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Show WITPHFI ! Nine Months in Prison For Contempt of Court Washington, July .23 John Mitchell. Mit-chell. icfe president of the American Federation of I-abor, today was sentenced sen-tenced in the District of Columbia supreme court, to nine months' imprisonment im-prisonment for contempt of court, growing out of tho Bucks Stove & Range company case. An appeal uas taken and $4000 bail furnished to abide by the decision of the upper court. In the same case. President Samuel Gompers recently was sentenced to one year and Secretary Frank Morrison Morri-son to six months. Mr. Mitchell was not in court but sent a written statement waiving his right to bo present. He was to have been sentenced last week, but Justice Wright then declined to pass sentence because be objected to the form of waiver submitted for Mr. Mitchell. Spokane. Wash , July 23. John Mit. chell, who arrived here yesterday to deliver a lecture on labor conditions, left late last night for Pontiac, Mich. |