Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-10
This mornings Courier has fam

This mornings Courier has fam- iliar extract from the Mining and Engineering Journal, condemning the Tesmescal tin mines of Califor- uia. Rothwell, the editor of that paper, it is stated. was as willing a tool to condemn the Walnut Grove dam in this county at the request of a few people, swho could not, con trol its affairs, as he is now eager to strike back at an enterprise in which neither himself, nor his speculative press, could get 6 working interest. Other journals in the country, of equal engineering ability as the above paper, are just as frank and candid over the success of the above mines a. Rothwell is the pliant and smooth tool of his English packers to make a great democratic hit for the benefit of those across the wat CT, of free trade era, or anything else to down true Americanism.
 The killing of Thomas Graham y Ed. Tewksberry last Tuesday, .ear Tempe, revives a delicate rec llection of life in Ysvapai few ,ars ago, and is probably the clos y z scene of the Tonto Basin ven m tta. Were it not for the sacrifice
 another human life in the usual manner characteristic of bush whacking methods, the public gen erally of Arizona should congratu- late themselves on its termination and the stain the territory has had each year freshly coated on is fair name, should be allowed for once to pass away and out of memory. Every resident of Arizona, and par ticularly those of the north, is ia miliar yet with the scenes enacted between two hostile and uncom- promising factions. Two families, of at one time, good and law abiding citizens, numbering at least a dozen male souls, have passed away, followed by at least two score more of men whose death may be traced directly to at least sympathy with one side or the other. Since 1887 and every year following hu- man life has been as wantonly sac rifced as would be customary in an Apache raid. Thrifty homes have been shattered and fortunes lost. The law has permitted this to go on uninterruptedly for years, and was rewarded in return by a laugh from each outlaw. The coun- try alone has suffered along with those few hundred settlers whose only possessions compelled them to stay and be silent. It has beon a hard ordeal for Tonto Basin and its intelligent citizens to ride through. As rich and prolific in its mining, stock raising and agricultural indus tries as any section in the southwest, its name even has been reproach and sting to all. No one dared to enter. Dsnte's famous inscription on the gates of hell seemed to cover the whole community, with the lock on the inside. On the face of all of this, the fimsy veil of Arizona jus tice was occasionally drawn over the scene in the solemn court room. Not a conviction was ever had. On the contrary, license to renew the vendetta would probably have been appropriate. and in better taste, than the legal fiasco enacted regu- larly after each killing. Not alone can this be said of the Graham Tewksberry feud, but for years this legal serpent has crept stealthily into every other section. A death sen tence might prove rebuke to the cut-throat element of community over a genuine case of -blooded murder. The solution of earthly troubles may best be taken care of through the agency of the vendetta. Tom Graham, the leader and brains of his cause, has demonstrated it to man. Tewksberry, the young est, and sole survivor of his race, is fugitive from justice. The fingers on one hand will tell the number left.