The news was out about the Villista's having executed a British rancher. Villa insisted that it was an act of official justice due, he claimed, the rancher having attempted to pull a gun on him.
The real reason I'm posting this paper, however, is not for that news, although it appears here in the form of an article that the British did not intend to intervene in the Mexican Revolution due to the incident, but rather for its relation to some things we noted earlier this week, specifically;
Legislatures. Back to the future and other diversions?
Here we see the application of laws of the era. Two young women, ages 18 and 19 respectively, were run out of town in Laramie for leading an "immoral, idle and profligate course of life".
They'd just arrived there, so they couldn't have had the time to engage in too much immorality, idleness etc. Indeed, they'd just taken up quarters.
Maybe a person has to read between the lines, perhaps, on this one.
Also, a Union Pacific clerk was fined for carrying a concealed weapon. You'll commonly hear it suggested that up until recently, everyone was allowed to pack all the time, and in any way they wanted, but that's really not the case.
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