. The people's illustrated almanac, Texas hand-book and immigrants' guide, for 1880, being an index to Texas, her people, laws, state and local governments, schools, churches, railroads, and other improvements and institutions .. . TRADING WITH THE MEXICANts. LAWLESSNESS AND CRIME. 175 by a law of affinity, associate with each other, and when disputesarise it is among themselves. Of course there are some exceptions tothis rule. If the qiiestion is asked, why are so many murders committed in Texas ?We answer: Many of them result from stimulating bad passions withbad whiskey. Others gr
. The people's illustrated almanac, Texas hand-book and immigrants' guide, for 1880, being an index to Texas, her people, laws, state and local governments, schools, churches, railroads, and other improvements and institutions .. . TRADING WITH THE MEXICANts. LAWLESSNESS AND CRIME. 175 by a law of affinity, associate with each other, and when disputesarise it is among themselves. Of course there are some exceptions tothis rule. If the qiiestion is asked, why are so many murders committed in Texas ?We answer: Many of them result from stimulating bad passions withbad whiskey. Others grow out of disputes aboue property; as to theownership of stock when tlie brand has become indistinct, or has possi-bly been altered. Still another, and a class which has furnished someof the most notable cases—has originated from love and murders are th6 result of petty quarrels, and sudden passion, anda habit still entirely too common, of carrying deadly weapons. In afew instances, men who claim to be good citizens, fearing that criminalsmight escape punishment, have joined and wrested them from the of-ficers of the law, and put them to death—a crime much worse thanordinary murder, as the criminal already arrested, is entitled to t
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