Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-10-31


owner of the land, is also the legal owner
! of the birds in the mir and the ash N the
waters. About nine months ago couple
Of quarry men returning from their Ia
bor saw q fish in one of the little brooks
and thinking lie would make a tooth
some addition to their ordinary fare VEN
ured upon catching Jim. Before they
got home with their prlze, how ever, they
were seen by one of Lord Psnrhyn's keep
| ers. The consequence was summons be-
fore one of the country magistrates, who
after the habit of their class, regard the
snariDg of hare or the taking of q trout
as a crime of far deeper dye than the
beating of wife almost to death. They
were, of course, summarily convicted and
Sentenced to six months imprisonment.
with hard labor. They were carried of
to Carnarvon, leaving their families to
get along as best they could, and impris-
oned there for the full time-a
punishment severe enough, ono would
| think, 10 have satisfied the noble lerd.
! For six months, with hard labor, in q
British prison 10 a most severe punish-
mept, the convict not only being com.
PEELED to work hard during the day, but
sleep at night on an ingenious instIa pent
OF torture called the plank bed. The two
| poor quarrymen, as soon az released from
prison, made haste to get back to their
work that they might earn something for
their families, but on getting back TO the
QUARRY, also on the estate of Lord Pen
rhyn, were informed that there was no
work for them, and that men who had
committed such An atrocious crime as the
catching of a fish. with intent to eat him,
could not ever after expect employment
in that part OF North Wales. There
might be forgiveness for them IN the
next world, bat there was none in this
| world-in tha. part of it as least. Furth,
er than this. they were Immedilssly serv-
ed with notices of eviction, also on Lord
Penrhyn's ground.
These facts were stated at the time in
the daily papers, but only as ordinary
incidents. Dr.. Jones went further, how
ever, aud in his paper, the Celt, d0nounc>
Ell the vindictive Course Of Lord Penrnyn
as piece of gross injustice.
Soon after the publication of this issue
of the paper DR.. Jones, who WAS then
preparing for his trip to tho United
States, received note from his lordship's
local solicitors, Informing him that his
| lordship would not pass unnotic-
ed such an attack, involving as it did
suggestion of seditious boycotting and
demanding an immediate and ample apol-
ogy. DR.. Jones replied that he would be
glad to correct any misstatement OF the
tact that he had made. and heard no
more OF the matter until, an hour before
the departure of the. steamer on which
as he had engaged passage for New York,
he was passing down Liverpool street to
his vessel, when he was served with a
summons to answer the charges preferred
against him. 1t is a characteristic fact
that, although the ground OF action oc>
cured in North Wales, the defendant is
summoned to appear in London. This
is enc OF the ways in which the ter!ors of
the law are used by the landlsrds Not
| long since few Scotch laborcrs in the
Highlands had the termcrity to take their
wives out for picnic upon Scottish
mountain belonging to another Welsh
lord, the marquis of Butte, who had Estates
in the Hi.llan de, for which they were
summoned to appear in Edinburgh, which
involved journey they had no means to
make, and the employment sof solicitor
they had no means to pay. In this cas-
DIR. Jones, not proposing to lose his pas
sage, put the summons in his pocket and
and came to the United States. Wha,
the result will be he does not yet know.
Penrhyn has much the advantage in puSse
being the owner of 46,21S acres OF land
with an annual income not tar short OF
half million of dollars, all of which h,
got by doing the country the distinguish :
honor Of allowing himself to DO born.