Arizona state miner., 1925-05-23


vent hope that the Herald man would
revisit Phoebe. He said no more,
but listeners felt that it would be
unhealthy for the correspondent if
he did
link, rambling along the main
street and striking up an acQuaint-
ance with local gossip, had the
leading citizens pointed out to him
men like Morgan Courtenay and
other ardent souls. There were
quite a number of those gentlemen,
eager, irritable, pugnaciOus.
II remember a great open-air poll
tical meeting one warm night in
September or October" says one
chronicler. "Three thousand miners
were pacing impatiently up and down
before the speakers stand, waiting
for the spellbinders to begin.
Zone of the visiting speakers,
seated on the sidewalk at the foot
of the stand remarked to w. w.
Bishop, prominent lawyer, L won
der if there won't be trouble to-
night
Killed Five Men Each
Not much replied Bishop
There are sixty-five men in that
crowd who have killed from one to
five men each, and those who have
only killed one are nightly desiroUs
of emulating those who have killed
five and so we have made those
sixty-five special officers to keep the
peace. We shall have the most or
derly meeting ever held in Nevada
"He was right 1t was a beautiful
meeting"
1t must be admitted that those des-
peradoes restricted their gunplay to
their own kind and so mine opera
| tors worried not at all about their
presence in Phoebe. Still they were
a little careless about the direction
of their bullets and their reckless
ness once jeopardized the lives of q
group Of distinguished sojourners,
lawyers of such calibre that it was
not many years before some of them
ranked as leaders of the San Fran
cisco bar
The big rush was on and accom-
modations were somewhat limited
and so it was that Barristers CARRIER
Bishop, Thornton, Mesick, Ashley and
perhaps one or two more were sleep
ing, or trying to sleep, in one room
a room walled with one-inch boards
hardly an ideal protection against
IA calibre bullet. A street fight
! arose with eight or ten men on q
side and the bullets came singing
into the lawyers room, although
fortunately high enough to hit none
of them. But this did not mollify
Judge Ashley, who arose and in linn
tied night-rObes and by the light of
dim lamp made a speech.
| Made Midnight Speech
mo good citizen refuses to obey
| the constitution and the laws" he
said. "Thereupon rests the temple of
our liberties. The nation that ig-
nores the law and in every emer-
gency establishes a code Of it's own
has not long to live, because JUS
tice is on the watch. Nevertheless,
it is inherent in man to love life,
and the great God places in his
! breast the fixed impression that
when other means fail self-preserva-
ton is the order of the day. Hence
my duty is plain. l am going to get
my pistol; I am going to supplement
that with a shotgun Then I am 60
ing into the street to fix things so
we can all sleep sounder tomorrow
night"
The judge was finally dissuaded
from his purpose. but he still main
tanned the absolute justice of his code
and declared it was in the bill of
human rights that if a lawyer failed
to protect himself he not only could
expect no protection from any other
source, but also jeopardized his pro-
fessiona1 reputation by displaying ig-
norance of the rules which should
govern a man in that sort of emer-
gency.
This incident brings us back to
link Barnes, for it was he who was
responsible for the presence of those
lawyers in Phoebe. The serpent had
invaded Eden. Gone were the days
of idyllic innocence from Phoebe
The Hermes Mining company was
suing the Raymond and Ely for the
value of ore alleged to have been
taken from Hermes ground and for
the possession of that ground.
Got into The Pay
For link, after brief survey of
the camp, had visited the Office of
the Hermes company and convinced
them that under the terms Of the
apex law one of the most valuable
Raymond and Ely properties was
theirs and showed them how easy it
would be to win a suit
links next move was to call on
William Raymond, directing genius