, 1864-12-05

whether murder In Idaho should be lao Or
crime. These twenty men brought Ives into
Nevada City before a court (spontaneous)
Of one thousand miners, On the Goth Of
December, 1868, winters day, curiously
enough, 50 mild that boys played ball all that
day With their ooats off in the streets. .
execute agS this Ills bloody yllain? How ind oh him n
guilty, five or ak lawyers volunteered to
defend him among them q blathering seces-
zionist who glori@ in the nickname Of
q BoaurgardH: These refugees from all gov
eminent, and apostles Of disorder in general,
brawled stoutly for "tnry Sh trsa H. md 5 othsr e.
abuse, Is though jnTies, finding facts,
amounted to anything where there
was no law and no Executive to
carry their verdict into effect!
There was, happily. one young lawyer who
had come into Virginia City the September
before, who undertook to prosecute the case
before this court Of one thousand Judges. His
i. name is ". F. Sanders. He had been an off,
Ger in the Union army against the rebellion,
and WAS q decided opponent Of The slave
power. His health falling, he had come into
The territory with Ills uncle, who had been ap-
" course he was brow-beaton by his brazcn-
olitioni5t,''. born at,. Oberlin (Which
place he had never visited and all the can't
and slang by which crowd, hitherto cOntrOll-
ed By Southern prejudiees, Werc appealed to
He was right and the miners had got tired Of
being robbed and murdered.
Instead Of wincing and criuginS, Sanders
justified the heresles of Obcrlin, such as that
education should be put within the reach of
every young man, and the dogma edo as you
would be done BY" which he told the crowd
his opponents could not comprehend, and
. kept steadily to- the case. Under his guild
ancc Of it committee of twenty flour were
appointed, twenty-three Of whom were for
hanging. Sanders then moved the crowd
! that the report Of the committee should be
adopted and executed, which was carried.
The cnlprit then begged Of Sanders, as
mcnt. Sanders firmly refused to move the
crowd to postpone. Ives then begged for
tone hour'' to write to his sister and moth
er. And after exh austiug every possible ex-
pedicnt, he implorcd Sanders to let him live
Just few moments. The, crowd took him
Thus perishcd this single wasp, bnt it stirred
the whole nest.
Men felt now by an instinct that life and
property in this territory were put on their
dctcnses, Ind TINT they must plead The re-
suit was an immediate organization OF the
fully remarked ..hc never joined, for he swofe
in the first member hi1nscif.' and every man
who had shilling to lose Or q throat to cut,
unless he was one that would steal the shil-
ling or cut the throat, rejoiced in this ell
cient organization.
It was soon put to its sevcrest test by the
arrest Of Plnmincr himself, and hanging the
Sheriff Of the county on 0 gallows he lind
himself built. He was convicted. by the dY-
ing confessions Of three culprits, hung BIZ tile
committee at distance from each other and
who told the same story without the posi-.
htlffv nf annferr;nor frva{har l-,,o.rfrrt
, what each had said. These living Wit
ncssess proved not only facts Of robbery upon
him, but that he was leader Of tue gang. He
was arrested along with one Buck Stinson,
who little before, In addition to other
crimes, shot dead Bannocl Indian cllief who
stood innoce ntly. lookins in at 2 store door,
which act nearly inaugsurated bloody Indian
war. The other was q California convict
named Ed. Ray, whose last words to
the crowd were, 'God d-n your
sou1s.'' Plu,nnlcr, the arch villain Of
the whole, only showed signs of anguish and
rcmorsc. He begged Sanders piteously to
sssparc his Efe." 10 s*chain him down to the
when Sanders reminded lin TINT he was but
one member Of the committee and thpt as
such, he thought he ought then to be hung,
PlummcF fell on bis knees at prayer and thus
gnined time, By the religious veneration Of
the crowd. After some time, however, San
they brought Plummer to the gallows
where the others hung he took Off his
ncck-tic (the badge Of his hateful o-der), gave
it to one Of his friends as d memcnto, and re-
marling, Boys, give me good drop" went
into eternity. ....
Thus was q civil government established
in Idaho, which is now yielding before and
forms. May God shield it as Territory and
guald it Us State! In February Inst.