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Show FROM WYOMING. A Green River special to the Cheyenne Sun says that some evidence of a .very startling nature was given before the Grand Jury there j-Csterday. The startling start-ling testimony is given by the Rev. Timothy Tim-othy Thirloway, the Congregational minister min-ister at Rock Springs. This startling testimony tes-timony says that the Chinese themselves set fire to their own houses on the day of the Rock Springs massacre, for the purpose of saving them from pillage, and to prevent the dirt floors from being dug into for the purpose of finding any hidden treasuse that the Chinese may have burned there. Well, and what of all this? If it be true it will relieve the miners jyho massacred the Chinamen of the charge of arson, but in no way mitigate their crime of murder. If a man sees a mob of murderers approaching ap-proaching his dwelling for the purpose of killing him and plundering his house, is it any crime for that man to set fire to his house and flee to the hills for safety? Attiong the heinous crimes charged against the inoffensive Chinamen at Rock Springs is the fact that in one instance when the ruins of the Chinese dwellings were being excavated after the massacre, some six thousand dollars were discovered. dis-covered. The accumulation of such a . sum clearly proves that its owner or owners had been industrious and frugal. It is very doubtful whether the white miners at Rock Springs had so much money in store on the day of the massacre. If the Chinamen burned their dwellings to save the money hid within them, they are to be commended for their act, and not condemned. Miss Eleanor Thirlowaj-, the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Thirloway, testified that a Chinaman, Ah Quong by name, said, "China boy no likee American boy catch him things, and China boy set fire to houses." China boy showed his sense. But how does it come that the evidence that the Rev. Mr. Thirloway and his wife and daughter gave before the Grand Jury, is made public? Such a proceeding j seems a little queer, does it not? Are the Rev. Mr. Thirloway and his wife and daughter given a special indulgence to divulge to the public the evidence which they gave to the Grand Jury that prejudice preju-dice against the murderers of the Chi nese at Rock Springs may be removed and the old hatred and dislike of the Chinese be renewed ? The next thing to do to relieve the Rock Springs assasins' of the odium attaching to them and their crime, is tojirove, and doubtless it c.t-j -te done, that the Chinese hired men to i assault their part of the town and drive them into the hills and kill some twenty or thirty of them merely for the purpose of creating public sympathy in their behalf. Such theories find ready credence' in Utah, and we have it "on authority" that certain Federal officials committed, or caused to be committed, some most beastly outrages upon their dwellings merely for the purpose of creating a public sympathy in their behalf and to create a prejudice against the community. We recommend this method to our Wyoming neighbors, believing that they will be able to convince the majority of their people of the correctness of the theory, the same as the majority of the people of Utah are convinced of this theory in regard re-gard to the outrage upon Dickson, Variah and McKay. It will do for home consumption, con-sumption, but don't try to export it. |