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Show * ^ \ £ ? if^anfhad promised to get them Llivered today. They argued wSh him foi IZiit and°ne finallf reduced his demands to two gna. » iT+Tt* ;„;„ a oouule of other men had gone to see him,also tried to intervene on hahalfS the prisoners. Thfy had gotten the same reply,- two £uns and everything would he all right. The chairman of the a h L w of commerce met us, and insisted, as seems to he customary chamber 01 commeiov »eb » . j th two foreigners, take the best sealf Tbegan to^ave even m?re"trepidation abou? what might occur, seats• l oegan to » " *** ^vimr that onlv yesterday a man had aen ft was found that^e was wealthy he was fined * « * » * ^ f * «* *?« ti-n=* The chairman of the chamber of commerce safs that he haa & ? returned fromlry^to negotiate 'about him and that th e re suit »„ = th.t th« well-to-do man had to find four revolvers, hut the nixe-weL not insisted upon! The colonel hai absolutely refused to accept monev instead so hfwas afraid that in this case too nothing could he I ne! but if" ir! Wickes and I would go with him he woul| t^r agwinl I said immediately,"Very improper," and Mr. Snih tried to explain that the Church wis opposed to bringing the Pressure °^. f ^ f 1 f s o r t ^ ^ . i r a S S i V a ^ a . i ^ ' ; a * . r ^ the ntm^ox S I T* member^x^thrSecutivfcoLittee on' it with Mr Wickes and mine right in the middle of the first row. The man took that and went aglin with his friends to see the colonel, ^ ^ " ^ ^ f ^at he hick and said that these men were accused of a oapltal £**•; ™*J ^ v,«fl commuted it to a non-capital offence, and then had given ver/ •»»__, ctalfXr to the petitioners in reducing the requirement from five ttftS*- £uns Inl that nothing else would do, two guns, or they would not be re-i L!r „«JiIi,„t .„.„ would not do. Of course the men had m fact n ^ f be^daccused°of b ^ i S ^ m o r e than acquaintances of J-aits ^ T r i ^ x ' t h e l^ in the city coull not find the guns because it waa against tha law to sell them,yand that of course none, of us had them We even triad to borrow a couple from the police but uhe cnicr oi pox^e « . » Finally we told the men from Sung Lin that they would have ta toto find ^ e ^ e w ^ i n g Sf Z o M ^ct^o^e^utrfL^p^tsonLsr66 ThfcoloLrhirprivatefyTairthat he would see to it that no one was molested if they sold us guns to give him. She chairman of the chamber of commerce let it out in the conversation that the payment of the two^uns not onxy will pu^nase s thenabeganrtonsee the reason way IT.any^eople wore working so hard on tnts cafe to get it cleared up. Meanwhile things are at a stanastill, for we must have two guns. |
