The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-13
dence WAS clear and positive, asked that the
law take It's course. This was done. but the
course Of law was not the course OF Justice"

1t is an interesting fact that after tho ac-
auittal % Baca. Col: Frank ChaSis, the prose;
pSsn oqs al
Alter a long time Joe Fowl or came TO town.
SSS waS p nnd sS6oGV to use in SUPPORTING il
They say no had killed seven men before he
bers Sns team t T Sfsh snS fn
n lot OF fun making a man dance BY threat
eninG him, with two reyolvers when Cole
30 Fowler. being that Kind Of toueh worked
M his courage with iJSord gGt the d drop on
"A kind.hearted Mexican jury. ayerso to in
fliciing the death penalty" according to the
record found him guilty VA. ana ne WAS villa 1Sn
II lay before the court tho Goyernor called out
tho militia to guard him; Col. +. W. Eaton Of
tes, had mand Of the SQUAD As the time
for the decision on the appeal drew nigh r9w
Tex. With tn Bon Thompson and Wyatt Earp.
whose reputation for desperate nerve was
good; housseau, came alone but he gave II
out that Fowler should never be hurt by avgi-
lance com mittec. whatever the law might do.
Tint Vas bad for F9wsr' In srit ;', Of Eds
nounced the Governor OF the Territory ordered
the militia withdrawn from. around the jail
because there was no money me- to pay the men: .,
Eaton did his duty faithfully a.. commander, Of
the guard. and ] guess he did it as faithfully
lie saw that tho convicted criminal was not
rescued by Texas con federates"
Th hs Of hs I'd at
body was found swaying to and fro with the
breeze at the end Of a rope thrown over tho
handy limb to tho cottonwood that shades
The tourist is not unlikely TO hear Of others
enTss crime "
two hanged at once who were lust horse
theves,"i several of the Kind had been acauit-
cupidity and set good example generally to
swing them in Death Alley, Might. quaro
doin,s bout dat ole wall, sah.'" as the darky
Well. Socorro had her fling, and abe kicked
high but -m1rrow With ITS IT'S, h nj ,h nad
dried up after year FL cattle ss failed
greater q part Of the n capital Of the
Most Of the miners and cowboys and about all
the spoG tns WITH he dSY In o n" anbs
houses, ugly without and OF ,wondrous lux;
ury within. were left r as tenantless and
wooien shanties soon creaked and iapped in
he wind. while glass jingled as the bad boys
threw stones through unused ie wndows Ing
unwary pedestrian ruined many shoes on tho
up-drawn nail heads There, is nothing to
has had its spree and is lying in the sun on
the verge Of the iimjams. 1t IS uniuuc and
,5e full Of nS Sjs and
But let no one suppose that Socorro Is done
for. 1t was often in moro desperate straits
under Mexican rule. but survived; Socorro is
not so pretty as it was. but it knows more
who are quietly buying everything in sight
hat Is offered by tho hopeless. They have
their eyes on the inexhaustble quantities Of
low grade ore back o! tho town an ore that is
not so low in grade but tina: il can still be
worked even with silver at 60 or ~ cents
an ounce. They know that the day when
any man who could handle a shovel
or push a dump car could call him
self miner and command 81 a day is past.
The wages 81 the com mon Ia horrrs have got to
como down to 81. SO or SO day Will e the ex-
pert miners must accept $50 in place Of the
81 so he has had. The owners must be con-