What was the narrator's opinion of the town in "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"?

According to the narrator, the town had changed overnight.
It was an "ominous" change with a "Sabbath lull" that had not existed before. Permeated
with red dust, Poker Flat was a generally lawless town that suddenly turned on several
of the town's less prominent members. The death of one citizen and several robberies
prompted a group of "virtuous" townspeople to take action. The narrator doesn't seem to
think very highly of the citizens of Poker Flat, who decided to make an example of a
group of people whose actions were acceptable to them only a day before. The "secret"
committee's actions were as "lawless and ungovernable" as the people who had been
accused. Poker Flat was not a friendly town, and most of the people who lived there
simply looked the other way when Oakhurst and the others were outcast from the town. The
people who lived there were weak, but they were capable of some pity, choosing to simply
give the offending party the boot rather than the hangman's
noose.