What to see in America . California. Mt. Shasta seized in the act of stealing. He was tried at once by theVigilants, convicted, sentenced, and hanged in PortsmouthSquare. The committee went on investigating and punish-ing. Evil-doers were terrified, and crime rapidly the end of thirty days the activities of the Vigilants wereno longer needed. But a few years later the old suppressedcrimes again leaped into eminence, and came to a climax in1856 when a crooked politician named Casey fatally woundedwith his revolver James King, editor of the Evening Bulletin,near the corner of Washi
What to see in America . California. Mt. Shasta seized in the act of stealing. He was tried at once by theVigilants, convicted, sentenced, and hanged in PortsmouthSquare. The committee went on investigating and punish-ing. Evil-doers were terrified, and crime rapidly the end of thirty days the activities of the Vigilants wereno longer needed. But a few years later the old suppressedcrimes again leaped into eminence, and came to a climax in1856 when a crooked politician named Casey fatally woundedwith his revolver James King, editor of the Evening Bulletin,near the corner of Washington and Montgomery Kings funeral a gallows was raised in front of theVigilants rooms on Sacramento Street, and there, underguard of 3000 stand of muskets and two fieldpieces, withan onlooking throng, Casey and another murderer werehung. This ended the second reign of vice. The earliest regular overland mail communication withthe East was established by pony express in 1860. Postage 464 What to See in America was fiv
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