M. and R. with an assault with deadly weapons. It seems that the M..s

have located on some land over which there is a dispute before the land
oftice. The R..s have been endeavoring to get control of this land, and
last evening repaired to M..’s house accompanied by two or three others,
and attempted to remove some fence posts, when a son of M..’s, aged
about sixteen, ordered them to stop. Upon this one of the R..s pulleda
pistol, and presented it to the head of the boy. His mother now appeared
and grabbed R.. by the whiskers to stop him from shooting, wher the
other brother drew his pistol and presented it to the woman’s head.”

* *
*

‘‘Rev. W.. jumped a land claim some time since, and started a man
to work plowing it up, but the neighbors congregated one night this week,
fenced the claim for the original claimant and placed the jumper’s plow
outside the fence.”

‘The jury found K.. guilty of murder in the first degree. Hanging
is too easy a death for a fellow who would kill a man for his homestead.”

[Yet when he is linked to the gang, the courts and Governors endorse his
conduct and stab the homesteader. |

“The W. 7. Press keeps the following notice printed in
big, black letters at the head of its local column: ‘Owing to
the presence of burglars in our midst, our citizens are warned
to have their firearms ready to give these midnight marauders
a warm reception when they come around.’ [But why not in-
clude other secret midnight thieves, the more refined and expert
robbers. ‘Whether they had emerged from the mire of indi-
gence, or crept from the bed of debauchery.’

‘You take my house when you take the prop that doth sustain my
house ; you take my life when you take the means whereby I live.’’]

“A Tramp Boom.”—[The refined and expert gentry had
been “ booming the country ” to renew their flock of immigrants
from the States, to fleece, and this is the kind of a go-by the
victims get when shorn. ] ”

‘Eastern Washington is having a tramp boom, and it requires, in
houses along the main roads, at least one person to attend to the calls of
tramps, and an extra baking of bread, etc., to furnish these vagabonds
‘something to eat.’ They should be remorselessly shut off, one and all,
and serve all alike, adding the presentation of a shot-gun to emphasize the
order to ‘ git,’ and give them five minutes to travel beyond your farm.”

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The editor of the foregoing belongs to a ‘‘ mystic” charitable (?) order, and
therein is the measure of his charity !]

* *
*

‘*The lime quarries there have mostly been covered by settlers under
the homestead, pre-emption and other land laws, and have been worked
for years. Recently several of the quarries have been jumped by those
who claim a right to acquire them under the mineral laws. Of course,
this has caused bitter feeling among the original holders, who have banded
themselves together for forcible resistance against any attempt to oust
them. They openly threaten to shoot the first man who attempts to take
possession of any quarry, and public sentiment will sustain them, should they
thus take the law into their own hands.”

[And so would the courts and Governors, if the Jumper
was an outsider. But even if the Jumper had no shadow of
any legal or just claim, and was shooting his way through, to
rob and ravage, and was thus killed by one outside of the gang,
and you, sir, discovered in the rank, festered remains a pagan
“mystic” brother, oh, how you would intrigue and transform
and howl the killing through the land and courts, with curses
loud and deep— “4 holy horror, cold-blooded murder, te: rible as
hell !’?)

* ra *

[When one of the gang commits an unprovoked, cold-blood-

ed murder, it comes out about like this, as per example :]

“©G. I..., Esq., came in on Tuesday’s train. The trial for the shoot-
ing of C... by Mr. I... resulted in his being acquitted by the Jury. We
understand that the Jury stood eleven for acquittal and one for conviction.

It appeared from the evidence that CO... was ‘‘a bad man from Bodie”
and had threatened to kill I... We are glad to see Mr. I... in onr city, a
free man in person, and his reputation cleared.” [He belonged to the
court Masonic gang. |

The Masonic Press came out ‘in a extra, stating that “the
verdict gives general satisfac! c. “This aroused the in-
dignation of the citizens, ant cnout delay . mass meeting
was held and the following resu.\\!ions \.assed :”

‘¢ Resolved, that in the opinion of this meeting, the shooting of our
late fellow-citizen OC... was unjustifiable.

Resolved, that the statement made in the [Masonic] press, that the
verdict rendered in the case versus I... and T..., ‘that the same gave

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general satisfaction’ to this community, is untrue in fact and a libel upon
the law-abiding citizens.

Resolved, that ihe indecent manifestations of those [midnight gentry],
who had been turned loose by a [packed] Jury, but not acquitted, in hold-
ing a saturnalia over their victim’s dead body, and crowning their crime in
unlimited champagne, merits the direst condemnation of all law-abiding
citizens,

Resolved, that we pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor,
to stand by each other in every honest endeavor to enforce the laws of our
country, and to this end we will retain our organization and perfect the
same from this day on until the criminal classes of this county are punish-
ed to the extent of the law.

On motion a committee of twenty-five, to be known as a ‘Committee
of Public Safety,’ was selected by the President, and notice of their ap-
pointment will be given them by the Secretary.”

[And then innocent outsiders are made dire “examples”
of, without recourse, “because the people clamor!” while
the real criminals of the gang, through mystic intrigue, are not
even indicted !

Any one who asserts that “we have a good judiciary,” is a
liar and a thief. |

“Tf anything further were needed to bring contempt upon
the judicial system, it is afforded in the recent acquittal after a
dastardly assassination.”

“A deliberate and cold-blooded murder, and a jury has
[been packed to] pronounce him not guilty. Better abolish the
system [of control by the gang], and let every maa defend

himself.”

“.... was acquitted, which shows that the court is a place

wherein injustice is done.”

* *

‘The only safeguard our citizens have against burglars is, to dig up
the old smooth-bore, load her with powder and shot, and lay for Mr.
burglar.”

[But when you recognize in the remains of Mr. burglar a
linked brother, you declare what a “horrible, frightful thing it is
to take human life!” Howl bloody murder! Endorse the rob-

436 Reau Lire In rye Norts-WEsT.

ber ; declare the courts to be a place of justice; and then com-
plete the robber’s job against “our citizen,”—picnicing in the
spoils and eucking his heart’s blood !]

* *
*

‘* We learn that one C...’s house was blown up with powder one day
last week. It seems that C... has jumped a widow woman’s farm, and
was ordered by some of the settlers to leave, which he refused to do.”

(To settle such a case in the courts would take many years,
(It is a familiar and sadly true expression with those having
ring influence at court: “If he follows me in the courts, it will
break him up.”) And the court gang would charge the widow
from one to $20,000, or more, as she was able and inclined to
“follow him up.” And then, if the Jumper belongs to the
gang, he would get the place, right or wrong.

So, why should not the courts be either reformed from the
mystic gang, or else abolished ?]

... The war of words brought forth a shooting iron in the hands of
Mr. T.. who fired at B.., meaning business; and had not Mr. S.. grasped
the barrel, the ball would, no doubt, have pierced B...’s heart. Here
ended the first chapter.” [And he was not even indicted. ]

‘‘ While leaning on the bar, with his back to the door, Mr. B.. enter-
ed with a pick-handle and immediately dealt 8... a terrific blow on the
back of the head. S.. staggered and turned towards him, remarking ‘“‘you
have killed me.” B.. immediately dealt him another blow on the fore-
head, when 8S... fell unconscious to the floor and was removed to another
room, When B... heard that 8S... was not dead, he tried to get into the
room to shoot him.”

[Nor was he (being a mason) even indicted.

Why should the secret ring brethren be allowed to hold
office in the Government “of the people, for the people,” and
thus make it a horrible farce and swindle ?]

‘*A week ago a watchman detected two men robbing the sluice box of
the m’ .e. He fired several shots at them. The other day the decomposed
body of a man was found near the mine. The hands and feet were eaten
off by some animal.”

[No sympathy is expressed or acted for the simple robber,
and nobody is arrested or condemned for the act. But I know

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a reputed (and I never heard the charge denied) sluice-box-
robber, who had more influence with the Governor for evil, than
any whole community of citizens had for good, he being a linked
brother. And should any of his plundered and tortured victims
shoot kim down for far greater and cruel crime than robbing
sluice-boxes, his Excellency (?) would call out the militia and
there would be big rewards, but what the murderer (?) would
suffer once again. And wouldn't the ring press howl, when not
engaged in “laying in wait for Mr. burglar.” ]

‘*A burglar entered the house of W... last night about 10 o’clock and
commenced to search the house, when W... came home and scared him
off. W... saw the burglar leap the fence; and, suspecting that something
was wrong, pulled out his revolver and fired four shots at the burglar’s re-
treating form. A careful search revealed that nothing had been taken.”

(To kill an outsider, even on suspicion of stealing, in the
dark, is held to be no crime ; but the more refined and expert
linked midnight conspirator and thief must be protected against
their victims by the State. Is this equal, just and fair ?]

“Mrs, G... called her husband’s attention to the fact, that a burglar
was around, and was requested to ‘listen.’ [As though he could not see
plenty of more dangerous ones in the day time.] But refusing to ‘do
anything of the sort,’ she arose, and the burglar, not wishing an interview
with her, took his leave. Itis to be hoped that this burglar may soon run
across some one who does not sleep like a log, and who keeps a loaded
shotgun by his bedside.”

[But why don’t you advocate the killing of shyster, court
and other more expert and fatal burglars, and give their victims
as much space for a hearing as you devote to the killing of
petty, humble thieves ?]

‘* Filled with shot.—A boy, named A..., and three vompanions were
discovered by Mr. 8... at four o’clock this afternoon in the act of stealing
chickens from his premises. Mr. 8. . fired on them with a shotgun, the
charge lodging in the right arm and back of A... All of the boys were
caught and placed in jail.”

[But the refined and expert confidence thief who should
steal the whole ranch, chickens and all, would be a “prosper-
ous business attorney,” with a mystic handle to his name; and
it would be murder (?) to kill him for his crime. |

438 Reau Lire In THE Norta-WEsT.

As to the shooting of a man by his employee, a ring editor
Says:
‘‘ While, as a rule, we do not justify the use of fire-arms in the settle-

ment of grievances, yet, the man who would not defend his wife’s honor, is
not the kind of a man we employ in any capacity.”

[Yet, they hang, or reduce to poverty, outsiders who do so
against your pagan brethren, and you call it murder !]

* *
*

‘‘He was awakened by the noise the thief made, and got up and went
after him with a shotgun. The thief was too quick, however, and made
his exit just as the boy entered the room. YoungG... then rushed out at
the door in hopes of getting a shot. The little fellow displayed a good deal
of pluck for one so young. The thief got nothing whatever.”

* * *

‘*A man, named R..., having some money on his person, was attack-
ed by four men. Ason of R...’s came to his father’s assistanve, and with
a pistol, shot and killed two of the men, and fatally wounded a third. ‘He
was a dutiful son.’ ”

[And all to save a few dollars! And then howl “wnat a

horrible thing it is, to take human life,” when the robbers are
your pagan brethren. |

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