The St. Johns herald., 1900-05-05
HuDYAR REMEDY COMPANY, No. 816 South Broadway,
 Los Angeles, Cal Ger. Stockton, Market and Fills Sta
 San Francisco. Cal
EDITOR, ST. JOHNS HERALD,

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 DEAR SIR: In your issue of April 18th. appears 8 communication from E. S..
 Perkins, which voices the sentiment of every man, woman and cLild in this
 section of country, and should every
 citizen of this Territory. This band of
 renegades referred to camo from the South and were not residents of this
 county, and were making as straight 8 l line for the k. R. as thin ar would per-
 nit. and if they had not by chance 1 been caught killing fat COW belonging
 to Mir. Barrett, would have reached
 the E. R.. and the next news would
 have been "hold up" o n the Santa Fe Paci6a. But instead a warrant for
 their arrest was placed in the hands of
 the sheriff. He pressed them so close
 iha. they were compelled 10 change
 their course for safety. Iu the rough country which the outlaws tosc- they
 succeeded in ambushing and killing
 two of our promising young men who
 were in the service Of our County gov
 ernment. The killing was so brutal
 and showed such depravity of Charac-
 oD the part of the desPeradoes that.
 notwithstanding that our officers were
 doing ali in their power to apprehend
 tLe highwaymen, the county and citi.
 gems at once offered reward of S2,0O0
 for the arrest and delivery of the out
 laws. Then in order to make their i capture more certain, we turned our
 faces toward the Executive of the Ter.
 ritory and asked him through our Dist.
 Atty. Mir. Ruiz, to come to our assist. ance, by using the authority conferred on him by Sec. 235z of the penal code of the Territory 10 at least supple. ment the reward as above stated. To refuse on such a tlimsy pretext as ap- pears in the governor's reply produces a feeling of insecurity and disgust in tho heartOfevery person of this sparse- Iy settled region. Why the Gov. says: "Counties should as rule, defray the costs of experimenting their own crimi- nals. but ofcourse in cases extraordina. ry in character, where crimes Uf great atrocity have been committed, and se- rlous difficulty prevents the apprehen. sion of criminals, 1t is not improper for Territorial rewards to be offered" The langu ,ge IS too mild. The Stat utes say: "The Governor is hereby su- to offer rewards in his discre. tion, for the apprehension and convic- . ton Of criminals" If the crime in haud iS not sufficiently atrocious to at. tract the attention of the governor, and induce him U use the powers conferred by the Statutes. In the name of all that IS good and bad. to what ex- tent must murder aud rapine be car. red in order to move his Excellency to action? These two boys were part of the Sheriff 8 posse; they were alone. trailing the five desperadoes. they had no chance for their lives, as they were shot from ambush; shot to death and shot after death, muiilattd almost be- yond recognition. An old time resi- dent of the country said in the pres- ence of the writer, after viewing the bodies of the two boys: That during residence of 24 years in Arizona. and DeIEg familiar witl, early life in this Territory. and have never witnessed Such mutilation, not even by the saya- ses. The facts are that iyipg south Of ls Is rough, rugged country extend from Ariz into N. NJ, where thieves and robbers congreeste. And year af- ter year they prey upon the stockmen of Graham and 4 Apache Counties and rob them of the fruits of thelr honest Loil, by driving of and deiscing the brands on their cattle. Not infre- luently these bandlttl mako their in. ;ursions into the surrounding country and appropriate 10 thelr own use any thing they desire. Now. the country >ver which they roam. is not circum- scr:bed by the boundary lines Of this Territory. much less county. Con- whose criminals are they?
 We do not wish to shifk any respon-