The Greeley tribune., 1906-01-18
ILL
STRAIN OF TROUBLE AND
WORK THE CAUSE
The Popular Judge of Weld
County to Help Out the
Popular Denver County
Judge
Judge Ben B. Lindsey is neu-

Judge Ben B. Lindsey is a neu-
rotic.
Worn out, his nervous system al
most shattered by the strain he has
placed upon himself during the last
few months, and almost ON the verge
of serious attack of nervous pros
tration, he has called in Judge
Charles E. Southard of this city to
take charge of his work and he
became patient at the Mercy hos
pital last Monday.
There he will take the rest cure
for several weeks, after which he
will leave Denver for his trip, where
he has been invited to give number
OF lectures and make several
speeches. Until that time he will
undergo the treatment at the sani-
tarium and will endeavor If possible
to gain some control of his nervous
Isystem.
Judge Lindsey has been an Ill
man for long time. Only sheer
force Of will has kept him on the
bench. But the drain on his nervous
force has become so terrible that for
months he has not been able to get a
refreshing nights rest. For hours
at time after retiring Judge Lind
sey has remained awake In bed WOO
ing the gentle goddess of sleep that
never came. And when stupor did
finally come, it was not a refreshing
sleep, but a wakeful doze, during
which the business of the county,
probate and juvenile courts paraded
itself across his weary brain.
For months this has been kept up.
Day by day Judge Lindsey has bent
under the strain until his physicians
have told him that to continue
longer as he has been donig would
result in his sudden collapse and
subsequent death.
In order to avert this breakdown
Judge Lindsey has at last yielded to
the advice and wishes of his friends
and has consented to take rest that
will be of benefit to him.
But few people have any idea Of
the continual strain which Judge
Lindsey has been laboring under
since the supreme court declared six
months ago that second division of
the county court was an illegal one
and threw the burden Of the entire
county, probate and juvenile busi-
ness on his shoulders.
Since July Judge Lindsey has been
continually at his Office from early
morning until late at night. Some
times it has been nearly midnight
when he left his chambers and
turned his weary steps homeward.
Added to the work of the courts
has been the fight that has been
waged against him by the board Of
county commissioners over the offices
of his court.
Then, add to this the probate
matters, the trials and hearings in
the county court-enough to keep a
well man on the verge of insanity.
The juvenile work itself in Denver
has assumed mammoth proportions.
When the business of the courts is
closed for the day Judge Lindsey has
the matters coming up for the con-
sideration of the juvenile court to
investigate. This keeps him at his
desk until 6 and O'Clock every
evening and occasionally, as has al
ready been said, way into the hours
of the night.
For months his friends have
noticed the growing change in the
judge. He has been irritable when
he did not intend to be irritable.
He has become absent minded at
times and small things have been
known to assume large proportions
TO him. Denver Times.
When Sheriff Florance first took
Office he sat about for couple of
weeks disconsolate because there was
nothing doing. Evidently everybody
had expended all of his cussednesS
upon election, and it looked as
though his was going to be an I'M
eventful administration. But busi-
ness finally came, not in small
chunks, but in car loads, and about
Jan. l he turned over to the county
treasurer sl,OO2, over and above the