Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-10-05


degrees Of admiration for hls daring
reckIessness than for the laws contemp-
tible use Of the powers OF the law to ef-
feet robbery and shield the robber.
A clique scenes to be formed in this
place that outrages the name Of law for
the fees and perquisites it sffords, and
these have to be forthcoming or the
handouts and shackles will extort them.
a week or two ago a peddler was shack
led to enforce 8 fine for peddling with
out license. Next some women of the
town wore the bracelets to enforce a
fine for vagrancy. And now two
Chinese are in the calaboose where they
have lain chained together for some
days 70 enforce a dne imposed by
star chamber trial in which but one
witness was examined Though plenty
Of the same class can be bought for a
nickel apiece for permitting opium
smoking in their restaurant The Jail
is $50 or 200 miles away, and the excuse
for putting the accused in irons is that
they have no safe place to keep them.
Still IN the case of the two colored
women it would seem shat three guards
and bottle Of whisky would have been
ample security against en- escs9e from
a fine Of one dollar without the
shackles. Ones Indignation viii not
arise to the dignity Of contempt Of
court in such cases.
Prospectors make this their Quitting
point, and they embrace every class
from the honest, intelligent geologist
and mineralogist to the dishonest and
ignorant class who rely on selling"
prospects to RAISE a stake.
The Indians afford an opportunity to
study primitive life, and it seems TO me
that they might give some valuable
lessons to their more enlightened white
relatives Especially is this true IN re-
gard to motherhood. where in certain
respects theIgnorsut, heathenish savage
seems to have decided advantage over
her civilized, enlightened and cultured
sister. One instance viii suffice
Some two weeks ago 1 saw a squaw
on the street one day who didn't have a
pappoose in her arms, but On The next
day l saw her there again when she
did. She was laughing and talking
with others of her race, and although
could not understand, had no doubt
she was extoling the elements of future
greatness already manifested in that
young savage, though it was then not a
dozen hours old. They usually carry
their little ones strapped 10 their backs
and although have seen many, have
yet to hear the first one cry.
Although my letters have been dated
from Leavenworth, it has merely been
my base of operations, as | have been
here, there and eyerywhere-in the
camp of the surveyor, the hunter, the
prospeclor- wherever the atmosphere
is purest and trout and game most
abundant. One has easy access TO any
| degree of temperature here, from 115o
in the shade, which it reached this
summer, up to the cold realms of per-
petual snow, which are always in sight.
Looking back through the mists OF
evaporating tincture of srnica to the
time l rode the mild-eyed bucking
broncho, it seems that memorable ride
was far in the dim past, though the
arnica extends down much nearer the
present. That ride made such an
impression on me that believe if the
exigency were to arise, | could write a
message on the dangers of the deadly
saddle pommel, not perhaps as face
tiouslv as did his exoellency, the presi-
dent. as mine would not be drawn
from the humorous side, but from the
sober reality of hard facts, and personal
contact with much harder pommel
of large Mexican saddle. shall not
volunteer my services to write a mes
sage for the president, as he has Hoax
Myth employed to do such work; and
then it would doubtless be a waste of
words to attempt to convince a man
who has rapidly risen from the obscure
position of Mayor of a fourth class
city to tho highest office within the
gift of the greatest nation on earth,
that any rise could be more rapid.
But one illustrative example from the
back Of a buckng broncho would con-
vince his excellency that his former
rise would compare with it about as the
rise of a man walking up the side Of =
mountain would compare with one
Unar His avofr1T7.