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Show Threatened Lynching. On Monday evening Sheriff Mc-Phee, Mc-Phee, at Green river, received a telegram tele-gram from Hot Springs that the miners were threatening to take Hamilton, who shot Watson there on Saturday eveniug, out and hang him to a telegraph pole, and that they would not" give him up. He at once swore in every man' he could find as deputies, and taking a special train went after him. The miners afterwards after-wards concluded it be.-t lo let the law take its course and otlered no resistance. resist-ance. The prisoner was taken to i Green river and lodged in jail. Wat-Si'ii, Wat-Si'ii, who Wiis shot, was a young man 'of quiet inofl'eiiMve habits, and re-ispeet-'d by all who knew him. Wnen shot he was acting as a peace-maker, : attempting to settle a quanei between 1 1 1. uniiton and the man bo was quar-'reling quar-'reling with. We can hardly blame j tho miners lor being somewhat in-lee in-lee used over the all'tir, but however I hard they may fee! toward Hamilton, it is better to let the law take its course than to lake it in their wu hands. Watson ia unconscious this morning morn-ing and is not expected lo live over twenty-four hours. F.vanston Aye, j |