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Chicago Illinois Sept. 17?th 1888. H.B. Stone Esq. Genl.Manager. C.B.&Q.R.R. City Dear Sir. Following find report of Opt H.H.F. dated at Aurora Sept 14 & 15th 1888. Operative reports That: as usual he started out to locate his men. and saw Bauereisen during the forenoon he went to the Cigar Store 110 Fox St. Stayed there till 10.15 A.M. then went home. Opt did not see any of the rest. at 2 p.m. according to instructions from Supt. Rhodes he met Frank W. (Opt) and they went to Sugar Grove to see McClear?. found him and Opt F.W. started the Conversation by asking him to be Agent for lands in Kansas and Nebraska: saying he had been recomended as a goodman. but soon changed the subject - and told him that both Opts were brotherhood men., (Engineers_ and asked him what it was he had reported against the brotherhood Men. he said he had done nothing of the kind: (just then, another man who proved to be the Depot Master came up to where the three men were talking!) that he had never reported them as Brotherhood men: Opt asked whether he was working for the Company: he first said no but when he found out that Opts knew him, he ad-