny's outspoken expression eorroborating what Mr. Shannon had said, is therefore one of THE STRONG ARGUMENTS_made in behalf OF the governor's cam-- Gevernor Small has contended right along that he is against the '"interests" and that the big interests in Chicago and the state HAVE BEEN FIGHTING HIM. Mr. Sunny proved this by his statements made on Sun-- day. In the meantime no doubt Mr. Sunny and all the other big interests in Chicago will do everything they can to defeat Governor Small in the hope that in case he is defeated that his successor will name ANOTHER commerce commigsion to succeed the present commission and that this new commission working FOR THE IN-- TERESTS instead of the PEOPLE will WITHDRAW the rate case in question whereby the present commis-- sion has tried to reduce the present rates in Chicago. "*At the close of the service B. E. Sunny, presi-- dent of the board of trustees and former president of the Tllinois Telephone company, said the sermon was remarkable in theat Dr. Shannon is not given to expressing himself directly on political questions. . In other words it is a fight for bigger profits on the one side and a fair, square deal FOR THE PEOPLE on the other. ~It really would have been & remarkable thing to have found Mr. Sunny's view ON THE GOVERN-- OR'S SIDE in view of what the Commerce Commission did in forcing a reduction of rates for all telephone users in Chicago. His opposition, thereforé, is one of the big-- gest boosts Governor Small has 'yet had. Draw your own picture: 'On the one side, Governor Small's. Commerce gommiuian, ALL MEMBERS OF wHICH WERE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR; se AKs nthaw cida tha (hiamnon FTelenhane compmany of on the other side, the Chicago Telephone company of| which Mr. Sunny is an official and big stockholder; carry the picture farther: The commission p:(&)ea the phone col:xny; it finds that the company has inflated its de-- p fions,mdhudondalotoft{ingswhichthecom- nission's experts felt were wrong; that after a thorough ilysis of expenses, carnings, etc., that the co 's t« Chicago IS8 TOO fi'en--ma waud% eomnpany g eeved, appeals the yuling of the Con sion and the case n ore the federal court to see whethcr citizens shall get the reduced rates ordered by the commission or whether the phone company's posi-- ;tion is right--that it is not earning beyond its reason-- able returns on the investment. _ _ _ h 1924, 1 "Lafe" Fyffe Made and Lost . Several Miolliions in the _ _ pFATm OF AGED _ MINFR necu% _ <DAYS OF Denver, Mareh 12. ~---- fl;xvnm tales of: the huge fortunses taken from the mines--of Colorado wo#»* »g-- vived here with announcemest .of the death at--Cripple Creck of W. L, (Lafe) ¥Fyffe, old--time pros=--ctor. who was reputed to have mzde a total of $5,000,000 in the »oydey of mining activity in this statt=--= and spent it all. ; "BRNKE" WHEN -- HE DIED ¥yfte was virtually "bruke" he' died, and for the last few had been employed in the House of Representatives. Fyfe, who was 65 years ol3. was known to almost every "old--times* in Colorado. He lived in the migm-- ing camps when history was in % making and had a foremost ~art . the making of much of it He was typical of the rapidly disapzearing prospector of ploneer days. sand his experiences and exploits has» Ag-- vred in numerous fiction stories ef the early days of mining in tha Rocky Mountain region. f Although silent and taciturn until nequaintanceship had ripened into friendship. -- Fyfe loved to dwell upon the days when the West was young." His lack of frugality prob-- ably prevented him from being one of the richest men in Colorado. . But "Lafe" FyNe considereAi it a 'dig-- grace tn * . _T s% "Money was made to spend" was his motto, and he spent with a iay-- ish hand. Ip the boom days of Leadville and Cripple Créek ¥Pyffe squandered fortune after fortune. > "I'm not happy unlees I'm tramp-- ing the hbills, with a pick on my horse," he frequently told friends, "I feel uncomfortable with so much money. I've got to get rid of. it." Denver 'mcquaintances _ declared that when Fyffe sold four claims to the famous Portland Miningz Com-- pany for $500,000 he bought the finest mansion in Cripple Creek. He stocked it with furniture from FEur-- ope, costing many thousands of dol-- lars, and hung out a "Welcome All' sign. When some -- of his guests brought disrepute upon the palatial home by taking advantage of Fyffe's whole--heartedly hospitality the pros pector put them out, wrecked the house --andfurniture with an are and then deeded the place for & "eopnsideration f $1¢° F¢/--Sloaks Sim" months later Fyffe "broke again." $ Fyfe starting his prospecting ca-- reer at the age of 14, and in the early mining® days ~when claim-- jumping was extensive, he is said to have protected the Queen of Hills Mine, single--handed, against mem-- bers of the Annie Lee and Doubtful outfts. The fight for the Queen of Hills claim resulted is the de«igna-- tion of that section of Alma--county as Battle Mountain. . When Fyfe was 18 years old he took a fortune out of the Help Mine, on Mount Lincoln, one of the high-- est mine claims ever worked, it hav-- Ing an elevation of 14,280 feet above sea level. Faro bank and poker in the not-- ed gambling resorts of the Leadville and Cripple Creek camps are said to have taken most of l:lc'u money. To friends he often related sori¢es, of fortunes changing bands over night at the gaming tables. _ ~~A few years later he ~prospectaor lost his right eye in a mine ex-- plosion. _ _ '_ _ af [ 08 54 The old prospector in late yeats bemoaned the decadence of the min-- ing game and what ?' termed the "prsent--day lazin®ss 0 prospectors." "The modern prospectors," Fyffe declared, "who prospect a mountain through a telescope ten miles away are afraid of getting their hands dirty." N. 8. Schoenbrod and wile to'R. Borregard and wife, Jt tens. Lot# °6 and 6 in Paul Dealinds Subdu. See, 20, Waukegan. WD $10, stamp $2.50,., -- D. F. Anderson and wite to J. 'K. Orvis and wife, it tens. Part of 'lot "%," block 16, Sec. 10, Benton. WD'$1. . T. Sullivan to D. Wolkof. Lot 464 J. L. Shaw's Becond Sub. on K¥ox Lake, WD $1 stamp 50¢. * J. Masterson and Margaret E. l'u terson to Jennie Richards. B 45 feet of N316 feet of E 125 feet of lot "" Holts Sub. Sec. 33, Shields. WD $1, _ $ W. Butler to J. M. Williams. Lot 7 Butler's First Add. to Butler's Sub, Hee. 16, LAibertyville,. wD $1000, * Helena Stone Toregerson and Wos-- hnltol'.A.Dn'nlluhun tens. Lot 10, and EB 25 feet ot 8 a . o on nia yA to Lake Blaf. ."-' # £ P. wo and wile to F. W. Russo. All that part of E halt of NW quarter of SW Bec, 27, Bhiolds, Iying lmflofmtnofmnydo Park road, WD $10, stamp #6. Chin +%. tw The Chinese produced "cultured* mh years ago by m n Hills of Colorado. Started as Bov eno" when veatrs State