Show TEAT NEVADA LYNCHING The San Francisco Chronicle says that the Nevada grand jury with jurisdiction jur-isdiction in the Uber lynching case has a chance to do the state a service by making it clear that the law does not wink at execution by private vengeance ven-geance This lynching was even more barbarous than such things usually are it continues The mob that took Uber out of jail dragged him naked over frozen earth and shamed the Pi utes by hanging him before he had a chance to say his prayers and then shooting out his eyes The whole affair I fair was unworthy of the lowest class of white men and would have been hardly predicable of the natives of Da homey or the Soudan Few decent men will care to emigrate to Nevada and undertake to rear a family there if the spirit of this savage mob is tolerated by the authorities and on that account ac-count to say nothing of moral ones the grand jury should do its utmost to bring the mob to justice Nevada could give no better proof of civilization civiliza-tion and respect to law and order than to run these murderers to earth as Mexico did the lynchers of Arroya and punish them to the limit of the code On the other hand if it turns aside from the duty it will not soon outlive its illname The Chronicles criticism 1s just and merited The lynching was not only unjustifiable but was cowardly and brutal in f the extreme So far as the lynching is concerned the question of Ubers guilt or innocence is not involved in-volved The state has laws for the pun ifahment of crime and they are generally gener-ally pretty well enforced they would have been in Ubers case If it is possible pos-sible to identify the lynchers the law should be rigidly enforced against them No lynching can occur in any state without doing great injury to its reputation repu-tation It will have this effect in the case of Nevada only in an exaggerated degree The state has a small population popula-tion and because of this fact it has i j been made the object of many vicious j 1 attacks by the eastern press The nature j na-ture of thase attacks is well known j they have been without warrant and j gave evidence of spleen and hatred j mere than anything else But here the i state has furnished a ground of attack I and when an attack is made on such a I I I ground there is no way to repel it Of course the lynching is condemned by the people of Nevada generally but it is upon them that the odium will fall The state could far bettor have afforded the expense of a dozen trials for murder than to incur the odium and disgrace of this lynching |