The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-07-22

and Curry lost an arm in the fight.
Ionic was killed at the home of his
aunt in Dodson, Missouri, where he
was visiting, by six Pinkerton detec-
:ives who attempted to take him for
train robbery.
Ionic had, with his half brother,
Bob Curry, alias Bob Lee, run a sa-
loon in Harlem. Curry, alias Lee, is
now serving term of 10 years in the
penitentiary in Colorado for holding
up the Union Pacific express at Rocky
Springs, that state. In that robbery
they secured but few thousand dol
lars.
Harry Longbaugh, another of the
bandits, dates his criminal career
back to 1884. He is a quarter-blood
Cherokee Indian, born in New Mexico,
and is IS years of age.
In 1884 he was involved in the cat
tie fight at Springer, New Mexico,
when John Slaughter's cow punchers
met those of Chisholm, rival cattle
kinfi, and a battle was fought in
which eight men were killed. Long
baugh escaped trial by Aeeing the
country and coming in to Wyoming.
There he purchased a horse from
farmer named Lusk, for which he
paid $40. Longbaugh rode the horse
out of town, met the farmer on his
way home and the $40 changed back
to Longbaugh's hands after a gun
play. He then went into johnson
county, Wyoming, where he went to
work for the IA cattle outfit. There
he became involved in trouble and
was arrested in Buffalo by the sher-
if and placed under guard. He made
his escape from the guard and came
to Lavina, Montana, where he found
employment with the John T. Muir
ply Cattle company. In the spring
of 80 he came to Valley county, where
he went to work with R. H. Mcneil,
breaking horses for Henry Ester, who
lived IS mnes south of Malta. In
1892 he, in company with Harry
Bass, since deceased, and Bill Mad
den, held up the Great Northern train
near Malta, securing but $22 as they
were unable to get into the through
safe. Bass and Madden were both
subsequently captured and sent to
Deer Lodge for term of 10 years.
Both men were released and Bass is
supposed to have been killed in the
strip, the disputed territory between
Texas and Indian Territory, in 1895.
Longbaugh since held up a train in
Nevada, near Winnemucca, a bank in
Wilcox, Arizona and a train at Rock
Springs, Wyoming.
Charlie Jones, better known among
cowboys as Deaf Charlie" was born
and raised in Palo Pinto county, in
Texas near the Guadalupe noun
tains. He was a member of the gang
of horse thieves who were known as
the Seven Devils among the Mcxi-
cans and operated stealing horses and
cattle across the line between Next
co and Texas and selling the property
in the most convenient market.
Doc Smith, now prosperous stock
grower near Culbertson, who in the
SOS ran wagon for the Home Land
and Cattle company at Pearmond,
brought Jones from Texas over the
trail with bunch of cattle. He work
ed during the summer of '89 with
Smith and next summer went to work
for Charles Farley on the Yellowstone
for the Montana Cattle company. He
quit there in the spring of 80 and
went to Billings, where he received
employment with the Winged Ores.
cent company, run by Sim Roberts.
In '92 he worked for Jim Haney,
foreman of the Murphy Cattle com.
panq, in the Grow reserve
In the fall of 1893, he with two 9TH
er outlaws, held up the Northern Pa;
cific express at Grey Cliff, 65 miles
west of Billings, and together they
secured $45.0OO. They were pursued
by a sheriffs posse into the Black
foot mountains and in a fight which
took place there the other two men
were killed after killing one of the
sheriff's posse and wounding others.
In the winter Jones ran out of pro-
visions and came to a section house
on the Great Northern road, where he
was recognized and captured. He
was taken to Helena, where he was in
dicted for murder and United States
mail robbery and was convicted and
sentenced to 10 years in the peniten-
tiary at Deer Lodge.
He was released in April of this
year and for three months was around
Hinsdale, in Valley county, and then
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