The Montana post., 1869-01-08
THE WEST.

The Pacific House. recently burned in
St. Joe will be rebuilt.
The amount of bullion assayed in
| Owyhee county. Idaho. during the month
of November, was $45 .242.49
At Horsetown, Cal, John Clark fell
from his wagon, Dec. 4, and sustained
interests which resulted in his death.
Elizabeth Davis has been granted a
decree of divorce from w. A. Davis, by
the District Court at Austin
Margaret Byrne has been granted a
decree ot divorce from Thomas Byrne
! by the Fifteenth District Court of San
| Francisco.
/ Green Clay Smith has resigned the
; covernOrship of Montana.-DcHcer
Ncrs.
j. NJ Galiegos has been appointed
Superintendent of Indian a affairs for New
Mexico, the office having been vacant a
year.
Brigham Young is indeed pillar ot
Salt Lake. His idea OF wife is-Lots.
| Frank Cody was badly hurt by earth
caving on him in Virginia City, New
on Det ember 14th.
! ii. Ardagh. the man injured on the
Central Pacific Railroad, near Argent,
on the 12th, died in Sacramento on the
18th.
Lucy Smith, aged IS years, was found
dead in her room on Hinckley street,
San Francisco, last Monday evening.
Cause of death unknown.
The Western Union Telegraph Conn
pany have reduced their charges on tell
egrams To Reno, Sacramento, Stockton,
and San Francisco.
Sim Walters, who is in Jail at Boise
City, charged with the murder of Bacon,
says the Owyhee TId0L IYdBo of Decem-
Der Is, is native OF Kentucky. raised in
Missouri. but has lived two or three
years in Montana. He Is only about %
years of age. and if guilty OF the crime
with which he is charged. has developed
a degree of human depravity seldom
equalied, unless it shall be shown that
he was laboring under partial insanity.
| We knew him in Montana in 1865 as
well as his father and brother. who were
all we'll respected 10y their neighbors in
Deer Lodge Valley. nearly all of whom
had known them in Missouri. His
father, Sidney Walters. had. in the sum
mer of 1865, quite a good mining claim
on Jefferson Gulch. but in 1866 the claim
failed, after expending considerable
money on IL. which left them with lim~
| tied means In the winter of 90, Sim
was selling cattle, which he and his
| father owned ON Race Track Creek, 10
the butchers in Deer Lodge City. IL
was during this time that we became ac-
| quainted, and occupied the same house
tor some time, a store in Deer Lodge,
where our own observation and the con
fidence placed in the the Walters 10y
Dock Foreman. the proprietor, who mad
A l. 81. a
been partner with Sims uncle in Kan
sas, led us to form a very favorable opin
ion both of father ard son. In the
meantime. il was generally understood
that Sim was engaged TO be married TO
young lady of good culture and accom-
plishments in the Valley. but whose
| family was opposed TO the marriage on
pecuniary grounds. After We lett the
Territory, as we learn from Sims broth
er of the young lady took occasion to
insult him, and was shot in return, but
not dangerously. Sim then left the
country, went 90 Missouri and Ken
lucky, but finding that country too slow
returned to Salt Lake, and engaged as a
wagon boss TO come To Boise City. From
Boise he came TO this place, and finally
settled on Reynolds Creek, where he
engaged in farming with Bacon. For
some months past he has been talking
ing of buying the ranch, and it was
while they were on the way to Boise
ostensibly to complete the trade. that
Bacon lost his life. Sim is accused of
the Killing under circumstanstes. which
il true, are too revolving to think of.
His father is in Missouri and his brother
in California. They are respectfully con-
nected, and this accusation, whether
true or false, will fall upon them with
withering effect.