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Show MAKE IT rELOIT. The suggestion in Saocay morBing'B Daily He&aid, for-a law parsed by the next legislature, making swindling transactionfl in "wild cat" mines a felony, fel-ony, meet with warm approval from honest miners and honest mining bro-1 kers. The former desire themselves and their property to be promoted; ! the latter their reputations and their ' business. It is nearly eight months . yet until the legislature meets, bat we j propose keeping this matter before the members elect and the public until that time. Make robbery of this kind as disgraceful as highway rob- hrv nr rtrtfVpt.rrrnrr nn a large scale, and men who have reputations at stake will be careful how they touch it; while etrangers will be cautious about having dealings with any but those of establiihed.repu- j tations. It is a curious condition cf society in which a man may, by swindling, swind-ling, rob the country, the depositors in a bank, the stockholders of a rai'rosd, or the members of an inccrp:raicn, and be considered only a "defaulter" or some other elegant title to gi'd crime; while the man who stops a stage coach and robs Wells, Fargo A; Co's treasure box, ia a villain of the deepest dye, fit only to be lynched. It would be better if thief were called a thief, no matter how he accomplished his robbery; rob-bery; and were punished as promptly and severely for "salting ' and selling a limestone ledge for a silver mine, as if he had chloroformed his victims and abstracted the money from their Docket-books. Io the "Sevier silver mining district" dis-trict" fraud we were informed, yesterday, yes-terday, that the guilty parties had autil five o'clo-jk in the evening to make restitution, or affidavits would be lodged and warrants sued out against themt As we did not learn of any arrests ar-rests last night, the supposition is that they settled np. But, however such an offence may be legally viewed today, to-day, there is no question that for public pub-lic protection it should be declared by law a felony. |