Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-11-26
Nebraska
GOVERNOR PlRDONS INDIAN
Louis Priest, Sentenced to Two
Years for Treating Friend.
UNABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH
Pardon Board Took View Man
Codld Not Comprehend Laws of
State ana Merely Copied
white Mems Acts.
tFrom a SAD Correspondent.l


LINCOLN, Nov. 25.-(Special) -Louis
Priest an Indian Of the winnebago In
dian reservation i'm Thurston county, who
was sentenced to two years in the state
penitentiary on the charge OF treating an
other Indian to liquor. was pardoned to-
day by Governor Aldrich.
The pardon was issued on recommended
ton of Judge G. 7. Graves. the trial
judge, and E. q. Maggi Of the Board OF
Pardons.
information was given the governor in
dic9ting that Priest was unable TO speak
or write Engisb and that he was unable
To comprehend the laws Of the state. He
saw white men treating each other to
mtoXlcants and he sa VINO wrong in his
doing the same with his Indian friends.
Priest was convicted under the law for
bidding the sale or gift Of liquors to In
dams. He was not prosecuted under the
general anti-treatlng law, which applies
also to his white brothers.
Priest was sentenced May 4, 1910. and
would have been released next January.
Catholic Students Meet.
After deciding to hold its next animal
convention at Ames, Ia, the Association
or Catholic Students of America adj
journed this morning. The convention had
been in session here since Wednesday,
The officers elected were: Frank p
Goodman, ex-Minnesota, Fargo, N. D.,
president (re-elected); Miss Beatrice John
son. Nebraska, Of this city, vice president;
l. {. Taft, Ames, secretary treasurer.
Two other members who will constitute
the executive committee together with
the three officers were elected They are
irwin M. Lowe, Boulder, Colo, and S. L.
Barber, Madison, Wis.
The following resolution endorsing the
peace treaties now pending between this
country and England and Franco was
passed.
In as much as the citizens national
commlttee have asked the Catholic
students of America for an oplnion on
arbitration treaties between. France
England and America, which are now mr.
peIore the senate for ratification; be IL
resolved that the Catholic students In
convention assembled believe that the
doing away of war is one OF the Rrea esi
services that can be rendered to mankind
operstioo no me nefe Spy express the hearty co
half OF the arbitration between the
countries mentioned.
The committee on the resolutions was
! made up Of ]. z. Gibney, Lincoln; J.
Desmond, Champaign, ILL.,; Frank Gal.
lagher, Minneapolis.
johnson Settles Fine.
Harold ID. johnson of University Place
was this morning fined $25 by Judge
Munger of the federal court. johnson
pleaded guilty to the charge of sending q
dunning communication thu ough the NAL.
on postal card. He had underscoret
the words instructing the debtor to settl,
as per agreement. The fine was palc
imme diately. r't
To Test Trading stamp Act.
The anti-rrading stamp act passed b,
the last Legislature will probably b,
tested soon by quo warranto proceeding
to sbe instituted by County Attorne!
Strobe. Mr. Strobe has been in con
sultation with Deputy Attorney Genera
Ayres and E. J. Clements, the Iawye
employed by a number of Lincoln re
taiiers who oppose giving trading stamps
The matter was brought to the at
tention Of the district court on the de
murrer Of the defendant of the infor
nation in the case of the state agains
j. r. Burleigh. The latter was charge,
: with having sold package of tapioc,
in which was a library slip issued b,
the Magazine and Book company gon
in part payments for books or maya
zines The giving OF this slip was al
legged to be in violation Of the tfadlnj
stamp law.