Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-01-14
MEETING OF COUNTY BAR.
Proceedings Pertaining to the Grand
Jury's Final Report and the
Comments of the Court
Thereon.

the Cherokee county bar present at
the meeting held in the court house
Friday night. w. r. Cowley was
elected chairman and S. L. Walker
secretary. Judge Classes remarks
at the opening of the court were
read as follows:
Gentlemen of the Bar: Almost a
year has gone by since began to
occupy the position now hold.
There have been connected with 1t
a great many things that will al
ways look back to with pleasure,
and there are some that shall look
back to with sadness.
~ have said good many times
that members of the bar, as officers
of the court to whom parties go for
the redress of their grievances and
assertion of their rights, should
stand as examples in the communi-
ty in which they live. Their pro-
fessional conduct should be such
that might be pointed to with pride
by those about them, and after
whom their children might model
their conduct.
"The last day that the grand jury
sat here during this term of court
they handed me resolution, which
I ordered spread of record, and
which lie in words, as follows:
ITO the Honorable W. B. Glasse,
Judge of the eleventh judicial dis
trict of the state of Kansas: We, the
grand jury, sitting for the October,
1903, term of the district court of
Cherokee county, Kansas, after care
full examination of all availabl evil
dence of which the grand jury have
any knowledge, find that the charge
that fund OF five or six dollars per
month has been collected by an as
ISOLATION composed Of joint keepers
is true, and said fund was used by
said association in the employment
of Charles Stephens and c. a. Nc
Neill, each, at a monthly salary as
the attorney of the association for
the defense of it's members in any
of the violations of the prohibitory
LIQUOR law. We fail to find from
any evidence given to us that any
other present court or county Off
cial has received any part of said
fund, but we do find that the vari-
GUS county and municipal officers
have failed and neglected to enforce
the provisions of the prohibitory
law, and we hope that the county
officials will enforce the laws and
save the unnecessary expense of
calling a grand jury in the near flu
ture. Respectfully submitted. L. NJ.
Moeller, Foreman.
dated at Columbus, Kansas, Dec.
80, 1903.
Attest: &c. Byrd, Secretary.
"Filed 30th day of Decem Der, 1903.
7. B. Rudolph, clerk district court.
By C. H. McNay, deputy"
IL have been informed by the
clerk that it has been recorded. 1t
is not accompanied with any of the
evidence. They gave that to me
with all other evidence before them
sealed, and have not broken the
seal. 1 did not know when l read
the report what l ought to do. To
take action upon it would seem like
bringing trouble into the family
circle, almost for the feeling be-
tween the court and and the bar
should be agreeable; and they
should work, first, with the inten-
ton of ascertaining the truth, and
then the application of the law
thereto. And if it is developed and
shown to be true that any members
of the bar have so far forgotten
themselves that they have become
attorneys for an association whose
business it is to violate the laws of
the state, and have received under
the arrangement, monthly salary,
it is indeed painful to contemplate.
zone of the parties mentioned in
the resolution / see is not here
this morning, but the other is. l
have struggled over the question
and concluded that when court
convened this morning would
submit the matter to the members
of the bar, and now feel, when I
do it, that am entitled to your as
sistance, your support, your coop
Grafton. A great many unpleasant