The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01
NORTHERN MONTANA.
& The Northern Montana Office Of the Standard
F Is located in the Bach. Cory Block, Great Falls
directly opposite the Park Hotel Advertising
rates furnished on application.
A GRAND JURY CALLED
First in Northern Montana for
Several Years.
THERE'S MUCH NEED OF 1T
Some of the Many Matters Which Call
for Investigation in Fergus County.
Will Prove Welcome
News.
THERE'S MUCH NEED OF 1T

Great Falls, Dec. 31.--A grand jury
will be called for the March term of the
district court in Fergus county, the first
which has been summoned in northern
Montana for several years. To an out
slider there have been many occur
rences in Fergus county which have
looked peculiar, to state it mildly, and
an able and vigorous grand jury may
do much to either clear away suspicion
or ITO set the offenders, if there be any,
in the public stocks The Democrat
suggests several subjects for investiga-
ton in the following article:
I'VE are in receipt Of a letter from
Judge Dudley Dubose stating that a
grand jury will be called for the March
term of our district court.
This will prove welcome news for
the citizens of Fergus county who APP
preciate the vast amount of work there
is for grand jury to do in Fergus
county. The administration of justice
here has dwindled into sickening
farce so far as certain local officials are
concerned, and it is TIME that some of
them VINO have been running matters
in such a hgh-handed manner were
brought to a proper appreciation of
their scandalous and outrageous con-
duct. Impeachment is what some of
these notorious officials deserve, and if
an example were made of some of them
1t would certainly exert a most health
full influence.
Relative to what may be done by
grand jury, it is assumed that promi-
nence will be given the Moody murder,
around which so much scandal has al
ready gathered on account of the APP
parent neglect of the authorities to use
due diligence in discovering the perpe-
traitor thereof 1t Is SAID that much tes-
timony is ready for presentation rela-
tive to this crime when the proper time
shall have arrived. 1t is to be earnestly
hoped that this testimony may result in
the punishment and detection of poor
Moody's murderer, for so long as this
crime remains unavenged, so long will
an awful stain remain on the escutch
con of Lewistown's history.
j Perhaps, too, a grand jury may feel
1T within its province to take up and
investigate the outrag eous assault
which certain members of the Kelly
family committed almost a year ago;
in any other country in the world these
people would have certainly been
brought to trial, at least, but the mat
ter was juggled around in a style en-
tirely too common here and the case
was finally dismissed by partisan
county attorney VINO has the very bad
habit of occasionally imagining that he
is the judge, jury, codes and all.
And another very important matter
that might be taken up and looked into
is the manner in which licenses have
been collected in this county. Appar-
emily there have been all kinds of pecul-
iarities attached to the collection of
licenses here, and some are so unkind
as to insinuate that politics played an
important part in the enforcement of
the license laws. There certainly has
been much scheming done in this bust
ness. and if officials have been playing
any favorites in order to derive for
themselves any political advantage they
should be brought to a strict account
and properly punished therefor
There are many other things deserv-
Ing of investigation and it is to be
hoped that a fearless, Independent and
Intelligent grand jury may be secured"