The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-17

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Judge Holman had another man-killsr
before him yesterday, bus he dthn't kn0w
IL. The docket only showed that Harry
Hill was 10 he tried for passing counterfeit
that he had been engaged i'm one OF the
most sensational duels ever fought in Ne
vada.
Neither hid Il him that Hill was a vir
sinis democrat. and bad fought In ths
union army during the three last years Of
the war, going I'm ~ = drummer boy at the
age OF II. and concluding with participant
ing In the battle at Appomattox that
forced Lees surrender.
"Do I know George Hill ?" said an old
Nevadan. .weli. I should say I did.
Harry he calls himself now. hut his full
name In George Henry Hill. I knew him
In the army he was only "a hoy, and
he was a better soldier than he has turned
"Hc was II or Is years old when he
joined the Sixth corps AS q drummer. and,
he elsnaldered u musket and did as much
lighting as any veteran In the ranks. He
planter. bat he never explained how he
came to he wearing the blue instead Of
ave were i'm ramp a, Appomattox when
Lincoln was assassinatcd, and I remenn
her how hard il was To keep Hill and some
afreaS on account Of the mnrtiee. "e wa"
"When we were mustered oUt, Hill
came west, and I have seen more ar less
OF hin as miner and gambler over Neva-
.Do / know the circumstances OF his
killing Dick Gu,berson? Well rather;
out in IL in 1879. Tom Smith was a big
and = bad man. H. had some mining
trouble up Tuscarora way, and got the
yor.. Of i, 70. which Inc b,amsd EdsykH.s;
said he thought Sykes was q pretty nice
man. That was enough for Smith and he
"HiI warned him tn keep away, hut
Smith hit him, and when they clinched
Smith had him by the Run-hand. While
warning, hut Smith swore he'd kill him
and commenced breaking his hack over
n IN the ,cs Sissis he m,. .ho SH wye pretty O "% sne; s %aa
s sns sss@ Sss 'n and H'f ss d R.sfs lie n saai: aa "
years later he had his big fight with Gui-
berson.
pic R'd they e,i a ansr to snii him? as ~as
about as well known here as he was over
ON the sage brush. He was a great big,
and well liked, hut about he time he ran
across Hill he got broke i'm San Francisco
s1;sd 2, h,r bo sr%pt go w Of Hii II a sns e soaidn ne
Then he got $40 from Hills partner, n
man who was tangled up in the sale Of
years ago. He lost this money i'm two bets
at faro, and afterward told the man he
borrowed it from that he only took it to
and Guiberson bothered Hill a good deal.
the faro table over the loss of "a sleeper,
and when il was left out Guibcrsou ac-
Sus.si Hill, e R.,bsrinS ing i in; The on liz
toeetIer AT Guibcrson'- Invitation and
"Some cowboy that wanted to make
trouble gave him "a six-shooter and woke
him up about 5:3O O'Clock in the morning
to tell him that Hill was i'm the Empire sa-
loon talking about him. .
.'Guiberson came down wild and found
Dick stood up at the other end and called
for a drink. Hill said something about
sharing liquor, and that was the signal;
yelled as he whipped out his As and threw
il into position.
away, hut his big overcoat-it was the
middle of w~inter-made him n little slow,
and Dick got i'm his first crack. His bull
let nailed Hill in the right leg and he drop
ped like a shot. Every lamp i'm the room
went out with the explosion and every
man :.r went out the ned. door ri but ni, Dick d and n Hill
each with a gun in his hand and murder
i'm his heart. Guiberson let GO another
ridges i'm the direction he supposed Dich
to be. II was too dark to see, and Dich
was too full To count the pops out OF Hilr'
Hill couldn't move because the bone al
his leg had been shattered hy the bullet
He had his nerve with him though. and
when he heard Dick moving toward hin
he held one shot back for n sure thing
Dick thought his gun vas empty ant
walked over to finish him. He got a glim
mer of light and had just discovered tina
Hill was alive when George let him havs
IL. Hill had waited with his gun across
his arm for n dead shot, and he got il
Dick was bending over him almost befor'
Hill pulled the trigger.
1.-THE ball entered his left breast ant
broke Dicks He was game
and wanted to hight more, but the sho
paralyzed him SO that he couldn't pull TIN
trigger.
we struck n light when il was all over
And there lay each as helpless as IN da'
he was born
W. pulled down one OF the swingin,
shutter doors and packed Dick home. nj
il, and then We went back and packe'
Hill home on the same door.
"Dick died the next night and Hill ram
10 near IL that nobody thought OF arrestin
him. The c~oroner's jury acquitted him
anyhow. and the case was SO clear tina
Hill was never put to the trouble of .9oin
into court. He was seven months in he
i'm Eureka. and then put in two years 1
st. Mary's hospital here, fighting to saw
his leg, which he did,. hut the bone was to
badly smashed for il to ever get yer
strong again, and that is the reason b
-"foor devil! 1 suppose ell get sbo,