The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-11
WELLS is POSITIVE
HE SAYS THE Beers FOE HAS
BEEN IN THE JUDITH.
The O.d Timer Has Transacted Business
with q Man of That Name-An
Interesting Story.

Great Falls, Jan. 10-George A.
Wells. a prominent resident of this
city and an old-time Montanan, said TO
a Standard reporter tonight: Thurs
days Standard contained an interview
with Colonel Searles regarding Or.
Jameson that is interesting. The DR..
Jameson recently captured by the
Beers and the Jameson who shot for
several months in different years in
Montana are identical. ] knew jane
son personally and transacted business
for him. He Is the son of Jameson,
the great Irish distiller, and is man OF
great wealth. During his last trip TO
the Judith country two of his employees
became involved in a row and one shot
and killed the other. have forgotten
the name of the man who was killed
but Har'pin Davis, now of Helena, did
the shooting, and he was subsequently
arrested, tried for murder and ac-
quilted in Meagher county. This tragic
incident disguised Jameson and he
never returned to Montana. l have
here an article from the Neihart Miner
on the subject, which Is substantially
correct. 1t says: The uprising in
South Africa has more than general
interest for the people of this section,
because the central figure in the at
fair and is personally known to quite a
number of people in this part of the
world, he having put in a year-ls7s or
1ss0-hunting at the head of Sheep
creek, and one or two other years on
the Musselshell and Judith rivers.
"'Old-timers who knew DR.. jameson
speak very highly of his personal
worth. Wealthy and independent, he
spent most of his time in search after
adventure, preferring the wilds and
unknown to the more civilized portion
of the world 1t was his desire for the
l. H. h 10
tant, and probably the same character
istic has led him into the present I'M
dertaking in South Africa. Physically.
he was not strong, having met with an
accident when young which caused
curvature of the spine, so that he
leaned noticeably to the left. Never
theless all who speak of him say he
was a fine. jolly fellow, always full Of
fun and very generous. Always when
he had finished a seasons hunting and
fishing he would divide up among his
men his wholeoutfit and 1T was gener-
ally a very good one.
"'Dead Mans cabin, at the head of
Sheep creek, and about Is miles from
here YVES his headquarters for one year.
| The name was given to the cabin be-
| case in the course of a quarrel one of
his men killed another in 1t. Since
| Jameson's time no one, as far as we
! can learn, has ever occupied the cabin
/ and there is a superstitious dread re-
| garding ii that is perhaps but natural
LAS an instance of his love of ad-
venture IL is related of him that on
this same trip he and another OF his
party ran onto a bear and Jameson
wounded the animal and II made to-
ward him. The other man. thinking
Jameson's life in danger, shot the bear
whereupon Jameson berated him very
severely for having spoiled good ad-
| venture. He afterwards went to AT
RIGA with Stanley and nearly died there
from fever at a post where Stanley
left him in charge. In his Through
Darkest Africa Stanley speaks very
highly of Jameson. regarding him az
his most able and intrepid assistant
Since that time he has spent most Of
his life in Africa, though his home !:
in Ireland, and he has drlfted into tbs
gold fields just in time TO take a hand
in fighting the Beers.