Show A Presidential Pardon WASHINGTON May HIn the case of John Smith convicted in the United States district court for the southern district of California of a violation of section 2139 of the revised statutes of the United States in selling whisky to Indians and sentenced in July 1S3S to two years imprisonment in the county jail and 1300 fine the President Presi-dent has granted a pardon on the ground that the prisoner has now served eight months of his senteneis afeeble old man very poor and unable to pay his fine |