The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-09
JUDGE LYNCH.
lie Officiates at the Execution of Ten
Montana Desperndoes.

Montana Desperadoes.
Weeksville, Montana. which has been the
champion town for roughs and rustlers, is
getting a thorough purging. 1t il mt the
eastern end of the western division of the
Northern Pacific, and for the past month has
been the scene of at least half u score of
murders and outrages and lately OF nearly
half AZ many lynchings A gentleman from
that place, who recently arrived at Butte,
gives the following thrilling account of the
summary manner in which the newly
organized vigilantes of Weeksville dispense
even handed Justice: Less than ten days
ago, IL will be remembered, Billy the Kid,
well known in Butte. was captured shot all
to pieces and thrown into the river. But
last Sunday was the bloodiest req letter day
ever known at the terminus For many
weeks past a spirit of lawlessness robbery
and murder had reigned supreme at that
point Good citizens were terrorized. and
the rule of the robbers was SO potent that
IL became unsafe for any man with dollar
in his pocket TO appear on the street.
even in broad daylight. While under cover
OF the darkness a carnival of crime was con-
Quoted by the thugs and cut-throats who
so greatly Outnumbered the good citizens
that any attempt to arrest and punish the
criminals was attended with almost certain
death to those who might otherwise have
been willing to aid in the enforcement OF
law and in visiting upon the heads of the
guilty the proper penalties for it's infraction.
Dire alarm took possession of the business
community, and it finally became evil
dent that, unless all good men were
willing TO sacrifice their property and
leave some immediate and determined effort
was necessary to terminate the existing
] reign of terror. The courts were paralyZed
and their edicts were defed Urged TO des-
peration by he extremites of the situat IN,
| "A vigilance committee was organized with
/ great secrecy, and the accessonS were soon
/ sufficiently numerous TO render its members
! bold enough to announce their purpose of
suppressing the high handed outrages al
/ most hourly coming To light. Once organ
lied, no time was lost in carrying out
! the object of the association. On
! last Sunday night three desperadoes
known as Ohio Dan, Blondy, Ed Enright and
another man were arrested. The three first
mentioned were hanged without ceremony
and the fourth was converted into n lead
depository. At the ~" another camp two
miles west of Weeksville, a similar scene was
enacted, three men names unknown, being
hanged on the same tree and all at the same
| time When the coach left Weeksville the
bodies of two men were still dangling in
| the air from limb of a tree giving an early
morning scene of CHASTITY aspect 1t was
] also reported at the same time that the
| three victims at the "Y" We're similarly
suspended, having been thus left by the
| avenging vigiantes. so that there should be
no possibility of a return TO life. On anOth-
er authority it il learned that last Monday
witnessed the hanging of three more men
whose high crimes hid become known, and
who were considered too wicked TO be al
lowed To atfiict the earth any longer with