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Show FIRE CHIEF RESIGNS. John MacMahon Is Forced Out of Department De-partment Following Shooting; Scrape. Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO. Idaho. April 23. The city council last nlsht accepted tho resignation resig-nation of Fire Chief John MacMahon and appointed In his place former Deputy Sheriff James Francis. MacMahon had been requested to resign, following tho encounter between himself and Allen Trapp, In which MacMahon received two pistol bullets In the shoulder. MacMahon refused to resign during the controversy, but as soon as Trapp was acquitted on the charge of eelf-defenae MacMahon submitted his resignation. It Ih claimed that many of the fir., fighters will resign from the sen-ice and that the entire department de-partment will be overhauled. |