| Show HIGH nigh highhanded HANDED procla proceedings EDINGS IN IDAHO A COUNTY STOLEN FROM tue TUB PEOPLE BY ily A TRIO OB OF republican FEDERAL OFFICE HOLDERS editor deseret neus on may the about a dozen persons er lake bake drove into paris bear lake county armed with lesi lesl papers to oust all the county officers who were elected by the people and filled their places by a new set chosen by a ring and commissioned ly by the acting governor to take the offices WITHOUT ANY axy PROCESS OF LAW buta but a plot seems to have been entered into by dubois U S Il marshal arshal acting governor curtis curtla and judge morgan to steal tile the county dubois got up the excuse curtis in his ills gubernatorial capacity committed the act and judge morgan not only sanctions but sustains them in their diabolical attempt to rob the people of their rights ats and the duly elected and qualified of tigers of their of flees given them by the people with the unprecedented majority of votes out or ot a total of votes cast and now according to the efforts of these unscrupulous and unprincipled vagabonds the minority of seven must rule tiie the majority OV OF FOUR HUNDRED the facts are about as follows on may lith dubois visited paris in company with four or live others arriving about 11 a in and left the same day ial lal at 2 p in durin during this brief visit of three hours duration lie he claims he could not find tind the recorder although the deputy recorder was in the office nearly all day and was in the company lof lot dubois several times Us on his return to boise he reported to acting governor curtis that lie he could not find und the recorder and that J U wa watt wast a fugitive from roin I 1 ustice justice and on that report curtis cunis issued issued his bis famous proclamation DECLARING VACANT all the county offices and at once proceeded to commission a new set of county commissioners and a full list ol 01 other officers to fill all the offices in the county such proceedings as these are unprecedented in the annals of history and it almost seems a dream aud and not a stern reality that such things as these can be perpetrated on ican lean soil and near the close of the nineteenth century but the facts stare us in the face these things do exist tyrants rule ant and I 1 the people mourn base and unprincipled scoundrels have co conspired together to ROB HOB THE PEOPLE and deprive them of every right 5 guaranteed ua r by the constitution of of our country con these mon men have been appointed and sent here by the government to administer the laws but how oli oh how have they performed their sacred trust they nave perverted thel laws they were sent here to administer they have despoiled the people they were sent to protect they have leagued themselves with murderers thieves gamblers and the basest of men to accomplish their designs they have wrested from the hands of the people all loal self government and placed it in the hands of unscrupulous and men men without reputation means or anything that constitutes a good citizen men who have no interests in common with the people and consequently nothing at stake the only excuse these corr corrupt apt officials have to offer for their unwarranted and unlawful proceedings is the unpopular cry of 6 11 they have done much to erect this tills barricade and now they seek to hide their ignominious heads behind it but tiie tile the axe is laid at atlee the root of the tree already one lot vot kot te officious and unscrupulous ulous partisan has fallen before the cleveland hatchet and it is to be hoped that others will soon follow for surely no better reasons can exist anywhere for removal than here in idaho where they have used the live livery r of 1 uncle sam I 1 to further their individual individual and republican party inter esisto ests to coerce and bring into bondage one third of the ahe people of idaho through unjust cr cruel ueland and unconstitutional legislative enactments and judicial rulings eviden evidently evl evi dently tl and nd pu purposely basely to give the territory into yle yie hands of a few unprincipled adventurers backed by the republican party rustic paris parts idaho may 1885 herewith is an annexed axed the autocratic proclamation ot of acting governor curtis in behalf of the idaer republican conspiracy EXECUTIVE OFFICE 1 IDAHO TERRITORY BOISE boisr crry orry CITY J may IW 1885 J whereas it is duly certified cert nned fled to this department that samuel matthews john jolin A hunt and william piggott pley piry rott lott residents of bear lake county idaho territory who were elected at the gen erol election held in this territory in november A D 1884 county commissioners for said county of bear lake and whereas it Is further shown by sworn and attested proofs of citizens of bear lake and binham nin bin ham counties that each and every we one of the said sam commissioners so elected as aforesaid have refused and still do refuse to qualify as such commissioners by taking the oe oath of office aa as provided and prea pre scribed ascribed by the law of the thirteenth session ol 01 the legislative assembly of idaho territory approved februarys 3 isso and whereas itis it is further farther in proof roof duly cert tied under oath to this department department that one J U elected at the before mentioned cn 1 cral election county recorder of said bear bean lake county 1 is 1 now dow and has been for some time a 7 fugitive 9 stive from justice of the third judicial district idaho territory ri tory and that the said JU JU stuck as such county recorder is now low absent from the county of bear lake and concealing himself to evade the process of the court for his arrest and that by reason of such nuch absence and concealment a record of the failure and refusal of the said sumuel matthews john A hunt and william pi ph gott pott to take file and deposit their oa oath of oillie as required by law cannot be procured from maid said recorders office wherefore by virtue of thi til vms and authority in me veste vested didd dind ind and the duty imposed upon ine lne me by thesta tates of idaho to see the laws executed I 1 do now declare the ridie ridle offices of samuel matthews ioki joti A hunt and arid william piggott to baytma for the reason abor aforesaid e said sald anda andalio do hereby appoint clarence lV liebster well Weli ebster ister elisha strong stron and matthew thompson citizens of ile ire the count county counts v of Be bear arlAk ul and terr territory atory of idaho to serve u i board of county a 11 and for the said county of bearl bear bebr la W in the territory of idaho for lor td al durine during the period prescribed beahl birdt having faith and confidence in the 11 and ability of the said ciari clarsa webster elisha strong and iata thompson to faithfully d k duties of said office I 1 in testimony whereof I 1 have sipa siai my hand and caused the seal of theia thela of idaho to be affixed thera this day of may A D isk 1883 t E J S C curtla curtis UR I 1 SEAL acting governor |
