The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-03-18
The lisGNng

Last SATURDAY evenings meeting was
Il lar2a one, and resulted in a great deal
OF talk. There was much feeling, ami
the unanimous sentiment was that the
tramps should be made to move The
citizens thought the constable should
make an effort to clear the town OF its
hard characters, while the officer blamed
the citizens for not getting ont warrants
for every case thought he had no right
to act without them in any case, and has
trouble in getting his fees when he does.
II he does his duty, the citizens will back
him in this respect. The idea that he
cannot clean out the foul nests where
the gangs congregate, unless he has war
rants of arrest in his pocket is bosh. The
idea that he cannot, without a warrant,
take a man with stolen goods in his pos
session, is bosh. The idea that when a
Chinaman, covered with blood, rushes
at midnight to his office, and asks him to
quell a disturbance, and he cannot do it
without Il warrant, is bosh again, ETC.,
etc. We do not coincide with citizens
who want to pay a night-watchman out
OF their own pockets. We pay taxes
enough to protect u property, and n
good, careful, ~vigilant man can do the
work in this little town. Some brutal
act or ,old-blooded crime. one Of these
nights, will work the reformation. The
constable cannot be compelled to do the
work without warrants, but as a good
officer he should do the work, and he
would have the hearty support of all in
doing it. A man who makes a mistake
and acknowledges it, gains friends, but
a man who makes a mistake and stays
with it loses friends.
The Grand Jury OF Washoe county,
which was in session recently, had an
eye open to business when they recon-
mended"that all prisoners coming within
the law should be worked on the street
and sewers and none who are able to
work be retained in the Jail during
working hours or while others are at
work."
On page $40, General Statutes Of New
ada. it is to be seen that the officers hav-
ing the prisoner in his charge, must work
said prisoner in go Y y repairing or
cleaning of any streets, roads, sidewalks,
public squares, park, buildings, cutting
away hills grading, putting in sewers,
or other work whatever, which is or
may be authorized to be done by and
for the use of any OF the said counties,
cities or towns, and the expense Of
which is not to be borne exclusively by
individuals or property particularly bene-
fitted thereby"
SECTION 4. "In case any prisoner or
prisoners are disobedient or d~isorderly,
or do not faithfully perform their task,
the said officers having charge of them
may inhict punishment upon them BY
confining them i'll dark and solitary
cells" y M
Wm.D donaldson ana L. ". Herman
we're members of the Grand Jury SO
reporting.
The Anti Tramp Convention just held
in Wisconsin was OF the opinion that
the great majoriety OF tramps systemat-
tically avoid work and take to the road
because it is an easy way to live in idle
ness. 1t was accordingly recommended
by the convention that provision be
made for a iudicious system of labor for
tramps and other prisoners in the county
work houses and elsewhere. Wisconsin
has selected a plan that may be pro-
nounced infallible.