The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-22
ANECDOTES OF JUSTICE.
lBin Nye, in New York Mercury.I


 The justice of the peace is sometimes peculiarly, aAd if some one does mol
 watch him he will exceed his jurisdiction
 It took constable, a sheriff, a prosecut- ing attorney and a club te convince a
 Wyoming justice of the peace that he had no right to send man to the penitentiary for life. Another justice in Utah sem fenced criminal to be hung on the fol- lowing Friday between twelve and one o'clock of said day, but he couldn't en- force the sentence A Wisconsin justice of the peace granted divorce and in two weeks married the couple over again ten dollars for the divorce and two dol. lars for the relapse. Another Badger justice bound a young man over to ap- pear and answer at the next term of the circuit court for the crime of chastity, and the evidence was entirely circumstan. tial, too.
 Another one, when his first case came up, jerked a candle box around behind the dining-room table, put his hat on the back of his head, borrowed chew of to. bacco from the prisoner and said: Nov, boys, the courts open. The first feller that says word unless speak to him will get parslyzed. Nov, tell your story" Then each witness and the defendant reeled of his yarn without being sworn. The justice fined the defendant ten dol lars and made the complaining witness pay half the costs. The justice then took the fine and putit in his pocket, adjourned court and in an hour was so full that it took six men to hold his house still long enough for him to get into the door.
 A North Park justice of the peace and undersherif formed partnership years ago for the purpose of supplying the peo- pie with justice at New York prices, and by doing a strictly cash business they dis pensed with good deal oi justice, such as it was.
 It was misdemeanor to kill game and ship it out of the state, and as there was a good deal killed there, consisting of elk, antelope ana black tail deer espe- cially, and IS it could not be hauled out of the Park at that season 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 horseback at the foot of the pass to the north. He would then arrest everybody indiscriminately who had any fraction of deer, antelope or elk on hi- wagon, try the case then and there, put on fine of $25 to $75. which if paid never reached the treasury, and then he would wait for another victim. The average man would rather pay the fac than go back hundred miles through the noun tains to stand trial, SO the undersheriff and justice thrived for some time. But one day the undersheriff served his pat ent automatic warrant on young man who refused to come down. The officer then drew one of those large baritone in- struments that generally has a coward at one end and corpse at the other He pointed this at the young man and as- sessed fine of $50 and costs Instead 1 of paying this foe, the youth, who was quite nimble, but unarmed, knocked the | bogus officer down with the butt end of his six-mule whip, took his self-cockins credentials away and lit out. In less than | a week the justice and his copper were in the refrigerator
 Twas once justice of the peace, and a good many funny little incidents occurred | while held that office. do not allude to my official life here in order to call at- tentlon to my glowing career, for thou sands of others no doubt could have ad. the affairs of the office as we'll as l did, but rather to speak of one incl. dent which took place while was a l. P
 One night after had retired and gone to sleep milkman called Bill Cunning rang the bell and got me out of bed hA fnI -,A him milk bill of $35 was all loaded up and prepared to slip across the line over land into Colorado, there to grow up with the country and acquire other indebted- ness no doubt. Bill desired an attach. ment foi the entire wagon-load of goods and said he had an officer at hand to serve the writ
 But" said I, as wrapped "wel- come " husk door mat around my glori- ous proportions, "how do you know while we converse together he is not winging his way down the valley of the Pardee 7"
 !" Never mind that, jedge," says Will liam. You just tix the dockyments and I'll tend to the defendant
 In an hour Bill returned with S3s in cash for himself and the entire COS $ of he court, ana as we settled up and fixed he docket, asked Bill Cunning how he det ained the defendant while we made put the affidavit bond and writ of attach ment.
 "You reckollect, jedge," says William, that the waggin wheel IS held onto the .xle with big nut No waggin kin go any length of time without that there nut onto the exle. We'll, when diskivered hat what's his name was packed up and he waggin loaded, took the liberty to oorry one O them there nuts fur kind of momento as it were, and kept tn at in my pocket till we served the writ and he paid my bill and came to his milk, if you'll allow me that expression, and then says to him, Pardner,' says I, you are going tar, far away where may never tee you again. Take this here nut says ], and put it onto the exile of the oft hind wheel of your waggin and whenever you ook at it hereafter. think of poor old Bill Ounning the milkman.'"