THE LAND JUMPING QUESTION municipal election being over the interest of the local public is being centered upon the land jumping scheme which has developed within the last ifer days that it now has the appearance of a land stealing conspiracy spi racey is placed beyond doubt by the fact that a number of parties participated in it and have gone to work on the game of grab it is possible that there may be an ulterior object on the part of the land jumpers their adders abettors abet tors and sympathizers beyond the mere seizure and attempt to appropriate the property in question be that as it may what has the appearance of an attempted steal by what seems to be a nest of unscrupulous adventurers is the subject the public nave have to do with at this juncture the has already endeavored to show that the conspirators have not the shadow of a right to the property they seized by forcible detainer legal or otherwise it has been intimated from frem certain quarters in consequence that this jiyu murual rual has been trying crying this dispute forced dupon upon the people by a lot of unscrupulous schemers outside the courts itis it is presumable that by this it is meant that what on its face appears to be a gross piece of dishonesty in bilich the general public is s deeply interested toe the general safety being at stake a newspaper should shut it columns against comment upon such a palpable outrage until the matter drags its slow length along through tae judicial tribunals while others may show unbecoming apathy or tacit sym sympathy by preserving a significant silence upon so grave a subject that is not the position of this journal neither can it be reasonably the position of any honorable citizen who has the welfare of the community at heart we cannot concede any right in the premises in behalf of land jumpers who to our way of thinking are not a step in advance of train robbers by silence much less by holding out straws to be struck by the breeze of sympathy toward any such schemers emers we cannot consist antly assume such an attitude toward characters who commit what has the appearance of one of the most audacious autra outrages es of its class ever perpetrated pet rated in ii any locality land sharks are the bane of any community when they set afoot their highhanded high handed conspiracies spi aldno honorable journal or honest citizen will give them any aid or comfort whatever there are various ways of sustaining such vultures without coming right out aboveboard and telling them to go ahead and jand prosper proper er when it is done the fact is not gidden hidden from the view of any person of ordinary perception