Show CHAPMAN APPLIES FOR A WRIT wants the court to order sim him no ee instated lost atod an application till bs be matle mafle to the third district court tod today to d day ay by T P F chapman for a writ of mandate requiring the board of 0 police and fire commissioners to reinstate him in the position of driver in the fire department chapman together with frank sort burt charles L and thomas welch was removed summarily on june last in pursuance ance of an ordinance of the city council reducing the force from twenty eight to twenty four men the petition sets forth that the removal was illegal as it was made without a trial or tho the preferment of 0 charges ch arces and toe for the purpose of i C ill rt ing on the force dorco W II if by Hy bywater water ter charles woods james C paul wa and amos moreton friends and appointees of the chief or of the department it Is contended in the petition abat as bi 33 water woods paul and moreton were appointed to succeed th the firemen nieman niem cn removed in june clark charlt GlI glibert belt mowers and bleA fIllan the former tour four should have been discharged when the latter were reinstated by order of the cout I 1 and not chapman and the three others who were removed with him it Is also stated that the removal of chapman and the others for the os co purpose or of reducing the force was waa a mere pret enbe arid and subterfuge as den ben colhou rcuben simpson and robert burns were immediately added to the force chapmans Chap Chati mans attorneys are powers lippman comment on devines case cage fire and water tile the new neu york tork publication li devoted to tile interests its of firemon firemen says in its last issue common sense lias has pie over in salt lithe city chief jaari s devine has been honorably lionor ably acquitted of the few childish charges charge trumped up against him and he has haa received many flattering natt ering compliments for the manly course he adopted towards its his accusers it lit Is evident from the at attacks made in oue one or of tile the local papers likely the organ of the malcontents that the complaints complain tj against the chief were petty spiteful personal charges that existed only in the narrow minds of his traduce rb has prevailed salt lake city has proven r that she le can sustain her dignity alien hen contemptible find and fal se accusations accusation i are brought forward lit in art an endeavor to hurt tile reputation of out ono of her best public officers tho the I 1 loyal baking powder bowde maintains its vigorous hold on oil the 1 public uble and la in active and aggressive tile ilia impure and injurious a b ailing powders palmed olt off on the people in this thin ta task 1 it Is in performing a good work for lion hon oat and unadulterated food products |