Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1873 — How Justice is Administered on the Border. [ARTICLE]

How Justice is Administered on the Border.

When the Kansas Pacific train from Denver reached Wallace, on Wednesday morning, the train men, who go no farther than that station eastward from Denver, partook of their breakfast and then retired to bed, as is their customary habit. Two men of these, Charles Stillman and Dick Herring, the former baggageman and the latter brakeman, occupied one room together at the stationhouse. Stillman had a pair of new eight-een-dollar boots, of fine workmanship, which he placed near his bed, and put his vest, containing a small amount of money, under his pillow. Herring had in his clothing a horse-shoe nail, a comb and a tooth-brush, and twenty-five cents in money. The two slept long and soundly, and when they awoke, and Stillman attempted to put on his boots, he discovered that his nice ones had become strangely metamorphosed, havingtumed into a pair of coarse sLx-doliar affairs. The boys then began searching their clothing, and Herring found that his horse-shoe nail, comb, brush and money were gone. They then began investigating the matter. Stillman suspected a fellow who had been working his way along the road as fireman, and thought he had gone off on a freight train; but he was shortly afterward found at the table, eating his dinner. Stillman then went to a man in Wallace who sells boots, and asked him it he had any like the ones the thief had left him, and the store keeper said he had, and, further, pointed out the fellow who had bought them. It proved to be the identical chap then athiameaL Pat Greeney, deputy sheriff, was summoned, and when the young man finished eating, the officer told him that lie wanted to see him a little while. They took him into a back room and investigated his foot-gear and, sure enough, there were Stillman's boots. Furthermore, he had in his clothing the articles taken from Herring. Pat Greeny, the deputy sheriff, thereupon constituted himself a court, and tbe evidence being of the most positive kind he pronounced the prisoner “guilty,” and proceeded at once to pass judgment upon the offender. The court didn’t fumble over law books or statutes any—pot he; neither did he aeeees damage or pass sentence in the good did style. He had his man right before him, and, being a practical aort of a fellow, he just “passed the culprit one” with his clenched fist, letting him have the benefit of a demolishing blow between the eyes. Thiz laid the offender out on the floor, and the court administered another dose of “justice” to him as he lay there, when, considering that he had gone to the extent of tbo “law," Wallace law, he let him up, a»dto44 hlm aroet cmpinui<Al}y to up and dust himself ’’ light away, and the fellow “duated,” and he didn’t wait for a train, either Tepekn Commonwealth. Mr. R. H. McDonald, the grwt San Francieoo Druggist, has entered into a written agreement with his nephew, Jan M- McDonald, in which the latter binds himself to abstain from the nee of intoxicating and fermented drinks, eggnog and beverage* of wines, beer and alcoholic liquors of whatever npme or nature; and also to teach by precept and example, on all convenient occasions, the evil consequences of their use. And farther, that he will not use tobacco in any form whatever, either by chewing, smoking muffing or in any other way; and thaTbe wilt keep the above covenant inviolate in spirit and truth,expressed or implied, (excejJt only when the safes has been prescribed as a medicine by hia family phy* siclan), until he has arrived at the age of majority, twenty-one yearn. And tbe elder McDonald on his part agrees to give hia nephew in consideration of hie faithful performance, etc., a gold watch valued at not less than |IOO, when be ahull arrive at the •£• of twenty-one year*.