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Show The Sheets Case. The conspirators did their best but they were bunglers. When the devil sheared the hog ho was constrained to admit that the wool he obtained , did not in any measure justify the amount of the ; ffj squealing exhausted during the performance. The " J three newspapers that tried, convicted and sen- 'H tenced the accused in advance; the three news- papers that for purposes of their own took the ' words of a couple of would-be bunco beaters as , gospel triu' the sheriff and county attorney that kept the so-called victims in the seclusion of the jail until they believed they had been properly 'effl coached; the governor who gave the weight of his , llH high office to affirm the judgment that tho three ' ' newspapers had recorded against the chief and ' jjfjUl drew upon the contingent fund to supply Sheriff lH Emery with funds for a junketing trip, all failed. ! H With none to contradict them or make them ' , afraid, with full latitude to show up all that they . J fl knew and more, they failed to make out even a pri- 1 1 ma-facie case. The hurricane on Saturday night '& H was nothing to the bluster and roar of tho man- -f fl ifesto that was issued against the chief, but alas, 'ifl the Impotent result. Not a house blown down, not , i jH oven an outhouse unroofed, worse still-, not a dent was made In tho shield of Integrity of the Ameri- f fl can party which, under tho name of Sheets, they ll had sought so earnestly to indict. It Is is a pitable ending and as the conspirators j H nurse their sores they make a showing so abject, that the dogs even will not lick their wounds. And the chief goes about alert and self- jj iH possessed as ever and tae thugs that so enjoyed fH themselves here under the former chief admin- istratlon have hunted some other place in which .'PH to exercise their especial talents, and the city Is 'iS running on an oven keel. 'ifl |