The courier-index., 1920-05-21
[INIRT HELD UP i |'lAIIPISTOL POINT
.o,rNTs OF ROAD DisTRlCI cRAIGHEAD C U N !
 IN In0ce RESIGNATION or COMMISSIONERS

paragould Daily Press.)
 One ncted ol .n in a courthouse in the kVer ens'ss1t rtansas occurred at Lake ktste ol anntv seat of the Eastern Gity, eO@ of Craighead county, Ar plstrls' as on yesterday, when a moD n4a Fansas' ,oS Vi men 2 headed by F. A. Me I alla'' took charge of the pro 9onalu, affecting a road district eeuins; iinss;sted that the commissioners nd |na attorneys of the district hand m heir resignation. ;s +ho+ m lnr ss Black Oak and Hancock nosN Dss District, which was created 0'a an act of the last legislature. % Lamb and Chas. c. Frlerson' ++orneys of Jonesboro, representing ta;u .Vaa, remonstrants against the l1s tatret had appeared in the Cir, 's ;t Court two days before and ,t,on an order vacating the pro Ssdings si under which the district las pelleCVo"' A.. on for sa,;ng yesterday morning in a saeaodng before the Chancery 0"r. the attorneys. for the re- 0nstrants announced that they was ot ready for trial. The Chancery ourt being aware that the Circuit ourt had endeavored to set aside s proceedings under which the strict was finally established, ask MT. Lamb if the action of the rut Court was not final and con usiye. That gentleman asked for rther time in which to prepare case. and the Chancery Court hye him until 1 o'clock yesterday ternoon.
 At the hour appointed the court bnvened for business, when out ws in audience, in true wild west ye, arose and insisted on the signation of the attorneys and bmmissoners for the district. The acrity with which those gentlemen sponded would do credit to the bther stereotyped maxim of Safe First" They all handed in their signations with singular unanimi-
 However, that was only the be- nning of the fun.
 Chancellor Wheatley, who was blding court and who is rather frail appearance but absolutely beyond |e power of intimidation by any pb that ever drew a gun or haul rope from the old we'll wind S, took charge of the proceedings d soon restored order out of the neral confusion that prevailed. hough deprived of the good offices the sheriff and with but one dep ' the chancellor managed to as- r jurisdiction over Mcdonald, ader of, the wild and woody west nd and succeeding in branding as untamed maverick of the far cntler with fine of five hundred lan and six months in jail. 1t understood this fine is far in ex- @ of any assessment with which
 would-be galoot of the plains pad be chargeable on account of proposed road, and as he Hays
 the difference in jail he can asoie himself with the thought of
 liberty that might have been nad he not undertaken to gather
 AW of the land into his own a0s and Assert a freedom of ac- a capable of being exercised only lands. " " sae remaining gentlemen who at- sss peu to enforce their peculiar @ ,ss ol civilization by resort to s.s s ol arms, will probably be .sd ssnced heavily. These modern tsmne ssneerS and desperadoes, who SSp aps 70 force courts to do their as' Aa Will have plenty of time ass ss q, near future to ponder their des iDr W, eftecting judicial reform. ss, Ss' "neatley is known to be toI- T {. ana peaceable to an extreme
 win S S also we'll understood that
 'l brook no intarfaranca r,,;+h