, 1868-04-10
The Trouble i'm Owyhee.

The following account of the terrible condition
of affairs which has characterized the disputed
possession of ledge between the Ida Elmore
and Golden Chariot mines, over in Owyhee
county, is copied from the AUdldnehe. The paper
says:
Golden Chariot Companies were strongly forti.
fed and closely watching each other which state
of things continued till about noon on Wednes-
day last, when it appears that the Golden Char
riot party under ground stormed the works of
their opponents, forced them back to the main
hosting shaft of the Ida Elmore, and within ten
feet of which they hastily made a breastwork of
gunny sacks filled with sand, which commands
the shaft so that no one can go down or up, but
still leaving as means of ingress and egress to
the Ida Elmore party, the New York shaft, four
or five hundred feet further north. Desperate
fighting ensued during the charge, at the time of
which or Immediately after, John G. Holgate an
owner in the Golden Chariot, and one Of the
foremost in the advance, was shot in the head,
and must have died almost instantaneously.
One of the Ida Elmore men was taken prisoner
and disarmed. Two more were peuned up in a
stope aud refused to give up their arms, but we
understand they were allowed to come out be-
fore dark. Shooting was kept up at intervals
during the night, and the next morning a man
named Meyer Frank, who was fighting on the
Ida Elmore side, was brought down to town
mOrtallY WOuuueu, Dullet from Spencer or
Henry rifle having passed through his intestines,
producing a fearful wound. The unfortunate
man died about two o'clock, P. NJ. A short time
after noon on the same day another Ida Elmore
man, named Jas. Howard, was brought down
with his right arm broken-a large bullet did the
work. The bone is horribly spliutered and
smashed up between the elbow and shoulder
1t is thought that it will have to be amputated
and fears entertained that it will prove fatal.
Some others have received slight wounds, but
up to the time of going to press nothing serious
has occurred. The Golden Chariot party still
hold the ground which they seized on Wednes-
day, consequently the Ida Elmore party have
been compelled to suspend work, although, we
are told that the former are taking out more ore
than ever. As yet there has been no fighting
outside of the mine, but it is feared that peace
will not long be kept, both parties have se-
cured commanding positions and fortified them
within gunshot of the two mines, and as there
are at least fifty men armed to the teeth, on each
side, we are prepared, at any time, to hear of
bloody battle.
The Avalanche says, in another paragraph, that
Holgate was a native of Ohio, aged about 80
years that he emigrated to Oregon prior to the
discovery of gold in California was among the
pioneers to Idaho, came to Boise Basin in 1863
and has lived in Owyhee since the spring of 1864
He leaves a brother and sister, who live on Pu.
get Sound, and other relatives in the States.
Meyer Frank was Jew, born in Europe. He
had served five years in the Confederate army
and came to this coast from Alabama last year
His parents reside in Portland, Oregon. The
deceased has been in Owyhee only a few weeks