The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06
HIP-POCKET LAW.
Mai Biles, of Nevada, Argues Its Su-
,1ariorfty to the Statute Variety.
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Mai. Biles, of Nevada, Argues It's Su-
neriorlty to the Statute Variety.
From the st. Paul Daily Globe.
tsWben went over to London first to
s,ace a mine" said Maj. Biles, of Nevada,
rockng himself in one of the rustic chairs
of the Palace barroon, says the San Fran
cisco Examiner, 1T made me mad the way
7 vas taken care of. 1t was policeman
here to tell you not to 60 there, guard to
-, Won I'D in the car for fear you'd fall
n,,t and get killed, and so on. Then the bars
Tor ,,.ore closed on Sunday and you found the
,,,1saums and every place but the churches
aJIorked. 1t was law, law, law every
There TIL was sick of the law, and I'd
80 turned Anarchist if the Anarchists had
iaen invented the was mighty glad to
cot back to the Constock, where every
hody nearly carries his own law in his hip
THAT must have been dreadful state of
society. " suggested gentleman from New
"No sir, said the Major, ''it wasn't. It
1yss about the best state of society | know
~ Il made you look out for yourself and
be careful of stepping on other fellows
toes somebody was shot every night al
most.
GOOD gracious!"
deserved to be served up" added the
Major.
"lts good thing to live in commu-
nity where men who ought to be killed get
But" objected the gentleman from New
Haven, 'were you not constantly in danger
of your life"
Not at all There's not place on earth
where man is so safe from harm as DIS
L. l.
his own business and does the square thing
The fighting you read so much about is con
fined pretty strictly to the toughs They
don't bother respectable people. The
chance of a vigilance committee keeps them
straight i'll that direction. The principal
danger to men who are not toughs is from
fying bullets, and there's remedy for
that remember | was standing in front
OF the Delta, on c street, one evening, talk
ing to Capt. Lord, the inland revenue col
lector, when two fellows got to punching
each other right near US, and one pulled
wnat all hands thought was a gun. There
was unanimous scatter. hoped into
doorway and peeped out. Capt. Lord was
standing in the middle of the street with
his six-shooter III his hand, watching the
two men, who had clinched and were
struggling. In aminute they went rolling
over a peanut stand into the gutter. The
ja5bed away at the face and body of the
under chap with the supposed pistol 1t was
really knife, and he hacked his subject all
TO pieces We tore him off. | helped to raise
the cut chap to his feet. He walked with
rs a few steps, and then raised his hand to
his bleeding head and said:
where's my hat"
1T was tished out of the gutter and he
putt on. He went step or two further
and stopped.
Boys he said, cts no go. Pm Mikes
meat Then he signed, murmured
family, '-himn and tainted. He died
next day.
''"What were you doing out there in
the street with your gunp l asked Capt
Lord.
We'll he said. I've come near being
hit half dozen times when fellows were
engaged in fights in which had no CON
Germ, and I've made up my mind that here
after Pm going to have my share of the
shooting IS we'll as of the danger. I'm
going to take a hand from this out, and
these fellows, when they begin a muss,
will look around and inquire where am.
And a good plan too,n declared the
Major. IF good citizens on the frontier
would follow Capt. Lords plan, the toughs
would be even more careful than they are
about wild shooting. Yet, after ALL there's
there is of being run over here by your
cable cars"
''And this Red Mike, this murderer, he
IVES hanged?" inquired the gentleman.
Lord, no." laughed the Major mike
when he wasn't drunk, was a bricklayer,
and he assisted in building the county
jail. Having an eye to the future, he
thoughfully left a weak spot low down in
the wall, and one night shortly after his
arrest, be opened it and walked off, gener-
ously taking all the other prisoners with
him. The last / heard of Mike was that
he'd had an arm shot off by gambler down
in Tombstone"