Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 17, 1909, Page 3

DENIED BY COURT OF APPEALS Application for Stay of Sentence in Labor Cases. ‘Washington, Noy. 16.—The court of appeals of the District of Columbia denled the application for a stay for Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Fed- eration of Labor, sentenced to jail for contempt. Attorney J. H. Ralston urged as a reason for the postponement to Jan. 2 the engagement of his associate, Judge Alton B. Parker of New York. Attorney Ralston said the time asked would be no more than required- for the determination of the step desired to be taken by the labor leaders. Attorney J. J. Darlington, for the Buck Stove and Range company, whose injunction suit against the offi- clals of the American Federation of Labor resulted in the contempt sen- tences, opposed the length of_ stay asked. He stated that eounsel had more than seven months to determine their action in the event of an adverse decision. He declared that the labor people had made no attempt to discon- tinue a boycott against the Buck com- pany and were still yiolating the in- junction. Fortune displays our virtues and our vices as light makes all objects appar- ent.—La Rocliefoucauld. PROPOSES BUREAU OF ARTS 8enator Newlands Would Ralse Stand- ard .in United States. ‘Washington, Nov. 16.—Belleving that something should be done by the government of the United States to raise the standard of popular art ap- preclation Senator Newlands of Ne- vada will probably renew his efforty at the coming session of congress t6 have a_bill passed slmilar to that Which fafled of passage last winter for the creation of a government bu- reau and council of fine arts, The bill was endorsed by President Roosevelt, who appointed the counail of fine arts, which was afterwards dissolved by President Taft. The bill is approved as a business measure. ‘The government has spent more than $500,000,000 for buildings and works of art in a haphazard fashion. These expenditures, it is coentended by the friends of the_bill, should certatnly through neglecting their eyes. The sight is the most wonderful and delicate instrument in our possession and is so easily injured by strain, which is proven daily. But this strain can be relieved by properly fitted glasses, when made to coincide with the weak parts of each eye. The wearing of glasses is no sign of pride or old age. strain by supplying you with glasses that will take away the strain. We can refer you to hundreds and hundreds of our former patients who have suffered constantly with The long time proven fact that human eyes will fail and the also proven fact that we are ablve to PREVENT and restore failing eyesight, should bring the modern people to think that there is nothing in the world so great as perfect eyesight, and nothing so disagreeable as blindness at any stage. have been made under the diregfjon :tll: with the advice of & hmem of — . Committee at Canal Zone. Panama, Nov. 16.—James A. Taw- ney, chairman -of the congressional eommittee examining the Panama ca- nal, says the members of the commit- tee are exceedingly pleased with the progress of ‘the work, which shows greater results than were observed during any previous examtnation. REPLATID IYD EEADACRES sap the vitality and bring about general nervous breakdowns. 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LARSON & LARSON SPECIALISTS Offices Over Postoffice. Phone 92 Why | place. | SENT T0 JAIL FOR CONTEMPT Supreme Court Decides Ten= nessee Lynching Case. SHORT SENTENCES GIVEN 8herlff and Assistants Who Failed to Guard Negro Prisoners After High: eet Tribunal Had Ordered a Stay of Execution Must Serve From Sixty to Ninety Days—Case Unique in the History of the Country. ‘Washington, Nov. 16.—The supreme court of the United States announced the following sentences for contempt of court in the cases of the men charged with conspiracy in the Iynch- ing of the negro, Ed Johnson, on March 19, 1906, at Chattanooga, Tenn., while the prisoner was under stay of execution granted by the supreme eourt: Sheriff James F. Shipp, ninety days’ imprisonment; Deputy Sheriff Jere- miah Gibson, sixty days; Luther Will- fams, ninety days; Patrick Nolan, ninety days; Henry Padgett, sixty days; Willlam Mayse, sixty days. All the defendants were in court ‘when sentence was pronounced, hav- ing arrived in charge of deputy mar- shals. Chief Justice Fuller, who pro- mounced the sentences, designated the United States jall in the District of Columbia as the place of imprison- ment. Attorneys for the prisoners be- fore the bar asked that on account of the difference in climate the federal frison at Atlanta, Ga., be substituted or the District jail. To this Attorney General Wickersham objected, saying that Atlanta prison was for long term prisoners and that the local jail was much more suited for the present pur- pose. 8econd Case of Its Kind. This was the second time in the history of the supreme court of the United States that that body had im- posed a sentence upon citizens held guilty of disregarding its mandates. The previous occasion was in another generation. Heading the little group of six men found guilty of contempt, as they took their places before the black robed Justices, was Captain Joseph H. Shipp, the sherif in Chattanooga, Tenn., when he offended the court. His tall, straight figure, his seamed face and his gray streaked beard told of his long service in the army of the Con- federacy. Bowed down under his seventy-six years, Jeremiah Gibson, the jailer, stood with him. With bedimmed eyes he looked upon the long white locks of the chief justice, himself seventy-six years of age, who would soon pro- nounce sentence upon him, perhaps send him to prison. He and Captain Bhipp had been found guilty of failing to protect a negro, waiting to be hanged on a charge of a heinous crime against a white woman, after the supreme court of the United States had stayed his execution. Luther Willlams, Nick Nolan, Henry - Padgett and William Mayes, residents of Chattanooga, found guilty of par- ticipation in the lynching of Ed John- #om, formed the rest of the group. Practically Without Precedent. The proceedings were practically without precedent. In 1875, John Chiles a business men of Texas, was brought before the court for contempt in connection with dealings in Texas {gdemnity bonds, contrary to an order of the supreme court. He was fined $260. But that instance lacked the in- terest of the present case. In it were {nvolved no race question, no lynching, no interference with state jurisdie- tion; only the majesty of the law as interpreted by the highest court of the land. The present case originated in the court’s decision in March, 1906, to con- sider the appeal of Johnson from a verdict of the Tennessee courts, hold- ing him guilty and sentencing him to be hanged on a charge of assault. The might after the determination of the supreme court to review the proceed- ings was wired to Chattanooga a mob stormed the jail, took the prisoner out and lynched him. After the lynching the department of justice brought complaint against twenty-seven men alleged to have par- ticipated in the jail attack and lynch- ing. Among them were the prisoners at bar, the complaint against the other eighteen being dismissed. MUCH LIQUOR DESTREYED Federal Officials Dump $2000 Worth of Wet Goods. Cass Lake, Minn, Nov. 16—H. A. Larson, special deputy Indian agent, with four deputies, arrived here and, making directly for the Endion hotel saloon basement, demanded admission. ‘Within a few minutes the deputies ‘were carrying barrels and boxzes of Hquor to the alley and destroying it. The liquor had been the property of William Kirchoff, a former saloon keeper, who was forced out of busi- ness by the recent order. Before the 'order went into effect Kirchoff moved the liquor to Hubbard county, where it remained until last Friday, wher Kircheff got it out of town and to this The lquor destroyed was vak ued at about §2,000. Motion Denled. A man arrested for murder was a8 signed a counsel whose crude appear- ance cuused the untortunate prisoner to ask the judge: “Is this my lawyer?” “Yes,” replied the judge. “Is he going to defend me?” “Yes.” “If he should die, could I have an- other™ = “Yes.” “Can I see him alone in the back room for & few minutes?’—Pick-Me- o— VA