The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-12-16

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hold the calf - long as it sucks, and
lac contends that . sucking calf would
not eOms within the purYies Of the Ian.
In another part Of bis IettsT, however,
lac explains that this Law Is necessary 10
protect poor people living in and around
town, whose calves are stolen, and
says ''when the calf is three 10 six
months old, the COW appears believing
without it," Thus you see, according
TO Sturgis, this law don't apply to the
heavy stockmen, for in that case, the
brand on the COW would hold the calf,
but in the case Of the butcher, who
buys a calf unbranded and still follow
ing the COW. 1t does not apply. The
COW bellows in the first case and that
holds the calf, while in the latter, al
though the cow bellows, there must
necessarily be a brand to establish owI-
ership. Mr.. Sturgis cuts his own
throat in this respect, and proves con-
clusiyely to everybody but himself that
he can't understand the meaning OF
the law at all The words ''neat cat
tie" as used In the law include calves,
no matter whether they are still suck
ing OF not. Perhaps Mr.. 5. does not
know the meaning Of the words ''neat
cattle" l will tell him, or rather l
will refer him TO some pretty good au-
thority on the point:
ss(saffla nj thu h.wa.a ..a.,.. -. l.,tf. ow.a
aud oows"-Webster.
The steer. tho heller. and the eau are an
called ats ezpearc.
And thus we see that as an expounder
OF the law Mr.. Sturgis m about us
near being a success as the spirit OF old
John Brown did to laying the Atlantic
cable.
The gcntlemanly secretary says that
my views Of the law would do to pre-
sent TO a jury, but hardly as n serious
argument TO thinking men," This is
equivalent TO saying that men who sit
on juries are not thinking men, and
perhaps this is the reason why Mr.. S.
is never found in the jury box.
Let me call his attention TO the fol-
lowing names which lisa partial list OF
those who have served on juries within
the past couple Oh years in our district
court:
Z. Maggie, G.. a. Searight, Phil. Da-
ter, e. f.. Clay, ID. c. Tracy, IL. G.
Hay, o. G. Wade, J. G.. Reick. VIM.
Gueiterman, VIM. Williams, John +.
Coad, Thos. Branson, G.. b. Goodell,
J.. B. Durbin, Chas. Hetch, Milton
Taylor, NJ. A. Arnold. May Gold
schmidt, and Colin Hunter.
Every one of the foregoing are stock
men, and the most of them belong TO
the association; Mr.. Maggie being one OF
the executive committee. Yet, accord
ing to Mr.. Sturgis, they are not stink
ing men," lie also talks a good deal
about what the stock association has
accomplished in the way of breaking up
dens Of thieves, and refers proudly to
the countries which have been reformed
by them. lam not positive whether in
these should DO included Timbuctoo and
Alaska or not, but Nebraska and Wyo-
ming have been redeemed from the
grasp of the road agent and horse thief
at all events. The secretary should re-
member that all new countries are in
fected with this class, and us civiliza-
tion advances they gradually disappear;
and when he says that the sheriff and
his ordinary deputies have been incapa-
BILE ''of suppressing this class" he casts
reflections upon these officials that are
not warranted. Ills assertion that
"~nine-tenths of these men (desperadoes)
are to-day under the sod or in the peni-
Tertiary, put there sby the associa-
tion, sounds more like the vain glo.
rious ~boastings of a ~vigilantee than
the u~tteranccs of q sensible man, and
is n reflection on the territory and the
organization TO which he belongs.
Now then, l will refer to some mat
tiers in my own defense. Mr.. Sturgis
hit the nail on the head once Mt least in
his communication, and that was when
he said in effect that l probably did not
vote for the law in question. l not only
did not vote for it, but opposed it, rs
will be remembered by MI. Searight
and others who were in the council ut
the time, and l M not present when
the bill was PASSED.
So far rs the legislature is concerned,
myself and Sturgis are about even. He
says he did not draw up the bill, and /
didn't vote for 1t. About the only diff
ference there is between him and my
self Is this: he was a candidate for the
council that year, and was defeated;
while / was more fortunate and got
elected.
Again, he says that all OF the butch
ers Of Cheyenne agreed to observe the
law except Joe LaRose and myself, and
that l refused to do SO, and wanted tho
law tested. Both statements are wide
Of the mark. But one butcher In Chey-
enne promised TO observe the law, and,
so far rs I was concerned, 1 did not set
the law ut defiance and ask to have 1t
tested; but, on the contrary, proposed
to observe it, and have others do the
same, rs the following facts will show.
The trouble about the calves, which re-