The Arizona sentinel., 1875-08-28
OUTLAWRY ON THE FRONTIER

be done to protect our citizens
 from the murderers and robbers who infest our border. We have a long line of frontier extending from near San Diego, California to Mesilla, New Mexico-a route upon which the United States mails are carried three times a week, and upon which there are
 1tations at long distances apart.
 These stations are absolutely ne. cessary for feeding and changing the horses of the mail coaches and providing sustenance for the pas sengers and drivers. Without these stations the mails could not be carried and passengers could not travel, and all life of man and beast would perish for want of water. The life that these poor isolated station-keepers lead, is hard enough at best. Often only one man is at station, be- cause the income will support no more, he sees no one until the stage or some wagon comes along to break, momentarily, the mOn- tony of his miserable solitude. In this manner these stations are kept, until some marauding party, seeing the defenceless situation of the keepers, bounce upon them and rob or murder, and sometimes both, and taking what they can find of money, horses, or other valuables, cut across over the line and are safe.
 These things have occurred so often that it seems as though the Government should take some measures to protect our citizens along and near the line. Patrol stations could easily be establish ed, and no great force of men required to protect the whole line
 The recentzcase of the robbery of New River Station, an account of which we give in another col umn, is the same old thing, and the same thing will continue un- til strong measures are taken to strike terror to the hearts of these border bandits. If the Govern ment still neglects to give pro- lection to it's own mails and to its citizens along the line, we are thrown upon the last resort, seLf- protection. We are no fillibuster, in fact we have always strongly opposed the principle. But it is not only an old, but true saying that, self-preservation is the first law of nature. To this we may soon have to resort, as the people Of Texas did many years ago.
 It is plain to all intelligent men that we can have no peace or se- curity along this frontier while the line is allowed to remain where it is. That line must be pushed down to the sea, and into the sea. It must be wiped out. It is inevitable, and the sooner it is done tn e better. We are big enough, and strong enough, and many enough in Arizona and Southern California, to do that job, without any aid from the Government of the United States. But as we remarked above, we are opposed to filIibustering and would not encourage it except as a last resort. We would warn the Government and all concerned, that the time for that last resort is nearly at hand. The people have suffered long enough by these bandits from across the line, who do their work of robbery and murder and then flee back into their own country, where they find ample protection from punish ment. The soil in the neighbor- hood of nearly every station be- tween Yuma and Tucson is red with the blood of our peaceful slain by these hounds from over the border, who some-