Show GAS srocr Is the chief Liberal organ the follotrinzadvertiszmeubappean I ScreabiiBdrcd and eighty icrea ihuet 01 of tpck in the hat Lake Cllr a1 Co b berrbr ole for ul < t the hlghNt bid tier kids Kill bercctlTed n I t and Incloii tar the lull day of April lr0 by Gf1 u itijor The right i > rune t re joctaayavdafl Ud By ore DC UuCirjr CDlW LOCIS HTAlta city Brrardcr City Hall 5alt lile CJiy Varch Son 1sa hull U1C City Covpontlon warn to purcoe a qalant7 of oa is toe silt late City Gu 0 Any partlct batlsc line fOi tile who will quote Cfurti t Ore U Scott Itajor on or before tOe Ita aT ot ADril 101 rnif te 1 e t elect a tale Er ore tte City Cue Louts UT Al City Eeoordtr City hIatIot Lake Qtr March SthliM These two advertUcments when adverthemenl plAced side by side look queer They convey the impression that the municipal corporation has gone into the buJnetn of ttock dealing ind buying gee stock at private ule and telling It to the highest olddcr In ctcry community there are tncpiclous Individuals who are ever I ready to suggest an evil motive forte for-te act of public officers and there ins not fccklug l in this 11Isin city who will miltrust that wi an Ethiopian Ethiop-ian lit secluded somewhere In the fuel fujply connected with the gasworks teorksor ttock which the city want lo eel and buy In the City Council lat Tuesday night a motion was carried with marked unanimity instruct IDS he MayortoEclltbocitjagasstock in the manner provided by law fur the selling o city property At I later stage of the newton a member suggested sug-gested that In order to ascertain what the ttpck was worth It would b well for the Mayor to advertise Inviting offers to the city of b stock Perhaps tills I what the second adxertLt ment is for merely a blind by means of which to flnd out what gas ttock is worth Rut some Jieople will not he Eatifled with erich mi explanation They will urge that It would h silly fur I the city government to retort to such a scheme Ill that the real market value of gas stock Ii as ely ascertained as that of any other stock i I has been suggested that the present City Council wishes to niako n hopper of the city government Into which to scojp alt the stock of tho g worlr thence to bu conducted 1 to the jock eta of favorite Another mggvs lion is i that hy a prn < rte arrangement ar-rangement the present holier of stock will oUr it to the city at avery a-very low figure with tire understanding under-standing that it will cot be purchased pur-chased This would make n record that would ostensibly Justify the city in selling its ToT shares at a low price to bidders to whom the Up hag been given and that the btu may b the very holders who have offered their stock at 1 low figure to I the city |