The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-11-28
HOW 1T COLD BE SAID,

HOW 1T COrLD BE SAID.
a Slight Improvement on the Yarn sent
I" the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Ncihart correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle is a clumsy fabri-
Gator. OF course his object in telegraph
ing to the Pacific coast journal that Jake
Harris was lyncbed at the former place
was to advertise the fact to the world
that there is a Ncihart in Montana
place of sufficient population to organic
a lynching party Of goodly numbers.
But the correspondent didn't 60 about
the business in a workman. like manner.
Neihart is one of the most prominent
mining camps in Montana. 1t has great
mines. cnterprising men. and an orderly,
law abiding people. They are justly
proud of the rising importance of their
place and would be pleased To see its ad-
Vantigrs as a great mining center
brought To- the notice of the world. but
the Chronicle mar Numbered. Now. if
the good people of the place wished the
kind Of notOricty which the Chronicle
correspondent evidently desired to give
it this is about the way we would have
recorded the ~'lynching.' Ana we will
submit the matter to Jake himself, who
Is now lying but not so hard as did the
Neihart man-with a broken leg in the
Jail at this city. if our version of the mat
ter is not a better advertisement of our
sister town up in the mountains than
the one the Chronicle published:
Last Sunday was a gala day in Mel
hart, the occasion being the celebration
Of the opening of the great double-track
railroad between this city and a little
town down on the Missouri river known
as great falls. Over ten thousand PEG.
pie were present. Parades, speeches and
banqueting was the order of the day.
In the midst of the festivities a pistol
shot was heard, followed by a dozen or
so more in rapid succession. The vast
crowd surged to the point from Whence
the shots were heard. In less time than
it takes to tell it the scene of carnage
was reached. There stood Jacob Harris.
commonly called ',Jew jake a
Texas desperado-with a smoking pis-
tol in either hand surrounded by
a half dozen PROSTATE forms
the victims Of his dcmoniac fury in
the last aGonies of death. Breathing
defiance to the Mortified spectators the
tiend incarnate throwing one pistol at the
head of Mayor Huckleberry, the owner
Of the Roaring Maria assay 200 ounces
in silver, and the other at Parson Lowly.
part owner in the Soothing Siru,p assay
$50 oncts-launchcd himself upon
the multitude with the intention Of
making his escape.
But the boys from the surrounding
camps were too many for him. In 4
twinkling the hcrculcan Desperate
was caught and bound and
thrown To the ground, where.
like a Gagged lion he glarcd upon
his raptors. In a second after the cry
went up. chang him. "hang him. The
shout was taken up and waited upon
the gentle breeze, hang him. hang
him.' And from Murdcrcr's bar and
Devils Elbow and iicll's Delight and
Ground Hog Glory. our outlying, rich
INNING caupS- smallest assay lJOouuccs
thu" refrain was sung: chang him.
hang him" 1t took but a few moments
10 arrange the prelimiuarics. Blood,
Knife, owner of the Great Bonanza
assay 1000 ounces was chosen chair
man Of the meeting and the hearing
''IIhl'Ii'''I iHlS 'ICNIltV i've UtlI4-
utCs.
At its conclusion. Red Hand. the
wealthy proprietor Of Bclly-up-Jakc-ds-
say 40 ounces. moved that Mr.. Harris
dance a quick step in mid,air, 1t was
carried with "A shout. !. nccktic of the
most approved pattern was procured and
adjusted about Jake's throat by iIowling
Jim owner Of the Wake 'cm Up ASSAY
500 ounces, assisted by Big Mouth Tom.
the entcrprising dlscovcrcr of the Pour
Plaster assay LOO ounces. The
end of the tie was thrown over a beam
in Il shaft house and a hundred
willing hands grasped the dangling
hemp. In q moment all that was mortal
of the noted desperate was hanging over
the Worlds Wonder assay 2.5UOounces.
Thus il will be seen that the people of
Ncihart propose To preserve law and or
der If il takes every rope in town." That's
about the way that correspondent should
have put il. When lying tell Il whopper