, 1890-10-09
STACEY, THE OUTLAW,
He Was a Young Man, but
a Desperate Character.
A HISTORY OF THE TOWN.
A Snowman Whose Educated Pig
Was Cooked and Eaten
by Mob.

PorTvILLE, Idaho, Oct. 6.-The
scene of 40 many bloody tragedies
il one OF the quletcst, most peaceful.
looking little places In the world.
-Four miles beyond Mullan, Pott-
willie stands in little clearing
choppcd out of dense forest OF
cedar. at the very foot of the
mountain up and over which tho
Northern Pacific is building its road
to Missoula.
Puttvillo consists of one short
street, with four saloons on one side
and five on the other. They are un-
painted, rough-bourd affairs, but
every night and on pay-days they
do II flourishlng business.
Here it was that Stacey, the man
who was shot Saturday, and Bas-
sctt, his partner, started out in their
Idaho career of crime. Both men
were young, but evidently desperate
characters. since the murder and
slugging Nilray ola few weeks ago
both Bassett and Stacey have been
in hiding, practically outlaws, for
they were wanted in Montana and
Idaho at the same time.
4 HISTORY OF POTrvILI.E.
The townsite of Pottville stands
on IL homestead claim taken up by
the well known mining man, Jack
Lucy, of Mullan. II is named after
Judge Pott, of Mullan.
Ii Is II railroad town, and was
called into existence by the location
of the.cnginecrs' camp of the North
crn Pacific railroad ut that point
about II year ago.
The wagon road from Mullan up
the canyon is IA very pretty one.
Passing the conCcntrator and long
tramway of the Hunter mine, the
next point of interest Is Deadman's
gulch, III the opening of which and
plainly visible from the road is the
| grave of an old prospector, over
which has been erected IA stone cross
which still stands. The story runs
/ that the man was killed for his gold
/ dust and found few weeks later,
| when he was buried.
/ \ lew miles further on is Gentle
Annie gulch, up which great
/ many fine prospects have been lo-
| Gated. Here, too, Is the grave of
/ some unknown man who was found
/ last spring. lie had evidently been
murdered, and his body was badly
torn by bears when IL was found.
PottVille has seen gay times ever
since the vast army oi graders came
anywhere near il. IL was in the
very zenith otits career Us wildand
woolly Western town about u month
ago, VIXEN the graders camp was
right at PuttvIllc. The two murders
aud the beating and stabbiug nitruys,
which have from time To time been
published in the REVIEW gave the
town very unsavory reputation,
and have acted as "A soothing inilu-
ence on the bordcr ruiliuuism.
Tramps walking 10y on the rail-
road look askance as they pass the
town, and never stop.
In the day time pottville IL very
quiet. The town does not wake up
until noon, and then the saloon
men get out, have breakfast aud
wait for the shades of evening aud
the crowd of woriingmen and
roughs of all natiunalitles to come
down from the grade. BY ; o'clock
Pottville * In its glory. The fatetul
whirr Of the big wheel of fortune
is heard on every side, and about
forty sure'thing gamblers ply their
nctarious trade in the different
saloons. The men get drunk, lose
their money and then the bad blood
comes out. Fierce fights, resulting
more or less dangerously, are an
every night occurrence.
a stranger, should one by any evil
chance happen along, Is sure ei
being held up or sand-bngged.
DIR. Sinms, the well-known sur
geon OF Wallace, tells of his first APP
pcarauce in the town. He had been
called to dress some man who had
been badly cut in "a fight, and after
u hard ride arrived in the town
about II o'clock at night. He had
just crossed short piece of corduroy
at the head of the street, aud while
his horse was ilouudering, about
nifty feet from u saloon, i'll the mud
ana darkness, two men caught hold
OF the bridle and demanded his
money. The doctor, who is pow
crlul man and has plenty of nerve,
struck out with n heavy riding
whip, and his getting ON firm
eIbuuu uI TIC sdillt IllOUlcill no
broke away from his assailants. A
little later. while dressing the
wounded mans cuts, one of the by
ISLANDERS said with II laugh, "Iou
are the fellow we tried to hold up
minute ago, amt you?" and the
doctor let 1t pass with another
laugh.
THEY ATE THE PIG.
When Professor Murtry, with his
troop Of trained dogs and his
educated pig, made his appearance
at Pottville IA few weeks ago, the
crowd went wild with excitement,
which finally resulted in the break
ing up OF the show.
Some of the drunken roughs
caught the educated pig, hnd q
barbecue, aud ate him, and turned
the dogs loose in the woods, while
the professor escaped with his iiio
by taking TO the woods also.
An Italian organ-grinder vlslteu
Pottville another time, and in the
morning hundred pieces or more
of the organ We're found scattereu
| about the street. They had been
playing football with II. The organ
grinder took to tho grade.