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ver City, that the justice of peace at Central City was carrying the law out with excessive stringency. As told the Enterprise : “A soldier was fined for some trivial offense, whereat a colored woman remarked on the street “that it would injure the town.’ The justice ordered her arrest for contempt and fined her $5. She went to her house and closed the door, when the justice ordered the door broken in and the woman re-arrested. Mr. Bruesch, who is in the butcher business, noticing that the woman was in a delicate condition, gave her $5 to pay her fine, and remarked that her treatment had been too harsh and severe, whereupon an order for his arrest was issued. Coming into the room where court was to be held with his hat on, he was fined for another contempt, fines and costs amounting to $17. Mr. Bruesch offer- ed to give bonds and appear which was refused and he was given the option of paying or going to jail. He accordingly paid the $17 for which he holds a receipt.” From the May 30, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise Indians Out Ben Crawford Killed In Graham County