The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-31

had ':captured," branded and rounded u
], to make herd of his own. Nelse ia no
! very bright We will admit but he knows!
capital from bulls foot and he know
!. when horse belongs to him and when i
I does not.
Ss The fact Of the whole matter is this
When citizens pay taxes on their propert.
1 they expect some protection from tn
EA uthorities in return-ln case of actua
pfpr threatened property dlspolation. stoc'
'IRas being taken from the rightful own
srs and complaints we're made. The Law
sIaicers must either wink at this kind o
business or try and put stop to it. Nelse
Larson was pulled off the back of Trea
surer Mann's horse which he did not den
having rode away with it and branded it
The Sheriff done the pulling and landed
the boy in Jail. He done some squealing
and Others were implicated. Something
had to be done. The only Justice of the
peace In the county was incapaciated by
sickness. The commission swere called in
special session. Commissioners Wing
and Mann met and appointed Wallin-not
that he was the kind of material wanted
but the kind that would not decline any.
thing in the shape of Office offered. AZ
some qualified men had refused to take 1t
and the commissioners were discouraged.
The nearest s..justice" besides Wallin was
Van Solen on the Burleigh county side of
the line. by which act some of its voters
down there, had made asses of themselves
in the matter the Off ce's disgrace.
When the County Commissioners met
this spring they were confronted with the
Bixby arson and the horse stealing and
branding case on the court dock ct. Some
must be made of them at the
setting of the spring term of the district
court. An attorney was hired by the
commissioners to prosec ute the cases.
A jury was drawn of exceptionally good
nen-a credit to this or any other county.
But at the opening of court-right in
heir faces-a petition was circulated by
some nincompoop asking for equal JUS
had it been granted-would
nave meted out deserts bt sending the
poor devil who conceived this brilliant
move, in sending him to the Jamestown
asylum for keeps. The fact is. it was
clear insult to both judge and jury.
Larson's friends knew for wee ks before
jury would be summoned and his case
'alled as we'll as the others. No need to !
Vait until after court sit, and put the
county at heavy expense waiting 4S hours
or his prompter to think about hiring
N attorney. "Poor Boy" was in Wash
'urn all Sunday tho day before court
pened. H" was not worrying over the
ase until the arrival of Attorney Stevens
3 counsel for young Eskes and Sorenson,
ehooved him that llo hidden flaw in the
ustice docket might after all be soldered
yer and hold good water. 1t is clear
hey knew all about the faw--expected
D spring it at the proper time after first
utting the county to enormous expense,
D "make 'em sick of law" as 40 me of
hem have expressed it. Ex-justice Wal.
N openly boasted-said by those who
card him when the case was dismissed
hat he knew all about the woman Justice
igniture business, and knew it was no
ood. If so an investigation may come
ater.
As far as Judge Winchester was con-
erned. he did only his plain duty in
he mess that came to him for solution
n this case at Washburn. Friends or
oes of any Of the parties at action can
ot say different and be truthful. II
&oody Wood, of the Steele Ozons, must
lick the carton bones of judiclal ermine
70 kindly advise him to draw up his red
roboses and flap his black wings else.
here than at district court sittings in
lcLean county.