The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-04-07
A Story That One Man Was Killed
and Several Wounded.
HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN
The Mill Property In the Courts for a
Long While and the Case Is Con
sequentIy Complicated.

SPOKANE, April IA story reached
here yesterday of a big gun fight in
Cataldo, small station near the Old
Mission in Idaho, in which one man was
killed and FIVE others wounded. Efforts
to have the story corroborated last
night failed, but among those informed
on the condition of affairs there the
story was believed.
There has been a feud at Cataldo for
several weeks and a few days ago a
murder was committed there, the vic
TINS head having been pounded into
jelly by man with a big club. Tue
story yesterday was that the funeral of
the dead man resulted in a renewal of
the old troubles and tragedy.
'The trouble at Cataldo comes from
the failure of the Small & Colby Lumber
company there less than a year ago."
said Attorney w. H. Stoll. 1.-The liza
bilities were about 100000 and the as
sets about 100000 The lumber COM
pany gave a mortgage to Berry & Full
ton, as trustees for 14O laboring men,
for $35, 900 due the men for work. We
brought suit co foreclcse that mortgage,
which was intended to bear a first
mortgage, and after some delays got a
decree. The Browne National bank,
which was ostensibly a junior mort
gage to the amount of $50 900, but which
lot
brought suit in the federal court of
Idaho and enjoined the execution of our
decree of foreclosure. The matter hung
in that way for some time, during which
the property was being rapidly wasted,
when we concluded to, and did, make a
settlement of the matter by having a
sale of the property made, two-thirds to
go to Berry & Fulton for the workmen
and the Browne National bank taking
the one-third and agreeing to put up the
mortgage to run the business. After
ward some of the men became dissatis-
fed with the settlement. They pro-
cured new counsel and brought suit to
set aside the settlement The case was
tried in February last and decree en-.
tered annulling the settlement, thus
leaving the parties where they were a
year ago.
This latter litigation engendered
lot of i'll feeling" continued Mr.. Stoll
''and about three weeks ago this trouble
began to crop out. One Sunday early in
March Mr.. Fulton, trustee named in
the first mortgage, while standing in his
door at Cataldo, was shot in the leg be-
bush, and think it was an attempt at
assassination, as a number of men fire.
quently threatened TO kill him. He is
just out of the hospital at Wardner and
is in fair way of recovery. A few
days after the shooting of Fulton his
partner, Sam Fuller, was driven out of
the camp by the men and the house of
Fuller g. Fulton was gluten, the doors
and windows being taken out and broken
up and the place made uninhabitable.
"About four days ago man named
Powell, the postmaster at the Old Mis-
sion, who had been a witness for the
Browne bank, was assaulted by Dennis
Dougherty in a most brutal manner.
He was pulled off of Powell, but started
for him again, whereupon Powell
picked up an Indian club and beat
Dougherty's head in and killed him.
Powell and his partner are now under
arrest at Ratndrum, charged with muir
der.
Judge Holleman has called a spe-
cial grand jury for Tuesday to investi-
gate, and District Attorney O'Neil is
here enroute to Rlthdrum to conduct
the prosecution. Now comes the start
ling intelligence of another tragedy.
1t appears the men have organized to
destroy any body who attempts to
legally or otherwise interfere with
what they consider their rights.
1.-The property which year ago was
worth at least 100000 has dwindled
and been wasted by exposure, destruc-
ton, thefts and so forth to about $780,
600 or less
There was a singular boom in the
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