Show in JAU jail when elected E to the i from froia the legislature to jail is not an unheard of thing in the history of state governments lot but in going from froin jail to the legislature judge lane presiding ipg judge of the county court of cass county mo will have rather exceeded the record judge lane is an official resident of one of these missouri counties sweating under der the burden of a great railroad debt the duty of the judge was to have levied a tax to meet interest on these bonds but leaning in his sympathies toward the taxpayers he refused for this he was sentenced to jail by a united states judge while in jail the populace relieved of an impending financial stress by his action nominated him for representative on the democratic ticket he accepted hired a typewriter and conducted his bis campaign by mail in such a manner that he led his ticket by several hundred votes his term as judge expires jan 1 and he will step out of jail directly into the state assembly in this position he will probably pio bably be expected to retaliate against the railroad cori corporation which indirectly caused his incarceration chicago news rec bec ord |