Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-10
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e. CIairsvi,,s, MARCH 10, 1seA.
a.slsest. from the Idaho Mines
'rhtrtecn Htghwaymen Hung,

n-afests from the Idaho Mines
'rhsrtecn Utghwaymen Hung,
Col. Foster. who arrived at st. Joseph,
No., last week, from idaho, furnishes the
News Of that city with some interesting in
tslIigence from the mines: ~
Col Foster left Virginia City on the 18th,
and Bsnuock on the I'D ult, He, in com
pany with eight others, packed through on
they struck the Mormon settlement. about
60 miles from Salt Lake City. From there
they came to Salt Lake City in sleighs, and
thence through on the overland stage.
Between, ,Bannock aud Salt Lake the snow
was from Tour inches 20 fourteen feet deep,
and the weather intensely cold The party
lay over few days at Salt Lake City to re-
cuperate. They came through from Salt
Lake in twelve days.
Col. Foster says few days before he left
the miners caught q highwayman with
whom the country has SO long been infested
and cursed, at Nevads,-ia the vicinity OF
Virginia City, and hung him. Two more
were caught and hang at French rancho
In their confession they gave the names OF
S3 Of their gang, and acknowledged that
they had killed and robbed over 100 mep.,-
They told whore number of the bodies
were concealed.
Virginia City was next surrounded and
closely guarded by the exasperated men,
early one morning. No one was permitted
20 20 out, but all could come in who desired:
Five men were arrested and q guard placed
around them. They wanted to know what
they were arrested for, aud were promptly
told, aud that they had already been tried
by the Vigilance Committee and condemned
and thatif they had any confessions to make,
it was time they were making them.
They were examined one at time, out Of
hearing Of tho rest, and they all implicated
the same men, gave the same names and
told the same stories. They were then Ia
ken out and cooly and deliberately hung. =
Five men of the same gang were also ar
rested and executed at Bannock. making
thirteen in all. .ss-- d:
Among those hung at Bannock was Henr!
Plammer, high Sheriff, and George Lane
alias Club Foot George" and Jack Cali
CHER, two of his deputies In arresting tn
last batch, one Of them, . Mexican, hre'
on the arresting party from his domlvlle
mock and wounded another. A mounte'
howitzer was then ranged, and raking tir
opened on the cabin completely riddhng il
and severely wounding the dssperado. con
cealed within. He was taken out and hung
the cabin then torn down and piled up an
his remains placed on it and burned.
Among the dcsperadoes who were thu
made to eIpiate their crimes and suffer tn
severest penalties of IN outraged law, at tn
end Of halter. were, in addition TO thos
already named, the following well,know
highwaymen: Hays Lyon, Borne Hemr
- Parish. George Ives, Datch John, an
Buck Stinson. The latter was formerl
from Andrew County, this State.
Ahnot laN man haa oOna nvar tO Dee
Lodge Diggings when Col. +. left to ex
cute Soma moro OF the saIno gang. III
miners have sworn vengeance against II
highwaymen. and say thoy intend to NAL
q clean sweep of them.
This desirable hanging and summary pr
ceeding he'd already had very desirable {
feet Whils before merchant could n
hang out coat. or landlord lamp, Wit
ont their being stolen, our informant "a
might have been left out in the streets
night without being interrupted. He thin
under the present state OF affairs that Ida
is the least inviting place of all others
highwaymen sad thieves to congregate t
ensuing Spring.
Gresnbacks in Virginia City are worth
cents on the dollar in gold dust; or an our
ofgold can be purchased for $24 of the
In Salt Lake an ounce Of gold could be p
chased for $23 in greenbacks. AT St. Lo'
it is $50. which, when coined, is equal
$33. Col. Il. says he lost about $1,000
Salt Lake through mistake in a
egraph dispatch. He inquired what g
was selling at, and the dispatch said 3S
stead of 58. -
Alex. Davis, formerly Representative fr
Buchanan County in the Legislature, '
elected Judge Of the Miners Court the
before Col. Foster lett. Hedecides on
aminer's olaim down to divorce case;
ofioo giving him more authority than s'
that possess ID by Judge of the Supre
Court OF the United States