The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-07
LAssOING TRAMPs.
How a Party Of vacqueros Cleared tnc
Town or wells Of Migrants.

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A gang OF about forty tramps gath
cred at Wells, Nevada, yesterday,
and by intimidation and threats OF
violence if they were not supplied WITH
food, they rendered themselves very OBJ
noxious, and in spite of citizens threats
to deal with them urgently unless they
got out of town Immediately, they per-
sisted in holding the fort. A notice
had been posted on the railroad water
tank,
ssN.o. TRAMPs ALLOWED IN TOWN,
And as the determination OF the tramps
to remain was a direct violation OF the
notice, the Wellites concluded to pre-
serve the reputation of their village tor
the severity of it's rules in regard to
tramps. and accordingly went again to
the knights of the brake-beam and de-
manded that they comply with their re-
quest, to leave town and seek for
s'green fields and pastures new. They
again refused. Two freight trains stood
at the station, and the citizens made a
proposal to the tramps, to the effect
that if they would all 60 aboard they
might do so and be taken out of town
free of any expense to them.
THE TIR-coUNTERS HELD A CoNsULTA-
TIoN,
On receiving this proposal, and firm
ly concluded that they we're we'll
enough off where they were. The
trains soon pulled out, only two or
three of the tramps leaving on them,
the rest having made up their minds to
stay, as they considered it a pretty
good town" Those remaining seem
ingly manifesting no desire to take adj
vantage OF the generous offer made by
the citizens, and said they would not
bulge an inch on any terms The man
ifestations of this spirit of Independ-
ence, not to say defiance, riled the
Wellites not little, and calling NUM-
Der of
vACQUERoS ON HORSEBACK,
They proceeded rather summarily to
drive the tralnps from their midst
But they were not to be easily gotten
rid of. They formed themselves in a
solid mass, all armed with clubs and
stones. One charge upon their I'M
broken front, however, speedily dis
persed them, and a free use'of the bull
whip, boot toe ard lasses cansed them
10 begin to. entertain dous.s as to
whether they had proceeded wisely in
taking the course they did, the, conflict
resulting in the ignoble defeat Of the
heightened, defiant -smashers, and
pulled, hauled and
DRAGGED BY LAssos
And cut with the long whips of the
wild cowboys, they finally broke into
run outsof the town and did not again
return. The only incident connected
with the affair winch does not rebound
to the credit of the Wellites happened
later i'm the day, when poor old tramp
came along, slowly squeezing the sap
out of the railroad ties. He had not
heard of the compulsory exodus of,his
tramp brethren, and accordingly was
not as cautious as he might have been if
he had been posted on the subject. The.
sportive COW boys, however, determined
TO make no exceptions to the adopted
rules, and he, too, was lassoed and
dragged out Of town, greatly bewildered
and surprised at this unexpected re-
ception, andi very indignant at the
rough treatment which he received.
Hereafter the gentlemanly knights of
the brake-beam will, no doubt, give
Wells wide berth.
The Eureka Coal Burners Associae
ton has decided to charge 30 cents per
bushel for charcoal. 1t is thought the