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Show DANGER AHEAD. The citizens of San Francisco have formed another law and order committee commit-tee to aid the one already organized by the chamber of commerce in putting put-ting a stop to the riots that continually endanger life and property in the coast city. We hope the mere organization of these committees . will have the desired de-sired effect and that it will not be necessary for the citizens who have been trying to live in peace and conduct con-duct their business in quiet to take the law into their own hands. We all remember re-member reading about what happened in the early days of San Francisco, when the lawless element ran the city and openly defied the authorities and we recall the story of how a vigilance committee was formed and the murderers, mur-derers, thugs and bad man generally either executed or driven out. No one has ever blamed the members of the vigilance committee, for the law, was not being enforced and crime ran rampant. ram-pant. We believe the same spirit is rising in San Francisco; that the preparedness pre-paredness day massacre and the subsequent subse-quent bomb explosions and street riots have aroused the people to such a pitch that thev are banding themselves together to-gether to prevent further murders and !a tar-liy oura-r.-. At this dUtan.je if looks ;i- though San rrar.i-i.sco :s about roa-ly fur a c 1 1-:i uin up. |