| Show they now and then da a thoroughly good thins thing in colorado the other day three meu men vent luto into a bank in the tb u of meeker and robbed it in ili the rather brusque fashion practiced eI by some professional gent gentlemen lenic it on oil chicago shops not long ago they got through with the robbing process all right but they had to do sonic some shooting therein and the noise brought out the citizens of the little town who viere mere so urgent in prot protesting estl ng against the free distribution of their money in thit that way that they shot all three of the gentlemen who had chocked out funds front from the bank with revolvers leaving all of them as proper subjects subject for the undertaker evidently the Meeke rites are arc far from being at any meeker than other folk and it will be a long iong day before any more gentry of that kind make a call on them it looks like going backward in civilization for citizens to feel that they must stand ready to defend their own with the strong hand but perhaps if it were generally understood that they are so ready most of the professors of the art of holding bolding up would seek some other means of making a living |
