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Show An Oversight(P) I Wc arc all subject to oversights and l little neglectful blundeis. Hero is u one, but it was only an oversight. When the present administration tM took chargo of tlie city two years ago, they were shown a number of promts- M sory notes given the city by sundry i persons for city lands. Tiieso notes iM rcpiescntcd tho City Hall fund. Look- S ing at these, theio was some ground iH for hopes of a revival of that account f when they became due. When a ccr- H tain eight of these notes became duo the maker was duly notilicd and to 'M thccltj's suipiisc he pointed to an H entry on the ledgoi way back in H Demociatlc dajs which showed them ' to have been duly paid. "Why," ho 'M said, "the chairman of tho financial 'M committee promised to destroy those ;a notes when I paid them." These j notes amounted to one thousand live M bundled and sixty dollars. Being M notes in possession it was easy to M think they lcpicsentcd an asset of the H City Hall fund, though they weie H novel icportedas such In the cltj's H icpoits. Tills was an oveislght on the pai t of tho last finance committee. M Who was chairman of that commit- H tec, anjvvay, and who Is it that Is M making such chaiges of dishonesty M against tho present administration? M Nobody but X. Y. .. Fullmer, of "tho I |