The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-21
AMERICUS.

Annual school meeting next Thurs
day.
Township election one week from
next Monday.
u. D. McDill, an old-time resident
and once postmaster of Americas, is
visiting friends here.
Several families have left and 9TH
ers are preparing to do so, for their
former homes in the eastern States,
not having realized their anticipations
OF easy-made fortunes in Kansas.
--WHAT "VINDIcATIox OF THE Law
MEANS. Last Tuesday deputy q. 8.
Marshal arrested In this place a rag
ged, starving, miserable old pauper,
sixty-three years of age, for stealing
wood from the Kaw Reserve. This
imbecile old man has a family. His
SON owns q team, and tried for 8 long
time to earn something with it to help
support himself and the family, but
work became 80 hard 70 find that he
finally left the team with his father,
and is now away at work by himself.
This old mans wife ''works OUT
when she can find employment, to help
support the family; bur there have
been times when, notwithstanding
their acknowledged willingness 70
work, the family has been obliged to
apply to the authorities for public
charity. The sheriff recently attached
the team for the taxes due thereon,
and now the old lady is working out
BY the week to pay the county this
tax and the sheriff for his two trips
from Emporia to collect it-about
eight dollars In all. "A 'Ehumanitar-
ian" advanced this eight dollars, TAX
ing one of the horses as security until
the old lady could work ont . redemp-
ton. We don't know that this deputy
marshal knew all this. In fact, we
know him to be very kind hearted,
gentiemanly sort of . person, intent
only on enforcing the law he is oath
bound to do. But while this old man
was sitting in the buggy, surrounded
by his captcr and the assembled look
srs-on, we could not refrain from NOR
alizlng little on the dispensation Of
Justice" as it Il done nowadays.
And We know that others who witness
ed this spectacle, upon whom q knowl-
edge OF this Ksw Indian business has
been forced, also felt the blood Of In
diguation rushing through their veins
as the prisoner was being driven on
to appease the outraged Law; not that
he was blameiess, nor because crime
should not be punished; but to think
that the ApoWers that be- could
stretch their outlets enough TO allow
the railroad company to put up steam
saw-mills on the reserve and cut and
saw for lie own use all the valuable
timber, and then could permit the In
dian agent to sell on, year after year,
all the ''down wOodr lefe by the rail-
road company, or cut down by the In
dams or by white men, and finally be-
come suddenly 90 high-tOned and con-
scientious that it must hunt down this
poor old man because, 70 keep his
family from starving, he picked mp
such rubbish ~ . chlIdiah old man
could gather, and sold it. An thIs
goes TO prove that unless . man e .
Jim Fisk, Tweed, Pomeroy, or some
other respectable" and hiEh~eoned
thtef, he had best nos steal.
| -0mcers s. C. James and r. B.
Campbell have really done superb
JOB Of grading the streets IN this
town. 4 good deal Of criticism was
heard whIls the work was in progress,
hut now that &c b conplsesd Is proves
% b Just about right.