The Newark journal., 1905-05-19
A Desperate
 Remedy

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 all right. remarked the man from Arizona. who squirted six drops of tabasco into each drink that he poured out. and sometimes they were all wrong. In my opinion they were oftener dead wrong than half right But this may be prejudiced testimony. I never liked the vigilantes' methods It is undeniable that they were what you might call a necessary evil in some parss o1 the west Brt they always oYerdid the thing They grew arrogant donineering They generally wound up by wanting to be the waole works. Then. in most cases, something would turn up to finish the vigilantes. l hap pened to be on hand wnen the some thing happened that pulled the curtain down on the yigilante business in Arl- zona There has never been a yigilante in Arizona from that day to this
 It happened in Flagstaff. in 1884. They were never called yigilantes in Arizona They were referred to as Stranglers The Stranglers got pret- ty tight hold on Flagstaff. They weren't popular. but they had majority. They called themselves a sherif's posse. and for awhile they roGe over Flagstan proper They turned several tricks. with the aid of the rope. that were nowhere near or the square, and they killed several men who were pretty generally thought to be innocent by Flagstaff folEs who didn't take any stock in the Stranglers haphazard way of doiu9 things So that when this thing happened I'm going to tell you lbout. there was pretty strong under current of feeling in Flagstaff against the STanglers.
 The beginning of the Stranglers' wiud-up was when one of the most prominent of their number began to pick 5n the Burns boys. Charley and Frank. Old man Burns ran the Burns house in Elaestaf. and these boys were lis sons. Charley was about 33 and Frank was $ They were both square men. as men went down in the southwest in those days They didn't pretend to be s9nctified, but they kept as well with in the law as any of LIS. There was no .eason on earth why they should have been singled out to be picked on by he Stranelers. bat they were Che day the prominent Strangler that l men toned walked into the Burns house. Charley and Frank were playing seven fat Er7s Ff.rfr the desk. 4 few bystanders were polk ing around This Strangler man be gan shooting if into Charley Burns iH a pretty strong way of hiEtina about a stage robbery that had been pulled off aot far from Flagstaff a couple of weeks 9elare. Charley wasn't coward. by q whele TON of dobas but he knew that f he went at the Straneler he'd not 5nly get it himself, but that his broth CT and his old father would probably have to dangIe Anyway, he wasn't fixed He had laid aside his belt for more comfort in sitting down So he 3i6n't say much in reply to the Stran- 2ler's digs. Frank his younger broth sr tuned but he didn't cut il until the i Jttt3ASift NdtRGU tJ tHS b1i ct tut emu # the office to get a drink Then he said in an angry undertone to his brother:
 Charley if your
 10 tafe your own e.
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 I'm not fixed said Charley.
 Prank passed his brother a gun un- der the table
 Now call him. he said.
 Charley sort o hesitateG. fIe was a
 .ooler man than his brother and he wanted to keep cut of trouble if he could So he damned the gun into his waistband and sat in sort of guess. The Stransler walked from the bar 1 oward the door.
 You may hear something, be said stopping at the door and looking at Charley Burns significantly Just wait a minute said Charley
 getting up from the table and walking
 5yer to the Strangler Let's hear il
 LOW.
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