Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1899-02-03

action $11.5o and spent $3.50 to get
that, besides wasting several hours of
our valuable time. The COURIER edi-
tor man was assured, however, sew
eral times that neither L. r. Haggard
nor his brother, S. NJ. (Pete), bore us
any ill-will over our attachment suit; !
that we were not to blame for wanting
the money due US; that we chad acted
the gentleman" and that we made the
fairest witness in his own behalf they
ever saw, etc. And yet with all of this
praise to our face, friend informed
us last Monday morning that Saint L.
R. Haggard had communicated with
internal revenue officers at Kansas
City and was making a desperate ef-
fort to have US prosecuted for buying
and selling his tobacco crop, although
in all that we did we were backed by
the laws Of our state. Haggard also
told our friend that his "conscienCe"
hurt him for the way he had treated
us, whereupon our friend gravely ad-
vised him "to go see the priest" The
editor Of the COURIER hunted Hag-
gard up and inquired if it were true
that he was trying to get US into
trouble with the United states revenue
officers over our transaction with his
tobacco crop, and he admitted he
had done that very thing, and also
informed US that he expected Depu-
ty United States marshal down from
Kansas City, Tuesday morning, to
take charge of US. With this exas-
perating intelligence and the realiza-
ton of the two-faced game Haggard
had been playing with US, we made a
few remarks which that sanity hypo-
crite would doubtless be horrifed to
find in a Sunday school. At this
juncture L. R. and his bully brother,
S. NJ, became quite demonstratlve
and commenced to throw off their
coats preparatory, probably, to tear
ing US limb from limb and feeding US
in small bits to the swise, Prosec,St<
ing Attorney J. A. Cole: and his as
slstant, J. F. Pratt, and Deputy Sheriff
L. A. Embree were present, and it
was likely due to their presence that
the undertaken was not given a job,
and that we stillive in holy dread (O Of
some deputy United States marshal,
although he had not arrived up to the
time of going to press.
The Haggards have both established
reputation for themselves in this COM
munity that will necessitate their paying
spot cash for what they get. In fact, from
all that we can learn they have been
working the same racket in Keytes-
vile that they have successfully played
elsewhere, but at the present writing
they seem TO have encountered some
obstacles that they will not be able to
surmount. The sooner our town and
county is rid of these fellows the bet
ter. They are the kind of characters
who ought to leave a community for
the community's good. The thought
of either of them having "a con-
science" is enough to bring a smile to
the face of an Egyptian mummy.
The present instance is not the first
time L. R. Haggard has breathed the
atm osphere of a county jail, as he
could, if he would, give minute de-
scription of the interior of the bastile
in Howard county.
He has quite a number of vie
tins in that county, who were klno
enough to credit him, which was large
ly due to his pretentions of being
devout Christian, but, like the wolf in
sleeps clothing that he is, he assum-
ed the role of a prosecuted innocent
and beat his creditors by taking
refuge behind the exemption laws un-
der cover of being ''the head of fam
ily."
| Ho, for Texas.