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Ciécago in power and they nay think they are any more state, a: and ai Il you want to get along ae rounle ot the racketeering varie- grapes, but that means that the paying iy af the fret part payn the hill. The pay- he's only a boob.” . o. © so 4 ni rackets ti te not the ealy one ts toll ‘clty. that. city over many lines. a hy thomecives, If they are sold _the name railroad over all apa goed, but if it ls Hy in switch them to some other line — et reat teens tosnin ob. ‘ae mark Sef of California ob "' pee "tty oreead the marta oss ene charse for grapes, wach oe protest. It would appear vere question here. Ie 31g thia Gad their way back to the buyer is willing te the racketeers, plus a poe arge le $110 per car, ofithe Aret part is always the farmer. ure hes money. is coltectod off ‘the buyer re ten 960 awiiohing. charge tm Chicaso Vurreedd aal far hag womorkd preblea, fe one. Htucketcering vests orlginally ta booze, proatl- tution and gavbling—the illegal things—but the general Juwlessness, Orlstnally ft graduates into an econont- appetite of growing crime in insatiable. It ia anid that in Chicago if a cleaner and dyer doen pot “lay it on the fine" some ono may ‘aprinkle acid over the clothes of his customers and bring tim to time. The practice of “muncling in” growa. Where will it xlup and when and how? \ eo ROM tine (o thne this paper has ronde a Miinance of jiself suggesting thut there are other markets ta the United States besides New Vork, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boaton. There js © omorket beyond Podunkville—-the market of the farmer, This year we mixht have sold a lot of peaches on the sidings pf the country for home canning — Hut mo one took the problem up." We: ight aeth tnble arapes that way if we ‘4 We could probably se}) a world of dried fruits tm 10-and 20 pound boxes to the farmera of this and voretables pay only $12.60 | ta know. Seemingly no one - ‘country if we set out to do it In an intensive way, but we do not do it There are a world of farm cooperatives in this country that might take a carinad of our farm “preducts if tho thing were pushed, Such a pro- ject would pot bave to pay so muny tolls na * Chicago exacts. FP. EL Laney, of the Sutter Cooperat ive Growers, is eending a nan into the Middlo Went small towns-to try this very thing in the matter of was nat be Lee ak hak Bae apaets i Hemi ad care he cae catia TE Sil alate we whee alddeeasad Unoficcial. OME time ngo a privefiahter murine S other prizefighter In Ban Francisco. DE tt for nwoney. 4 ; It was not called marder in the newapagers, but the victim: ta Just ak dead ne {f bis assaffant had clubbed him with a sas pipe instead of hia fists. About the same time two men and a wormsn descended upon p recluse ia a Bay county ‘and clubbed him to death, Did it for his money. !One of these men was a prisefighter, according, te the newspapera, ¢ Onc of tho prisefichtcrs was exonerated, . The other has a good chance of having} his neck streiched, The main differenca saeome to be that ont at these muniers had the sanction and aponnorshin of the Btate. - The Sun Francisco grand jury ts investirdtin the alnte-sponsored murder, Don't try holin your breath uniit it Nxes responsibility. a The San Franclaco News indulges in some § : talk in !te editorial pers. It says: : “However, everyone seetus to agree that. the boxing buslgess in not, at present, honest ; und decent, which {a tatrly convincing evidence five Asada dans 2 ihe Btate Athletle Commission Ix not doit the" job for which It war created, And that, if tr ta n conditlon that should not be tolerated. Th job nuy be tea diMcult for any camminsion to - lle properly, or the present commiasiog may note he competent, but, at any rate, there's some@ung seriously wrong. “Une of the commissioners, Charles F. triane., has been talking mysteriously about being pro- positioned But je refuses, by advice ef coumesel, ta be apecific, and he apparently har no infesting: : 1 a eran aan * i ‘ , t 3 r . r i . 4 aoe € aoe” “og «,