The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-09-29
BALL AND CHAIN FOR
UNRULY TRANSMITS

UNkULy IkAN61GNI ID
Our city is infested frequent
ly with a bunch Of tough ones
who come out from the large cit
les to run-a4muck and do as
they please in the smaller towns.
We small cities would have no
objection to this program, pro-
wded, always, the incomers
conducted themselves in a man
ner not insulting to the COM
in which they land, and
that they, to some extent, ex-
tend to the homee residents the
same liberty they claim for
themselves-the right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit Of hap
piness, without interference or
hinderance. But they won't do
this. They propose to get drunk,
fight, use profane. language be-
fore women and children, smash
and disregard every law OF
state and city made to gove
the conduct Of transients and
home people. Every statue Of
city and state applies with equal.
force and effect to home resi-
dents, that is applied to force
the proper conduct from trans
tents who are here for a. few
weeks or months. These incom-
ers and trsnsitory characters
know the laws Of CITIES and
state before they enter the COM
munity, and SO knowing, it is. up
to them to so measure and con-
troll their department, or stay
away. An occasional bunch of
the rough necke" attempt to
take advantage Of a peace-loving
community, and think they can
make it unpleasant and nasty
for the population, and aterrorizes
them into submission to all in
decent and unlawful acts and
depredations they care to com !,
init.
The case Of six persons sent
enced to jail a few days ago is
in point. For disturbing the
peace they are sentenced to ten
days. It should have been until
january Is so that they would
get the heels frozen off them get
ting back to the unfortunate cor
munity from whence they came.
In their desperation to escape
they made a murderous attack
on. the sheriff with chairs, and
other dangerous weapons, and
had Sheriff Fahrer been built
of a slight composition Of the'
.jelly-fish, there would have been
a Jail delivery, and the GRIMM
ads have escaped to another city
Ito commit the same, or, worse
offense. In this attempt to
oNerpower the sheriff and make
a getaway, they added three
more distinct penitentiary Of
fences in addition to the one
they were doing time for.
Conspiracy to escape, and ef-
feet a, Jail delivery.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon with intent to do bodily
harm.
Resisting an officer in the per-
formance Of his duty.
They should be prosecuted on
all these offences, and get the
limit on each charge with sent
ences added together SO the war
will be over long time before
they get out.
In the petty offences for which
they were sentenced the city
should provide ball and chain,
and put them on the street
picking up, md sweeping up
the refuse, and grading up cross
ings, cutting weeds, and other
meritorious work, looking to
the cleanliness and smoothness
of our streets. A Jail sentence,
with board, has no terrors for
this class, but ball. and chain,
and thirty to sixty days real
work on the street is what gets
their goat. III 1893 when the
Co1eNtes swept the country
everyone arrested and sentenced,
got it with hard labor, and ball
and chain, and when these fel-
lows were cleaning up the
streets, so decorated, every Cox
eyite steered around New Rock
ford, and beat it out more quick
~ than if it had been afflicted
: with leprosy and typhus. To do
| Ithe same now would rid the city
Of undesirables, it would clean