The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-07-20
The TRAMP NUISANCE.


that our citizens will have to do some
thing with the tramp nuisance. The
Gazette hus time and again mentioned
the fact that the town was overrun with
this worthless class, but never before
have they been SO plentiful in our midst
as at the present time. Reno is SO stu
ated that it is bound to receive every in
dividual OF this class going both east and
west. If going east they will stop off
here in order to get "A rest, provisions,
etc., to carry them over the great desert
east of us, and if coming west after they
Lave crossed the desert, they feel called
upon to get a stop-over ticket here for
the same purpose. 1t is not unusual to
10 find at least 100 of the hobos camped
on the shores of the Truckee between G..
Fl. Stoddard's residence and the reduc-
ton works, to say nothing of the many
that hang out in barns and the like.
That there is no excuse for men to lie
around idle at the present time, there il
no question, for our farmers are in the
midst OF haying and give employment to
nearly every person who makes applica-
ton.
That it is necessary for our citizens to
do something to rid the town OF these
worthless characters is being brought TO
their attention more forcibly every day.
The hobos hang around town during the
day, asking aims from everyone they
meet. When they are successful in ac-
cumulating twenty tive cents in this
manner they make a Decline Tor the
first drug store in sight, purchase alco-
hol with with the money, 90 to the river
OF other place where water is to be had,
pour the alcohol into a large bottle, nil
the bottle with water, and then have a
good supply OF whisky IN hand. The
above is simply mentioned to show some
of our charitably inclined citizens to
what use their offerings are put. Ii GU
people would refuse to feed or help these
vagabonds it would assist materially in
Kidding the town OF them.
People say "if we do not feed the
traDIps they will rob us" Now this is
all nonsense, Tor Ii the hobo had the
slightest idea that be could steal any
thing OF value from you and get away
without being caught, the hnest course
not hinuer Inn from doing 50. They
fear the law as mucn us any other in
dlvidual-that Is, when their discovery
in w~rong-doing mean punishment Tor
then-Lut there is IL question whether
the law as meted out II them in Reno
Is Il punishment or not. A hobo is ar
night: mex Jay he is brought before his
Honor Judge Linn, and il found guilty
the Judge viii sentence HIM 10 from Gen
t. tnirty days III hec county Jail. Lodged
.ilere, lie is gwen tNo nearly meals "a
day, Il good Junk TO sleep on, Il cool
pace 10 l.u lge in, and passes ms time
lii singing, dancing, playing cards Ii
the like. This is not what Webster calls
punishment, ami something should GER
tainly be done 10 change this mo e and
make the hobo at least earn his BOARD.
1t was suggested last evening THAI the
citizens turn out en- masse, 1ofm II line
be.ow the reductlon WORKS, herd all lae
and give them II dose o1 shoe leather,
and Tell them to make themselves scarce
ana never to return.
The GAZETTE would advise the people,
if they do not want to he eaten our OF
and home and robbed every night,
to get up some kind OF an organization,
patrol the town for "a week and drive out
every one not able TO give IA good ac-
count OF himself. This people cannot
afford to feed every worthless vagabond,
who drops in, and there are from seven
ty-1ve to zone hundred constantly with US,
~ say nothing oil the seventy-five or
Il hundred more wno are willing to work
ii tney can get it, ana who, IN the very
nature OF Things, must be led. IT Is not
eur purpose to advocate mob law or TO
4|nUenance anything without the letter
and spirit of the law Il the land, but i'll
as matll as oar small police force seems
unable to cope with the element the
GAZE TIE thinks that it would be well Tor
tne p ople TO assist them ora short time
l., tlafrOl the Town IN an eudeaVUr to put
an end 10 the traInps nuisance.