Show o Tombstones Remedy The quiet laboring classes of the young town of Tombstone in Arizona Ari-zona are bitterly comipaining that it has become < i resort of thieves robbers and cutthroats Peaceable citizens are cowed and at the mercy of these scoundrels The Courts are too slow and uncertain in the administration of justice and the peace officers are ineffective About eighteen or nineteen years ago mining min-ing discoveries drew a large number of people from this State and elsewhere else-where to the town of Aurora now in the Bodie district east of the Sierra Nevada Thieves gamblers robbers murderers were the van of that remarkable migration They early took possession of the town and held It with a high hand for a year or two though they constituted but a small fragment of the aggregated aggre-gated population of the district They lode roughshod over saloonkeepers saloon-keepers merchant miners and hotelkeepers If they wanted a thing they took it at the mouth of the revolver md the loser was glad to gel off with his life If any single sin-gle citizen protested by word or look he became a marked man and wa killed When the murderer was arrested ar-rested his confederates swore him clear When the p ace officers were too faithful to duty they too were spotter and killed One day there happened a murder of uncommon atrocity and a few good citizens got together for the organization of a Vigilance Committee Before the next sun rose the Vigilance Committee Com-mittee had about all the good names in town enrolled and by night it was armored for active work Near day four or five of the most notorious notori-ous of the robber and cutthroat class were arrested tried eonv cted and withintwentyfour hours from that time with every circumtance of solemnity they were all m tinted on a scaffold with ropes about their necks and hanged After that Aurora Au-rora was as orderly and safe a place for good citizens as Boston The remaining thieves and cutthroats took to the desert and have not since been heard of in that part of the country This is recent history We commend it to the orderly people peo-ple of Tombstone and other border towns where Justice in her court rol es has fallen asleep and the peace officers are cowed bv miscre tilts San FlQ7lciscOChrfJn |