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Show THE CASE OF CHIEF SHEETS. , : The sounding of trumpets, the coaching of the canny Scotch lads ; the trial by the News, Herald and Smoot organ ; the trial and conviction by those papers before the case was called ; the assumption that the word of a man who had tried to beat a y , bunko game must be accepted as gospel; the butting 1 ' iii of the Governor with his reward to pay Sheriff Emery's junketing expenses; the mixing in of one or two young women, and one Chinese gambler; the taking of the "investigation away from the Council and carrying it into court ; the holding of the ostensible osten-sible victims in jail for a week pr two until it was believed that 'they had learned! their lesson ; the ; connnbiating between the Sheriff and the County 'Attorney; then three or four days' trial which offered of-fered every opportunity to prove something sinister against the Chief, and finally the utter failure to make even a prima facie case against the Chief, altogether al-together makes a showing as impotent as was ever seen. . The only result is to make clear how willing three great newspapers, a whole staff of county of-1 ficials and the Governor of the State all were to j hound a faithful official into jail if possible to grat- j ify their personal 6pites, and if y possible to cast suspicion sus-picion and heap shame upon a political party. The rebound of the botomerang has come and the whole band of conspirators are doubled up under V .the solar plextis blow that caught them. Y And in their dismay and confusion Chief Sheets stands vindicated' and smiles as he sees the reptiles ' . cowering back into their holes. - |