Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1920, Page 9

‘WILD AND WOOLY’ EAST PUTS : JESSE JAMES AND WESTERNERS OUT OF RUNNING, FACTS SHOW WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19.—A few days ago seven armed men walked into a little country bank near here, shot and killed an officer of it, locked the rest of the officers and employes into the vault and went away with about thirty thousand dollars in cash and securities. No one even found out what had happened for a quarter of an hour after they had left. Detectives, policemen, constables, and all the other’ varieties of sleuths are hot on the ‘tracks of the bandits, but have caught: nothing so far except a lot of very vague clues and a great deal of space in the newspapers. Three days after the above happen- 4ng, seven armed men went into one of a year before. Meanwhile he had grown a heavy beard, and he trusted to this disguise and time to have obliter- fated the memory of his crime. But when he went into a saloon and began to drink, the saloon began to fill up with quiet, determined-looking citizens The miner was very quietly surrounded and disarmed. He was given an in formal trial and hung to a cottonwood tree just outside the window of the room where Mr. Bell, the genteel young Englishman, was sleeping. But the only annoyance Mr. Bell ever suffered in Trinidad was that of having this corpse for a neighbor. Thus the social conscience was active and effective in the early West. Now of bunk at a cost to the nation in Vsalaries of $433,000 a year. The above fre in addition to the regular printed publications issued by the government | printing office, and it was in an effort |to regulate this tremendous waste that | the president and congress had a row jrecently. Congress has been t ave paper, and when it en: | prohibiting such indiscriminate print jing by the departments, the said de- | partments promptly evaded the law by using mimeegraphs and multigraphs— | which cost more: In the last three yer the government—not | resentatives—have had than thirty million copies rej more their to r handling: of | speeches; these and the envelopes jcarry them, as well as the |'n the mails, cost ernment a jhalf million do in mind. of congress must pay out of kets for the printing of ther , but the government ofticials | nbove referred to do not. When congress sought to limit the !s- suance of government publications, by be Casper Daily Cribune y|electricity will be discussed at the an- of; Jone publication issued by the depart- ment of agriculture; three departments jin the same time had turned over to Jone individual 1,319,495 copies 06 yub- |lications issued by them. —-— Solution of the fuel problems con- \fronting America through the use of |nual convention of the National Elec. tric Light association, which is to he- |gin its sessions today at Pasadena, | Calif. —__—_>—_- In the general primaries in Pennsyl lvania today delegates to the national leonventions will be selected and candi ates named for United States senator, jrepresentatives in congress and other forttciats to be voted for in November. The first five presidents of the United States ended their terms of service each in the sixty-sixth yeer of his | age. eee ee ' The construction of fifty miles of road in Cook county, Illinois, will be started shortly. It had been originally SURE RELIEF FROM ITCHING SKIN DISEASES Will Never Come From Salves, Ointments, or Other Loeal Treatment. A million gallons of lotions, oint- ments, salves or other forms of lo- cal treatment wili not give any real permanent relief from skin diseases. Get this fact firmly in your mind, and there is hope for you. If you have ever been afflicted with eczema, tetter, boils, erup- tions, or other similar skin irrita- tions you can appreciate the real terrifying discomfort that comes| the offices of the Fifth Avenue Bus’ company in New York, held up. thirty fren, took two thousand dollars, and Si caped without even having to shoot ‘anyone and without leaying behind so much as a clue. This may or may not have been the same gang. There ts no special rea- son to suppose it was the same gang. This country is full of gangs and in- dividuals who make an easy living by} robbery and murder. Crimes like the two above narrated have become so common that we scarcely realize how common they are. Jesse James Outdone Jesse James, and his brother Frank, won fame by their success as bandits’ during the generation following the Civil war. We are accustomed to think of the deeds and the times of the James boys as something romantically and es- pecially criminal, Yet the James boys never did anything more bold than these two robberies, and they never got away with anything so easily. They held up a number’ of small county banks in western towns successfully, but they were. often shot at, and mem- bers of their gang were repeatedly wounded. Fnnally, when they tried to} rob the bank in Northfield, Minn., the citizens surrounded them, fired on them with rifles and si: hooters, and finally killed all of the gang but two. The James boys had a hard life compared to modern auto bandits, who make our, highways unsnfe, and make every iso- lated store and bank a more or less hazardous enterprise. We also like to read tales of the Wild West, throughout ‘the period from about 1860 to 1890, when the six shooter was supreme in all the great region west of the Mississippi. Many fabulous fiction tales have been constructed about that era, which cause the hair of the unsophisticated to stand on end, and make the eastern citizen thank ‘God that he lives in a civilized country. Yet, as a matter of fact, excepting where hostile Indians were involved, both life and property were vastly safer in the West of that day then they are in the East of this day. This you, can easily ascertain for yourself if you will read, not the hair-brained fiction which has been written about the early ‘West, but the accounts of actual cx- periences there. For example, a young Englishman: named Bell, in 1867, accompanied the surveyors_who were exploring a route for the Santa Fe railroad. across the continent, and afterward wrote a book about it. He passed through New Mexico during one of its wildest epochs, when there were still a few Indians on the warpath, and when there was a»- solutely no effective legal organization. Counties had sheriffs, who were gener- ally highly, efficient men, and some- times a town would have a marshal. But there was no adequate policing, we understand it today—no guardian of the law walking his beat to prevent you from doing this or that—an1 the courts were an absolute farce. On the other hand, every man went armed. Nobody walked into any place and held up six men, or thirty men, because he knew that every man had a gun on his person, and that he would not get away without having each. and every one of them take a shot at him. Wild West Was Safe Both fife and property were remark- ably safe in those days, when every man went armed and knew how to shoot. There were many shootings and killings, to be sure, but these were generally quarrels between “bad” men The individual who minded his business was not molested. There is abundant testimony to that effect. Mr. Bell, for example, was never in any danger of his life. The only place in which he was molested in any way was inthe center of a United States military post where there were more than a thou- sand soldiers on hand to enforce the law. At this place, srort Union, his horse was stolen from the stable of at: officer. In Trinidad, Colorado, a typical Western town, more than half Mexican, having neither courts, nor officers of the law, he reports ¢hat both he and his property were perfectly safe. No- body stole his horse because the good people of Trinidad made a specialty of lynching horse thieves. While he was there, a miner came in from the moun- tains who had killed his partner about OO aes as nae i LADIES I will sell you dress suit and coat goods by the yard at reasonable price. C. H. WHALEY 116 E. Midwest—Phone 4833 and then a band of robbers was suc- Oil City Plumbing Co. Rear 122 Center St. cessful for a while, but it was always broken up by posses of citizens sooner or later, and nearly every robber died a suden and violent death before many years. Most of the long hard fights in jthat country were over crimes, like cat tle rustling, which had once been legi timate business and were slowly out- jlawed. After the Civil War, the plains swarmed with unbranded cattle, and the rounding up and branding of may. jericks was a good and honest business. |But soon a few men owned most of the jeattle, and they wanted this rustling stopped. The rustlers were a long time in seeing the error of their ways, and this war between th~ rustler and the ;capitalist-cattleman was the cause of much of the fighting.| It was a war, with men on each side who believed they were right. Your Protector, the Cop ; The fact is indisputable that in the learly West, despite the sparsely settled |character of this country, despite the lack of any adequate legal machinerv, life, property and personal liberty wer + temarkably safe. And the fact is equally indisputable that in the East today, in heavily populated sections having the most elaborate system of law and law enforcement in the world, life and property are both often taken with impunity, while personal liberty is becoming a myth. The policeman may not catch the bank robber, and often does not, but if he sees you kiss your girl, or park your car more than five inches from the curb, or walk on a grass plot, or violate any other loca’ ordinance, or even his own sense of propriety, he will pounce on you quickly enough. It is against the law to bear arms, and the custom has died out every where in the United States except in Texas, and a few other parts of the South and West. If a man wants to Shoot you down and take your bank roll, you are helpless. It is against the law for you to have any means of de- fending yourself. You have placed your safety in the hands of a minion of the HIS “THEORY MAY RIVAL NEW- TON’S DISCOVERY OF GRAVITA- TION—Dr. Irving Landmuir, an Ameri- can scientist, whose theory of a new construction of light, energy, matter and magnetism may rival Newton's dis- covery of gravitation and radically al- ter scientific beliefs held for over 50 years. 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