The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-09-02
MURDERED WITH AN AXE.
A Leadyille Man Chops off
Another's Head,
MORE LIFE TAXING
Manager Cable, Of the Rock Island,
Expresses an Opinion on tho
Northern Pacific.

: Manager Cable, Of the Rock Island
j Expresses an Opinion on the
Northern Pacific.
A correspondent writing from Leadvill
,, gives the following particulars of an awfu
) murder which was committed there on Sun
day last: Another atrOcious murder wa,
added to Leadville's long list of crimes OF
Sunday about 8 o'clock, when Henry r
Kirby, miner and ward politician, killed
Philip Nash, a miner, by striking him or
the left side Of the neck with an ak, nearly
severing the head from the body. Deatl
was almost instantaneous. The murderer
fled, but he came into the city this mornins
and gave himself up. The details Of the
tragedy are as follows: Kirby was the
foreman of a gang of men who were work
was interestedin a lease on the Huston on
| the same claim.
! THEIR NUMEROUS QUARRELs
The two men had been quarreling for a
long time, both il regard to their claims
and other matters. Nash claimed that
Kirby was encroaching upon his ground,
and he wanted to go into the Fortuna tun-
mel on Sunday morning to. make measure
ments He had a candle in one handsand
a tape line in the other. Kirby, who was
on the surface and near the mouth of the
tunnel, saw Nash and told him not to 90
into the tunnel. Nash answered that he
was going in. At the time he was accom-
panied by P. J. Fulsome, his partner in the
lease on the Huston.
THE MURDEROUs ATTACK
Fulsome says that the dialogue in sub
stance above given was all that he heard
between the men before Nash started into
the tunnel. AS they entered it's mouth
Kirby dashed by them, and seizing an ak
that stood in the tunnel he dealt Nash the
blow which caused his DEATH As Nash fell
Fulsome says he remarked to Kirby: "You
have killed him, but Kirby jumped over
Ftle prostrate man without saying a word
a.ld went to his cabin, carrying the ak with
| him. In the cabin he seduced large knife,
| and with the ak and the knife he left for the
woods, from which he emerged as above
| stated and gave himself up. III.
ANTECEDENTs OF THE MEN,
Both Nash and Kirby are well knowni in
Leadville. They are both hard citizens,
Kirby having been indicted as ballot-box
stuffer. He is a loud-mouthed fellow who
essays in conversation to run the Demo-
cratic party of Lake county.
Nash has been terror to the miners for
a long time. He has ordered many men
off the hills and he enforces his orders with
an every-ready rife or revolver.
K1RBY's PERMIT.
Some time ago Kirby secured permission
to carry /. revolver because OF the threats
which Nash had made against him. Kirby
says he is sorry for the killing but that he
had to do it to save himself. "a
This afternoon the coroner held secret
inquest on the remains of Nash, and tha
jury decided that the killing was felonioust
Kirby will doubtless have an examina tiols
in a few days, and he will endeavor to make
out a case Of self-defense.
William Crump, a young colored man
hailing from Kentucky, employed as
waiter at the Montezuma Hotel, Las We
gas, New Mexico, was the other day assas-
sinated in Shoemaker Canyon, near Vegas, |
by being shot in the back OF the head. The |
assassin is unknown.
The Trinidad News gives an account OF a |
horrible murder of Colorado man which !
took place in Costello canyon, New Mexico,
about year ago, and how the murdered
man was identified by his wife by clothing
worn at the time he left home. The paper
says: Early in September last, W. D.
Chandler left his home in Del Norte to come
to Trinidad to engage in prospecting for oil.
He stopped at Alamosa, which place he left
on the 25th OF September, after which time
he was never again heard OF. His wife made
inquiry in every direction, and in December
had a letter from F. Meyers, of Costello
saying that the dead bodies of two
men had been found in the canyon about
three days journey from Alamosa, and
that one OF them answered the description
GIVEN BY HER OF HER HUSBAND.
She ascertained that Mr. Chandler had
loft A1a in with |
man, stranger and that accounted for
his companion. Mr.. Myers said the older
man had been shot through the head from
the front, while the younger one was some
twenty PAGES distant and seemed to have
been shot running.
The sheriff of Colfax county had held an
inquest and the conclusion was arrived at
that the strangers were killed by mistake
by some sheep-herders. A man named
Niles, with his son, had been cutting grass
in the canyon and had been ordered off by
the herders, and it is supposed that
and his companion were mis-
taken for the trespassers and shot. Mrs.
removed to Trinidad in December.
AND CONTINUED HER EFFORTS
20 ascertain if the body found was indeed
that of her husband and bring the murder
RS to justice. A petition was circulated by
|
Governor Sheldon, asking him to offer a
'eward for the apprehension OF the murder
RS, but it was not acted on and the snow
n the valley long prevented opening the
raves to examine the bodies. Last week
dr. Pooler, of Stonewall, went over into
he canyon and opened the graves and !
ent
PORTIONS OF THE CLOTHING
o Mrs. Chandler, who identified the shirt
md some other pieces as belonging to her
deceased husband, and she is fully satisfied ,,
hat he was one OF the victims of cruel ;
Mr.. Chandler enlisted in the !.
rmy at Kalamazoo, Mich, and served y
hree years. Mrs. Chandler mas three child I
nd certainly has the sympathy OF our en-
ire community.
r. R. Cable, President and general man. q
ger OF the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa '
ific RailwBy, in an interview, being asked l
hat truth there was in the report that the C
Jock Island would absorb the Northern t
'acific, said: n
$50 far as I know, there is no truth in I
he rumor whatever. It was started after s
left Chicago. but who started it, or by t
hat means it was started is more than I | "
an tell YOU" il
"Mr. Cable, you have been on an extended g
rip throughout the Northwest; what is the a
esult of your observations" t
swell, wherever | have been business g
'oks as if it was improving. The miners
seln satisfied everywhere, and crops are
kcellent all over the country; think bust
ess will improve from this on. In railway r
relies d bigger business is looked for, but y "
ith reduced rates, both in freigh and pas q q
,nger traffic." =,
What is your opinion OF the Northern w w
acific Railroad?" y,
at is good property. Much better in =, =,
ct than ever supposed it was." -. ir
"Is the building of the Chicago, Burling- ~
IN & Northern to St. Paul going to ruin
our Albert Lea route?"
"Well-hardly. We expect to keep right :.
a doing our share OF the business just the NJ
lme as ever However there are too many p;
,ads up in that country now." tt
"What will be the result Mr.. Cable?'' is
1.-The result will be an increase in railroad tt
1ildinp toward the Southwest The Chi Ji