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Show HIS LITTLE PUN. Parklmrst VVoiildRecoustrust Gof ham's Police Force. MISSISSIPPI CRIMINALS Cleverly Disarm Officers -Bloodhounds are Now on Their Trail The Bill for the Care of Forests for the Preservation of Timber and Conservation of Water. New York. Jan. 2 Dr. Parkhurst today advised the following plan for the reorganization of the police force. He said: "There is no division of public sentiment senti-ment as to the necessity of a reorganization reorgan-ization of the department. That necessity neces-sity is too manifest for argument. There are two methods of reorganization. reorganiza-tion. One is to deai with each member mem-ber of the present force, the others with each inculpated individual; but a process of prosecution a weeding out process which would probably reach its completion about the beginning of the twenty-first century, if each suspected suspec-ted member of the force was subjected to an investigation. The other method is legislation. And if the objection is raised that the legislation method is drastic and that there is no precedent for it, it niuet be remembered there is no precedent for the present condition of the police. "The thing to do, in my judgment, is to include in the bill of police organ, ization a clause to the effect that on or before a certain date, and that date not so many months ahead, say July 1, the term of service of the existing force should expire, and that a commission, say of five men, should be designated by the mayor to reconstruct the force, waose term should commence on the eveu date with that of the expiration of the present force. Every member of the existing force above the rank of serseant, should be ineligible for appointment ap-pointment on the reorganized force. In reconstructing the force preference should alwavB be given, with the ex-ception ex-ception above stated, to the members of the present force, other things being tquttl. Eat, in every insisnce, ihe candidate can-didate for appointment to the new force, sho'ild be dealt with individually and judged according io bis credentials and his record. The five members of the commission should go out of office forever on the day the present force expires and the new one begins its t x -istence, and the new force should be governed by a single commissioner." OFFICERS DISARMED. Macon, Miss., Jan. 2. Just before the arrival of the northbound train this morning, City Marshal Seott was wired that two suspicious characters, suspected sus-pected of being the parties who robbed the train on the'Alabama Southern two nights ago, near York station, were on tne train, and to arrest them at Macon. He aroused Sheriff Darrah, but the train reached here before they got to the station. They met two men on the plank wdk which leads to the station, but had no reason to think they were the ones wanted. Arriving at the. depot de-pot Deputy McCune told them that the two men they met were the ones wanted. Scott and McCune got in a Kack to head them off and Sheriff Darrah followed them back on tha walk. ' Scott and McCune halted the men, and what next occurred is still a mystery. mys-tery. One of the robbers seized Mar-bhal Mar-bhal McCune suddenly disarmed him, and holding him between himself and Scott ordered the latter to throw down his gun. Scott could not fire without hitting McCune, and obeyed orders. The second robber then picked up Scott's shotgun and halted Sheriff Darrah, who came up at that time. Scott and McCune being disarmed were powerless to do anything. With one robber pointing his gun, and the other with his pistol in his face, they searched Darrah, but so hastily that they f ailed to find his pistol. The three officers were then told to move on and be blamed quick about it. The robbers leisurely walked back toward the railroad rail-road and were not heard from afterwards, after-wards, having crossed the bridge. Bloodhounds were wired for. They l ave struck the trail and are making a good run. Thirty mounted men have started out, and it is expected that they will be capturtd. One of the robbers is thought to b a citizen of this county, who has just finished a term in the Alabama penitentiary for horse stealing steal-ing in Pickens county. THE FORESTBY BILL.' Washington, Jan. 2. Considerable interest has been ma ifested. in the west over the prospect of thepasdage of the bill for the protection of forest reservations res-ervations and it has become evident since the bill passed the house of representatives that it wiil encounter no inconsiderable opposition in the senate, was referred to the committee on public lands, but the reference was changed later and it then went to the committee on forest reservations, of which Senator Allen, of Nebraska, is chairman. The necessity of proper care of the forests for the preservation of the timber and the conservation of the water supply in all the arid mountain moun-tain states and territories is generally gen-erally admitted even by those who oppose the pending bill, but they contend that the selections of lands for such reservations as. have been made were made hastily and without adequate understanding of the conditions condi-tions provided. They assert that many of the reservations are far more extensive ex-tensive than they need be, and that they operite to prevent the settlement t.f large areas of country which might otherwise become productive.' It is asserted as-serted by them that timber only holds tb.6 snow in the mountainous regions and that msAyol t .especially .es-pecially in Colorado 'ZiUltZik, and Wyoming, extend to regions where the snow does not lie at alV. There is also objection to the principle of using the standing army aa a guard for the reservations. reser-vations. Probably the objection to placing the privilege of cutting timber within the discretion of the secretary of the interior, in-terior, which was m;idp in the house, will also be received in the senate. |