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Show WHY A BIG REWARD IS NECESSARY ' The city and county officials are I to be congratulated on the action 'they have taken toward Increasing ' the reward offered for the capturo of the blackhanders Should the blackmailer prove to be members of the gang that held up the Oregon Short Line train at rive Points and the Southern Pacific Overland Ov-erland at Reese, the total of rewards would he 1 7.500 We do.ibt very much that the blackmailers had anything any-thing to do with the train robbery at Reese, although thev may have been In the Five Points holdup. The regard Is not yet large I enough and should be increased by j private subscription. There are 25 , prominent men who are willing to ; subscribe J 1 no each or more All j that Is necessary Is to have a com I mittea named to receive their sub-j sub-j scrlptlons These rewards should be offered ! In a manner to assure their pay-' pay-' ment the moment that conclusive J evidence is presented that the tight parti ha e been caught. The certainty that the money will be paid over would prove an added incentive for clever detectives detec-tives to give their time to the case. Simon Bamberger yesterday stated the situation concisely when he said the present reign of terror Is a com-m com-m unity calamity Already the wives and children of three men of affair? have left the city and others are ', 1 planning on going.' This nervous j tension cannot continue much longer without serious Injury to the business nterests of Ogden and that is one reason, though not by any means the most Important, why the blackhanders blackhand-ers should be caught or driven out. The Eccles estate soon is to be called on to pay Into the state treas- ory $300.0oo as an inheritance lax Does it not seem parsimonious for a ; commonwealth to greatl enriched bj a family to offer only $500 as a reward as a means of protecting member, of that family If not more . the 3 1-3 per cent of the sum that will 1 ' be received from the estate were set aside as an lncuremont for el r; men to bring th blackmailers to Justice, Jus-tice, the amount would bs flO.OOOi and that woul l lie none too large as a contribution from the state of t'tah. |