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Show B 1 II PROPOSED ROBBERY OF THE CITY. B H II I When this journal advised the taxpayers that H H B I there were a dozen steals behind the proposition to B If B H bond the oity for $1,000,000, ostensibly to improve B 1 I I the water system, some people thought we were Jmj. 1 Jl H I prejudiced. When we said the present city coun- y I cil was not a body intellectually capable of han- SJf I dling that great sum in the interest of the oity, HKlffl I H: I some people thought us uncharitable. It now jjl Silt transpires that one great graft, to give the local B I9j I 9lu Light and Power company $100,000 for a franchise H B ili nlfl tnat has lapsed or in lieu of It a 90-year franchise Hn 1 BIS to rob the city was lcnown a11 tn0 tImo to Mr HhIH i BIS Fernstrom. The attempt to prolong the life of iiiwUB BIS present city officers was a part of the same iMBB I BIB scheme. There are three or four more gafts ln- B tended. The sale of the bonds should be en- B joined and it is up to Mayor Morris and Hon. fli ; ! Franklin Richards to explain the explanations they . B ! made last winter h sffll : i |