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Show CONTRACTOR ARRESTED ON PEONAGE CHARGE LEXINGTON, Kv., July 15. On the charge that he held hia railway camp employees in peonage. A. M. Cook, a coot raft or in charge of Jbuilding a railroad rail-road extenaion here, was arrested today and held under SliOU for appearance in the federal court August 11. It is charged that Cook kept the en tire camp uoder guard, imposed heavv fines for neglect and administered home whippings. It is alleged exorbitant exorbi-tant prices Wfre rharged at the commissary com-missary and that discipline was so sa vere the camp was ia constant terror. |