The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-20

Smith and Jones.
EDIToEs y Ews In reply to the ar
ticle of Billy Jones and his amanuensis
| am compelled TO depart from nay gen
cral rule, in this, to wit: l seldom waste
ammunition on game whose carcass is
too worthless to skin, but l am willing
to take Rilly's word, when it is corrobor-
ateI by other circumstances. Billy
says that I infer that charging illegal
fees originated with him. 1t is imma-
terial who they originated with, as long
as he charges them. Now, Billy, the
meanest creatures in the world are those
that turn states evidence. Billy says we
find by investigating that mortgage
with one short description amounts
10 $L15, and yet he charges $1.25.
What excuse has he for stealing
10 cents: Does lie say: No, He seems
rs dumb as the animal that Balaa u trav-
elcI upon, on that subject. His own
statement of the list of fees posted up in
| his Office proves the falsehood that
charged him with, tD-wit: fees on his
/ list Hehas it, Each entry on index, &c,
when the statute, page 40, see. ., says
each entry on index, including descrip-
/ tion OF property, DC. You will see Jones
/ last charge is included in the above, and
he charges Is cents instead of five rs the
law contemplates. 1t seems so natural
for Jones to f.lsify that lie can not, with
the aid of his clerk, copy a section of the
statute correctly. Jones. have your
clerk to look again.
Jones says that it seems strange that {
man could live in the legal atmosphere
until bald and not know that there was
such thing as part of folio. Jone.
never need fear of growing bald, for
think can say without successful con
tradiction, that l have never known +;
negro or Il fool to grow bald; so, Jones
you are safe. Jones says that may b,
ignorant that we have a numerical indie,
r in this county In that Jones is mistak
en-, ior that index was made while Jone
; was reveling in meal troughs and sweep
Ing the back room in a grocery store,
business specially adapted to a man o
Jones calibre.
: Now, rs To section /, page 293, as re
hcarsed by Jones: 1t can easily b
seen that it was repealed by sectiol
), page 40, for the same is item
lied and included in the las
named section, and he cannot charg
for both. On his own showing Jone
avoids the issue as TO deeds of the CON
mon form, bat says that many of til
! instruments amount To over 800 words.
e viii say probably one in fifty. Ii it di
f he would only be allowed ninety cents.
s Jones seems desperately exercise
, over me borrowing astatute. must say
p | would much rather borrow statut
= than to steal from % 10 81 cents from ia
i men that recorded deeds for,and the me
{ that elected me, for do think that
man that will steal from his friend
2 would steal the Lords supper and the
= come back for the table cloth.
Jones thinks he has struck bonanza
}. He has found that in 1875 filled the Ii
r crative position OF justice, and that il
two cases 1 charged the taker-up sec
1 That is one time Jones told tile truth S
:. far; but he says that the law says l shoul
not have charged to exceed $3.50 in an
}. one case. Jones docs not know that III
s der the law of 1868 there was but or
+ case, but the law of 1874, page 2O1, r
pealed sections ., 10, II, 10, 10, 30 an
:. so and made it incumbent on the justiC
l. within one year after the posting, pul
fishing, &c, for which fees justice
n allowed 81 go, for which / charged $1.1
/ to notify the taker up, and upon snn
n mons To three disintercsted household
;. ers, 10 appraise the same and certify |
J. the clerk, for which the law say
the justice shall have 50 cents for maj
l., ing and recording certificates, and I
e cents for each certificate. The justi'
If shall charge 40 cents, which in any OF
case shall not exceed $3.50, and SUE
other fees rs are allowed justices; sc
30, 1908. statutes 1868, and in the fin
n hearing the whole amount was include
II in the judgment, and the Law sa,
" the whole amount OF expenses sha
u uFSt come out, duu ohS-idll llit u
At ance shall be paid to the county trea
c, urer.
il Jones says he has no mule story
N close with. 1t is probable that Jon
d thinks the less said about his immedia
il ancestors the better Now, Jones, sele
r. your attorney at once, and let them pi
rs coed TO business. F. Z. SMITH.