Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-05

trict court, charging the prisoners
with criminal libel.
The article on which the charge S
based refers to Private Thomas Scan
lon as an escaped convict, and in the
formal complaint against the men
Scanlon makes an affidavit charging
that the publishers of the paper ma
liciously printed a slanderous and de-
famatory article.
Seizure Aroused indignation.
The outburst of indignation, spon-
taneous and vigorous, which followed
Immediately upon the seizure OF the
newspaper force, found it's way to
Gov. Peabody, and within less than
24 hours he sent the following wire
to his adjutant general:
THE commanding office. Camp
Goldeld will upon receipt of this or
der. forthwith deliver to Henry Rob-
ertson, sheriff of Teller County Colo,
the following named prisoners: F. w.
Langdon. w. l.. Sweet, II. J. Rich
mond and George C. Kyner By COM
mand of
JAMES II. PEABODY,
Governor and COMMENCEMENT
For the first time in three weeks
the sheriff was permitted to go in
side the military lines Editor KY
ner and his men were brought up to
military headquarters and formally
released NY the military.
Creek where they Immediately Sc
cured bond.
The treatmenet accorded the pris-
oners is described by F. w. Langdon
as follows: "My arrest and those en-
ployed in the office was an outrage,
and I believe that the public will be
of the same opinion when the situa-
tion is thoroughly understood. We
were taken to the bull-pen at late
hour, and were told that if our heads
appeared outside the flap of the tent
they would be shot off. No blankets
were given us, and not one of us was
able to go to sleep on account of the
cold. The food that was given us we
could not eat"
The situation in the district has
been further aggravated by the issu-
ance of capiases from the district
court to Sheriff Robertson for the ar
rest of Gems. Bell and Chase on the
charge of false Imprisonment. The
military commanders have stated that
they will not allow the sheriff to serve
or his deputies to enter the lines to
serve the capiases, and the most deli
cate handling of situation already
tense in the extreme is required.
Sheriff Robertson has said that he
will serve the papers. and as he has
the authority to summon a posse COM
itatus to execute his will, and there
are thousands of volunteers ready to
answer his summons. the gravity of
the situation may be imagined The
capiases are made returnable on Oc-
tober 20.
The situation at Victor is in one
respect exceptionally unique. The
military. though sent to Victor by the
governor by request Of the sheriff Of
Teller county, is supreme in the
premises, and is maintaining an abso-
lutte independence Of the civil author.
ity. The soldiers will not permit the
sheriff inside their lines, though the
sheriff asked that the troops be sent
to him, and would normally have been
commander-in-chief on the ground of
whatsoever forces the governor sent
to his relief in maintaining order.
This unique lack of harmony be-
tween the civil and military authority
is regarded here as most ominous
The sheriff says he will serve his writs
on the military commanders The
sympathy of the miners, all subject
to the sheriff's call, is against the
military. = 'snTNH