Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-20
ALONG COMES JIM.
ty or Sandy Bend" be

and she had come to believe that she was all the law fur 800 miles In every direction when she got throwdown.
 Teller critters, I have been heard to observe in this courtroom that soon- CT than crawfish on any of my legal decisions I would resign my office and take to the hills, but the time has come when I've got to take bluf-tWo of lem. Two of my cases have bin re- versed on me, and the supreme court has satisfied me that was wrong. I've got to crawfish, and I'm goin' to do it gracefully. While 1t pains me to diskiver that I'm not the biggest thing in Wyoming, I'm consoled by the thought that jestice recognizes Sandy Bend as her headquarters and stops yere most of the time.
 .'The first case to which refer is that of Joe Toole agin Jim Harper. Joe has claim and camp on Tur- key hill. One day, when he is out, along comes Jim and cleans out the outfit, even down to the skillet. Joe comes home and finds Jim's trail. He is armed, but does he foller that trail and bring him to airth and then plant him in a decent manner? Not any! He sits down and weeps and laments Instead, and he appears at the Red Dog saloon and calls me out of a po- ker game to whine fur jestice. Thar is Jim Harper camped down not three miles away. rolled up in Joe,s blankets and sleepin' like log, and yere is Joe Toole beggin' of me to let loose the dogs of jestice bekase he ain't man huff to git his own back. Was it any wonder that I turned to the bar and took a drink of water by mistaken Was it any wonder that went out of that poker game with an ace full in my hand?
 But I let loose the dogs. Jim Har- per was arrested and put on trial He denied nuthin'. All he said was that Joe Toole was no man. Of course he wasn't. The court said so, and you all said so, and the court got so work ed up over it that he let Jim go and sentenced Joe toaseyen years in state prison. Mebbe it was stretchin' the law a leetle. Mebbe it wasn't accord in to the statoots Ny decisions has been upsot by the higher court and I've got to tell Joe Toole that he is q free man. I do tell him so, and I add that if he is hangin' around Sandy Bend an hour hence this court will give him q lickin' to he remembered all the rest of his days. If Jim. Har- per was yere I'd fine him enough to pay for the drinks all around. but as lie is holdin' up stages over in Arizona
  my jurisdiction all I kin do is to wish him well
 '"The second case is that of Tom Reynolds agin Scott White. We all know 'cm. and we know that neither are wuth the powder to blow 'em up. Tom Reynolds is drunk five days in the week, and works at his claim on Wolf mountain the other two. Scott White would be drunk all the time if there was whisky huff i'll Sandy Bend and he had money nuf to buy it. It's q toss up between the two, and no call 8or sympathy.
 Three months ago Tom Reynolds breaks into Chinese laundry and steals eighteen shirts. It may be mentioned It this juncture that the best shirt in the lot Eelonged to this court, and tEat when he finally got 1t back one Of the tails and all the but tons was gone. Tom is carryin' off his plunGer, and has got as fur as squaw creek.@when Scott White steps out and points stick at him and holds him up and takes the shirts. Tom has two guns on him, and don't snap a cartridge in defense. He stands thar ane shakes and shivers fur a spell, and then he comes to rout me out and hollef fur. justice.
 ]" Is this whar they gifts jesticey he says as he rushes into the Red Dog.
 "'she be- says T. 'and how do you want it?'.
 By the har'l'