The Washington herald., 1915-04-25

This case" said Judge Hoke as he
raped the court to order at Sandy
Bend and moticned for two Cinnamon
to take a skate out of the room-"this
! case is as plain as jackrabbit hop,
pin uphill, and there amt any need
Of lawyers, witness. or n jury. In
the fust place, Joe White. who isn't
much of a critter among critters. sud
That amt exactly agin the law. but he
knows that it's the custom in these
parts to wear shirt right along uii
you lose IT at poker or ys strike ths up pa a
ton gets fixed in his head he don't
buy soap and go down to the creek
and wallup the dirt out OF that oId
r fsa shiFf hfss Dodge Ss s0 and
over to Hop Lees laundry and en-
cages him to do the rubin.
Had the heather Hop Lee any right
to take a shirt without namin his
price fur the wash. or being secured
for his pay? None whatever but ne
goes right ahead and does it. When
the job. and Joe White sets his limit
at fifteen. Joe rips and and swears
and the squint-eyed Celestial waves
his arms and jabbers. Then was the the
law, but neither does it,. Joe starts
out to take the shirt and the China
man draws out knife about leyen
feet long. Does Joe bear away that
shirt in triumph? Does that China
man draw one drop of blood with that
old grass-cutter? No. fellow citizens
When Rg; I'm Joe eusy white hi my comes along and
wants some of the same thing.
Gentlemen. thar's justice in San T
Bend-heaps Of it, and I'm mere i 10 ia
done here this mornin'. Jest take a
look at Joe White. will ye II thars
a meaner-lookin' critter in this terri
He's allus BLOWN about the number
of men he's planted. and I've known
men to dodge him. and yet with two
w vail S heather BLUM him out. when
he finds Hop Lees figures too high
and himself shirtless does he pull a
gun and help hisselt to jestie &c. Not Ss,tn
dry and gallops around till he hnds
me and then appeals to the law to set
tie the difference of fifteen cents. Is
in still. and our real estate crawlin'
backward with such men as him to
the front? The sentence OF this ere
Se Should Us that sd f ss t fars
return he'll be took care OF by tho
vigilance committee!
Hop Lee says that he had tnree-
days job on that shirt, and that his
figures were moderate. This court Is
inclined to look at it that way, but IN
the fust place, he's a heather without
rights. and in the next his laundry Is
the only one fur seventeen miles
around and he's maxim a trust of 1t.
/ don't say he wouldn't hev been taken
out and hung il he had of stuck five
or six feet of that knife into Joe
White. but had he any legal right to
come gallopin' around and hollerin FUR
jestice through the courts? Not a
right, Not a shadder of a right! There.
fore the sentence of this court Is that
Hop Lee pay fine of IS and costs.
The fine is fur runnin' laundry trust,
and the costs is put on him bekase
Joe hasn't a red cent and couldn't pay
em. II the shirt is mt the court
will wear il as emblem OF 1estice; II
it's too short in the jints 1t Will be
raffied of at the Red Dog saloon at
o'clock this evening at 10 cents
ticket, and the money will be used In
buyin' an American flag to hoat over
this shebang on days when Liberty
Equality, and Law ar on top"
And now we have here before US"
said his honor after a recess OF five
minutes, that individual who has been
known in Sandy Bend for the last
three months as Dead Shot Bill
HE entered this town with whoop.
His cayuse was on the run, and he
was shootin' right and left.
This town of Sandy Bend is some
thin on the shoot. and allus has been,
but when Dead Shot Bill come avis
Tin and we were told that he could
shoot a mans eye winkers on at
distance of hundred feet. feelin'
Of awe and reverence crept over us.
I'VE ceased to brag.
Our boastin' was soft and low.