The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-03

THH
Ringland ; b. Thompson; A. =. Mcmillan;
3 heishie; 4: fagun; Dermis Barton:
ssshi; Il q ssSk.o"' Mr.. + beii
l5tispasch was r.scivcd s-ntghs frs.n
eagements betwcen Spokane and 81. Paul
Including that at Butte.
News reached the through "a
private source to-day that DIR. Mclean,
the physician who skipped ont from Butte
wife and family. many debts and "a very
unsavory reputation behind him. is now
tnotli-pulling fakir who is travelling III
Michigan. McLcan's wife. who is said to
he u most estin,able woman. has gone. tn
live in her brothers household in 1T.
Paul.
a little incident. which has given the
goSsips of this city a rare. bit of pleasure.
occurred at the corner of Granite and
Main streets one evening this week. a
certain young lady. daughter of one of ia.
most prominent men in social and bii>i-
ness riIclcs in this city. has been rscciv-
ing the attentions of u young man who
occupies IL position in "A Main sire at store.
The girls parents objected to- the young
man keeping company with their pet
daughter and ordered him to desist, and
ttfT vi ltsth Nttt JtNh s' .lb~t btthi
men do under similar cirrtIn,stanccs-bs-
came more devout than ever. III" could
SO arrangements were made whereby the
loving couple met frequently upon the
streets and took long rarnbles i'm s.spn..st-
cred parts of the camp. The girls fire.
quent absence from the uatcrnal roof
attracted the attention of her father and he
followed her one evening this week when
she met her adored upon the corner Of the
streets mentioned. While the couple
were exchanging loving -',iutatiois the
and a very interesting dlranr, was enacted
in the nickering light. The audience was
small. but the play was very e%xciting and
dutiful daughter was led towards her
home by her fond father, Win had
smiash.d the gay L9tn;,r,",s nose, II IS
ended, for thc girl INSISTS that she will not
give up her ''own choice" Meanwhile
which pro'nis, tai he sensational enough
before. the end.
"Thc delays. pnstponcnncnt- and legal
Juggling which has cha the pro-
ss.t.dings of the election trial held here
i ,not "a politician to a STRNDARD reporter
this morning, "indit ates a pressing nec's-
sity for alterations in our count procedure.
IL il growinX SD that our courts OF law,
where Justice and equity are supposed to
prevail. are little more than comedies of
the most farcial kind; The latitude al
great in the interest of the law. l hap
penesl to- hc q listener tn some, of the pro
cccting, of the district court this week.
and I must confess l was not impressed
very favorably Herewith. Not that l
mean To imply that the honorable judge
did not deport himself in "a most impair
tial manner, indeed all admit Judge DE
Wolfe is an ornament and credit To the
cccdure which Disguised me. TO
as ! am it looked az il the desire OF the
lawyers was not tn sec that justice. should
fs. done. to the electorate. of the. country
but to find some simple flaw in the statutes
or documents in this case whereby they
might ripple the will of TIA" people ana
dcicat thc euds of Justice. The fact il
apparent that awycrs are allowed too
m ,la pri''i II oc,n ~ 10 n,o Mi,. - Isl iis,c !"
ing to the argument in the recent election
trial here that il plealiI,gss of counsel
were to he accepted 10y the conr, there
would not be u citizen III Montana who
would ss. legally entitled Ia vote. Recent
ly read !, paper 10y ta,,iinal Gibbons,
tn" manner of proceeding in criminal
eases in this country. He argues
/ that of late years the difficulty to- convict
a prisoner or obtain Justice in "a civil case
has greatly increased from widercti appli-
cation from pleas in bar-iiotahlc i'm Grim
inal cases. that of insanity. When IA con
viction has been reached, innumerabie
delays occur to- stay the execution of the
laws mandate. The many grounds of ex-
ccption allowed to the counsel, the APP
pcals from one court to another, with H.
nal application to the governor, and the
IaclitS Win wnich signatures Tor Iatsiou
are obtained have nbin To throw
around culprits an extravagant protective
system, and gone far to rob court trials by
jury and otherwise of their efficacy and
substance. A prompt execution of the
laws sentence after u fair trial is thai
1 which strikes terror into evil-docrs and
sntisfies the public conscience. The reverse
of this has brought reproach upon the adj
ministration of Justice and gwen plaus
iblc grounds for the application of lynch
law. Why, in this city mot long ago q
lawyer who prosecuted "a prisoner who
was convicted of murder and sent to DceI
Lodge pcnitentiary for life, shortly after
asking that the murderer he ~parlonet
and set at liberty. The lawyers are to
blame If the people don't get Justice. OuI
laws are good, our legal principles cor
r,ct and impartial. but the latitude al
lowed lawyers clogs the wheels of justic'
and often turns our courts OF justice int
"a farce
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