The pages of the local newspaper often carried news of some lawbreaker causing a ruckus around town and getting arrested. It seems as though the city always employed a policeman, and we know a jail was available to accommodate them if necessary. The city hadn’t been tamed yet from its days as a frontier town.
March 6, 1913 - Winfield Scott was arrested Sunday afternoon by Marshal Dworschak on a complaint sworn by the village president. The charges preferred against him were disorderly conduct, carrying concealed weapons, and the discharging of firearms within the village. The whole fracas rose out of the tapping of a keg of beer in the bunk house near the stock yards Sunday morning, and by afternoon Scotty became hilarious (i.e. drunk) and started in to shoot up the town. He put twelve bullet holes through the pool room doors which caused his arrest. Monday afternoon States Attorney Meade came up from Lisbon and he was arraigned before Justice R. E. Kratt and pleaded guilty to all three charges, and was fined $20 and costs, amounting in all to $35.65. Ben Warner, who was also implicated in the affair, was also arrested on complaint of the village president for violating village ordinance No. 9, that of collecting people for the purpose of drinking intoxicating liquors. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, but the evidence furnished, proved his guilt, and he was fined $10 and costs amounting to $20.10.
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