Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-12-17
NATIONAL TALKS
VIGILANCE Com.

Following is the interesting man.
ner in which Frank l.. Reber of the
National Miner calls meeting of
the "601 club"
TO THE SNEAKTHIEVES AND
TENT ROBBERS oFlNATIONAL:
The citizens of National are get
ting line on you. They know
that you are towards at heart and
of that base instinct where you
show the brutal bravery of men Of
your class of striking the foul blow
when you have the drop on the
other fellow. Men of your calibre
and quality are not wanted at Ma
tional Mark this: National will
get rid of you unless you mend
your ways and desist from entering
cabins, tents and domiciles of the
miners and other residents of this
mining community.
Your methods of the bullseye lam
tern must stop or the vengeance OF
this community will be upon your
head
The crime of you midnight ma
RAIDERS, breaking into trunks and
riding satchels and throwing the
contents in all directions and ruin.
ing the things that belong to min
ers will have an ending. Nationa
VIII henceforth be too hot for sucf
a den of petty robbers. There will
be no halfway business in this
even if the entire community mus
be pressed into service as a vigil
ance committee of guards ant
watchmen to apprehend one of yol
scoundrels in the act, and then the
application necessary for a perman
ent reminder as an example for al
such as you.
mean a clean sweep of all light
fingered suspects. When it comes
to the worst men of this class al
rule know how to avoid the con
sequences of an outraged commun
ity, and well may these take thi
suggestion Let the word go fortl
among the robbing gang that ''th'
pilfering, petty thieving and Robin,
of tents must end"
The citizen or citizens who viii
not play their part in Kidding Ma
tional of this calss of thieves doe
not deserve success or protection
in anything. Recently the old gam'
was played upon two miners whil'
at work Their tents were entered
trunks broken open, grips destroyed
and the contents spread in all direc
tons National has come to thu
parting of the ways and for prop
err foundation to meet the issue o
better regulation, the Nationa
Miner urges a public meeting a
Miners Union hall of the combine,
citizenship, with view of formini
proper organization and the adop
ton of rigid methods to apprehen
the thieves who have continued thi
practice for a long time.
National in this situation mus
not lack moral principle and dc
termination for once and all to sto
this thieving and getting rid of tn
class who are responsible for II
No votary and no portion of citizen
of this community are so vitality In
terested in this matter as are tn
members of the National Miner!
union. And the National Miner ha
no hesitancy to urge the miners VIII
toll and spin to properly organic
the machinery necessary to rid Ma
tional of the den of robbers VIII
make a prey of the miners prime
pally.
The National Miner is not illii
eral as to those things or feature
that belong to a mining camp
wide open town-but it does asset
that in order to preserve the intet
rity of the community and the 81
curity that all are entitled to whe
either at work or at home. that III
midnight brigandage and thiever
that has been carried-on in Nations
and surrounding must end and thu