About six years ago several Chinamen were…

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to jail to await the action of the grand jury. One other Mexican prisoner is also held in custody until further evidence can be secured. “I stood on the bridge at midnight, As drunk as a son of a gun. Two moons rose over the city Where there ought to have been but one” About six years ago several Chinamen were killed near Fort Bayard, by Mexicans, who were subsequently captured. One of them was afterwards killed with the escaped train rob- bers, and the rest got light sentences in the penitentiary. Since that time the Chinese gar- deners at Lone Mountain have several times been held up and robbed, until it would appear that these renegades from Mexico consider the Chinamen their especial prey. Had the* Mexi- cans who killed the Chinamen at Fort Bayard been hung for their crime, it would have had a salutary effect, and would have saved the county and territory a large amount of money. The fact is that criminals as a class are dealt with entirely too leniently in this community. If a man is guilty of murder, he should receive the highest sentence possible under the law, and not be let off with two or three years in the penitnetiary. If Grant County juries continue this practice, there will surely be such a protest from the people one of these days that will land some of these hard cases in the “happy hunting grounds.”