Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-12-08
THE VIGILANCE
COMMITTEE IN S65

The Argonaut publishes con.
Sherman's account Of the San neral
cisco vigilance committee Of .sah-
to the time he ceased to be ) ! up
officer, and then what followed e
Sherman ceased to be a maior-a~
al of militia of California Nv
pointment of the then goyernor
Nicely Johnson.
At the time Gen. John r W.,
was in command of the federal MN
tary forces in California and Cantas.
Farragut (later the great admirsr
of the naval forces, Wool promisa,
Sherman the arms to put down 4,
vigilants, but later vent back on 4.
promise, at which Sherman resios
ed.
Farragut, too, when appealed 4
declared that he had no AUTHORITY !
interfere unless overt acts agairs,
the federal government were com
mitted It is a most interesting i
per and the names mentioned ara i
the chief actons in California affair
at that time, such names as Givts
%Broderlck, Terry, Baker, Farraqnt
Sherman, and a host more, some i
whom later made. immortal names
for themselves.
Sherman's account of the lead5.
up to and killing of James King ii
William is not quite the fun story
lie tells how James King Of William
established the Bulletin. and attach.
ed abuses. how he finally published
an article which was the record Of
tile conviction and Imprisonment II
New York Of James Casey, who Ina
established a little paper in San
Francisco and who was a ward poll.
tician. How Casey went to the Bnl.
letin Office and told James King Z,
Wlnam that he would shoot him on
sight and how he did shoot him
which started the vigilance commit.
Tee.
The facts are these. The Bulletin
as run by James King Of William
was a tough paper II slashed and
slashed at everybody. The recent
people of San Francisco would ea
have it IN their homes. A compoA.
TOR on the Bulletin told Casey that
an article was in type in the Bulle-
Tin oGlce giving his record in New
York. CASEY went TO the Bulletin
office, told James King Of William
that it vas true that when a boy he
had been convicted OF Il crime and
punished; that when he left home he
told his old mother that he would.
henceforth lead an upright life. and
he added: ~ have come to tell you
thau you are welcome TO publish any
thing you may find in my record
since 7 arrived here, bet to ask you
if you win not. on account Of my old
mother, suppress that account OF my
OLD New York record AT that King
ordered him ont Of the Office. where
opon Casey said "If You do publish
the old story / win hold yoa person
ally responsible for IT,
King not only published 1t, but
told in the same paper Of Cassy's
threats and added that he should
lrave his Office at a certain hour ard
bg What streets he sholld 20 hone
Casey met him, gave him notice 10
defend himself and shot him through
the shoulder. The doctors, In their
anZiaty e their patient. kept him
atapeded with morphine for a few
days, when he died.
The revulsion Of sentiment was
immediate and terrible. People who
would not permit the Bulletin in
their homes the day before at once
became the champions OF it; to them
Kiag became a martyr; the vigilance
committee vas organized; -four men
were hanged and many more we're
b%onished, and San Francisco Jas
practically under siege for four
months.
Now York merchants lost aore
from San Francisco merchants that
year than they had before since
1S49.-Goodwin's Weekly
TRiNSVAAL GOLD PRODUCTION.
The companies reporting TO the
Transyaal Chamber of Mines for the
past month were seyenty-Rve IN nahl'
Der, distributed as follows; WitNat'
arsrand, 65; Heidelberg, 81 Barber
ton, 3; Klerksdorp, /; %Lydenburg' o.
The total number of tons milled was
1~,252,490, yielding 509,l15 nue.
ounces gold.
the steady increase in Rand pfo'
duetion continues. Each month 70
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