Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-04
EASTERN. DEsPERADOISM.


prevalent in the Eastern States that
the population of the Pacific Coast is
largely made up of brave and brutal
desperadoes and females of shaky
reputation, our people can but be
shocked on reading day after day in
the tslegraphic dispatches the numer-
Gus reports Of murder, rape, arson,
and all the crimes set down in the
calendar. Not one day passes that
tho wires do not bring US such items
as these:
ROCHESTER,, N. r., November 2.
Harry Ghane deliberately shot and
killed Joseph Smith, alias Little
Smith, at the saloon Of Bill Williams,
alias Ginge Bill, on Exchange street,
last night. There was dispute
about paying for drinks. Ghane was
sent for to settle it. He brought
revolver with him, and as soon as he
crossed the threshold he shot Smith
dead, the ball going through the
neck and spinal marrow. Ghane was
arrested.
NEW YORK, November 2.
A dispatch from Scranton says that
during Hallow Eve sports in that
city. Anthony Scanlon demonstrated
with Henry Kelly (both boys for
assailing the house of the former
with stones, and in the wrangle that
followed Kelly fatally stabbed Scan
Ion.
NEW York, November 2.
A duel occurred this afternoon ON
the top floor of No. 100 Delaney
street between two Polish Jews,
named Joseph Goldman and Moses
Piskalt. Goldman was shot and in
stantly killed, and Piskalt was NOR
tally wounded The men were part
ners a. jewellers, and the tragedy Is
supposed to have arisen out of bust
ness quarrel.
This is only one days proeee iings,
and very light Cuisines at that.
When such items as these come to
our Pacific Coast people from the
great moral centers of the Christian
East, it is but natural that surprise
should follow. Send similar dis
patched from Nevada to the East,
and most of those who peruse them
will say: This docs not surprise me
they are a desperate set of out
laws on the Western frontier, and
think no more of cutting mans
throat than they do of splitting an
apple" and this is what they believe,
as we'll as say. The criticism is an
unjust one, and no more true of the
people of this coast than it is Of the
people of New York, or Massachu-
sets, or any ether State east Of the
Missouri. There are class of des-
peradoes, very similar in character,
in every State in the Union. The
principal difference between them is
this: Your Pacific Coast trough "
calls his man out, tells him to heel"
himself, and, as general thing, gives
his antagonist fair show for his
life; while, in a majority Of cases,
your New York desperate is con-
cealed in a doorway or dark alley,
and from this safe bulwark knocks
his man down with slung-shot or
stabs him in the back. The foot-pad
Of this coast stopsa stage coach and
demands treasure-box. The East
ern highwayman stops a jewelry
pedler, on lonesome road, and
takes his tin trunks away. And 50
we might pursue the comparisons to
no end. This is subject that has
been much treated Of by the Western
press, and by this time one would sup
pose that our Eastern friends would
read US Alright, and let righteous
judgment and good sense do away
With the foolish prejudices of the
past. For years and years the REQ
pie OF the South had the credit of
being more reckless of life, more des-
perately brave, and more chivalric
in their personal difficulties than
were the cool-blooded Northarners.
And to speak Of man as "a South
erner" implied to many that you
must be overcareful in getting near
his corns, or in conversation in his
presence, as " he is q Southerner'
and liable Ut any moment to dangle
your scalp in the air or cut you in
two at waist buttons with his bowie
knife. Tie war and q better ac-
quaintance with the Southern. peo-
pie dispelled this hallucination,
and We find that, after all, there is
little difference in American char
acter. That the difference in eli
mats does not make heroes or
towards ont Of the same race Of peo-
ME. Neither does it affect the
virtue Of woman or the beauty of
her face or character. The blood
II New York or Nevada courses the
veins - rapidly as that Of South
Carolina or Florida. Virtue and