Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Manitoba free. Press Wiki puff. Saturday. Att gust 15, 1925 the Rise fall of Jesse James celebrated amnesty Bill was fruit of bombing of James Home Public sympathy for a time on Side of Jameses by Robertus love a member of the St. Louis Post dispatch editorial staff. A chapter fifteen bout six weeks the episode As j a direct consequence of crime if Public rec ton which to created the celebrated outlaw 1 amnesty Bill was introduced in the Missouri legislature. Tic Hon. Of j from son Jones known t ii miliary As . Jutt Jones wan the author of j that remark Tahk of propose legislation. General Jones represented the i Anite Furni Mefi l democracy j at Calloway county in the lower of use. Virtually throughout Missouri there a Felim that the Bor Der Bandit activities were in Large measure a continuation or outgrowth of the civil War. Intelligent citizens of open minds did not look upon the outlaw deeds of these men As upon crimes committed under Ordinary circumstances. The interpretation of their activities was based upon a Rompe Tont knowledge of conditions on Uio Border which had upset nor Mal human relations. A group of who were not bad men inherently had become bandits under environment the same men might have developed into respect Ahlo preachers or respected plutocrats. Many Musso urlus believing that robbers would make Good age steady growth sound policies Are synonymous terms when applied to the Bank of Nova Scotia. For Over 92 years this Bank has been serving the can Adian Public its present standing showing capital of Reserve fund of total assets of bears witness to the soundness of its policies. The experience of 92 years is at your service at any Branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia established 1832 Faid up capital s 10.000.000 a nerve f. L. Graham manager Winnipeg. Branches at Elmwood St. James Only 4 More trips this season on . Or car Wiwi k to historic Norway House by the s. S. Keen or a Captain Vance Don t miss the Opportunity of this delightful voyage along the shores across the wide Waters of Lake Winnipeg. This is the finest time of the Yeii to visit Manitoba s Lovely Northland to refresh fit yourself for the Busy work of fall. The keen Ora leaves Selkirk mondays at 6 . For Warren s Landing. Connecting with River boat for Norway House calling at Gull Harbor Bull head Beren s River grand rapids intermediate Points returning to Selkirk the toil owns More Long. Sailings August. 17. 24, 31 september 7 labor Day return fare including berth meals tax s. S. Wolverine tune funnel notice leaves Selkirk every monday at 3 . Tor a Maarten s Landing connecting with River boat for Norway House Cah ii at i at Polnau to Selkirk i Inong. Including berth meals week end trip . Wolverine leaves Selkirk every Friday at 1 . Tor big George s Island Cah by at intermediate returning to Selkirk. Monday return fare including berth meals tax Iouli your reservations Early. Write f r colder in formation the Northern fish co., Ltd , Man. The w. J. Guest fish co., , Man. Phone a6888. You la get a super Fine Canadian Rye of finest at a Price you can afford. Bottled in Bond under Federal government supervision Mil with society if they had a Chance to turn about get a new Start along the right Road were ready to forgive it not to forget past transgressions. This attitude crystallized in the measure fathered by Jeff Jones of Galloway in Holcli in part was As Fol lows the amnesty Bill whereas by the fourth Section of the eleventh article of the Tion of Missouri All persons in the military service of the United. States or who acted under the authority thereof in this state Are relieved from nil civil liability All criminal punishment for All acts done by them since the 1st Day of january . 1s61 whereas under the out awry pronounced against Jesse w. James b rank James Coleman younger younger others who gallantly per led their lives their All in defence of their principles they Are necessity made desperate driven As they Are from the Fields of honest Industry from their friends their families their Homes their country they can know no. Law but the Law of self preservation can have no respect for feel no Al Icaria no to a which forces them to the very acts it pro fesses to deprecate then offers a Bounty for theirl apprehension arms foreign mercenaries with Power to. Capture kill them whereas believing these men too Brave to to mean too generous to be revengeful too Gnu Lent to betray a break a Promise be Lieving further that most if not All of the offences with which they Are charged have been committed by others. Therefore be it re solved by twin House of representatives the Senate concurring therein that the governor of the state be he is hereby requested to Issue his proclamation notifying the said erase w. James. Frank James Cole Man younger Robert younger Lames younger others that full Complete amnesty Pardon will be granted them for All acts charged to or committed by them during i he late civil War inviting them peace Billy to return to their respective Homes in this stats there quietly to remain submit Ting themselves to such proceedings As May he instituted against them by the courts for All offences charged to have Boon committed since said War promising guaranteeing to them fire of Thorn full Protection a fair trial Bill Defeated when the measure came up for its third rending general Jones delivered an impassioned Appeal to his fellow statesmen to vote for its Pas . On the Republican Side of the House there appeared to be no great opposition. But for the action of a democratic member who tossed a party Bombshell into the Arena the probability seems to be that it Wourl have been adopted by the House . Sent to the Senate. This member arose Road a message from gov s Las Woodson promulgated a couple of years earlier in which that executive made special denunciation of the identical outlaws named in the Jeff Jones Resolution. The tide against the amnesty Bill it was overwhelmed when put to a vote. Had the measure been enacted there is no reason whatsoever for believing that any of the men named therein would have accepted its terms. To surrender stand trial for acts committed or alleged to have been committed by them since the War would have meant hanging or life imprisonment. No body was More keenly aware of this fact than were the outlaw s themselves. Jeff tones had accomplished for James his associates nothing that tended definitely to. Ward rehabilitation but the him. Jeff had handled the adding Pinkerton with neither Glores nor tobacco Sticks. He had assailed the bomb throwers As murderers of women children lie had pointed out the indubitable fact that not even Quan trill the under whose Tutelage the outlaws had taken first lessons in violence Ever under any c ire urns Tan Ces had made War upon women or children. Defeat of amnesty Bill was followed after a quiet interval of bout a month by another tragedy in Clay c county. This was the assassination of Lei Askew in whose employ the Pinkerton operative known As Jack had worked As a farmhand the general Public suspected the Jameses of having tilled or instigated the killing of Farmer Askeiw As a matter of vengeance the tide turned against them. A Kew shot on the evening of april 12, at about s o clock. Askew emerged from his House to the Spring 150 Yards away to fetch a bucket of water. It was night. Askew returned to the Houfe set the Bucke t upon a. Shelf in the porch dipped out a cup of water. As he was lifting the cup his lips the crack of rifles was heard. The Farmer received three wounds one Bullet penetrating the brain. Frank James said Long afterwards if i had known or. Even strongly believed that it was Askew who led the party to Rny mothers i would have killed him first but i never believed he could be such a fool i ascribed the guilt to Jack Jadd his hired. kalends of the. Jameses insisted that Frank Jesse were out of the state at the time of the Askew Assassin to a. Who Icli led l an Askew Well who struck. Billy both of these j mysteries May be shelved in the absence of definite evidence. In the Case of Askew the Reader is invited to formulate his own opinion. Exactly a month after the of Askew there was a stage cacti robbery in Texas which bore strik ing resemblance a James younger affair. The Fine old Span ish american City of san Antonio then had no railway connection with the world. The stage line from Austin the state capital was Hie Pron Cion Avenue of Access exit. On the evening of May 12 fifi masked men loomed out of tins deepening dusk stopped stage bound Tor san Antone at Point about 23 Miles Southwest of eleven passengers three of whom were aboard. The big coach was drawn by Fout horses. Stage coach robbery two of the hold up men took position on one Side of the. Coach two on the other the fifth at the i horses Heads. The Driver his passengers alighted under cover of six shooters were lined up be Side the coat i. Two of the robbers passed along in front of the line one holding open the Mouth of a wheat sack. The other dropped purses watch fees other personal articles of value into the capacious maw As each victim contributed. This receptacle seemed grotesquely Large for the limited personal loot but when the Freebo Oters opened two or three True. Its belonging to Pas sengers extracted other valuables from contents also Cut open the mall bag added a bundle of registered letters to the sir owns plunder the sack turn Ted out to to no a larger than its uses required. The bandits were polite presence of the ladies apparently keeping their . They were also it appears Fiora the More or loss hazy record facetious Fellows. For an hour or so they kept the travellers stationary but two or three of them tried to entertain their victims by cracking jokes ilk Banff streets Man hating cinnamon pays respects to sir James Long heed begs food Elk let children tug at ant severe Winter indicated special in Pilch in Hie free aug. Early severe Winter is forecast this year by the unusual actions of the wild Anin Rols in. The Rocky mountains. The most unt Amable Man fearing beasts have already come Down from the Heights of their summer abode have become so they Are being fed from the human hand in the Back Yards of Banff Homes. Bear Elk an Elope Are literally walking the streets of Banff in Broad Daylight with no show of fear in their Demeanour. Not until this week has there Ever been any record Here of the ferocious cinnamon Bear fraternizing with human beings. But. Since last monday a Large yellow specimen of this Man hating Bear has been Palling Dally at the Back door of sir James Lougheed s Home begging for standing 7, it. Tall on his Hind feet. Strangely enough this giant cinnamon will not touch food that is thrown on the ground to him. Let cares them several Lars e Bull Elk loiter for hours every Day around the Cana Dian Pacific railway station Licking human hands while children tug at. Their Antlers. Such familiarity tolerance have never before been observed in the Elk. In Ordinary years none of these animals Are seen Down out of the higher altitudes of the mountains from Early Spring until late fall none of the rare cinnamon Bear which ranks with the grizzly Cious Ness been seen in the town of Banff Winter or summer. This coupled with the fact that Summit gophers ground squirrels Are already hectic ally burying away their Winter rations of Pine burrs presages a hard Early Winter according to trappers pack ers mountaineers of opening up conversations of a decidedly one sided jollity. The outlaws got from this robbery including personal property Money Tut. Cash taken from leg is Nied mail. U. Total of approximately the highwaymen also Cut Loose the need team of horses took the animals along when they mounted their own steeds a honed the stage was Many to irs late Ulici it pulled into san Antonio about 18 hours after the hold up the two hoi sea that did Dou help duty were Well nigh Woi n out. It was nol until the stage reached the City that Nous of the robbery Coull be sent out. Pill suit was futile. Whal Jim Reed said in mat Section of Texas at the time was Reed of evil re was suspected of complicity in the stage coach affair was trailed by detectives. There was shooting from both sides. Reed. Re Civ Long a. Feta wound. An alleged confession was Public after i death Jesse a Jnes Cole Jiru younger Miller pants with himself in the stage robbery Driver passengers re ported Only men in the part 01 highwaymen. If Jim Reed was of the Sang one Man must have made himself invisible. According to his alleged heed also took part in the robbery of the Iron Mountain train at. Gads Hlll Missouri nearly a your earlier in those times it was the common fashion to accuse the Missouri out Laws of being guilty of almost every act of out awry that took place any where the area a dozen states. L i of the Jameses declined hotly the Jim Reed confession was naked by the detectives. Jesse Jamus they averted was in Kansas City when the san Antonio stage was who knows now continued Dally meetings of Genera Synod will be held in september autumn meetings of the various committees of the general Synod of the anglican Church in Canada commence sept. 4 continue to sept. 22. They includes meetings of the so Sial service the general Board of religious education the Board of management the ecclesiastical Council the general Synod the House of Bishops of the general Synod. Representatives will be present from All parts of Canada. Brace up. To s a Rocky Road i treading of improvement there s no sign you often feel like shedding quantities of scalding brine. You Are torn by Thorn Bramble your shoes Are cull of stones you cannot sing or gambol for the aching of your Bones. You Are Stone bruised you Are Gravelled you be lost your grip on Hope but a million men. Have travel led up he Long weary slope. Yea a million men have started up the highroad to Success the weak timid hearted slumped beneath the first distress. They invoked the name Peter sat Down to sigh weep while they watched Tho ones Teeter up the Long craggy Steep. Note the great Rich attorney who wears diamonds in Hub Beard Long bitter ants his journey threatening the Way appeared. And the tall stately banker struggled to his High estate since privations rank ranker drove him from his parents Fate. Not to great Ness did the poet lightly serenely stroll he has the soars to show it on his body his soul. Nearly All the great ones spending Golden years on height of Fame travelled up the path you re wending heavy Laden tired lame. But they had their Faith to sweeten every hour of stress Dole knowing not when they were beaten they kept on reached the Soal. George Matthew Adama. Let Walt skeezix help you to every Motorist a message from gasoline Alley put a Walt skeezix Stop sign on your motor car. 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