Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-19
Defending Their Homes

Bouley was killed; and you gentlemen
know it.
Defending Their Homes
These sturdy settlers up there In
the Marble Creek district may be bad
men. Poor old Alvin Mason, the
father of eight children, who came up
here into the Idaho wilderness, whose
sole possession was a wife and seven
children, and who Mr.. Knight says
ought to be hanged by the neck until
dead-but, gentlemen, / undertake to
say that IL every man in Idaho, who
is as bad as Mason is hanged, before
you get through you will probably
find it very hard work to get Jury
to pass on the remainder. / will take
my stand and run my chances along
Side or Alvin Mason, in preference to
any Jumper who ever came over the
trail that the settlers built 10 steal the
settlers homes, no matter who 1t is
Eighteen or twenty men got together
out in the forest, and they got to-
gether bt other places, and they
formed, what Phillips called the "Jum.
per Killers Association Now. gtbere
is no doubt about that, is thcrel That
is what they did, up in the Marble
Creek District. / am not defending
them. If they ever got into trouble,
! should be glad to. | know that no
men are all good or all bad. As Mr..
knights friend Nietzsche says, there
is good deal of the wolf and the
wild beast about us. AMI when 1
heard him pleading so hard for you
TO hang Steve Adams, felt dead sure
that it was true. Men are not all
good and they are not all bad; and
these men, who could leave the steam
heated flats of the cities and 90 away
up here in the wilderness of Idaho,
with their wives and children. and
undergo the privations of men who
settle up new country, would be
very apt to carry a gun along with
them to help settle it, And there has
not been single part of America
that has been settled in any other
way; and they are good fellows too,
mighty good fellows.
Bloody Lord Angus
Here is what / am complaining Of,
gentlemen, in this case-and ] want
to know what you think about it
Bouley was killed by the whole set
Element; however many men were re-
| sponsible for the specific act, they
were all glad of it, and they all par
tieipated in it, and they all brought
about the sentiment that killed him.
Is there any doubt about thatf
When the news spread out over the
prairies, j take it that pretty nearly
every man there was glad Of it; and
take il that Mr.. High Sheriff. Suth-
erland-who would Click his chops
with ghoulish glee" if be could get at
Steve Adams blood-Mr High Sheriff
Sutherland was as glad as anybody
else, because he did not try to find
out who had committed the deed.
Oh, no, not Angus. He did not send
his Deputy Hicks, his Deputy Will
liams or anybody else out to endeavor
to find out who killed Bouley. But
here is an idea, gentlemen, | want to
put TO you twelve men. Adams did
not live in the Marble Creek country;
he was up there visiting Jack Simp-
kins; very likely he attended this
meeting; very likely Bouley was killed
by all the settlers up there, and when
George III. Root got upon the stand
and hedged and quibbled and lodged.
IL was pretty plain why-because he
was in it, just the same rs all the
rest of the settlers. They were all in
Il
Bouley, because day after day he was
leading some new men down for the
Barbour Lumber Company, to settle
, on some other mans home; today il
, might be mine, tomorrow it might be
Newt. Glover's; the next day il
J J might be Roots the next day il might
be yours. Nobody knew when their
) turn would come, and, of course, those
men were glad of his death. That
whole community was responsible for
the death of Tyler-if Tyler is dead
and you twelve men are asked TO pass
them all by, are you notf You are
asked to leave Fred Engstrom, who
Bouley said was the man who was
: after him-you are asked to leave
| every settler in the Marble Creek
District, you are asked to leave every
man out and at large, untouched and
{ unharmed, every man in this section
Of Idaho, and visit the consequeees of
this crime Of the killing of Bouley on
Steve Adams
a. Now, do you think that is fairi
All right; if you do. go ahead; you
have got the power; nobody else can
hang a man legally in this country ex-
r cepting a Jury If you want to have
e it written down, for yourselves in
after years TO reflect upon, and your
$ children and your children s children
J. to point TO in the future, that you
J. permitted the State of Idaho TO leave
every man at large, responsible for
< Tyler's DEATH unprosecuted and un-
: pursued, and you visited your ven
;, geance upon this poor miner, all right,
- You cannot find man on the face Of
y the earth elsewhere who would do IT,
Better rlade Idaho a Wilderness
II Our friend knight talks about ga
e hung jury. | never saw one mem
d ber Of this Jury before. Do you sup
Z pose n man who has any knowledge Of
v the way men feel or think would have
e any doubt about how an honest man
,, would think or feel in case like this,
o or what "A business man would think
Il or feel, or what any unprciudiccd man
is would think or fcclP Gentlemen, il