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THE- r OLFAX GAZETTE
TWENTY-ForKTII YEAR.
When You Want Supplies
Why Go to Outside Cities?
YOU CAN BUY HERE AS CHEAP, AND VERY OFTEN CHEAPER.
Hie city merchant baa very few facilities for buyiug and selling which tbe
country merchant does not &Uo posaett. la fact, the advantages on the who!,, are
on the side of the country dealer. Bw rent is much leas. His general expeiis-s are
much less Why then does ho much trade go to oatoidecities, which o fX
should !><• distributed throughout the neighborhood in which your lot is east'
Because the country denier lets it go there.
Whatever the state of affairs may be in other Paloose Country stores we will
not Bell you cotton for wool, nor jute for (lax. We buy for cash; We sell for cash'
we boy in large qaaotities; this means another big saving We ask no one to
trade with n* simply because we are in business in this neighborhood We do
not nsk your patronage an a right: we ask you to come here because
It Pays You to Buy in Colfax.
The meaner mrta of merchandise we have no time to bother with- neither
have .you .f »ejnd«eth<> trading public aright. Clean, l,,,nest, reliable stuff at
loweHt prices, ia what intelligent buyera are looking for. W, keep none other
Fall and Winter Goods
Now Arri\iiig^^-
Come and Look at the First Arrivals
New styles in Ladies' Jackets, Capes and Tailor
Suits, Dress. Skirts and Silk Waists, also the Latest
Fabrics in Dress Goods.
Our now lines in Staple Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishing
CJoods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Carpets and Oil
Cloths are coining in fast and ail departments are well assorted.
JULIUS LIPPITT,
Pioneer Merchant.
CHASE&SANBORNS i!I--:-™
%S"MI i^^^^lKi Famous Boston Coffees.
"I fkAm Us S**l^k! Standards of quality. Roasted on day of Hhip
yS-fiT>* mß>> "■«*■» ment and universally accepted as the loading fine
P^^ g : —r~~-— i coffee of the world. Packed in one au.i two
*'3M!M«>fflw«www^iri poond air ti^ht tin cua, also bulk goods. The
piJ^^^^ff!i%f2 superiority of these collVjs secured the wrM's
«|^^j|]^l^| I;ur contract. Try them and be convincod.
j^wiffiw^J °UU WINTKR SPECIAIiTIES.
|t^^^^j!!!_ M l Sweet Cider Schepp Padding Goods
''fßySTispSpJaS'i Sour Kraut Fancy Cakes and Wafers
■ ifc3a^fJKM~t.r^-1 Sour Pickle Buckwheat Flour
Sweet Pickles Mush Cereals
Bulk Olives Pure Maple S;vj
£> JSIS Jg HB HH hit'heat cash price, or 2 cents per p mnd over the
ictuc rpqt C.H.MOORE,
I I I IL DCoQ 1» Phone Main :M. COLFAX, WASH.
MONEY TO LOAN
Why pay a high rate of interest when you can renew
your mortgage with me at a better rate ?" We do not sell our
mortgages, and charge no commission. Call or Avrite,
J» /^-w Ladies' Watches
J;.w\\\ / * )) Ladies of taste admire oar stock of
\\\\ / IJ>-il / watches. We have some delicate, ar-
H / 4Jr£%S& tractiva cases that contain reliable
W \y^:s^ x/^-h\ workß- These watchee are not only
•\\\y A+\ tt ") /Al\ beautiful—they are perfect time keepers,
W Yvj V^^fV 1 to°' They are mat{e for service,
•">L y /|G\^"* / aD<? we ep" them at a BmH" price. We
Ov / /V \ / believe we have the one you want.
\/\ / A !*» / Also the latest
/0 V All Novelties iv Jewelry.
f% — //vj City Jewelry Store,
>J. A. Rowo.
EVERY PRESCEIPTION
FILLED AT THE COLFAX DKUG STOKE
IS GUARANTEED AS TO
ACCURACY and PURITY of Drags
The Price is Always the Lowest. t* cm TT » i»m x»
Next D.mr to Postoffice. Telephone, Main 11. l'*l!511 AKI, l*ropr.
Our White Pine and Spruce Expectorant is the Best Cough Medicine Made
ARMSTRONG & CO.
C. B. brand ranch butter is No. 1.
Ruedy's apple vinegar is pure and wholesome and can
always be found here.
A new barrel of kraut just opened. 25c per gallon.
Free Delivery. Phone Black 174. ARMSTRONG & CO.
Main Street, COLFAX. (Successors to McDONALD BKOS.)
SPITOOTi "ROOK'S Prescriptions filled by Pharmacy Graduate.
V>'XXVfvr-Li -"V^V/iVKJ prRE DRl j(j a AT LOWE >T PRICKS
CHOOL SUPPLIES FARMERS' DRUG STOKE.
f°r your Magrazines and Newspapers through The
k3U.UcKjI.IUt; Gazette and save money.
Eleepectfallj,
CPTtVS. PLATT.
D. RYRIE,
Representing Balfonr, Guthrie & Co.
Col fax, Washington
COLFAX, WASHINGTON, FEIDAY, OCTOBER 2G, 1900.
IWS OP THE STATES
fathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Lnion.
Boiled Down As It Conies From
the Wires lor Information of
liusy Headers.
Wednesday. October 17.
Cleveland. Ohio gove Roosevelt a re
ception rivalling any ever given a nomi
nee. At Newburgh a boy threw a rock
which si ruck the governor on the head,
but he was not hurt.
The great strike of the anthracite
mine-workers of Pennsylvania, which be
gan September 17, practically ended,
when the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron company and the Lehigh Val
ley (onl company agreed to abolish
the eliding wale in their respective
regions and to grant an advance in
wages of 10 per cent net, the advance to
remain in operation until April 1, 1901,
or thereafter. This action meets the de
mands of the Scranton miners' conven
tion.
William L. Wilson, author of the
famous Wilson tariff bill of 1892, died
at Lexington, Ky.
Thursday, October IK.
< »ne month and ten days have elapsed
since the great storm at Galveston. and
still the number of dead bodies being
recovered*daily does not decrease. This
niiil.es a record of 107 for the past four
days. The total number of bodies re
ported to have been recovered is 2907.
Population of Arizona 122,212, in
cluding Indinns, compared with 59,020
in 1890, but 28,409 Indians were not
counted in the 1890 census.
The sale o! the KUckitat, the uncom
pleted Bte itner of I'aui F. Mohr's Central
Navigation & Construction company,
which v. ii- to have hauled grain along
the Columbia and Snake rivers, was
completed and it turns out that the
O. R. & N. Co. is ihi j purchaser, getting
for $6500 what cost about $23,000.
Former Governor W. P. Dillingham,
republican, elected United States senator
from Vermont.
The steamer Lane brings from Nome
the news that $20,000 in gold dust was
stolen from (he Alaska Commercial Com
pany's warehouse September 14.
Friday, October 10.
Robert G. Dyreti forth, commanderin
chiel ef tLe United Veterans' union,
issued nn official circular urging all
members of the order to vote for the re
election of President McKinley. The
circular states that Article XIII of the
constitution of the order makes it the
duty of the commander-in chief to advise
in matters of election.
Near Orchard, Idaho, an attempt to
wreck an Oregon Short Line train wks
made by cciliag two log chains around
the railr. three times. The train was
running slowly and bumped over safely.
It is practically a certainty that the
miners will not be back to work Mon
day, as was expected from the action of
the Philadelphia conference of operators
on Tuesday and Wednesday and the
Scranton conference yesterday. Some
of the biggest of the local companies aie
balking at the agreement to coutinue
the 10 per cent offer iv force until April,
1901, as demanded by the resolution of
the miners' convention. They were all
willing- enough yesterday to amend their
notices to conform to this demand, but
today they seem to have undergone a
change of heart and only one operator
of any prominence would say outright
that he would make the modification.
They say it would be humiliating for
them to come out with an amendment
to their notices. One manager said:
"Our modification would serve but one
purpose— to gratify a whim of John
Mitchell. We don't propose to bow and
scrap- to Mr. Mitchell."
Nearly $4,000,000 in gold arrived at
San Francisco from Australia by
steamer.
Secretary Long has ordered that there
be no further proceedings in the case of
Captain Wilde of the Oregon, which was
being investigated by a court of inquiry
to determine the responsibility for the
grounding of the battleship in the Gulf
of Pc chili last summer. This action
finally disposes of the matter.
William Catherman, a Foster, Oregon,
rancher, has sold his entire crop of
alfalfa raised thi« year on a large tract
of land for 45 a ton. He took seven
tons from each acre, making $35 per
acre net, for he sold the hay at that
price an it stood in the stack in the field.
Mr. Catherman states that stockmen
are buying all the hay they can get hold
of and that a large number of cattle will
be fed during the winter in that part of
the county.
Saturday, October 20.
Peunoyer of Oregon declined to ac
cept a nomination for the legislature on
a citizens' ticket.
The naval board of construction and
engineering united in a recommendation
for the final acceptance of the new
battleship Alabama.
The jury in the case of Henry Youtsey,
on trial on the charge of being a princi
pal in the Gcebel assassination, returned
a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty
at life imprisonment.
Registration ia Greater New York is
050,154.
The two houses of the Kentucky legis
lature passed tbe non-partisan election
law agreed upon by the legislature.
There is no doubt but that Governor
BeckbaiD will sign it. It succeeds the
famous Goebel law.
Population uf Alabama 1,828,097,
against 1,513,017 in 1890.
Sunday. October 21.
Seybold *ie Dickston'of Sheffield, Eng
land, the largest manufacturers in Eng
land of crucible steel, contemplate mov
ing tluir plant to the United States. A
site has been optioned near Wheeling, W.
Va., and ir is proposed to erect thereon
a modern plant costing upward of $3,
--000,000, which from the first will em
ploy about 3500 men. The object of
the movement is to get into the Ameri
can market.
Hanna says he has taken South Da-
kota out of the doubtful column and
placed it safely republican. He per
sonally believes Nebraska will go for
McKinley.
While defending a young woman from
an attack of a thug ou a Chicago street
T. J. Griffith, a shipping clerk, was shot
dead.
A tornado struck near Lodi, Texas,
and killed six colored people.
Monday, October 522.
•lohn Sherman, the venerable Ohio
statesman, and one of America's great
men, died at Washington in his Tsth
year.
Reliable advices from Copenhagen as
nert that the sale of the Danish Antilles
to the luited States will soon be effected.
Next Thursday the Danish minister at
Washington, Max Burix, will start for
the Uuited States, bearing full details of
tht sale. A bill authorizing the transfer
at the price lixed by the present cabinet,
£7,000,000, will reach the riksdag in a
lew days.
Chicago registration is 402,883.
President Mitchell of the ("nited Mine
Workers nays the end of the strike is
not far away.
Frank Algood, sentenced at Wichita,
Kansas, to three years in the peniten
tiary for horse stealing, was baptised
into the Christian church. His hands
and feet were shackled and he had to be
carried to the baptistry.
George Stone, chairman of the Cali
fornia republican state committee, sent
the following telegram to Senator M. A.
Hanna: "Many business men of this
city having seen reports that Chairman
Jones of the democratic committee and
Mayor Phelau of this city state that
California will go tor Bryan, desire it
announced that any part of $100,000
is offered at odds of two to one that
California will give its full electoral vote
for McKinley—money ready."
Tuesday, October U;t.
People living along the banks ot Can
yon creek \>i the Coeur d'Alenes, Idaho,
blew up an O. R, & N. railroad bridge,
claiming it obstructed the flooded stream
and was inundating their homed.
Charles Dudley Warner, famous
author, died at Hartford, Conn.
President Mitchell says he expects tin
big coal strike to end by next Monday
At Jefferson, Oregon, Lulu Jones, a
10 year-old school girl, was called from
the school room by Clyde Vaughn, 18
years old, v.ho is the janitor of the
school building. Thejgirl not returning,
auother scholar was sent to look for her
and found her in the basement almost
dead from a terrific blow on the head
from an ax, which had crushed the
frontal bone. She will probably not re
cover. Vaughn was captured by the
sheriff three miles from Jefferson. He
admitted that he committed the assault
on the young womau, and gave as his
reason that he was violently iv love with
her, but that she gave him no en
couragement.
The new Russian battleship Retvisan
was launched at Cramp's shipyards at
Philadelphia.
At San Francisco military head
quarters it is stated the first install
ment of the volunteer army in the
Philippines will leave Manila November 1.
The transports will bring home about
25,000 men at the rate of 5000 a month.
The sick will, if possible, be shipped on
earlier transports, that they may travel
without crowding.
Liquidation by discouraged lougs, in
fluenced mostly by a 1 1-4(1 decline at
Liverpool, ruled in the Chicago wheat
pit throughout the session. The heavy
movement, favorable weather and a
slow cash demand added to the hull de
moralization. Some export business
was accomplished at the decline, but
'.here was not enough of it to check the
bull rout. October options, 71',. Port
land, cash, 52'j.
HOSPITAL FAllt.
Formal Opening Tuesday Evening,
October 30.
Formal opening of the hospital fair
will occur Tuesday, October 30th, at 8
p.m. The bowiiug uiiey, in which the
Sisters' fair will be conducted, has been
entirt ly renovated, the walls adorned
with festoons, booths tastefully trimmed,
pretty lights arranged for this special
occasion. The gmnd display of articles
of every deecriptiou present a scene of
beauty, art and brilliancy. The doll
donated by Mrs. W. J. liryan, unavoid
ably delayed, arrived Wednesday moru
ing aud is now on exhibition. It is a
large, handsome doll, gracefully dressed.
Thic! valuable gift will be awarded to the
most popular giil, which contest will
close Thursday at 9p. m. The premium
to be awarded to the most popular
young lady is a $40 diamond ring. The
contest will open on the first day aud
close Saturday at 9:30 p. m.
Particular attention wii! be paid to
the refreshment department. Prompt
service and good meals. Refreshments
will be served every day, to begin at 0
p. m., except Tuesday. Rulfliug of arti
cles on which chances have been sold be
fore the fair will commence Wednesday
evening.
A special musical program has been
arranged for every afternoon and even
ing.
Kruger Secretly Flees.
Lorenzo Marques, October 18. —At 5
o'clock this morning Mr. Kruger was
secretly raken on board the Dutch cruiser
Gelderland. on which vessel he is to sail
for Holland. The reason given for
Kruger's hurrieri embarkation on the
steamer Gelderland this morning is that
he feared the Boers here would attack
him. The feeling of the refugees against
Mr. Kruger for fleeing from the country
is very strong. It is reported that the
Gelderland will sail tomorrow.
"For three days and nights I suffered
agouy untold from an attack of cholera
morbus brought en by eating cucum
bers," says M. E. Lowther, clerk of the
district court, Centerville, lowa. "I
thought I should surely die. and tried a
dozen different medicines but all to no
purpose. I sent for a bottle of Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy and three doses relieved me en
tirely." This remedy is for sale by all
druggists o
Gunther's chocolates and bonbons
are a delicious candy. At The Elk
Drug Store.
IT IS A ROORBACK
Democratic Circulation of An
I ntrue Story.
The Republican Party Had Nothing
To l)«> With McDon
ald's Arrest,
From various part* of the county r>-.
ports are coming in that the democrat*
are attempting to lay the arrest of
Judge McDonald at a critical time be
fore election upon the republican party,
well knowing it to be untrue. If any
political party pushed this up it wnn the
democrats. The man who swore out
the warrant is well known as a former
populist, now probably a democrat, an 1
at any rate entirely out of sympathy
with the republicans. The arrest, so far
as republicans know, was simply an out
growth of the troubles of two or three
years'standing between .Mr. Neasly and
Judge McDonald.
While it iH true that the board of com
missioners consented to the employment
of a special prosecutor for the case, after
the evidence upon which it was based
was laid before them, they did not do ho
with any expectation that it would be
brought in the sborl time before elec
tion. Prosecutor [nman did not know
the arrest wan to be made until after
the warrant was out, and had nothing
to do with fts issuance.
The republican party doeH not h«v<> to
resort to this style of campaign, and its
managers know better than to do it.
The evidence of Chairman Davenport,
an published in tbe Spokesman-Review,
whs but half given. He was made to
say that he had been approached by Dr.
Ferguson, a democrat, for a contribu
tion of $150 from the republican cam
paign [and with which to prosecute Mc-
Donald. He said this,but be also added
that he had refused to advance the
money for such a purpose. For some
inscrutable reason the democratic cor
respondent omitted to state this most
salient point.
The republic ins have not the slightest
use for Judge McDonald, but they are
above such blundering work in a cam
paign. If Mr. Nessly bad any party aid
it came from others than republicans.
M'DONALD WAN HELD.
The Judge Under Bonds <>l a Thou
sand Dollars.
As a result of the three days' trial of
Judge McDonald upon the charge of at
tempted aubomatioD of perjury,brought
against him hint week by .1. E. Nessly,
Justice Kirkland b Id the defendant to
trial in the superior court, with bond*
of $1000, which were promptly fur
nished. The judge in to appear for argu
ment before his own bar of justice .No
veinber 10. Court opens November 12.
The judge, who is to preside has not yet
been named.
In the hearing of the cane there were
many bitter tilts between M. (). Reed for
the prosecution and J. T. Brown for the
defense.
M. T. Cofftnan, who testified to hav
ing been employed as a special deputy
therifi in the winter of 1897 98, told in
detail that he was sent to liriiiyh Co
lumbia t<> induce VVm. Keecb, a fugitive
from justice tv come to Colfax, and
when he should appear to testify in the
cupe of Dr. Harrington, charged with
cattle mealing and bank robbery, that a
pardon lor Keecb, previously secured
and sent to Judge McDonald, was to be
delivered to him; that before the case
was called Judge McDonald took Keech
to his private room, and in the presence
oi the witn-s* t'offman, Prosecuting At
torney Maibe>VM ai d Mrs. Keech, refused
to deliver the pardon to Keech unless he
would testify to something connecting J.
E. Nessly with some crime; that Keech
refused and declared he knew of no
criminal act of Nelly's; that McDonald
insisted he should so testify, but Ketch
equally insisted he could not truthfully
do so, and at last grew indignant and
exclaimed: "I will not swear to a lie if I
never get my pardon." McDonald still
insisted he should so testify against
Nessly, and ihe witness himself then
interposed and said: "For God's sake,
judge, don't force the boy to swear to a
lie," or vorda to that effect. Muthewe
said to Keech: "Keech, jou are not
here to convict anybody at all hazard;
you are pimply to tell the truth.'' This,
ho the witness said, ended the interview;
but afternoon McDonald again called
Keech to his office and again tried to in
duce him to testify against Neselv, but
Keech still refused, on the same grounds
that he could not truthfully do so. That
afterwards Jndge McDonald sent Coff
man (the witness) to the jail to talk to
Harrington and try to get the latter to
come to his otlice and meet Keech and
let Harrington and Keech see if they
could not fix up some evidence against
Nessly.
Oosh examiued by Hrowu, (offrnan
said he had never told McDonald that
Nessly had something to do with bunk
robbery, cattle stealing, horse stealing
or some other crime.
The Second Day.
N. W Durham, editor o th? Spokes
man-Review, testified that Nessly had
been in the employ of that paper for
thrte years as Whitman couuly corre
spondent; and that beginning in the fall
of 1897, Judge McDonald h id made per
i sistent and repeated attempts, both in
conversation with and in letters to, him
to secure Nessly's dismissal from the
j paper's employ, charging him with vari
! ous crimes.
Mat hews Roasted McDonald
Former Prosecuting Attorney Mathews
testified, corroborating Coffman's cvi
! dence as to what transpired in the
I judge's private room while he was at
i tempting to induce Keech to connect
Nessly with some crime. He also told of
securing Keech's pardon in considera
tion of his coming to Colfax to testify iv
the Harrington case, but after it was
; obtained !»• was learned Keeeh could
give no niibstantial evidence against
j Hnrri:igtor': thut he leaned thi* by tele
i phone conversation with Keech. Keech
i asked who had the pardon, and he told
him Judge McDonald. Keech then asktd
to talk with McDonald. Witness told
, Keech unless he could give substantial
I evidence he need not come, for the coun
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ty woo Id not paj rxptmnu. Tbea Jadn
McDonald wai called. ii<- talked h v wire
with Keeefa, and be beard McDonald mi
to Keeefa: "Yoa mn»t conn here and
■wear thai Neealj and HHi-ririKton ntolf.
Ben Mancbester'l cuttle or you will
nerer get your pardon." Math»-wH said
to tbejadge: "You must n..t talk thai
way or you will disqualify vownell from
Bitting in tbe caee." McDonald Haid
Diaqoalifj nothing; I'm maniac this.' 1
Ihfn he repeated to Keeefa that be most
come and testify thai Neasly and ilar
rington stole Manchester's cuttle or be
would not gel bin pardon. Matheww al
so testified that McDonald asked him to
Die information against Measly, charging
cattle stealing; that he looked up tbe
record ami found Manchester's cattle
had been stolen more than thr»>e yearn
l>cfon> and was barred by the statute of
limitation. Me so told McDonald find
MrDonald mid: "File the charge any
way; it win be enough to besmirch bis
character and gel him lired from the Be
view."
Crow examined, Brown rt;ftiHed
Mathews ol friendliness to Heaaly and
hatred of McDonald, and that b« related
t.> prosecute ob McDonald'* charges.
MuthewH nni.l he did do( refuse, b.it told
McDonald when be or anyone Bled
charges or furnished any evidence be
would: that when McDonald bad Neatly
arrested lawf spring h.> had volunteered
to bHp pro«eent« if evidence wan gotten,
but it watt not. hi replj to Brown hh to
bitter reeling Bgainel MrDonald.MaUiewi
Ha id:
"I have no respect f,, r McDonald,
fit her as a citizen or judge."
Witness told how he had .-ailed the
judge before the grand jury ami asked
Him to make a charge iigaiiiHt Nessly for
patting the woman in l^onard'a cell, an
claimed by tto judge, tad McDonald
had told the grand jury he had
thoroughly inveutigated the charge and
was convinced then- wan no evidence to
justify action.
Hatbewe testified thai the judge had
told Editor Durham and Vsslv that he
(the wirness) had tried to indict Nessly,
and that he (the judge) had prevented
it, and that the Review shoola support
instead of tight him for having Nesuly
the disgrace. Witness naid McDonald
had made public uran.l jury nivr.-tH and
he had not Hpokeu oi it until these laets
bad become public through McDonald's
talk. .Mathews n.>iid he and McDonald
had tulkt'd Nerisly'l case over and de
cided there was no evidence to convict
of any crime, but the judge insisted
Xeesly mast be prosecuted on some
charge because he had published state
ments detrimental to McDonald, and he
hoped to get him discharged from his
position by prosecuting him. His lack
of love for the judge, the witness said,
would not interfere with his telling the
truth under oath.
Brown naked why be, as prosecuting
attorney, did not proseeate the judge
when he beard him talking over the tele
phone to Keech, if he believed the judge
was trying to induce Keech to nweur
lulsely. Mathews replied that it wiin be
cause he knew the court was Hurrounded
with henchmen like Brown himsnlf, "and
after he hud caused your arrest, Mr.
Brown, on an embezzlement charge- and
then dismissed the case, 1 loHt ull respect
lor the court and knew it useless to at
tempt action while fie was in power. I
did then, and do now,believe that Judge
MeDonatd tried to force Keech to testify
falsely against Nessly and UHed the par
don to force Ketch to swear to a lie."
Mm. Keech corroborated in great part
the testimony of I,'offmau and Mathews
as to what wuh said and done in the
private room, when Judge McDonald
wan trying to induce Ketch to Hwear
tamely against Newly. She find not
paid much attention to details until her
son leaped to his feet and exclaimed that
he would not t-vveur to a lie if be went to
the penitentiary. She knew McDonald
was trying to get ber boo to swear to
something against Nessly which he had
often declared untrue. She told of
Judge McDonald calling on her before
she was out of bed, at an early hour,
aud talking to her about the testimony
Hbe would give in the ease, trying to con
vince her she waH mintiiken, but she told
him the name as she had told the prose
cutor and as she had testified to. Keed
accused the judge of tampering with the
state's witness.
Mm. Kxeeh detailed the circiinietiuirt-H
under wbicb hlh> whh given her Hon'u
pardon, l&bemid .Judge M< Itonald re
quired her to pay *2.'Sl J\~, for it, anrtcn
iug that the state hud been to thin ex
pense in Becurios it: that later tbe com
miwHionei-ri returned it to her.
Auditor Corner brought in the record
of the pardon, tin died in bis office. This
allowed that tbe pardon hud been irrunt
ed unconditionally.
The Defense.
The defense moved for diHmiHHalon the
ground of insufficient evidence. Thin
wfis overrried.
Wm. Huntley, chairman of the board
of county commineionerH, te«tiHed that
.\>. 0. Reed had been employed to prone
cnte tbe cane. He denied that the re
publican party had anything to do with
bringing the action, or that, to his
knowledir°, it had any political Bignifl
cance. The witneHH waH not allowed to
annwer an to whether the democrats had
contributed toward expense of the ac
tion, the court holding that it had noth
ing to do with the guilt or innocence of
defendant.
No Republican Money.
W. .1. Davenport, chairman of the re
publican county central committee, testi
fied thnt Dr. T. D. Ferguson, county cor
oner under the populint administration,
had approached him for a contribution
of $150 to employ counsel to prosecute
McDonald on tbiu charge. He supposed
this was to come out of the republican
campaign fund in his charge. He re
fused the rtquc-t to put up money for
the purpose.
Defense Withdrew.
Attorney Wyinan announced that be
cause of the refusal of the court to
allow the defense to prove a political
conspiracy, he would withdraw from the
case and ask hie fellow attorneys, Brown,
Neill and Pat iaon to follow. They and
defendant retired for ten minutes con
sultation. Tbey were then asked if the
defense had any more witnesses, when
the defence averted they could not get
a fair trial and would put on no more
witnesses. The court then held the de
fendant to answer in the higher court.
Judge McDonald then hysterically and
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