Show WHO IS RESPONSIBLE Tin Leller S MIssing In foe CHI Zens Ekclrlc Franchise IT MUSt IliVC liIt lEast bcloro The Franchise Won flecotted Gr Itiljllslicd An Iimsllfcallou To lie Made A morning paper refers to a sensational OJ sensa-tional discovery made by the city at rney yesterday In the city recorders r in eo making It 1 appear from the reading the article that the present oily recorder D B Emery Esq orbit I or-bit assistants were responsible for the erasure of a letter s In the original typewritten copy of n frauchlie granted grant-ed 8 F Walker In 1803 but each It mt true It will to remembered that In the month of December ol that year Mr Walker was given a gas and oleclrlo light franchise the life of which was to be for twentyfive years but which tail tinge been transferred 10 the Clllzool Klectrlo Light company Tho franchise provided tar tbe tar nlthlngol the oily and county cQcs wilt light free of charge during the life of tho Iranchlte Councilman Calllitcr us chairman of Ibo cOmmlllo 00 Improvemeol moved nt a meeting of Ibo Council a i few weeks ago to have the electric company connect its plant with the clly cOlcee named in tho franchise It having appeared that tint Council woe plying the Bait Like and Olden OBI and ileclrlc Light company for light Inc the cltyd portion of tbo county building The motion pueoed and Clly llbcorder Emery cent n copy of the Ualllster resolution to the Cltlzent company who replied that they wen europlying with and carrying out Ihi urniBof their franchise tie cern tnuntcatlon was read At n tubetqueni meeting or Ibo Council and llm mattt was refetrad to tho clly attorney wllli Icetiuctloiu to uicerlaln whethe or not the conditions of the macui were being comiilltt with Ill re port wa that technically they wen U Veiterday Counollmen Mulve and Diclil were In the attorneys olllco who the quoilioo oama up nod lbs francbleu u pod by the old Council ws Sent for It WK tbtii that the dlioivery 01 the mlselnK letter a wan made the Iranchleo In tectlou C rccda si follows TIle Iranlco his SeIze and ntilgui does agree etc e furnlth tin City Council chamber city ofllcer Urn elation and public library free of charge In he word loUou It can bo plainly teen that an attempt has been made to ore the final t but who by 00 ono koow Oue tuluc eeeini I conalu howver that Iha erasure was made ibortly after the granting of the Irancblio and before It was recorded In this official ordinance book nr pub lIho us the record and published copIes clearly thaw Ills tlicueil > C U Htanton city recorder re-corder by Fred W Dennis drput rod approved by C F Jjiotbourow i Mayor pro tern Ibo clloct 01 thIs change term lira elation to file station la J to relieve the Citizen Electric company com-pany tram lighting the welt side lire elation Clly Attorney McKay was teen and said lie was uncertain at tbu preceut lime whether the letter a wag erased before or alter the francbhe was tassel but an InvestigatIon wag being made In order to find out |