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Show indicted for murder the first convto-tioo convto-tioo Id the history of the place wat secured se-cured only last week. Governor Hor.o I tomewhat republican in hit Ideae regarding re-garding strong government to protect pro-tect the rights of cHizent and to puuUh those who break the laws, Before he took hit seat many toctlons of the "ate were at the merer of the ehot gun and the pistol. Sheriffs were overawed and whole counties were terrorized. He or-gmied or-gmied a new department, and pre-pared pre-pared to suppress outbreaks wherever (they should orciir. The result was that mob law and terrorism sou be. gan to disappear a"'1 "ow tbe tianding a. law abiding couimou-wealth couimou-wealth it lw-om'.nn good. Dowtn in Texas the cuudition of public morals is improving. There wiil be twenty legal hangings in the sta, a between be-tween now and Christmas. This will somewhat curtail the democrat!): majority, ma-jority, but Texes can stand it. TI e im-ptoved im-ptoved condition of things is a res ult of the active measures taken by the present pres-ent governor to suppress crimt. A few years ago human life wn the ' cheapest thing in tho state. In th city I of Dollas w i,re eighty men have been j |