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Show MAY BUY THE SUN; MAKE TEDDY EDITOR NEW YORK. March W. J. Arkoll. a well known publisher of Canajoharle, N. Y., ana who formerly owned a wc.-kly magazine in this city, admitted tonight that he had attempted to buy thw New-York New-York Sun and that he had hoped to have Theodore Roosevelt for editor. "It Is not true." ho said, "that the Laffan heirs balked when II. was learned Mr. Roosevelt was to assume charge. The truth Is that I got In to mm with (ho Laffan people and offered 'J.OOi000. They replied that they had already refused 53,500.000. There the negotiations cmk-d "Later I may try again, but not at $3,-300 $3,-300 000. There Is a smjall syndlcute of us ' who bellevo that it would be advantageous ad-vantageous for the country to have Mr. Roosevelt at. the head of a big dally paper." |