Arizona silver belt., 1888-08-25
A REIGN OF sBnnon.

laWleSS will take advantage el Suth
 laxlty and act as their cevetousness,
 passions and preiudlecs dictate. The
 women and children have been
 punched and placed where they can
 better be protected from the death dealing rifles of freebooterS who act upon the hushwhaekiAg plan, shoot
 from concealment and make way with their plunder unseen.
 Tine Governor, through the toe eco- nomical administration of the last Legislature, has no militia organiza- tion available to assist in tho enforce ment of the law, and it is queshona- bIe whether the Federal government would interfere in a matter that our laws provide the machinery of the county municipality to control. And as that fact has become so painfully apparent, threatened rsnchers who have been driven from their homss have no recourse but the painful al- ternatiye of self-proteotion.
 The reported hanging of James Scott. JeE Wilson and James Stott has been confirmed by persons who some days after their execution saw them suspended to a tree at the foot of which their saddles were found, as left at the time of their balns put to death. The story that they were arrested upon 8 frau5ulent warrants not true. At the time of their being taken by citizens, they were in custody of & de- putty sheriff and posse, who were so numercusly outnum5ered that resist ance was useless.
 James Stctt was no stranger in Globe. March 22nl and 23rd, 1887, he and a man naR,od TIomas Tucker were given q preliminary hearing far the alleged larceny of horse, the Of Jacob Laufiar, and dls- from custody by the justice upon the gronnd of insufficient testi- mony to establish guilt Tee proof the fact that tho horse in question was found in the possession of Stott and that the animal was the of Laufior, but as then and now believed the bill Of sale of the an,nal to Siott, produced Tn court, was simply a fraud and trick 10 cut weigh other convincing eyidegce, mr. Fucker and others, it will be remem oered, paid an unwelcome cali at New tons ranch, as is charged with evil intent; 'squently the visit of him self and associates, such as could get away. was brief. Tucker while re upon q double quick was by a far reaching rife ball.
 And now, nest probably as aequei to the lyuching of Stott, Scott and Wilson, we are called upon to refer 10 a Holbrook dispatch, of August 18th, ln which iiis stated that outlaws, in Pleasant valley, lynched WlIlism Nosler and Louis Noglar, stockmen, inoaeaaye citizens, and ordered ". Il. NcRaigy, an employe of the Aztec Land ( Cattle Company t9 leave, and fired upon hha
 This state of affairs suggests the question, have we a Governor clothed with power to sec that laws are exc outed, that thrifty and law abiding citizens are not disturbed in the per tormauee oflegallzed pursuIts2 From present appearances, in Pleasant val. ley, 8 negative answer might be ex- pacted. Nevertheless, we have GoY- srnor and laws that afford all needlul protection, but they are not executed.
 Those making war on settlers wh0 have fled their homes for selt.protec- tion, so far as we are informed, are generally not identified with the sec ton of tbe country where the demon of diseord has obtained a footing. Their continued presence there IS at tribRtqd to the lmbecliiy of execu- tiyes of the law. When arrests are made and indictments had it IS only the most saugu;ne who believe that conviction and punishment will fol- low. Qnirks and qudd!ties of the law, ali5ios, changes of venue, hung juries and executive clemency will be in- yoked, and it is to this uncertainty in the administration of justice that the woods are full of outlaws whose chief reliance is in the virtue of gun pow der, protecting rock, tree, a dense thiotet. Such being the case, suggest the remedy.
 The following communication was received from a resident of Pleasant Valley:
 On the 3ist of July the people of Pleasant Valley and vicinity assem- blod at Perkins stora fearing an h. dian raid, as they had been notified by some of John Dasin's Indians that large party were out. After waiting until tho Sd of August, two men were sent to Tonto to find out what they could about the Indians. On their re-