The Red Cloud chief., 1900-09-07
ALMOST FORGOTTEN.
Incidents OF Every Day Life Which Very
Few People Stop to Think About on
Account Of Their Littleness,

FNNNOuuN ol utH LNNltitSS'
Look out for spoilers 1t is about
the time of year when people gener.
ally begin to think of laying in II sup.
ply of coal and begin to work their
brains to see how they are going to do
tiff the present weather keeps up
however, the ice man will still have
the bulge on the business 1t has al
most forgotten to rain for some time
past School began last Monday aud
it is to be hoped the term will be sue.
cessful.-Ihe digging of the cellar for
the Mcfarland brick has been com.
pleted and it is Il good sight for the
eyes.-The building of the opera house
which was contemplated before the
late upheavci of morality struck the
town has been indefinitely postponed
until some of the moralists away
or get changed ideas of the way To run
II town.-Thc tourist printer who ar.
rived in the city ON last Saturday week
and struck Il job in this office and who
was thrown in the quay on the fol.
lowing Monday night ON al alleged
charge of having eaten SO much after
u long fast that he became top heavy
was on Monday turned loOse,-rhcre
are some phases of the case that don't
track" right There are citizens who
volunteered to be witnesses to the fact
that they had seen the nan ut the time
of his arrest and before and that they
saw nothing wrong with him and no
lust cause for his arrcst--While we
make this statement let us say that one
or more persons who said tina; the feel.
low was all right are reputable bust
ness men,-But be that as II may or
may not the fact remains that a bread
and water sentence of II day or ten
days on a charge of drunkenness or a
more serious charge is u damnable out.
rage The man who is hard hearted
enough to expect his fellow creatures
to live on such fare should be served
for ten days or more on u graveyard
lSltW' wi sum WIN "utCi ihoNNo' "
milk and made to lay drain pipe.-The
costs for the arrest of the several par.
ties lately to the city is about So 80
each besides the cost Of keeping.-The
city governmement leaving out the
mayor and council, city clerk and treas.
urer have got 1t under their hat" that
they can run the city to suit themselves.
One member of this self appointed
society Of sleuths has even gone SO far
as to threaten the publisher of this pa
per and his assistant that they will be
run in" the next chance he gets,-We
don't think.-But to return to the ar.
rest.-On the Thursday morning after
the arrest an order was made by the
mayor for his release but he was still
held by the sheriff on "a bread and
water diet with a mittimus from the pc
lice Judge for ten days.-He was held a.
a suspect until the authorities of lds
Grove, Iowa, could be heard from -
The man wanted was ex-mayor o
Battle Creek, Iowa, and the crime was
embeZZlement.-Just think of this poor
forlorn, broken down, uncOuth looking
printer being taken for a mayor.-As
he remarked himself, he looked al
much like the picture sent as n monkey
looked like an elephant And because
we defend these poor devils who are
run in when other crimes are winked
at we have boen threatened with being
"pinched. 1T is evident that this city
has q detective association.-Red Cloud
will soon the appearance of q
graveyard and people will not dare to
walk IN the streets or sit on their front
or back porches Even back stairs are
tabooed The city better put a rein on
ITS minIons Of the law or it may run up
against a suit for damages.-There is
a chance right at present for Il success
full one.