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VOLUME Z, NUMBER 28.
Missouri's Outlaw Court.
For the first time In twenty years
an open session ot the local court has
been held In- Sl Clair county, Missouri,
The whole county is in contempt of
the federal court, and for a score of
years the county judges have been
dodging deputy marshals and holding
"moonshine" Eessions in the I rush
with pickets out to give warning of
danger. The county was buncoed b
iake railroad promoters years ago and
issued 11,000,000 in bonds to aid the
scheme. No, railroad was built, and
the county repudiated the bonds. A
federal judge ordered the county
judges to levy a tax to pay the bonds,
the county judges have refused to obey
the order and the people back up the
Judges in their contempt of court
Citizens of Missouri yearning for a
life of adventure and excitement for
merly went to the southwest and
joined the Texas Rangers, became
cowboys in Colorado, dealt faro In
Beadwood, prospered in Alaska, "rus
tied" horses in Montana, hunted
Apaches on the Gila, held up stages in
California, served time in the New
Mexico legislature, or did something
of that sort In recent years, however,
it has not' been necessary for Ihem to
go far from home to live the strenu
ous life. An election to the St Clair
county court Insured gratification of
any reasonable desire for excitement
end ample opportunity for exercise of
skill in woodcraft
Sometimes the deputy marshals
struck a fresh trail of the outlaw court
and ran a judge to earth with dogs,
and when they dug him out they put
him in jail for the balance of his term,
and he became a hero in the estimation
cf St Clair county. All the old
judges have been caught or their
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"BUT THIS MOTHER DOES NOT SHOOT."
Special to The Recobd-Herald. St. Joseph, Mich. The brave act of a mother saved the life of her
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the swindled county and hope that the
fugitive jurists may serve out their
terms in freedom and hold "moon
shine" court in the wilderness unmo
lested for another score of years.
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