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Show B ROOSEVELT DEMANDS $10,000 BB Colonel Theodoro Roosevelt Is suing a news- M paper publisher for ? 10,000 on an alleged libel said Bfl to have been printed last October. It appears Bfl that the Iron Ore, a weekly paper published at Mar- BJ quette, Michigan, mado tho statement that "Rooso- Bfl velt gets drunk and that not Infrequently and nil his Intimates know It." Tho Colonel feels that tlio BH above sum Is necessary tq square tho chnrgo while the newspaper mnn Is going nftcr tho derenso of Bfl ' the statement on two counts. In tho first plhco BH ho clalniB thnt tho artlclo was privileged as com- ment on n public chnracter running for office, nnd BH In tho second place he will attempt to show that BH tho editorial spoko the truth. |