The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-08
law and at the same time sharing their

law and at the same time sharing their
unlawful spoils.
The gang is known as ',Ashworth pee
pie" and is made up of a lot of half
breeds, who take delight principally in
stealing cattle and fighting. Cattle
owners of these sections have lived in
dread of these men and suffered severely
at their hands for a long time and at
last the ranchmen had seat them notice
that they must leave or take the conse-
quences; not only this but they must
leave the country. Depredations con-
tinued, however, and so bold did they
become that cattlemen found it neces-
sary to organize and arm in order to pro-
tect themselves and property.
"RedbOnes," are the leaders of the
cattlemen and when it was learned that
the gang was again on a forage they
called their men together and set out to
find the m~aurauders. They suspected a
man named Morris as the leader of the
thieves and ordered him to leave.
Morris was supported by
the whole crowd and detied the cattle
men to Danish him or compel him to
leave. The quarrel became bitter and
one of the Ashworth crowd named Ward
drew his gun and shot RED Bone" and
Peter Dyson. Then the battle began.
Firing became general and Marion
Mackle and Lea Perkins of the "Red
Bones were killed and Willets Dupree
and Lecomb were wounded. Hostilities
then ceased for a time but in the after
noon another attack was made on the
railway people by the cattlemen in which
Al Sims of the Red Bone and John Owen
and Henry Ashworth of the other party
were killed. DR.. Meyers and his brother
who had come to attend the wounded
were fired on by the train boys but were
not hurt. 1t is impossible to get the
exact number wounded as the men were
carried away by their friends. Word was
sent to Lake Charles for the sheriff,
posse and the coroner, the presence of
the latter seemingly being most i'm
pOrtant.
Further details of the battle on Lock,
Moores IL Co.'S tram are that on Sunday
morning a party of thirty "red boncs,'
among them a crew of mixed Indians,
negroes, and whites, went to a store and
announced that they would drive away
Hooker Morris, manager of the log
camp, in re ~enge for an insult offered to
two of the party. They were well armed
and led by Jesse Dyson, a well known
and desperate character. The white
men, who had gathered in some strength,
were led by Joe Ward. In the battle
which ensued Ward killed Dyson and
was at once killed from behind. when the
fight became general. The list of the
killed is: jesse Ward (white); II. Il.
Swan (white): j. Dyson. Lee Parkins,
Andrew Schworth, Owen Schworth and
Marion. all 'red bones" The wounded
were Dupree Lacomb, keeper of a store,
and his brother, the former shot through
the leg. Lacomb's wife ran into the
woods with her children, escaping in the
fray. A complete list of the wounded
cannot be obtained, but about twenty
are known to have been hurt. Sunday
afternoon thirty fred bones" came to
camp after the bodies of their dead and
dispersed the officers who were on the
scene, and threats are made of organic
ing a force to storm the strongholds of
the fred bones," and it is likely there
will be more trouble.