Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . strong handsturned the rude ^\indlass that was in use there forhanging up beeves when slaughtered, and was nowused in place of a gallows, and aft(^r a little struggling,all was over with this hardened ci-iminal. After awhilethe body was taken down and buried. Some four days after this I met my friend Mi-. Honn,from Rogerss ranche, and he told me that Rogerss24 364 AlS^ APPEOPEIATE l^^ICKNAME. poor dog, Jack, liad died from grief, and tliat lie hadburied liim by tlie side of liis master. Rogerss realname was John, but he
Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . strong handsturned the rude ^\indlass that was in use there forhanging up beeves when slaughtered, and was nowused in place of a gallows, and aft(^r a little struggling,all was over with this hardened ci-iminal. After awhilethe body was taken down and buried. Some four days after this I met my friend Mi-. Honn,from Rogerss ranche, and he told me that Rogerss24 364 AlS^ APPEOPEIATE l^^ICKNAME. poor dog, Jack, liad died from grief, and tliat lie hadburied liim by tlie side of liis master. Rogerss realname was John, but he had received the name of HogRogers for stealing hogs some years before, and hetook pride in being familiarly called by the name theteamsters had given him. The authorities at Lone Pine advertised extensivelyin the United States and Mexico for heirs to Rogers sproperty, but no one appearing to claim it, the moneyfound by the confession of his murderer, and the pro-ceeds of his real estate, which was sold at auction, wereused for building school houses in that CrUAPTEE XXIY. CALIFORNIA, as is well known, was, in its earlyhistory, made a place of refuge by thieves, gam-blers, and desperadoes of all classes ; and like Texasin its infancy, it sniftered much from the lawlessness ofmany who went there as speculators and miners. Thiselement in the population rendered necessary thosevigilance committei^s which sprung up in a night, allover the state ; for in the newly and imperfectly organ-ized government, there was too much delay in dispens-ing justice to this class of rascals. In the course ofmy California experience I have seen many villainsbrought to th(nr deserts by these committees, and haveaided in ridding the country of many of them; andfor my part in these acts I have never felt the least re-gret, as I always felt sure they were guilty of thecrimes of which they were accused, even if all the pro-ceedings at their trial were not in accordance with thecustoms of the E
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