Show POLLUP tha rope boys was wbaj j W J Poster said to a band of fifty < lynchers on Monday at Alma Col one end of the rope being around his I neck and the other ovar the ridge polo of the jail Ho broke into a I stream of oaths long enough to utter I the above request which was answered by thepull that swung murderer into eternity The telegram giving I j particulars of the affair is unquestionably unquestion-ably right in referring to Porter as Ua hard character A man who could thus brave if not welcome death must certainly be hard in the sense that the term is employed The west has many ouch cbaiacters though thanks to the law the lynchers and tbe bolter influences of a higher civilization than was known in the Occident a few years ago their number num-ber is growing beautifully less |