The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-12-09
FORT PIERRE MAYOR ARRESTED
AND FINED
Newspapers Do Not Learn of the
Affair

IL came to pass even rs we SuS-
pected it would and somewhat
sooner. The mayor Of Fort Pierre
has been arrested and fined for
selling booze contrary to the laws
of the sovereign state of South
Dakota He was arrested charged
with filling prescriptions with
common corn juice without the O.
X. of an NJ. ID. There was an
other charge, but his honor plead
guilty to the otfense we have men
toned, paid a fine of fifty dollars,
and further prosecution was
dropped. There is talk of i'm
peachment removal by the govern
or and the like of that, but the
real truth Of the matter is that the
mayor of our county seat town
Will now be given an opportunity
to be good.
Not much is being said about
the matter, especially by the Fort
Pierre press. Newspapers that
give I'M ordipary horse thief and
his escapades dozen columns of
space, dismiss the arrest and
punishment OF the mayor in 4
dozen lines. AS a matter of news
1t occurs to US that the one affair
IS as important as the other. We
seized the Fort Pierre papers this
week with eager anticipation; we
laid them down with sore disap-
ppintment. We looked for extras:
we found a mere local in an OBJ
scure corner of an inside page.
Certain journalists had missed
their opportunity.
i'ow. we mention this not be.
cause we wish to give the mayor
OF Fort Pierre notoriety beyond
ms Just deserts, or because we
wish to comment at length upon
his case, though we would cer-
talnly print the facts, and all of
them, if we had them: but we wish
merely to call attention to the be-
havlor of the newspaper brethren.
Let someone in this end of the
county be arrested and tined and
the Fort Pierre papers will have
feroclous scare-heads that will
alone be sufficient to make little
children afraid to 60 home in the
dark. Let the offender be as
prominent socially and politically
as the mayor of Fort Pierre, and
we know one Fort Pierre news
paper man that would run a con-
tinued story of the affair.
Lord, we don't mind confessinQ
that we have been kept on the
reservation recently, not through
our fear of the law, but through
our fear of what the Fort Pierre
newspapers would say about US,
If we happened to get caught. We
have. .fancied ourselves written up
thus, in flaming head lines, ''Edi-
tor Waggoner Caught ir his
Nelghbor's Hen Roost," and then,
following that, three columns of
solid reading matter, discussing in
detail, where we we're caught.
why we were caught, the color of
the chickens, and the age of the
little girl that let the deputy sheriff
IN al the door. And always when
thinking OF this we have resolved
to lead a better life.
You bet, the man at Midland, at
Milesville, at Kadoka, at Cotton
wood, or the man at Philip, when
he pulls off bit of cussedness in
some reckless hour of leisure. gets
written up, and gets written up
plenty blythe county seat papers.
But let some prominent Fort
Pierre fellow get into mischief,
and the selfsame newspapers will
sh-sh-h-hh-hhh over the matter in
a low whisper. Yes, it makes q
difference whose OK is gored, as
someone has remar rked S0mowhAno