Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-12-12

the American newspapers, and when he
reads OF the doings of old friends and &C
qualntances he would give all he ever stole
TO be able to return to his old home and
resume his former stains. Occasionally he
comes across an American tourist whom he
knew in hls palmy days, but finds there
IS now a great gulf between them, and the
rigid treatment he receives makes him
sad. Then the boodler's wife and family
are taboOed by every body even TO the vii
lage postmaster. If he sends the children
TO boarding school they are visited with
the sins of their parents, and sent home on
on plea or another.
Two or three booders and a number of
old bounty jumpers keep their hands IN by
doing little smuggling along the Niagara
frontier, but it is risky, and, as my
blanket friend says, a mean occupation
The work has to be done at night. The
goods chiefly coal oil, cotton, ladies' under
wear, boots and shoes, thread. Photographic
plates, patent medicines, fancy soaps,
tweed cloth, olleloth, sugar, watches,
rubber shoes and candles-are stored on the
American side of the Niagara river by con-
federates in Buffalo and elsewhere, and
when it is dark enough the operators cross
In boats and convey the stuff to the Canada
shore, where it is distributed by teams
among the stores up and down the penin-
sula On these frosty mornings you can
smell the coal oil along the country roads
that have been traversed in the night by
the smugglers' wagons They sometimes
clear S100a night over and above expenses,
but Mr.. Jeffrey declares that sit is low
down work for American gentlemen
The Canadian detectives say the American
boodlers, as a general rule, are easily
caught, because of their extreme nervous
ness. Inspector Stark, of Toronto, speak
ing from long experience, says the boodlers
appear to leave their nerve behind them
when they cross the line, and that in order
to obtain an artificial nerve they frequently
begin drinking and attract attention by the
recklessness with which they throw their
money about.
McGariglc, the former chief of police in
Chicago who is now. living on Canadian soil
200 or 500 miles west of Winnipeg, is a weak
ling. BE moped and feared his own shadow,
although he was not extraditable. The New
York boodlers made things lively in Mon
treal, race horses, give garden parties, etc,
but even in a large city like this time lags
on their hands and they long to be back
home. Every body takes advantage of
them The cabmen charge two fares, the
hotels demand an crorbitant rate; of course
cash payments are required of them
wherever they deal, end if they produce
American currency it is closely scrutinized
by the French-Canadian storc-keepers who
know them. If they want to play faro or
poker, they have to go TO the regular gamb-
ling houses, for no amateur will join them
for fear their boodling propensities may dis
play itself into the form of four aces or a
''brace' game. 1t is related that when
Montreal merchant, who had lost some mon
nUQ n J. 70
up, he wrote out check for the amount
and made it payable to Mr.. Boodler or
Bearer" and Dclacey was ashamed to take
it to the bank.
The Canadian Government is willing to
go TO any reasonable length in the direction
of enlarging the list of extradit BILE offenses.
One of the chief officers of the Department
of Justice at Ottawa says: "As matters
stand, it is probably strong temptation
TO dishonesty inclined persons to claim
breach of trust aud cognate offenses, both
in the United States and Canada when
they know they can secure protection by
merely crossing the frontier and hiring q
clever lawyer VINO knows the twists
and turns of extradltlon proceedings. Any
how. it is standing disgrace to both coun-
tries that their thieves and boodlers should
be able to set them at defiance. We get
our rascals run TO the United States. AL
most any day in summer you may see
company Of American boodlers enjoying
themselves on the Canadian side of the
Niagara Falls, while colony of Canadian
boodlers are occupying the hotel plazzas on
the American side. We construe the ex-
listing treaty as loosely as we can, so as to
scoop in as many of the defaulting gentry
as possible and have no fault whatever to
find with the course pursued by the Judges
and police in the States. But nevertheless,
there are offenseS of a serious nature,
especially appertaining to breach of trust,
fraudulent bankruptcy and that class of
crime, which can not 30 dealt with simply
because they were most unknown in 1912.
As business grows more complex the num-
Der of possible crimes, Of course, increases.
/ think.we ought TO make an effort to frame
a treaty whose meshes shall be sufficiently
small to enable US to catch every man who
commits serious wrong against society.
l know this is the opinion entertained by
Sir John Thompson, the Minister of Justice,
and by Sir John Macdonald, the Premier ii
The whole difficulty arises from the fact
that Canada, being a colony, can not treat
directly with the United States ANY ex-
tradition treaty must include Great Britain
as well as Canada, and this at once raises
the question of extradition for political or
quasi-political offenses, with which Canada
herself has nothing to do. 1t was on this
snag that tho recently projected treaty
came to grief in the United States Senate.
WHARF the NlfracI~