Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-12-07
rho ~viGn.ns. Comm,.,.. In 1850.

Tn" Vigilance In 1880.
The Argonaut publishes General
Sherman's account Of the San Fran.
cisco vigilance committee OF 1876 up 10
the time he ceased TO be & state officer,
ard then what followed after Sherman
ceased to be u msjor-vensral Of militia
OF California by appointment Of the then
governor. j. Nicely johnson.
AT the time Geu. John E. Wool was in
command Of the federal military forces
in California and Captain lnrragut
Qater the great admiral) OF the naval
forces, Wool promised Sherman the
arms TO put down the vieilauta. but
later rent tack on his promise, Mt which
Sherman resigned.
Farragut, too, when appealed to, de-
clared that he had no authority to inter.
tere unless overt acts against the federal
government were committed. 1t is a
most inter AstinR paper and the names
mentioned are OF the CHEF actors in
California affairs at that time, such
names rs Givip. Broderick. Terry,
Baker, Farragut, Sherman, and q host
more, come OF whom later made i'm.
mortal names for h emseIves.
Sherman's account Ut the leudinR up
to and killing Of James King OF vii.
liam is not quite the full story. Hs tells
how James King OF William established
the Bulletin, and attacked abuses, how
he finally published an urticle which
was the record ~ the conviction and
imprisonment in New York Of James
Casey, who had established IA little pe-
per IN San Francisco aud who was a
ward politician. How Cnsey went to the
Bulletin Office and told James King Of
William thai he would shoot him ON
sight and how he did shoot him which
started the vigilance COMMITTEES.
The facts are these: The Bulletin as
run by james King - William was a
tough paper. IL slnshed and elashed nj
everybody. The decent people OF San
Francisco would not have it in their
homes. y composition ON the Bulletin
told Casey thai an article WIS in type in
the Bulletin Office giving his record in
New York. Casey went to the Bulletin
Office, told James King OF William that
It was true that when It boy he had
been convicted nj a crime md punished;
that when he left home he told his old
mother that he would henceforth lead
IN upright life. Gnd he added: al have
come To tell you That you are welcome to
publish anything you may tind in my
record since arrived here, but TO ask
you II you will not, on account VI my
old mother, suppress thai ccount Of m,
Ole New York record" At that King
orierad him out oi the office, whe,eup
On Casey said: @lt you do publish the
old story will hold you personally re
sponsib.e for it,"
KING not only published it, but told il
the same paper Of Casey's threats an,
added that he should leave his Office at
certain hour and ny what streets h
should go homo.
Casey me- him, gave him notice to de
fead himself and shot him through th
shoulder. The dootore, in their an1iet
over their patient, kept him ~stupetie,
: with morphine Tor ii few days, when h
lied. ZIG
The revulsion Of sentiment was i'm
> medinte and terrible. People VII
= would not permit the Bulletin in thei
homes the day before at once becom
the chnmpioua Of it; to the IN King be
come II martyr; the vigilance committe,
was orgnuized; four men wore haDge,
and may more were bnnlshed, and Sal
Francisco was practically under sieg
for four months.
: New York mer chants lost more from
!, San Francisco merchants that year thar
they had before since lSI9.-GoodwinT
Weekly.