Arizona sentinel., 1918-02-21

which demonstrates upon reflection the credtaOe success which the United States self governing people, have made of the democratic method of raising army sol case open and armed opposition proves by the rore which it has excited the statewide peacabe acceptance in Arizona of the military obligation.
 All information obtanable about the Powers-Sisson gang indicates that they outlaws in spirit and halfway outlaws in fact outside of the consideration of military draft law Their defiance therefore not that o patc- ular law but rather of the will of the law.
 Jeff Powers father of the boys according to good in formation had been engaged in litigation for years and had so soured by his defeats that he counseed his to regard the government of the rich tor the rich and that justice was unobtanabe for such as them It said that for years he had planned this rebellion in case The law should for him any of his with war rant.
 The mysterious death of Ola Powers the 20-year-od daughter who was forced live with these hard in remote mountain camp 30 miles from the nearest settle men and the knowledge that her father had forced her to grow up terae and errorzed in disregard of the customs of civilization had called Sheriff Mcbride to investigate the circumstances It is not improbable that fear of disclosures in this respect resentment o the laws nquSVe- nes reinforced the gangs hostility and determination not TO recognize the law Many aspects of the show that he Powers and Sisson not conscientious obec tors the draft modelled from the same ntracabe spirit as those mountaneers who have from time mmemorlal n-
 
 and apples without paying the government its tax but that she draft simply furnished the first occasion for clash With he law by men who intoerant of any interference with their affairs
 By laying down their lives in the pursuance of duty Sheriff Mcbride and his deputies bore out the best trad
 ons of peace officers in Arizona It is reminiscent of the sacrifice of w. w. Lowther peace officer of Bsbee, who advanced to arrest James Day in 189o atho warned by Day that he would shoot He had been warned of Days h,1+r he Day shot him and escaped McBrde knew of the threats that the Powers boys had made and it is unfortunate tha he did not approach their cabin more warly.
 Should the federal authorities succeed in locating an aeropane which be obtained for the hunt it will bring into the same chase one of the bodest and means of pursuing criminals Sheriff Miles is using three bloodhounds of the familiar black and reddish color those which pursued Eliza to the edge of the ice The value of an aeroplane such hunt speculative especial y if the outlaws travek only night and hide in canyons during the day. but would certainly add the story In the case of fugitives fleeing in automobile open desert roads, aeropane would unquestonaby be effective in locating them It is easily conceivable that might attack the fugves with machine gun should they refuse to half
 Assiduous as have been all sherifs of southern Ari in taking and keeping the field in pursuit of the out laws it looks swer action better cooperation and strategic direction of the campaign could be secured if there force of rangers with commande authorized to direct such campaigns by the civilian forces of the state If the of the outlaws have beer correctly reported they have slipped past several posses | There greater amount of serious crime in Arizona approximately population than in metropolitan center such New York and Chicago if much but the pctur esque and difficult terrain of mountain ranges and forests which the hunt must be conducted makes of it muct primitive and absorbing story. The state canno avoid the advertising which such incidents entail bu ic tO he that state with enlightened people, New York murder story served with breakfast every morning by the New York papers,