Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-09-29
CRIME IN NEVADA.

cut short the reproduction of crimi-
nails. it may be we'll to bling up the
criminal record Of the State Of Ne
vada for consideration.
Nevada is a State which can boast
Of less crime in proportion to its pop
uladon than any other State lii the
Union. Her pages are astonishingly
clear OF those crimes which befoul
the records of sister States. Her
people are cooperative cou'ounity.
living with mere Consideration FOR
one another's interests than mcTtly
any other people on the globe. II is
an established fact that those WHO
have once made their homes In Ne
vada, who Lave mingled with her
people and partaken of their hospi-
tality and good fellowship, who have
felt the influence Of their sincerity.
are always and ever glad to return.
from whatever cline has subse-
quently claimed them, to the land Of
the sagebrush. Gle home of people
than whom there are none more gen.
orous and free.
In the days of the Comstock, when
hundreds of rough-humored, IN
couth men mingled with their fell
lows, when government by the usual
methods was but by-word. in fact,
an possible-to- Zen force means OF es-
tablishirg law and order, when fiery
liquids burned the threats and dazed
the brain and conscience of these
men, when they were themselves the
arbiters Of law and the judges of fact,
even then the history of the State
traces no hideous crimes to make
men shudder and to cause mothers to
fold their babes more closely to their
breasts and increase their watchful-
ness over son and daughter.
But one or two instances of ext,a-
ordinary import can 10 found among
orr criminal annals, One IF them
was the murder of Miles Faucet in
1887 in our own county, for which
Josiah and Elizabeth Potts, man and
wife, paid the penalty of death by
hanging, after trial marked by it's
brevity yet fairness and justice.
The people Of this State are natur-
ally aw-abiding people, living not
for the purpose Of taking advantage
at all times of those among whom
they live, but Of doing all they can to
make life eXistable to their fellows,
while at the same time they care Tor
their own interests. There is no
grinding down here, no monopUlies or
trusts to starve down men and fam
lilies, to take the crust from starving
women and the milk from dying
babes in order to clothe their sons
and daughters in silks and tineries.
to buy foreign counts for husbands
and pay for sons debaucheres, to
store up for themselves something
vast as an inheritance TO their de-
scendaDts, to constitute their monu-
ment in death. a monument upon
which is inscribed: "To the poor,
poverty; to the miserable, misery,
to the dying, death; 'starve and be
damned"
Nevada today pays higher pro-
portlonato wage to her laborcr, ex-
ponds larger proportiopate amount
for the education OF her sons and
daughters, has on record less pro
portion OF mortgages and harbors q
less proportion Of poverty and dis
tress, ut starvation and discomfort
than any community OF any State 81
any land beneath Heaven.
Derided as she has been and is by
those who do not understand, desig
mated by those ignorant Of our condi
tons as a veritable alkali vat, seeth
ing and boiling meath unbearable
suns in Summer and standing still
with frozen veins under pressure OF
the cold in Winter, political gamb
ling den and nickname for lawless
ness, che still holds up her head il