Show LIVELY AND DEADLY those who have been disposed to doubt the genuineness of the gold discoveries cove co in san juan or to question their extending very far will probably find something to fashion a different opinion from in the latest news from that quarter A rich mining district exposed all at once to the eyes of the greedy world mea 9 strife bloodshed and miscellaneous crimes until things become tolerably settled and the law has a chance to be felt and that san ban juan has engaged in a scrimmage recalling the memorable days of 49 in Cali california forDiA 59 on the comstock Com and in white pine and peoebe will ha received by a great many as the beet beat of evidence that the precious stuff Is there in great abunda oe ce indeed there is not wanting the showing itself that such is the case for in denver and its surroundings where it seems some such news as that reported has been looked it if not longed for it to is received rec elved with savage glee and parties are outfitting outwitting out fitting and equit equipping ping rapidly for the new eldorado in our southwestern confines yes yen san ban juan must be a great gold country its baptism in blood removes every doubt one man killed outright and a dozen or more wounded several of there fatally ought according to the luie iule of proportion sto put the utah diggings a long way ahead of the black hills perhaps abreast of alder gulch montana in the early GOS with a fair prospect of being much more lasting and thus scaling up close to early california we believe that one none of these started out with any such sanguinary showing as that already recorded for san ban juan but perhaps the greater proximity of courts and men capable of making forests and determined to do it when necessary may make some sort of difference in 0 our ur case it may not be altogether agreeable to the professional and amateur m murderers u thieves robbers and scoundrels of high and low degree who are always early on the ground to have the time honored bo nored c custom of plying their vocations without 0 ut let or hindrance while the ca camp mp to is green interfered with but it is tolerably certain that their wishes in the premises will not receive much consideration the establishment of a graveyard at an early date and rapid accessions thereto following after to is a recognized fetish in certain mining circles and the slaughter of men for no more serious offense than claitt claiming log ground which the shooter wants to Is by many sometimes the majority looked upon as a necessary procedure more effectual and less expensive than going to law it is to be hoped that they will be made in this case to understand from the beginning that such methods do not create exemption from the workings of the courts they only get the perpetrator into law more surely more inextricably and more expensively we hope the men engaged in the terrible affray at sa juan will be prom promptly i aly arrested and held for trial if it takes the whole power of southern utah to do it no matter if such procedure does give the camp a black eye and set its booming proclivities down a few notches in the scale we shall not object to having all the wealth that can begotten be gotten out of the auriferous gorges of our territory for this is useful and the times are ripe for such production but in no other respect can a revival of the customs of the early days in such ouch places be tolerated the strong hand of the law is over every part of the territory and let it be enforced let le the perpetrators of crimes be made to understand on the first provocation that the excitement occasioned by the supposed or even actual presence of an abundance of gold cannot be received as justification or even in mitigation |