Arizona weekly miner., 1876-01-07

~ whipping-post is needed in Prescott, and if bey practice of abusing his family is continued psIch longer by a man claiming 10 have been psfnber of the Kansas Legislature and respecta- b4 connected, the people will not wait for the s3s-tion of law, but improvise one for the occa- sion "hhout the formality of courts and juries
 We have been hearing for some time tbata brute Tn the shape of man, whose name we
 viaEold in order to spare his family the bu- nliation of publication, was in the habit of whippin;. his sick wife and two daughters. one of whom Is nearly woman; but thinking there
 must be two sides to such monstrous report,
 have awaited further developments, until yester-
 day morning as Mir. William c. Foster was passiag their house he heard screaming, and presently one of the daughters ran ont and implored him to save Ter motber from being beaten 10 death by her father. Foster proposed to go and send an officer. when the assaiiant came out with hiack-snlke whip in his hand and delivered 1t 10 Foster, and proposed 10 accompany him to the Justjce's office and give bonds for his good be- hayior, acknowledging that he had been using the whip on his family, but that it was a ne- cessity he could not avoid.
 Those who know the family say that the wife is n poo-. weakly woman who has not been ex- u.c,od 10 live from one month to another for a slor~ time. This is certainly that calls for -reetiyn. notwithstanding be now agrees to .F,v away and not again molest them.
 The younger of the two girls came to town ~esterd,.y soon after Foster had inierfered with he whipping, tthey live mile out of the vllage)
 ud her version of this last outrage is, that the
 der daughter had cooked some beans, and he aid they not done properly and began e,rsiae and swearing, and ordered her to leave ths ,lacs. She got her bonnet and was about to C z him. when he seized the black-snake whip ], dbcgan beating her over the head, the splnts
 her bonnet saved her somewhat, but she was considerably bruised; the younger girl screamed when be turned upon her and threw her down and frightened her mother who ven,ured to re- monstr:,tc with him. when he turned upon her, sick and feeble as she is, and gave her a thrash ing. She has been advised by those acquainted with his conduct to leave him and seek divorce, and We understand she once suggested the mat matter to him and hc threatened if she did he would take their boy, and place the girls in a house of prostitution this threat has kept her in fear that he would carry i: out, and cansed her to submit to his abuse, when otherwise she woad have been more independent.
 His version is. that as the head of the family, he felt bound to correct the children, and when he attempted to exercise his prerogative in this respect the others iRterfered and made common cause against him, and he found it necessary to whip them all. He desired the girls to go out and work for two weeks until he could find to do, and instead of seconding his proposition the mothe- asked her daughters if they were willing 70 "go out and work to earn money to go back to Kansas on." This he says he took insuIt and became exasperated ard could not control his temper.
 Allowing all he says to be true, and the casc seems ,o be inst as bad if he had no defense to make The world is wide enough for everybody, and if he cannot live with a sick woman without beating her, he should travel for his health.