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Show "FLOATING" UNDESIRABLES IN NEVADA. Throughout Nevada justices of the peace have adopted an unwritten rule "by which, convicted tuidesirables are allowed to leave the jurisdiction of tho courts before Judgment is pronounced. pro-nounced. A Cltlzen-of Carlln, Nevada, writing to the Elko Free Press, criticizes this looso method, declaring that Nevada Is inflicting criminals on the people of other states and failing to do its full part in commanding respect for law and order. Utah justices have been following Ihe same practice One community passeB tho offendor to tho next town or hamlet, and nono accept responsibility responsi-bility and the result Is an endless criminal migration. The government of the United Slates should do something to correct cor-rect this abuse. There should be a federal farm at Ogdon to which tho drifting hordes of undesirables could bo sent, there to labor and, by tho sweat of tholr brows, earn a livelihood and sorvo some useful purpose. They could be paroled on accumulating money enough to be taken out of the vagrant class. Repeated relapses from a self-sustaining condition should call for more exacting demands de-mands on the part of the government farm officials. |