The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-10-01

| A North Park justice of the peace
and under sheriff formed partnership
years ago for the purpose of supplying
the people with justice at New York
prices, and by doing a strictly cash
bus ness they dispensed with a good
deal of justice, such as it was.
! 1t was a misdemeanor to kill game
and ship it out of the state, and as
there was a good deal killed there
consisting of elk, antelope and black
tail deer especially and as it could not
be hauled out of the Park at that sea-
son without going across the Wyoming
line and back again into the state of
| Colorado, the under-sheriff would load
himself down with warrants, signed in
blank, and station himself on horse
back at the foot of the pass to the
north. He would then arrest every
body indiscriminately who had frac-
ton of deer, antelope or elk on his
wagon. try the case then and there,
put on fine of S25 to S75, which if
paid never reached the treasury, and
then he would wait for another victim.
The average man would rather pay
the fine than go back hundred miles
through the mountains to stand tr al, SO
the nndr-sheritf and justice thrived for
some time. But one day the under
sheriff served his patent automatic
warrant on young man who refused
to come down. The officer then drew
one of those large baritone instruments
that generally has coward at one end
and corpse at the other. He pointed
this at the young man and assessed a
fine of $50 and costs. Instead of pay
ing this fine, the youth, who was quite
nimble. but unarmed, knocked the bo-
gus officer down with the butt end of
his six-mule whip, took his self-cock-
ing credentials away and lit out. In
less than a week the Justice and his
copper were in the refrigerator.
was once justice of the peace,
and good many funny little indidents
occurred while held that office do
not allude to my offic al life here in Or
der to call attention to my glowing
career, for thousands of others no
doubt could have administered the af-
fairs of the office as well as | d.d, but
rather to speak of one incident which
took place VIII lie was J. P.
One night after l had retired and
gone to sleep a mlkman called Bill
Dunn ng rang the bell and got me out
of bed. Then he told me that a man
who owed him milk bill of S35 was
all loaded up and prepared to Sip
across the line over. and into Colorado,
there to grow up with the country and
acquire other Indebtedness no doubt
Bill desired an attachment for the en-
tire wagon-load of goods and said he
had an officer to serve the writ.
ID p,,t T
come husk door mat around nv glor-
ious proportions, chow do you know
while we converse together he is not
winging his way down the valley of
the Pardee?'
Never mind that. jedge,' says
William. ''You just fix the dockv-
ments and I'll tend to the defendant"
In an hour Bill returned with $50 in
cash for himself and the entire costs of
the court. and as we settled up and
fixed the docket, l asked Bill Dunning
how he detained the defendant while
we made out the affidavit bond and
the writ of attachment
You rekollect, iedge,' says Will
liam, THAT the waggin wheel is held
unto the exile with big nut No wao-
gin kin 60 any length of tine without
that there nut onto the exile. Well.
when | diskivered that what's his name
was packed up and the waegin loaded.
| took the liberty TO borrow one of
them there nuts fur kind of momento
as it We're, and l kept that in my
pocket till we served the writ and he
pa. d my bill and came to his milk.',i
you'll allow me that expression. and
then says to him, .Pardner,' saws /
you are going far, far away where 1
may never see you again. Take this
here nut. says /. and nut it onto the
exile of the oft hind wheel of your wag-
gin, and whenever YOU look at it here
after. think Of poor old Bill Dunning
the milkman.'