The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-02-03

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vlGILANTE TRIAL on THE HUxD0LbT
- oaIlovss, . Psssonsv, and ! Dis
appotntmsnt.
"LaS Il beaeaccnce setting BY rule."-Dsrks
Is hot our province to write an essay on the science
OF uncertainty known - Law. We arsvcrsed ncithcs
Ia its lineage lingo and the diapepsatiou Of justce
By the fee bill 10 to incomprehensible mystery
rs New York sausage to the uninitistcd. We have
simply to relate m episode occurring the Overland
trip, year, asoa story related BY friend In hear
iue few days since III impre.ses you - did III.
that popular sentiment. however honest, sometimes
that where Law 10 established and ito minister
fathf ii their DUTY 10 better to trust to them than
to ctc out punishment In passion, i'll advised haste
and without that fill investigation and development
Of facts that would. occasionally ut least the
action Of popular courts 1t wifi not be Inappropriate
to this day and Territory where q dangerous power
-cvoked and necessity In its day hes!tstes In abdi
Among those who outattcd" at Omaha in tho
spring Of 6l and pointed his wagon tongues toward
California, was . man sOme &C ycars Of aye named
Stanley. lie had beel In california aud Nevsda some
years. acquired come property and bad habits, and,
returning for hs wife and handsome girl Of
sightecn-had brought them to Omaha, purchased
two wagons and teams aud loaded with p DIVISIONS
and miners trading goods. He picked up for driver
Of his second team tall, country raised Mssourian
about " years VI aye-a clever goOdlo0kng fellow,
named Do5cy, who hired to work Lis passage across
BY driving team for his board All went well TIL one
night when ca,uped In the Black ille row occurred
between Stanley and Dobey. the former armed with
revolver chasing Dobey ont Of the corral Dobcy did
not return to S;aEleys wagons lie hired driver to
\ man named Hall. an emgrant from Dubuque, Iowa,
who with hswife three sons their wives and two or
three young girls, was going through to California,
and had number 81 wasonA In the morning the
train divided the Hall party going ahead. but little
was said Of the in the Stanley train, 40 the old
man was rcticcnt, and put mp among the boys
in ssanlys train that Dobey Ind been acctionate
10 Staaleys daushter-d;dnt manage well. aud that
the injured parent had got away with him.
The two trains did not come together again until
they reached Grsvclly Ford on the Humboldt river,
sometime In August. Here they camped about 1
quarter 1t mile apart. the Hall train being ahead
Daring the evening Stanley went down 10 the Hall
train and shot At DOLBY. who unyokinx his CATTLE
the ball taking the lash on Dobey's whip which was
thrown over his shoulders. The Tails intcrfcrcd to
The next morning the Stanley tram started first aud
passed the Hall train in CAMP Stanley citing on
the front seat driving. As he passed Dobey's wagon
the Latter deliberately raised his gun and fred at Stan
Icy. the bali striking him 10 the body Stanley s:ezcd
his revolver. rushed come fifty yards toward Dobey.
and eel! dead in his tracks. Ills body was taken up
placed in the wagon ana the train proceeded down
the river until noon, when they buried him and pro
cecdcd to L.ssens Meadows. Nearly all the trains
were laying IN few days nlon: the HUMBOLDT to re.
crut stock, and from there dccrin: all danger Of In
d:ns past, were struggling along toward Laeaen's
Meadows at leisure. A number Of those travelling
With Hall considered and freely spoke Of the killing Of
Stanley ~ cold hlooded MURDER and % evidence Of
that belief left tSc aa who were regarded ~ scces
sorry to the shooting, md arrived shortly inter the
Stanleys at ...-..t D.. -.
LAss9N's MEADOWS,
Where the Stanley verson Of the affair was rected BY
tn. widow and daughter and eorroboratcd BY each
subsequent arrival until there seemed bat one side to
the story: that it WAS deliberate assassination Of
Stanley By Dobey, who had provoked the father BY
attsm rting the ruin Of the girl.
In those days Lassens Meadows was place Of i'm
rortancc Mines had been struck and prospc was
eo:n. on In 'Coyote" "Santa Clara" "Bucna y.ta,,
"DOody' and ''Star" canyons--those great chasms
--I;-.'-s. ~.'s S~~~. 49, -.-r.e L--
known as Star Peak. the loftieet In the Humboldt
Mountains. These canyons were full OF n:ncre the
adventurous, energetic, rugged Caifornians and Ne
vadiaus who had joined in grand stampede for the
diggings. Lasseas Meadows was only o. 81 or 10
miles from these camps 1t WAS the nearest post on
the great Overland outc by the Humboldt and there
was located nun,h.r Of traders, buying and selling
supplies, trading and running horses supporting the
usual number Of han:ers-on and smooth Ephrsims"
WHO congrcga;e where the uooet money and whisky
can he procured for the least physical moral excr-
ton. Here the miners came for supplies or for -
buet" It had another attraction-woHsN, fu,!b!ood
ed American girls and matrona worthy mothers and
daughters right from the States ros TO the Golden
Coast To the thousands Of old miners who had seen
few except the habtsuss Of mining camps Tor years
the psicans and aurdys who followed them - sharks
do ships, the sight Of these danes and dams..s-
Drowned and alkalicd though they were, was an
inducement' which many yielded to--asd down
to ssscns" they came BY scores and hundreds during
the emigrsnt to those who looked a. their
mothers and sisters might and il the Hymcnial gods
were auspicious.' WOO and win one perhaps to bis
capyou cabin his wife, to love- honor and protest
her till she run OF with eomcbody else. .....;.
Probably more chivalrc, and rger, buccanccr look
ing ct Of fellows never existed than those eanc Star
Peak miners In ga In evidence OF this We need
only mention that r @. johnson, o. B. OBannon.
A. J. and c. B. Simmons, with dozen more prcsent
Xontapians were then living In one or the other Of
the canyonr Mounted On Roeinante-likc mules and
csywees, wearing the broad and stiff brimned hats
Ross Browne 20 faithfully sketehsd tor hsspesfwisa
popdasus Spanish epau lashcd On Brobdignagias
boots, and Bowie apd six-shootsr pendant TO each
belt: swarthy, and gaunt and BEARDED like bandits,
these Star ?eAkss swoopcd down from the mountains
like % many vesitahae knights Of L. aseha to ray
their devoss st theshsne Of Beauty md Il nesd be
like theis prototype 10 dcfend The Oppressed and
average The injured" ,,.-r..4 all ....g,ae,
TINE TRIAL .9r
Wore circumstances ever more peopitioss: Probably
go ninesS were Il IasesnS when IL Stanley widow
ss1 daughter arrived. A recital oe their woes, With
parenthetlc eobs and supplieations, and judic3ous
bluhbng and blowing Of noses did the business The
idea OF % aeeassiuation-of fathcr-the father oe
gr and che there in bodily presence praying their
sympashy and assistance called for swift rstrbstou,
and exciiemens nn high The arrival At Hail. Who hsd
left Dohsy ssms miles Up IL riv. brossht matters
to iess& Dobsy might take alarm aed escape Il
was said Hall had sdvissd Dobey to sAoot 6tanlsy -
eight, had aetasly loaded the hac and etood b. Do
~ wAss heissd nat M Sosei. Tns niaxs
eousac1 aDoee u q u. slseosa ySel rssAo-a suea,
de1wuino6.jooa1oG 0iooe-obo11s egyaorA IN