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Show MOB LAW IN COLORADO. A dispatch from Boulder, Col., appeared ap-peared ia Wednesday's Herald, to the effect that twenty-four masked moil stopped and entered a train on the Colorado Contra! railroad near Ralston on Tuesday and kidnapped Judge8tone, taking him towards the mountains. It was supposed that this capture was eflected in order to prevent tho receiver recently appointed ap-pointed by Judge Stone to take possession pos-session of the Colorado Central rail-' rail-' way froni being qualified. It appears that the Union Pacific railroad recently applied to Judge Stone for an injunction injunc-tion and the appointment of a receiver re-ceiver upon a bill in equity to foreclose fore-close a mortgage made by the Colorado Col-orado Central railroad company to th Union Pacific railroad company iu trustees to pecu re the indebtedness oi the former company to tho amount of $1,212,000, and overdue interest thereon to the amount of 375, 0OC in gold coin. The defendant's answei admitted the existence of the debt, bat claimed that it was not binding upon the Colorado Central company, because a largo portion of it was fraudulently contracted and made by t he direction ot Oliver Ames, in conspiracy con-spiracy with other persons, and because be-cause the board of directors that authorized the issue of the bonds had no authority to issue them. Judge Stone on Saturday last delivered an elaborate opinion sustaining the application ap-plication of the plaintiffs and appointing ap-pointing D. H. Moffat, jr., oa receiver of the company. It will be recollected that about a year &o Judge Dyer, the probate judge ol Liike county,- Col., was murdered in cold blood while in the discharge of hia official duties, by a crowd of assassins who had determined to prevent the bringing to justice of certain ruQaina who had defied the laws and driven numbers of settlers from that county. The Herald commented upon this assassination at the time, the circumstances of which' did not appear to surround it with the justifications that (rentier vigilance vigi-lance committees usually set up for their summary action. Tho quarrel quar-rel which resulted in tho death of an independent judge was apparently a partisan one, without justification, and we believe the murder h3 never been judicially or otherwise investigated. The latest Colorado outrage, though it may not involve loss of life, is one of the most daring atrocities that ba3 ever been committed in an American Amer-ican community. Tho kidnapping 1 of a high judicial officer, when pro ceeding to the discharge of his duty, is a crime which has no excuse in the circumstances of the case. Suppose , that this outrage had been perpe trated in any of tho southern states, what a howl of indignation would have been aroused! The fedcrai troops would have been at once ordered or-dered to the sceno of the difficulty and speedy vengeance demanded upon the perpetrators. Suppose a much lighter offence than this against tho person ofsomo citizen of Utah Lad been committed, the excitement excite-ment would have ben intense, and and the cry would have reboundtd to the farthest extremities of tho country coun-try for vengeance upOD Utah. The community wouid have been held by tho reckless portion of the press rcnfinsiblft fnr tun rmtrar'A. fVilnnwln w.is made a state of the Union while tbo blood of Judge Dyer was yet warm, and she repays the act of her admission by another outrage, which has hardly a parallel in the annals of Aineiican crime 1'erhcps her citizens citi-zens wili deem it advisable to petition tho railroad ruffians for tho anfo return re-turn of Judgo Stone, though this is even doubtful, judging from the failure fail-ure of Lake county to punish tho murderers of Judgo Dyor. Evidently the courts of law are obstructed in Colorado and mob law provails, and it is tho duly of the president to see that the laws are maintained, if thin is beyond the power of the territorial authorities to accomplish. |