Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-20

THE TABLES TURNED.-The attempt
to blackmail Drs Muncey & Geier, o.
Jesup, by Davis and Bennehoff, the first
an Internal Revenue assessor Of Freeport
ILL.,, and the counter accusation and arrest
of all the parties in the transaction, was
given in the BULLETIN two weeks since.
The examination of Davis and BennehOf,
and Muncey and Geier, respectively, took
place the present week before U. S. Com
missioner Ballou, at Dubuque, and re-
suited in the complete turning of the
tables on the Illinois man and accomplice.
They were bound over to stand trial at
the next term of the U. S. District Court;
Davis in the sum Of $1,000 and Bennehoff
in the sum of $40. The next day the
conclusion of the examination of the Jes-
up men was reached, and they were dis
charged from arrest. The facts Of the
case are, that Muncey & Geier sold lot
of medicines to parties in Illinois without
stamping the packages, but they showed
before the Commissioner by ample testi-
mony that, being unable to procure
stamps, they would not consent to the
sale until they had made arrangements
with the purchasers for stamping them,
by furnishing them with enough extra in
amount to pay for stamps on the whole.
This being shown, there was nothing to
prove that they had. defrauded the
revenue either in act or intent, while on
the other hand the fact that Davis and
Bcnnchon came to Muncey &, Geier with
demand at first of S., 90, and finally
modified it to 800, showed an attempt
to levy black mail
A CANDIDATE FOR FAME.-An indiyid |
ual who shall be nameless but who evil |
IDENTIFY has low estimate Of the penetra-
ton Of country editors, stepped into our
sanctum, one day this week, and produc
ed for our examination, and, iffnund wor-
thy. insertion in the BULLETIN, a couple
Of leaves of manuscript, at the same time
that he had successfully writ
ten for several Eastern newspapers, and
now, with our permission, proposed to
quicken the dull Western mind with the
of his genius, or words to
that effect We took the manuscript and !
gave it attentive perusal We were IA
vorably impressed with it. 1t was writ
ten upon, a somewhat hackncyed sub
iect but it was correct in sentiment,
flultless in construction, and without a
flaw in photography or punctuation. We
had about made up our mind to place
it on the hook for insertion, when our
eye fell upon IA note, at the bottom of
the last page, which gave us olfactory
suspicion Of diminutive rodent, in other
words we "smelt MICE" we beheld the
"claws under the meal and we paws-cd,
We give the little note without the altera
ton of letter or point:
my neAte if This is excepted will be
IA continued storey of my first & last
Ticket "a Lottery seen.
As the only thing original in the whole
performance we give place to the above,
hn M tp &c
author that his success in literature or
larceny is not likely to make him famous.
CoMPETITIoN-Wc have, during the |
past few months, given our readers, guam
tum suficit of theory and argument
respecting railroad competition and the
benefits which we, as Il community, may |
reasonably expect from it, Henceforth,
we propose to fortify the same with such
facts bearing upon the subject as we may /
be able to CLEAN from our exchanges To-
Gated on points where such competition
exists And here we have an illustration |
near at hand Our neighbors at Cedar |
Falls, by the completion of the B. c. X,
s. NJ. r. r. to that point, are now at the
point of contact of rival routes to Chi
cago The Gazette thus tells of the eff
feet of such contact:
what we have said about the value
of competing routes is being verified
W +. Medary & Co. shipped II car load |
of hides to Chicago, the other day, and |
saved just S:'5 from what the tariff was
formerly. A farmer from near Parkers
burg brought two wagon loads of pork |
to Cedar Falls, last week. and made S27 |
over what he could have got in that I!
market. A flrmer from Clarksvilc |
brought ii load of pork to town, the other
day, and made eight dollars over what he
could have got in the Waverly market
Who will say that competing routes are
not what will build up a town.
On the completion of the Central road
to Mason City, lumber went down 50 to
\ 1.