Show SQUABBLE GOES GOESON q r t w vv v M v vON i ON OVER FARES Tom om Johnson and the Cleve Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland land Railway Company Are in Tro ble SUIT BEGUN BY TAXPAYER VARIOUS CHARGES MADE IN THE PAPERS FILED Cleveland Sept 5 Suit Sult was flied filed led In tn common pleas court today by James K IC Farasey Farase taxpayer asking that the se security security seq q grant of oC the Cleveland Railway company be bo declared null and void and he lease of the property to the Municipal MunicIpal Municipal pal Traction company be set Het aside Fraud and financial Interest by city of Is s named as a basis for the suit The petition declares that the Municipal MunicIpal Municipal pal Traction company is a n fraud upon the city and Its t taxpayers without legal or financial responsibility and was wholly and solely controlled and dom dorn mated by b Tom L Johnson mayor of lOveland Cleveland It Is further declared red that tim the th franchise grant Is a fraud because It provided a higher hl rate of fare than had bad been offered by the Cleveland Elec Electric Electric Electric Railway company of seven tickets for tor cents with universal transfers It Is alleged that the thc public funds of the city Were used to promote the Interests Interest of the Scent cent fare fure lines Five hundred thousand dollars is 15 named as the sum sumao sumo BO ao o used Receiver Asked After Arter asking that the ordinance be declared null and void and the th lease be besot sot aside the petition prays that the Company be enjoined from operating under the franchise The petition fur further further ther asks that a receiver be appointed lo 10 take charge char e of the property of oC the Municipal Traction company which It declares Is utterly Insolvent having lia ha liabilities liabilities vastly In excess of oC assets and that tho the same be administered in i the Interests of ot the city of oC Cleveland It ItIs Ith Is hi h charged that the west side pumping 1 station valued at was leased l ased 4 to the Forest City company at an In Inadequate inadequate adequate rental and that land adjoin I ing was purchased at a cost 01 ot out of the waterworks fund and is now being used b by the railway ralla company Selected by Mayor Of the organizations of ot the Municipal Municipal Municipal pal Traction company It Is charged char ed that the original directors of the com corn company pany were selected by the mayor and that they were at the time of ot their election mere mer tools and puppets of ot mayor agreeing with him that all that hould should be done ilone In the operation of oC the should be In furtherance of his scheme and plan to control the street railway system It Is alleged allege that these original Incorporators Incorporators incorporators and directors of oC the company had no personal Interest In said com corn company compan pany pan and though pretending to sub subscribe subscribe scribe of the capital stock of ot the company compan not one of them was the tho real l owner own r of oC a single share of ot the stock The suit Is brought brou ht against a the city of ot Cleveland the Cleveland Railway company compan tho the Municipal Traction com corn company company pany and Its officers and directors In Including Including eluding Mayor Johnson and members of the city council Some of the Charges It Is charged thai tha prior to April 27 2 last when the security grant was passed by the city elt council the Municipal Municipal pal Traction company and Forest City Railway Hallway company were creditors and anh depositors In the Depositors Savings Saving Trust company of ot which Mayor John Johnson Johnson son flon was president and Vice Mayor Lapp and Councilman Zinner Hanratty ty t and Henry stockholders It Ills Is charged that these tour four knew know that If IC the Forest City Ih property was sold to the Cleveland Railway company and the property pr perty of or orthe the latter leased to the Municipal Trac Traction Traction Traction tion company the stock of oC Johnson Lapp ZInner Hanratty and Henry would Quid be made more valuable and they would be financially benefited It Is claimed these men Ilien III en had their financial Interest In sight when three of them voted for the grant and Lapp signed It as vice mayor Johnson having purpose purposely ly conspired to go outside the city lim him limits limIts its while Lapp signed the ordinance endeavoring to avoid the finan financial j cial Interest charge e |