Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-28
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This community was thrown into a
state of ieverish excitement yesterday
morning by the discovery, at an early
hour, of mysterious, yet signif cant, no.
tees conspicuously posted about own.
They consists tee of a small piece OF pa
per, say Axe inches, heavy black bor-
der line, COL in figures on top. a cut OF
a coffin showing a mans head in the
center, and the words "do your duty"
at the bottom. Interpreted IN The light
OF a fair construction, the language
would probably run thus: 1901 do
your duly" BY whom, or what
authority, these aotices we're put out
we are wholly ia the dark. We are
equally AT a loss to conceive of AN
etner.enty at the present time in Eu
reka cal ing for sc summarize proceed
Ing. 1t ~ true that there have been
coinmi, ed from time to inca number
o minor depredations, and it is ais /,
true hat there have hi, heato o zen lew
G nvictions i'll III courts, but that
there exists any good reason why any
sci of men should take the law in their
own hands we do not, and cannot tie
i'e,e. fhe truth is, We have no pa
tience Whatever with vigi ancc cora
miitee~, and can never be brought t.
iawiessiiess, no matter in what
guise II Is presented. We know moth
ing of ,hs aim and object of the present
movement in Eureka furtherthan wlat
every Person has a right to infer from
the npiire. Whothe committee is com
posed ot, or how many there are of
them We have no means OF knowing,
yet We do know, or what we consi,ier
good authority, that there has been
some sort of safety organization here
for the last Two or three years, ever
since. in fact. the law less times when
The Bill Work parry threatened to lake
The town. In he view of yesterdays
Development the natural conclusion
is that this Cd Organization has been
revived, but for shat? As We stated
above, we cannot determine. Some
persons seem to think that the notice
distributed yesterday morning had TOR
their purpose the calling of the old
committee lOsether; viii q still another
Thought they might have been brought
here from Carson or Virginia and
posted simply a> a joke. BE this Is it
may, we have so far heard of no
one being ordered to leave town. The
authenticity of the note is, of cour e.
everything, bat who is to distinguish
bet eeu the bogus and genuine ?
Coming right down to practical com
mon sense, however, our advice would
be To treat all notices as coming from
n source backed up by the will and
the might To enforce obedience
10 tIa.H ~
Kirk, in Virginia City, and lately Burt
in Carson, both lost their ives by re-
fusing 10 leave when notified. If a
poor devil is unfor. upa e enough 10
fall under the bar OF these self-styled
Committees OF safety, the best and
most sensible thing he eau do is 10
clear out at once when ordered to do
so. At all events, we can see no other
safe curse to pursue. 1t usually
works buI little Inconvenience FIR this
class OF men 10 MAKE a change of base
tor a time, aud To our mind it is I'm
questlonabiy the art of prudence 10
do so when the order j. issued. We
say these ,h ngs in all candur, and TO
prevenI If possible such scenes AS are
likely 10 char ,cterize the operations of
an infuriated mob. We never want to
hear II a man being siiangled Ia death
in the community in which we live,
and il never shout | occur If we could
prevent il; but a. a rule, Vigilante>
proceed quietly in the dead hour of
night, when g~raveydrds yawn and
ghosts walk. to perform their lawle>s
work; a atme wh,n neither the 9th
GERS nor the friends of law and order
can tie of any avail to the victim Sc
lected Tor the slaughter. We sincerely
hope that Eureka may be spared the
disgrace which seeRl> likely to befall
her, hut on This point we must confess
to the most seri)us apprehen>ions. for
we were told Yesterday by several
prominent parties that they had every
reason to believe that the movement
just set on foot e business in the
strictest sense of that term. We shall
await further developments with no