Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-25

fed something was wanting they could
not rest they had to have a land fight
that's what's the matter ~ Some of them
sold their land at big figure to raise
money to fight the railroad company.
Others acted more wisely they kept their
land, but moved their buildings on to rail-
road land, and now they are happy.
a few hints in regard to the military de-
partment of the league will not be out of
place here. They admit that they marched
out on the street at Hanford, eighty strong
and they also admit that they applied to
the State for arms Now the idea or asking
for arms FROM the State to fight the Cow
eminent OF the United States, is decidedly
the checklist thing of the age. But they
fail to say anything about marching the
streets at the dead hour of night, calling
peaceable citizens out of their midnight
slumbers, and ordering them to leave the
country. They also fail to say anything
about marching through the country after
dark, dragging innocent women and chill
dren from their houses and applying the
torch to their property. All these things
seem TO be an innocent and peaceful pas
time for these men. At the trial OF the
convicted leaguers, the league witnesses
all swore that it might have been Indians
that burned Perry Phillips house. That
is about as "thin" as things generally
get. l don't think that there is one man,
woman or child of any size in all the Mus.
sci Slough country but fully believes that
the league burned Perry Phillips house.
All their talk about their organization be-
ing for peaceable purposes is the merest
bosh. They have said, time and time
again, in a braggadocio kind of way, that
the railroad company could not bring Off
GERS and men enough to dispossess them of
their lands; that they had plenty of VIM
chester rifles and breech- loading shotguns,
and that no man should live that would
buy those lands from the railroad company.
They seem to deny the fact that they hur-
rahed and applauded Kearney when he
made his speech here. / was there, and il
there was man that applauded and hur-
rahed outside of the league and their
claqueurs, | did not see him. When Kear-
ney told them to stay with their land, that
he would come to their assistance with
forty thousand men from San Francisco,
and would murder the red.eyed mon-
sters," members of the league hurrahed as
if they would spst their Threats.
As to the league going out on the 18th
of last May, forty or fifty in number, and
good many of them well armed, as peace
makers; they went ont there just for what
they said they were going out for. They
told several responsible men, that they met
on their way out, that they were going out
to stop the Marshal from dispossessing any
more men, and were going to make him
leave the country, and they carried it out
to the letter. 1t was very clearly proved
at the trial that they rode up to the Mar
shall and his party with pistols drawn, and
told them to surrender. But Walter Crow
would not surrender worth a cent. A
brave man hardly ever surrenders to out
laws. Now the leaguers try to make it ap-
pear that Walter Crow murdered those five
or six men. The idea of one man murder.
ing six men, when there were ten or twelve
men shooting at him, is certainly very hard
to believe. But Walter Crow did just
what any other brave man would have
done under like circumstances and if ever
there was cold blooded murder, the kill
ing of Grow WAS one. If they had killed
him in the fight, it would not have locked
so bad /; but the evidence is very strong
that they killed his.l in ambush, an hour
or two after the tight.
ZONE OF THE NINETEEN.
Hanford, April 10, 1881.