The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1896-02-29
He HAD BEHAVED A TRUST
Sold Out His Three Partners IN hie"
Mine on the Colviile
Reservation.
Spokane, Wash, February E.

O. c. Cox, an old and Well-knoWI
prospector and miner, pioneer or 4!
who has mined ana prospected in near
ly every new camp on the Pacific coast
stabbed himself to the heart at North
port about noon yesterday. and at las
accounts was lying at the point 0
death.
The opening or the reservation ant
it's attendant rush for gold was thu
primary cause of the deed, but it il
believed that remorse over the betraya
| of his partners in a mineral location
on the reservatio was the direct cause
of the old mans attempt to take hi:
life.
A gentleman who came down from
Northport last night, and who saw
| Cox just after he had inflicted the
! CHASTITY wound, furnishes the follow
| ing particulars: Cox had been actins
| in peculiar manner several days or
account of a transaction that haG
brought him much disappointment anC
sorrow, and which, it is believed, unbal-
anced his mind.
About noon yesterday he went into
drug store and tried to buy some
once started toward the river, a few
rods distant. Two men who were in
the store, suspecting that he contem-
plated suicide, followed him. He at
once plunged into the water, and they
pulled him out and persuaded him to 40
back up town.
When they got up town he started OFF
ahead of his guardians and they fol-
lowed short distance behind Pres
emily he pulled hunting knife from
his pocket and placed the point of If
against his breast under his vest and
Immediately over the heart. Holding
the knife in his left hand, with his right
fist he struck the end of the handle
several times to drive the blade in
1t penetrated deeply, grazing the heart
and lnf1icting a CHASTITY wound. and he
fell to the ground.
lie was picked up and carried into q
saloon near by and a physician was
called. The wound is believed to ha
fatal
1t is stated that Cox was one of four
men who had spotted valuable LEDGE
on the reservation about two milae
from Northport and were waiting for
Tie opening or the reservation so thew
could locate 1T. They discovered the
ieage hVe years ago, and during the
intervening years have waited patient
~ Tor the final word to come that wo,1lo
announce the opening of the reserva-
tlon, and, they believed, make them al,
rich. -'i OH
When 1T became known that the Tina
was near at hand when thew could
claim their fortune they counted Tho
days, and it was agreed that the mo-
hle1lt the news was received Cox shou1d
make the location. wv
MS partners were E. D. Cowen tho
Weil-knoWn newspaper man and no1;-
llclah' Don Crown, who lives on Mr.
ooWeh ranch three miles from yitt1o
Dalies' ana a prospector named Over
crown and Cox had been partners in
INNING ventures for years. They hoa
mined together, prospected toeetha,.
anu borne together the hardshins 49,
come to the life of every searcher &C..
the hidden treasures of tho eortt ~. AZ,
three of Cox's partners trusted biz, a.
plicitly. 'ii'ii I'LL
\ lew days before the reservation was
" We opened Cox, unknown to his mart
ners' entered into collision with son,a
NoSsiano men, whom he agreed 70 to1,o
- WIN MIN on the claims on which bo
aliu MS partners had long been 1ool-inr
Win longing eyes, leaving his na,tnans
out in the cold. p0i 'llerS
Ihls compact was carried ONT m,
claims were located on the 9o+h
n the name Of his new associates
,helr suggestion Cox's name w.s
,naau IN the location notices in
' :, that MS partners might be ben+
II ignorance Of his perfldy. The Ross p.