Show t j TRAIN ROBBING AND WRECKING an article in an eastern paper on the above subject is quite inter interesting eating reading as showing that we are in the midst of a sort of epidemic of that kind A lot of figures are collected which are shown to be rare but none the less lees reliable on that account perhaps no oth tr m riter bat yet taken the trouble to collect such statistics and put them together it to is claimed that they in addition to the inter interest tat which they evoke edke may have filice a moral as a ou cap to the verbal fabric and as as it 14 to make the abe matter the itofe moe v vivid the present year so far as it baa gone one loWN la the only period of time dealt with it to is found that iu in the first half of 1893 there were in the united states and canada arety one attempts to wreck trains and in the united states alone twenty one attempts to rob them most of these efforts were ute successful and in no case this year was any one effort very successful that to is the robbers had bad discouraging bad luck in getting gett inic plunder and the traio train wreckers produced no serious wrecks but the figures are dis agreeable gree able we think of this says the writer as a highly civilized coun yet we find iu in six months sixty one attempts attempt a at a crime far ar more atrocious than plundering caravans and twenty one at temptis at robbery bulder bolder and more dangerous than the ex pi its of dick with such facts before us therefore it to is well to be a little modest tor for baese crimes have oot been confined to the least civilized parts of the united states and this brings us to the question or geographical distribution massachusetts and illinois by the blowing made head the list in the number of attempts to wreck trains and ohio comes next in these three respectable states thirty one ode per cent of all such crimes orliea was concentrated and new york T ark prk follows next in order this caritus circumstance may be ex plaines partly by the treat great train mile age in those states the attempts at train bricking ing were more numerous because the trains were more numerous probably a mure more important element is the tact that many of f these efforts effort sto to wreck trains are made by who naturally ineat those states in which the distance is not too between pie to say wt of drinks the it ingenious genious of crimes may be disposed to carry this speculation lurther further but the writer is content with the explanations suggested there is another interesting phase of the in antho abe geographical dis trib ution ot the attempts at train rubbing robbing I 1 jo n this department of the hub jekot we are cnown that there is in the same num number berof of these attempts in iowa an aa in the indian territory and okla boma taken together texas follows ineat and then kansas and nebraska in fact sixty seven per cent of all train robberies and attempted train robberies in k the united states are found in these four states and territories of course says our the population of the indian territory and oklahoma is not choice and texas has a large semi criminal element in its population but how we ex plain the fact that kansas nebraska and iowa furnish so many anany of the train rub robberies berles and that more have occurred in iowa than lu in any other one state this is one of the conundrums conundrum sP that the NEWS will not attempt to solve at least not today there i in one thing that tile writer spoke i of overlooked in his rami ramifications floa of crime on the rat rail the sections of the country where such events are either very rare or do not happen at all of late years perhaps he or she is in a lawyer or has the instincts of one andi and oi 01 ly started cut ut to present one side of the ease came or it may be that there are U no 0 buob sections there Is however beeh a section sect lor our own utah we beadi the country in a good many peete at A d the absence of train robbing and ana train wrecking is not counted the least 0 of f such features |