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Show VIBLATIR OF LAI sniuiM JOB Deputy Sheriff Forbes, Gamb-liug-Ilouse Proprietor at Diiighain, Reappointed. NAME IS SENT IN BY SHERIFF JOS. G. SHARP lie Confesses His Guilt, hut Church Republicans Need His Services. In spite of tho .fact that John L. Porbcs, deputy sheriff at Bingham, in the Steve Muorovich murder case, admitted ad-mitted ho was 11 law-brcalccr, County Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp sent Forbes Ts name to tho county commissioners for reappointment, Monday, and that autocratic auto-cratic band of patriots reappointed I him, too. I Forbes, it will be readily recalled ! by everybody, on tho stand, as a witness wit-ness for the stale in tho Maorovieh murder case, admitted that he was the half-owner of a saloon and gambling joint at Bingham with an Austrian, Joe Mclieh. This admission was inado with reluctance on Forbes 's part, of course, but tho defense dragged the details de-tails of it out of him so fully that there was no doubt of his guilt. C. Frank Emory, then county sheriff, apparently did not hear of Forbes 's self-confessed guilt as a law-breaker, but when it was called to his attention, said that he would investigate the confession, con-fession, which he conveniently alluded to as "charges," and that if it was I rue imagino a law-breaker making a "confession" of wrong-doing of which ho was not guilty Forbes would be discharged. Forbes wasn't discharged, and ho is still a half-owner in tho saloon and gambling joint. Here is the way the sign over the particular saloon aud gambling den reads: "The Berkley Club. Forbes & Melich, proprietors." In fact, thero was no investigation by Sheriff Emery, or anybody else, for Forbes is too valuable "to the. Republican Re-publican party as a henchman at Bingham, Bing-ham, wielding his office as a club over tho ignorant foreigners, who aro nat- nralizcd, to club them into voting tho G. O. P. ticket. Neither will lliorc bo any investigation of the man's pitiablo self -confessed guilt, judging from his reappointment made and confirmed Monda'. |