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Ieago In power and they may think they are than any mere stata the, $60 toll on every car of stapes In en- : lected. If you want to get along trouble of the racketeering varie- dwt that means that the paying the first part pays the bill. The pay- tbe fret part is aya the farmer, eae ‘ , toll ta ot the saly one In into! that city over maay lines, hy fhemecives, If they are sold Pwitched back to the name railroad over they: Game tn, well apd goed, but if it le ty tn switch them to some oiher line } epuveniones, the wwat desends on the car. et ehief of California ob- ‘f‘while ether fruits apd veretables pay only $12.60 yar, Bo one sreme|ta know. fermiagly no oe ip treubted ‘protest. It would appear question here. a H1ige thie find their way back to the buyer ts willing to the raeketeers, plus a poe arge je $110 per car. peer ero velo: ’ Jurned wut to be uh problem, keueral luwlessnens, Orlginally ft graduates: into an econons fe one. Rackelcering vests orlginally {n buoze, proati- tution and gawbling—the illegal things—but the Appetite of growing crime in insatiable. It 1s anid that in Chicago ff a cleaner and dyer doen not “liy It on the Mine" some ono may sprinkle acld over the clothes of bis customers and bring him to time. ‘The practice of “museling in” grows. Where will it lop and when and how? . eee RON tine (to time this paper bes mide a Ruinance of itsclf suggesting thut there are other markets im the United States benider New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston. There in A market beyond Podunkville--the market of the farmer, This year mixht have sold a bot of peaches on the sidings pf the country for home canning But wo, one took the problem up." We: might seth table grapes thot way if we tried. . We could probably nel) a world of dried fruits fm 10.and 29 pound boxes to the farmers of this country if we set out to do it In an intensive way, but we do not do it. There are a world of farm cooperatives in thin country that mixht take « carinad of our farm products if tho thing were pushed, Such a pro- fect would pot have to pay so muny tolls ns Chicago exacts. . F. KE. Laney, of the Butter Cooperative Growers, ia sending nan into the Middlo Went small towns-to try this very thing in the matter of phos AEE A Leek ak Rak ae naa tenner caer ee pee ewmee So iy llae ew ected, Ur ec Unofficial. OME time ago a prizefighter “murdered” f an- other prizefighter In Ban Francisco, De tt for money. ! It was not called _myder in the sewonabers, Hut the victim te Just ax dead ne ff bis assaftant had clubbed him with a gas pipe instead of hix fintr, L About the sume tine two mon and a woman descended upon pa reclure ia a Bay county ‘and clubbed him to death, Did it for hls money. !One nf these mon waa am prisefighter, according, t the newspapers, ¢ One of tho pritefiahtors was exonerated. The other has a xvod chance of having} his neck stretched, Tho main difference senms to be that onb at these murders iad the sanction and sponnorship of the Btate, ‘The Bun Franeisce grand jury ta inveatixdtin the atate-sponsored murder. we Don’t try holt your broath untit it Nxes responsibility. . The San Prancleco News indulges in some talk in {te editorial pax, It says: “However, everyone seems to agree that: t boxing business In not, at present, honest ; nnd decent, which te fatrly convincing ma ie te the Htate Athictke Comminsion In not: doit Job for which IC was created, And that, i tr is condition that should not be tolerated. The Job Meult for any commixsion to usly wronk. ‘Ome of the commissioners, has been talking mysteriously about being 2pro- positioned” Kut he refuren, hy advive of corttnet to be specific, and be apparently har no inteatiog~ pa ee Re see tn L omega: er eT enrol he haat pr the present commisriog May not’ t. but, at any rate, there's someghing Charles F. Troe, q the”)