Show FIG DEALERS PROTEST They Object to a Communication from Consul Ernest ot Smyrna NEW YORK Aug 31 Wholesale and retail dealers in Smyrna figs have forwarded for-warded a petition to Washington protesting protest-ing against the communication of United States Consul Ernest of Smyrna to Surgeon General Wyman at Washington Washing-ton The dealers declare it absurd to prohibit pro-hibit the importation of figs from Smyrna because it is a fact that there were large consignments on the way which have been contracted for by western west-ern firms These shipments had been made prior to the cholera scare It was said in the Mercantile exchange today that a strong protest had been sent from California to the treasury department depart-ment at Washington against the importation importa-tion of all kinds of dried fruits from foreign countries in order to prevent the introduction of cholera into the country |