The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-05-31

Council, Idaho. May 2eth, 1905.

presume that every good citizen
desires to see law and order main
tanned. 1 believe it true, also, that
there are many minor crimes com
mltted, in violation Of law, that are
passed by without serious considera-
tlon. Yet when the crime committed
assumes grave, sinister monstrous,
elephantine proportions that are de-
structive to all moral principals; that
burn the conscience of an honest COM
munity; that cause an uphesval in
the breast of the commonwealth; that
cast shadow of loss upon fellow
citizen; that is perpetrated in the
open, and in the light of day, should
be speedily dealt with, and the Gull
prit is brought to feel the strong arm
of the law
In view of these facts, permit me
to say that in your issue of the oath
inst, you recount he slight "mix-up'
at Pollock, in which John Silver is
reported to have driven Buck Wyckoff
from his possessions of hotel and bar.
1t appears from that report that Mr..
\ Wyckoff had enumerated Silver at lie
to / and did not "Buckn when he
was commanded to ''git".
l also learn from that same article
that Judge Frank Harris and the Hon.
j. B. O'Toole was to leave your city
to pour oil on the troubled waters.
Now in the light of present devel-
opments, will it be considered along
the lines of law and order, that these
gentlemen should be deemed the
proper persons to undertake to sur
press the lawless element that has
been running rampant at Pollock.
We think not. aif
These gentlemen, looking innocent
enough, landed in our village on the
25th and departed immediately on the
stage for Pollock. In their short
stop here they were met by Judge L.
l.. Burtenshaw, who, in the presence
of an eye witness, supplied them with
two formidable looking pistols, the
calibre of which was out of sight and
should say three over.
On the 2Sth farmer living near
the site of old Fort Hall found his
mule dead, and the bullet hole with
which he was punctured, and out of
which his life's blood had flowed,
correspondent with the size of the balls
that are used in the cslibre Of pistols
in possession of Judge Harris and Mr..
O'Toole. These two gentlemen were
the only stage passengers, and the tes-
timony of the driver, is to the effect,
that they both fred at a pine tree,
some ten PAGES away, and that the
mule was grazing at least twenty feet
to one side of the mark that they
we're firing at. At the first yolley
the mule fell dead, and as the driver
saws that the skies we're clear he could
not have been struck by lightning.
II is reported at the Legal Trust Club
that Judge Burtensbaw will plead
guilty as being accessory before the
facts. It is reported at the head
quarters Of the same club that II is
not known, as yet what defense the
other gentlemen Will make, bat they
may, after mature elaboration con
clade that i would be better for them
10 plead guilty Of mqlo'side' SUD
serve time, rather tbep 70 sekp'|'
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