The Owyhee nugget., March 12, 1909, Image 2

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OWYHEE
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4,1905, at the post office at. Silver City,
Idaho, under the Act of Congress of
March 3,1879.
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1909.
THE NEAL VERDICT
The old, old story. Influence
and wealth on the side of the de
fendant makes it an easy matter
to convince the jury that there
was no crime committed by a
cashier of a bank in forging notes
for the purpose of raising money
to enable them to do business,
especialy if he took a few shots
of Morphine, or carried a few
white tablets in his vest pocket.
Talk about your "Frenzied
Finance," bunko games, highway
robbery, or knock-out drops!
The Banking system has them
all "beat to a frazzle," only thing
necessary is to have your cashier
acquire the Morphine habit.
Such a defense held good in the
Neal case but it did notseem to
"cut much ice" in the trial of the
26 cases as stated in the follow
ing article taken from the States
man of the 7th inst.
The outcome of the trial of
H. E. Neal, formerly cashier of
the defunct Capital State bank,
who was charged with forgery,
recalls the fact that during the
time his case has been pending a
number of poor and practically
friendless men have been 6ent to
the penitentiary for forgery,
largely through the activity of
banks. To be accurate there
have been exactly 25 of these men
immured since Jannary, 1908.
One of them is A. Leon, sent up
from this county for three years
on complaint of an officer of the
Capital State bank. Neal was
the cashier at the time the crime
was commited. He was very vig
orous in his condemnation of
such practices. James H. Haw
ley, one one of the attorneys who
defended Neal, also appeared for
Leoo, being assisted by Charles
M. Kahn.
"After being out 10 minutes
the jury returned finding Leon
guilty.
"Fred Daly, also of Ada coun
ty, was sent up during the time
indicated for committing a forg
ery for $50. He was poor and
almost friendless.
Warden Whitney says some of
them sentenced for forgery
Few of them
have any friends, all of them are
very poor and the amount in
volved in their forgeries would
not average more than $50."
Then follows a list of the 25
cases the penalties ranging from
one year to fourteen years.
A short time ago 3 men were
sent to prison for life for stealing
■48 cents. And so the record
goes. Perphaps there is some
thing in the saying that "the
more you steal, the less you get."
There is no doubt but that the
crooked work of H. E. Neal
caused the suspension of the Cap
ital State Bank, and that the
failure of said bank caused un
told loss to thousands of people,
financially, and through this
loss many suffered for the necees
can
not read or write.
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eitles of life, and even starvation
and death could be traced di
rectly to the failure of the Capi
tal State bank, and through it
to H. E. Neal, the hypocritical
professer of religion, the forger,
the robber of innocent people, a
"dope" fiend. And yet he was
declared INNOCENT by a jury
of (supposedly) intelligent men!
Can anyone sustain the state
ment that justice can always be
procured through the Courts?
Something is decidedly wrong
with the system.
The country is awakening to
the fact that there must be a
change. If any legislation is
passed restraining the railroads
or other great corporations from
robbing the people, the aid of
the Supreme Court is invoked
by the corporations and the laws
are at once declared unconstitu
tional and the fines remitted. But
should a combination of labor at
tempt to advise its followers through
the press as to the purchase of any
particular article, the leaders
sentenced to prison. The following
from the Idaho Statesman shows
that at least one republican paper
has awakened to the fact that
"there's something rotten in Den
mark."
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" There is hut one feeling expresed
generally in regard to the verdict
in the Neal case—disgust.
"The people cannot be blamed
for losing respect for the courts
it. is plain to all that their effective
ness
as
runs only to the man poor in
influence and in
money.
"The remedy is in the hands of
the men who brought about the
present conditions—the bench and
the bar.
"Whatever the trouble, it is not
local. Conditions existing
here
prevail in nearly every state in the
Union.
"It is needless to analyze this
verdict.
The state presented its
case carefully and
There is no criticism with respect
to it.
completely.
'There was
practically no de
fense.
"The case had its usual period of
postponement, lasting over a year,
and then the usual acquittal.
"No one can blame Neal, his
counsel or his friends for taking the
fullest advantage of a distorted ju
dicial system.
The trouble must
be sought remotely from the indi
vidual and from any special prose
cution.
It lies in the system itself,
which deserves to be treated
con
temptuously by all true advocates
öf a higher citizenship."
Support Home Industries and
the Labor Unions.
The time has arrived i
all parts
of our country for the people to de
mand only such articles
as are pro
duced by Union Labor, giving pref
erence to your own locality,
article manufactured in
An
Owyhee
county by Union labor should take
preference over uny article of the
same nature that is brought in from
another locality,
factory here that employes several
tyorkmen and that turns out
\Y T e have
a cigar
an ex
cellent quality of cigars; and yet
how often do we see members of
labor unions who will
pay no
attention to the brand that they
use.
tide, and be true to the principle
that you pretend to represent. If
labor organizations are to be
petuated and the working class
reduced to the conditions of serfs
and slaves, the members of the
Demand a Union-made
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ganiztilons must be true to them- I
selves. Your merchant will keen I
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the articles that his trade demands
and if the masses of the people will
only buy what is made by Union
per
not
or
labor, the up-to-date merchant will
have it for sale.
The action taken by the Union
"Hatters" in establishing co-opera
tive hat factories should be encour
aged by all lovers of right and jus
tice. It is now up to the American
people to demand Union-made hats
and to take no other, thus
aging this industry. When a com
bination of capital and manufac
turers is established to down Union
Labor and the courts sustain them,
as has been done recently, thus de
claring that a boycott against labor
unions by capitalists is right and
proper, but an attempt of boycott
against capitalists and manufact
urers by Labor Unions is a crime
to be punished by fine and impris
onment, it is time for the masses of
the people to unite and give their
support to the Unions J»y using
only Union-made goods. Success
to the endeavor of the co-operative
efforts of Labor Unions! It is
much better to follow the example
of the "Hatters" in New Jersey in
establishing factories of their
even if on a small scale, than to
injure the property of the opposi
tion.
encour
own,
Notice of Hearing of Petition for
Formation of Irrigation District.
Notice is hereby given that the peti
tion of P. E. Tracy, and others, for the
organization of an irrigation distiict, to
include lands lying within Owyhee
County, Idaho, has been set and will be
heard by the Board of County Commis
sioners at silver ( ity, Idaho, on the 16th
day of March, \909, at 10 o'clock A. M.
The lauds affected by the proposed
irrigation district lie within the follow
ing sections, to-wit.
In Secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 aud 11,
in Township 2 North, of Range 4 West,
of Boise Meridian.
In Secs. 1, 2,3, 10 and 11, in Township
2 North, of Range 5 West, of Boise M
idian.
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In Secs. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27,28,29, 30,
31,32, 33 and 34, in Township 3 North
of Range 4 West, of Boise Meridian.
In Secs 3, 4, 5, 7,8, 9, 10,13,14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,25, 26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35 aud 36. iu Towuship
3 North, of Range 5 West, of Boise
Meridian.
In Secs 12, 13, 14, 23. 24 and 25, in
1 ownship 3 North, of Range 6 West, of
Boise Meridian.
hi Secs. 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33, in
Township 4 North, of Range 5 West, of
Boise Meridian.
In Secs. 14, 23, 24, 25 and 36. in Town
ship 4 North, of Range 6 West, of Boise
Merid.au.
By Order of the Board of County
of Owyhee county,
Commissioners
Idaho.
[seal]
C. H. Grete, Chairmau.
J. S. St Clair, Clerk
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Notice of Application for
Toll Ferry.
Notice is hereby given that I will apply for a
franchise for building and operating a toll ferry
across the Snake river, at a point one half mile
west of the east line of Township six (6) South,
Range seven (7) east B. M .same being between
Elmore County un the north side, and Owyhee
County on the south side of said river, being
near Indian Point. That said application will
he filed with the County Commissioners of El
more County on the 12th day of April 1909 at
their regular meeting to bo held on that date at
Mountain Home in said County, to be acted
by them as their convenience
persous desiring to contest or oppose the grant
ing of said permit are hereby notified to appear
before said County Commissioners on said
date and present their
application should not be granted.
on
may permit. All
reasons why said
S. W. ILoberts. Applicant.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate of W. C. Schenck, deceased ;
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned ad
ministrator of the estate of W- C. Schenck.
deceased, to the creditors of, and all parties hay!
ing claims against the said deceased, to exhibit
them with the necessary vouchers within four
months after the first publication of this notice
to the l ' a,rt a(lmin istrator at Bruneau, Idaho, in
the County of Owyhee,
J. F. Black, Administrator of the estate of
W. C. Schenck, Deceased.
First publication, March5th, 1909.
Last publication, March 26th, 1909
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