Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04

is very SIMPLE, ana, except for the size
mechanic. The Pope has always been or
kearney, Mo, and demand his surrender.
Wounded an in bed, he gets up, kills two
OF the home guards and wounds two
more. Jesse James escapes and goes to
Kentucky, where he meets his brother
Frank.
March 20, 1S6S-Bank at Russellvil.e,
KY, robbed George Shepherd is givel.
three years in the Kentucky pc litentlary
for this crime. OH Shepherd, his brother,
is killed in an attempt to escape. Frank
and Jesse James escape to Missouri.
June S, 1S69-Jesse James sails from
New York on the steamship Santiago de
Cuba for California by way of Panama.
Frank James goes overland and meets
him there. In the fall of that year they
get in a fight over a game of cards in a
mining camp at Battle Mountain and kill
three men and wound four.
December Is. 1SG9-Robbery of the bank
Of Gallatin. Mo. The cashier, Captain
John w. Sheets, murdered.
April 30, lS72-Robbery of the bank of
Columbia, Ky. The cashier, r. A. c.
Martin. murdered because he recognized
Frank James. Jesse and Frank James,
Cole, Bob and jim Younger are supposed
to have committed this robbery.
June 2S, 1~S73-Robbery of the bank at
Corydon, Ia; 4 1000 stolen. Eight men
| were in this robbery. Among them We're
Frank and Jesse James, jim CumminS,
Charlie Pitts and Ed Miller.
July 20, 1S73-The James gang does it's
| first train robbery. Said to be the first
train ever held up and robbed by bandits.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tram
| wrecked by the robbers Il miles east Of
Council Bluffs, Ia. The engineer killed
nd firen11O wounded and several mass
| engers injured. The safe in the express
car robbed of a large sum.
1S73-The box office at the fair grounds
in Kansas City robbed of ABOUT SO 1000 in
broad daylight.
January 81. 1S74-The James gang COM
| mits its second train robbery on more i'm
proved Methods than it followed in the
first. This time the train is not wrecked,
but is tagged to a standstill. A train
on the Iron Mountain road at Gadshill,
Mo. held up and robbed of $4,000.
March 10, 1S74-J. w. Whicher. a Pink
erton detective, killed by Jesse James at
Rocky Ford, near the James home in Clay
county.
January %. 1S75-Detectives surround
the James home, near Kearney, and
throw an ignited bomb into the house. 1t
explodes and tears off the arm of Mrs.
Samuels, mother of Frank and Jesse
James, and kills her son, Archie.
April II, 1S75-Daniel Askew, a neigh
Dor of the Jameses, who had harbored
detectives, is murdered on his doorstep by
the James gang.
December. 1S75-Robbery of q Union
Pacific train at Muncie. Kan, 10 miles
from Kansas City; So, 900 stolen. Bud
Mechanics captured at Kansas City with
part of the booty. He escapes from pris-
on in Lawrence. Kan, is surrounded. re-
fuses to surrender, and is shot down.
April, 1S~16-Robbery of the bank at
Huntington, w. Va. Jack Kean cap
tured. Thomp McDaniels, brother of Bud,
| killed in the fight. Frank and Jesse
James have an exciting run to Missouri.
July s, 1SI6-Robbery of a Missouri Pa
cific train at O~tterville, Mo-, and $l7 900
taken. In this robbery were the two
James brothers, the three Younger broth
ers, Hobbs, Kerry, Bill Chadwell, Clell
Miller and Charlie Pitts.
September !. 1S76-Attempted robbery
of the bank at Mortified, MINI. j. l..
Haywood. the cashier, murdered. The
citizens of the town opened fight. Bill
Chadwell and Clell Miller were shot down
in the street. Bob Younger was shot in
the arm and jaws. Cole Younger picked
him up and threw him across his horse.
| Cole, Jim and Bob Younger were cap
tured and sentenced to the p~enitentiary
in Saltwater for life. Jesse and Frank
James escaped through great dangers
and fled to Mexico, where they stayed a
year or two. There they killed the guards
of a pack train near Carmen, Chihuahua,
and stole $50 pounds of silver. In the
spring of 1877 they killed two men in a
brawl at Pledras Negras, and later killed
seven men in a fight near San Luis Po-
tosi, They returned to Missouri in the
summer of 1877.
September IL. 1S77-Robbery by recon-
structed James gang Of a Union Pacific
train at Big Springs, Neb., and $500 in
gold stolen from the safe of the Wells
Fargo Express company.
October I, 1SI9-Robbery of a Chicago
e. Alton train at Glendale, Jackson coun-
ty, near Independence. This was the first
train robbery in the noted Crackerneck
district. The bandits stole $40, 900. Jesse
and Frank James, Dave Poole, Charley