Mohave County miner., 1909-06-12
Necessity of Rangers.

EDITOR MINER:
 am in receipt of an article taken from Our Mineral Wealth and written, we suppose. by Kean St. Charles, re- garding the ranger proposition. If you desire news for the MINER and feel like publishing the following, l wish you would please do SO:
 In answer to the statement of the editor of the Mineral Wealth that the cattlemen are wealthy and able to hire men for the protection of their inter- ests, we would say that it is our belief that the law is supposed to grant pro- tection to every man alike in the en- joyment of life and property and that no man or set of men should be con- pelled to surround himself with fight ing men for the purpose of retaining that which his industry and business management has built up. It is very easy for those living in towns, where they have the protection of officers, to talk of those living on the ranges talk ing the law into their own hands and establishing code of laws and civil procedure of their own. But we wish to call the attention of the honorable 2 ncleman that should be con- mitted on the range, without the pa trolling of the ranger, it would take from ten to fifteen hours to get men from the sheriff's office in pursuit of the offender. The sheriff gets pay for the arrest, but should he fail he gets only his actual expense, while the ranger gets his pay whether he is fol- lowing criminal or lying in camp. He is in duty bound to follow the cl iminal as long as there is the least possibility of overtaking him, even if the pursuit carries him to the border of Mexico or into other states. If the Mineral Wealth is held up officers can be on the trail within the hour. Thus the people in towns and close to the railroad have unlimited protection, while the cattleman in isolated parts of the country are without the pro- tection the law contemplates should be held out to all classes. The ranger force, while in existance was power for good, because of the fact that none of the evil doers knew whence or where a posse of these men would bounce down upon them catching them in the act. The cowmen of the county, paying goodly part of the taxes, are asking that the ranges and property be made as safe as is the property of those living in more favorable sec- tion and by so doing safer industry will be built up and larger amount of taxes will flow into the treasury of the county. The cowmen of the coun- ty are asking for only a tithe of pro- tection and believe they are deserving of it even from the Hon. Kean St. Charles, who was elected to seat in the last legislature and who was SUD- pOSCu CO lCpIOoCuU OllO lhUCtCoOo Ol peoples and all sections in that honor able body, but who by his vote re- moved the only protection the cattle raisers of Arizona had against the work of the cattle thief and rustler. Cattlemen, Kean St. Charles notwith- standing, want ranger deputy sheriff appointed by the board of supervisors, and believe it to be to the best inter- est of the county that this one great industry be protected.
 Hoping that this will be of interest to you I beg to remain,
 R. H. CARR,
 of the firm of Carr, Davis x Nelson.
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