Show THE SHEPHERD FIASCO shepherd the man who boasts ot the tact that he Is a gambler and makes a living by fleeming fleecing flee cing others has in order to gain his freedom from the county jail today retracted and withdrawn his ll belous remarks concerning lac city detective and the mayor immediately on receiving this anfor ufa tion the city detective and the mayor advised the county attorney to dismiss the libel charges against the gambler shepherd and he was released from jail detective and the mayor have no disposition to be vindictive or revengeful and dismissed the charges against shepherd as soon as informed of what had been done there was no agreement entered into by which either party was pledged to do anything and gambler shepherd may start up his circular abusing people at any time he however will be more careful in the future but for his timely retraction anil apology about three years am was assured him tio gambler also dismissed his complaint asking for tho removal ot the mayor there was nothing to this complaint at air that even laid tho mayor liable for removal if proven excepting only one charge namely that the mayor published city busl bess uess in his paper the standard that charge was absolutely false as the mayor has not owned a share of stock in tho standard for many months the mayor la simply manager of the standard ho Is not even a director or officer of the standard publishing co this how some people bump at conclusions the mayor has long since discovered that BO long as standard stock Is assessed from 50 cents to per year he Is better off without any stock especially be good salary i |