Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-04-01

= The following account. of the terrible condi.
tipa 4f affairs WHOA 'h4s chatj liza tie
disputed Possession Of 81 q ledge b Between the
Ida Gilmore and Golden Chariot mines. over
y Y Qwyhee COUNTY, j. copied from tke Au4laache
Of last .Hatur lay he ppper ~:
Last week we stated that the Ida Elmore
and Golden Ehasiote Companies mefs slr0naly
fortified and closely watching each other, which
state Of thines c66tiHuedf tiIf about noon on
"Wednesday last, when, it, appearsr that the
Golden Chariot party under t6dad stermed
the. works Of their 0pponents,a forced them
back to the main hosting shaft Of atheHda FL
more and within ten feet Of which they hastily
made q breastsvork Of guhnys sackss fllea with
sand, which commands the shaft 90 TINT no
one can 90 down or up, but still leaving as
means OF ingress and earessG to the Ida Elmore
party the New York shaft four or FIVE hundred
feet furtherlH0rth. Desperate fighting ensued
during the charge, at the time of which or i'm,
lnediately after, John G. H0lgate, an owner in
the Golden Chariot, and one OF the foremost
in the. advance, wasssh0tin the head, and must
have died almost ,instantaneously One of the
Ida Gilmore men was taken prisoner and dis
armed. Two more were penned up In d stope
and refused togive up theirlarms. but wes1n.
derstand they were allowed to come out before
dark Shooting was keptnp at intervals during
the night, and the next morning man named
Meyer Frank, who was lighting on the ida Ell.
more side, was brought down to town MORALLY
wounded, bullet from o Spencer or Henry
rifle having passed through his intestines, pro-
ducing fearful wound. The unfortunate man
died about two O'Clock p. M. A short time
after noon on the same day another Ida Elmore
man, named Jas. Howard, was brought down
with his right arm hrokenl-a large bullet did
the work. The bone is horribly splintered
and smashed up between the elbow and shout.
der. 1t sthought that il will have 20 be am
putated, and fears are 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 Wednesday, consequently the Ida
ElmOre party have been compelled TO suspend
work, although, we are told that the former
are taking ont more ore THAI ever As vet
there has been no fighting outside of the mine.
but it is feared that peace will not long be
kept, as both parties have secured command
ing positions and fortified them within gun.
shot of the two mines, aud as there are, at
least, fifty men armed to the teeth, on each
side, we are prepared. ut any time, to hear of
a bloody battle. kTaE4.r fTi4eayj| 1
The Aralanche says, in another paragraph,
that Holgate was a native of Ohio aged about
30 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 1868, and has lived 10 Owyhee snce
the Spring of 1864. He leaves brother aud
sister, who live on Puget Sound. and other rel
atives 10 the States. Rls 50 n0si sesar aaass
Meyer Frank was q 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 had been in Owyhee
only few weeks.