The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-02
Passes New Code Of Laws GOV.
ePniRg the County Bastle.
FEARFUL PUNISHMENT IS PROUIDED
Unlucky Victims Failure to Take
Bath or Change Clothes Is
Heinous Offense.

The Kangaroo Court, the high au-
| thority that has ruled within the walls
of the county bastile since time i'm
memorial, levying tribute or inflict-
ing punishment on the unlucky victim
who chances to provoke the displeasure
of the high dignitaries. has just met
in extraordinary session and passed &,
new code of rules and regulations, in
tended to preserve the peace and dign-
ity of the institution and also to earn
the approval of those higher in au-
thority-namely, his royal highness,
dispenser of the staff of life and keeper
of the keys. Jailer Berry, governor gen.
eral and lord high chancellor, Sheriff
Painter, grand marshal and chief aide
to the lord high chancellor, Deputy
Haviland, and grand guard and keeper
of the brooms, Janitor Wynans.
The new code is not of ponderous
proportions. heavy with legal phrasings
and technicalities. but it is to the point
and extremely brief and effective.
obeyed if the tales of victims who have
undergone punishment at the hands of
the Kangaroo Court and escaped alive
are to be believed Failure to take
bath or change clothes is one of the
chief offenses against the dignity of
the Kangaroo Court and is punishable
by horrible tortures. If the court so
wills, an offending culprit can be sem
fenced to perform manual labor, such
as waiting on the table and doing floor
duty with a broom and dust pan. When
this sentence is passed, culprits have
been known to get down on their knees
and beg for mercy. Stealing or mutt
lating the property of another is also
punishable by the offender being sem
fenced to do floor or table duty Smok-
ing when the court is in session is also
heinous offense. The new laws pass
ed have been duly recorded in the court
journal and pasted in conspicuous
places on the Jail walls and are as
follows:
Article l. Any person entering this
Jail without first obtaining permission
from the inmates thereof will be sub
! ject to a fine of not less than 50 cents
, or more than $3.50; if said person has
not the necessary means to pay such
| fine, he shall be given work by the
| judge Of said court.
Article 2. Any person or persons
having any money and refusing to pay
sucn fine shall on conviction receive a
punishment of not less than cobs or
| more than 10 cObs.
Article g. All persons entering this
Jail are cautioned by the court to take
bath and change their clothes, and
on refusal to comply with this rule
Snail be tried before said court and on
conviction thereof shall be sentenced to
perform floor or table duty, for sucn
| time as the judge of said court shall
see fit, but not to exceed a period of
Is days.
Article T. All cells must be swept
and beds made up and buckets emptied
before the corridors are swept.
Article 5. Any person caught steal
ing or mutilating the property OF an
other shall be fined, the fine being left
to the discretion of the judge of said
court, but which fine shall be either
floor or table duty.
Article g. Any person who sha'l
smoke or make himself conspicuous
during a session of the court shall BE-
fined; all persons must be present when
court is in session.
Article 7. Any person called on bv
the sheriff of said court to help make
an arrest must act quickly, and on
refusal to render such aid to said sher-
if shall be dealt with in manner to be
decided by the court.
Il Article s. The officers Of this court
shall consist of a judge, prosecuting
attorney and sheriff.