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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13

ordinary throat-cutting, highway rob
berry and general scoundrelism in the
new mines of Rannack. Boise and AL
der Gulch. Here they were so far re-
moved from civilization. in the then
unknown Businesses of the Rocky
mountains. that the strong arm of jus
tice and law would never reach them.
Plummer and Ives
''The bolder ruffians who infested
the northern mines were in times or
ganized into regular bands of highway
men, having their rendezvous in diff
ferent isolated places in the mountains.
Incoming stages and wagon trains
We're boldly held up and robbed. and
the robbers scarce cared any longer to
conceal their identity. Their
~der-in-chief was a young man named
Henry Plummer, a talented villain. of
a gentlemanly department and bearing.
and apparently of frank and honest
disposition. Under his leadership ey-
cry fortunate man in any of the camps
was marked as the prey. sooner or
later, of the bandits. Far removed
from civilization, to reach which re-
CURED a long and arduous journey by
stage. wagon or on horseback. those
who had wrested fortune from the
golden placers were diSprayed to find
they could not leave the territory
without being robbed and. in all proba-
bility, murdered.
For two years these robberies and
murders continued under the reign of
terror organized by Plummer and his
companions in ~villainy. OF his red
handed and bloody-minded l~ientenants
and sub-chiefs we have no time to
speak here except of George Ives.
whose trial and execution later on
ushered in the reign of law and order.
This man was noted for his robberies
of stage coaches, and for his boastful
declarations concerning his own lead
ership in them and of the vast sums of
gold realized by the robbers. His
guilt as a double-dyed murderer and
bandit was known to all. When in
need of pocket money. he used to
his horse. pistol in hand, would
ride into a store or saloon, toss his
purse upon the counter and
request the proprietor or clerk to put
one or more ounces of gold dust in il
as a loan The man thus addressed |
dare not refuse. Often while the vic
time was weighing out the forced con-
tributiOn, Ives would amuse himself hv |
firing his revolver at the lamps and
glassware and in t~rotting his horse
around over the furniture. This be-
came so COMMON that it attracted no
attention. Good men and true sub
for to resist was death and
seemed to be no remedy.
The isolated position of Bannack.
Alder Ouch and the other mining camps
at that time can scarcely be conceived
,y us in this day of universal RAILWAYS
t~elegraphs. This region was Mt
hat time part of the territory of Da-
xota and Yankton. the capital. was
200 miles distant. Laws will NOT
execute themselves in the wilderness.
md the nearest town where there were
my officers of the law was Lewiston
700 miles away. When the sep,
rate territory of Montana was Great
ID. the miners of Bannack and Alder
1ulch did not learn of it until six
months had passed away, and during
hat time all legal papers were made
nut under the laws of the territory of
More Than 100 Innocent Killed
Henry Plummer, the robber chief,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13

and courage unsurpassed by any
chronicle of ancient or modern times.
Above all. this truthful record Of de-
votion to lofty principles of right. re-
fleets undying honor and glory upon
our ancient and beloved fraternity.
Tell me not that the age of chiv-
airy is past. Tell me not in heroic
verse of King Richard of the Lion
Heart and his knights of old fighting
to rescue the Holy Sepulchre from the
infidel hosts of Saladin,
Tell me not of glorious deeds per
formed by Templar knights in the
shadow of Mount Moriah. under the
lofty walls of Acre. or beneath the
shining towers of Ascalon, Tell me
not of the unconquerable knights Hos
pitaler of st. John driving Saracen and
infidel hosts before them out of Pal
estine as if before the wrath of God.
Bad Men Come, Too
For | will match them all by n
plain tale of the American hills: n
chronicle out of this matter-of-fact and
material 10Th century; the story OF a
~beleaguered pioneer community of
freemen in the Rocky mountains. who.
under the inspiration and guidance of
Masonry. were led IL from a long
night of exceedingly great darkness
into the light of a glorious redemp-
ton; living under a veritable reign Of
terror, they, through and by the
strength of the Lions Paw were lift
ed out of darkness into light. and were
brought safely into conditions where
law and order and peace became firm
Iy established forever.
In the first decade of the second
half of this century. just as the great
civil war was breaking out. the dis
.coveries of gold on the h%esdwaters of
the Missouri river. in what is now
southwestern Montana. and on the
slopes of the Rocky mountains
on the headwaters of streams tribu-
tary to the Columbia river. in what is
the state of Idaho, spread through
the land like wildfire. Thousands of
thrown out of employment by the
war and other thousands dreading the
evils and sacrifices of that war,
all actuated by the thirst for gold.
FASTENED to the land of promise in
distant and then unknown noun
.
added to the thousands of honest
men who emigrated to the new north
mines were equal numbers of the
toughest and worst elements of the
.ountry-thieves, gamblers, despera-
Ices and murderers came in hordes |
the exhausted mining camps of
California and the Pacific slope: bush
vhackers' and 'jawhawkers' from Kan
as zane in hundreds. The border ruff
ians from Missouri who had delighted
n numbering and robbing the free-soiI
men OF Kansas. had no desire to take
'art in the mighty civil war in the east
which they had done SO much to bring
N and they fled from it's wholesale
to pursue their familiar and
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13

was a nan of great executive ability.
He was well educated. In demeanor
he was quiet and modest, free from
swagger and buster, dignified and
graceful, He was intelligent in con-
versation. and his name were pol
ished and pleasing. He was, above all
things, cool and elf-possessed. His
cold grey eyes defied inquisition. The
miners had some rude laws of their
W concerning mining claims and 10
cal government, and had elected local
judges to enforce them. Such was
the power of pIummer. the chief of all
robbers of his time. that he demanded
to be elected sheriff. and the office
was at once conferred on him. He
found it inconvenient to himself and
his fellow freebooters to have such an
official as a sheriff around the camps
and so he took the office himself. =.
we have no space here to review
the many heartless, fiendish and brutal
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13

life. William Berkin. George Chris
man, Hill Beachy. the ayenger OF
Lloyd Magruder. Walter B. Dance. the
miners judge at Bannack. Samuel I.
Hauser. afterwards governor of Mon
tana, James Stuart. Neil HOWE, brave
as a lion and as efficient as brave,
Drury Underwood and James Dyke.
Quiet Finally in the Territory
I'm those early terrible years Of
Montana's history. all these men and
many others, whose names l have not,
were distinguished for brave efforts
and daring deeds, which had for their
object the rescue of civilized society
and the restoration of law and Or
der. @ =
1T must ever be remembered that
the Vigilantes of Montana took the
law into their own hands. and tried
and executed many murderers and des-
peradoeS. because there was no other;
law at hand thar their own e%xtempor-
ICED but genuine and exact justice.
There was no other law or justice than
this then existent in the territory. Asi
Brother Langford we'll says: The
people of Montana did not adopt the
Vigilante code until a crisis had ar
rived when the question of supremacy
between them and an organized band
of robbers and murderers could be de-
cided only by q trial of strength. When
that time came, the prompt and de-
cisive measures adopted by the Vigi-
brought peace and security to
the people
When the executive and judicial Of
appointed by the president for
the first time arrived in the territory,
in 1864. they found the mining camps
in fhn onfnrppapf nf ronnSo onI pAono
The people had perfect confidence in
the code of the Vigilantes, which by
wholesale execution of the murderous
and Punishment of the common
had restored peace, order and
Justice.
The trial and execution of George
Ives. the principal lieutenant of Henry
Plummer. furnishes the best example
of the bravery and determination Of
the new law and order party which
came into existence through the
Masonic burial of William II.
Bell.
"Plummer's crimes were we'll known.
70 all. and as the leader and organizer
IF wholesale robbery and murder in
the northern mines he richly deserved
summary and ignominious death he
suffered.
so the great law and order party of
in the early Cos ~triumphantly
exerted its power and restored society
o peaceful. normal and civilized con-
"Ruffians. murderers and despera-
ioes disappeared, and the property and
rights of all men were every
where respected.
THE heroic deeds of all those who
bore conspicuous part in the events
If that time are now forever embaimed
n the hearts of the freemen of Mon
who recognize in the Nigilantes
md Free Masons of that early period
he true founders of the state
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murders committed by these banditti
Suffice it to say that over 100 limo
cent men were cruelty slain by the des-
p%eradoes of Plummer's gang after be-
ing robbed of their gold.
Below some lonely mountain pine
through which the summer breeze sang
4 sad requiem. or in some dark can-
yon of that rugged land, the pitying
angeles of the Most High looked down
upon the d~ismembered skeleton of that
victim: and they looked down in pity
upon the mutilated remains of scores
Of other victims brutally slain in many
a lonely spot of that dread wilder
AT last, as if out of the death and
up from the grave of an humble mem
Der of the Masonic fraternity. a man
who died far away from family and
friends. his last hours soothed and
made less lonely by his brother Ma
sons, there arose in w%rathful majesty
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still remember the stories they heard
as boys of Harvey's deeds, and his rep
utation survives as the worst white
the northwest knew in the fur
trade days. =
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13
LIKES FAIRY L

You sold me a car about two weeks
ago." -,
~"How do you like it?" :
II want you to tell me everything
Won said about that car all over again. !
I'm getting Observation-Disclosures
Age-Herald. {
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13

About 40 per rent of farmers have
telephone connections.
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Anna Louise Beers, the 3year-od heress to the $350OO0O estate of Cap
Edward Morrison of chicago, is in n a charity ward lin the Cook county uLl
the country, stopping at the best hotels and watering places, dressed in the
finest of gowns. The neglect Oft the mother is alleged to. have extended over
more than a year, nd the juvenile court has fed. clothed and housed the child
for 10 months She was snapped a Ri played wh lei battered. borrowed
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PIONEER MASONS
DROVE ROBBERS

Continued From Page One)
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In January, 1912, a wal party of
these Indians, who were friendly TO the
whites. however. called at the fort and
requested admission, but Chardon and
Harvey locked the gates against them
1ncensed at the treatment they received
they killed a pig that had escaped from
the fort. Harvey and Chardon. with
half a dozen men, set out after the
Indians. The latter waited in ambush
on the Teton river, and when a negro
servant OF Chardon was sen forward
to scout. the Blackfeet saw and killed
him. Chardon at once planned a ter
rible revenge and Harvey gladly agreed
to carry out the details.
The plan vas to have the cannon on
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05


regardless of political ali
high time constructive pocy De
reduced
1t is matter of knowledge that taxes abnomay
predict will continue to be high until
public expenditures
entitled this considerable and business cond
tions demand it.
spending that hit this during the
developed the
value received public funds would
believe public
should discretion businessman
would in the transaction OF his affairs.
obligations
addition
criminal there multitude of places
his other things
qure him:
ITO give the board county commissioners
public officers when requested public
in which the county
party.
prosecuting attorney legal advisor of the board
attend claims against the county
when he deems them unjust Illegal"
believe
the evidence possibility
called finance udious-
with little
where 1t that conviction
the court and jury incidentally
to the taxpayers that would otherwise be lost
believe that booegges hunted down
the This
in the interest of public health law enforcement
If elected to the office prosecuting
deavor these principles day work NJ t
Office. - - ''
Respectfully
S. H. HELTZEL
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN

President Harding says, 1.-THE
future of America can not be en-
trusted to children whose spiritual
development is neglected" Accord
ing to Mr.. Harding's statement true
patriotism rests on spiritual basis.
In the face of this fact we find ac-
cording to statistics there are thirty
seven million children in America
who receive no training. The orr
ganization outside the home to sup
ply this need is the Sunday school.
1t is worthy institution, and should
be supported not only for the sake
of good citizenship, but for the sptr-
itual benefit to be derived from 1t.
Next Sunday is Rally Day, and we
are hoping to rally our forces for a
united effort in this great work. We
want one hundred per cent attend
ance on the part Of the membership.
Every member should make it a point
to be there. The help of those who
are not engaged in Sunday school
work elsewhere will be greatly APP
preciated, Go to Sunday school next
Sunday and keep it UP.
Sunday school at 10 a. M
DAVID METLER,
Pastor.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05
VERY LIMITED

Do you know that the nice building
sites are very limited in Payette, and
do you know that there are only very
few vacant lots left on Center or FIRST
Ave. South? Don't you know that
this week will be your last chance 10
get a vacant lot on either of the
above mentioned streets? Don't you
know that we can sell you one OF
those nice lots for only $165, on easy
terms? If you don't know these
things, you had better get busy and
see the Lamott Brokerage Co.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE-Registered Poland
China sows, will faro soon, also two
boars, servicable age. Registered
Chester White gifts and bears, eight
months old.-Elton Webb, New Ply
mouth. Sept. 2St2.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

NOTICE-You can get alfalfa
meal at the Idaho Alfalfa Milling Co.
Phone 104-w. Sept. 21t4
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE-Deliciou culls.-Geo.
w. Former, Phone 355J2. S. 28t2.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05
FOR SALE OR TRADE-640 acre

FOR SALE OR TRADE-640i acre
ranch, located 81 miles from Bill
lings, Mont, z miles from Broad
view, Mont, 200 acres in cultivation,
plenty of good water, and lots of good
range, will consider merchandise or
land in Payette County. For further
particulars see, or call j. G. Harris,
Fruitland, Idaho, R. f. D. No. :,
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

CABBAGE FOR SALE-for Fall
delivery. Those needing can leave
orders with me. G.. w. Lattig. O5t3.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR RENT-office room over
Post Office, N. A. Jacobsen. May Att.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR RENT-Small house on 7th
Ave. North.-Mrs. Chris Henrichsen.
Sept. 2St2.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR RENT-Furnished room, ia
s. 10th St. Sept. 28t2.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE-Large roll top desk,
at a bargain. Inquire at this office.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05
Want Ads

NOTICE-Dr. Wells has moved his
dentist Office to rooms over the Tele-
graph office, in the new Patch build
ing.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE-Heater and 9x12 AK
minister rug.-Mrs. Belle Sur, Phone
26Sm.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR RENT--4 furnished house
keeping rooms.-409 3rd Ave. North.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE-or trade, Ford ton
truck, pneumatic tires, good cab anG
box, will consider light touring car or
roadster, End house south Lovers
Lane, North 18th street.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

PASTURE TO LET-Good for SO
to 100 head cattle.-Ben Strohbehn,
Phone 219-j.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE-Young Jersey Cow.
gentle, easy mixer, at right price.
Dir. Baker. Oct. 5t2.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

Pleating and Hemstitching. Mrs.
Belle Sur, Phone 268-m. Sept. 14t2
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR RENT OR RENT-6 room
house with two acres of ground, See
e. T. Bowman.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

WANTED-to rent furnished
house for one year. Phone 23o-R.
Oct. 5tf.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE ersey cows, D. L.
I-gard, Phone S623--Fruitland.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

s Cabbage for Sale--Call Payette Elk
change 355J-4 or write Cahill Bros,
Weiser, Idaho. Oct. sta.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR RENT-5 room house, close
in. Apply w. S. Crockford, at Idaho
Power Company.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

INSURANCE.? We can give you
service. promptness, reliability. Con-
suit us.-Payette Valley Realty Co..
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

WANTED-Fresh Jersey cows,
must be T.B. tested or owner willing
to stand test. None with second grade
cows need answer this.-G. L. Voll-
mer, Phone 188-R.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

FOR SALE-16 head of good
breeding Ewes, also 2 Rams, 4 miles
North of Payette.-L. e. Hines. S2St2
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-05

know that we can sell you one of
those nice lots for only $165, on easy
terms? If you don't know these
things, you had better get busy and
see the Lamott Brokerage Co.
i Want Ads Ii
NOTICE-Dr. Wells has moved his |
dentist Office to rooms over the Tele- |
| graph office, in the new Patch build
! ing.
FOR SALE-Young Jersey Cow.
gentle, easy mixer, at right price.
Dir. Baker. Oct. 5t2.
FOR SALE ersey cows, D. L.
I-gard, Phone s623--Fruitland.
FOR SALE-16 head of good
| breeding Ewes, also 2 Rams, 4 miles
/ North of Payette.--L. e. Hines. S2St2
f. Cabbage for Sale--Ca1l Payette Elk
change 355J-4 or write Cahill Bros,
Weiser, Idaho. Oct. 5t3.
WANTED-to rent furnished
house for one year. Phone 235-R.
oct. 6tf.
FOR SALE-Heater and 9x12 AK
minister rug.-Mrs. Belle Sur, Phone
i 26S-m.
FOR SALE-Large roll top desk,
at bargain. Inquire at this office.
CABBAGE FOR sALE-for Fail
delivery. Those needing can leave
orders with me. G. w. Lattig. O5t3.
/ NOTICE-You can get alfalfa
meal at the Idaho Alfalfa Milling Co.
Phone 104w. Sept. 2lt4
FOR SALE-Registered Poland
| China sows, will faro soon, also two
boars, servicable age. Registered
Chester White gifts and boars, eight
months old-Elton Webb, New Ply
mouth. Sept. 2St2.
FOR SALE-Deliciou culls.-Geo.
W. Former, Phone 355J2. S. 2St2.
+ FOR SALE OR TRADE-640 acre
ranch, located 81 miles from Bill
lings, Mont, Z miles from Broad,
view, Mont, 200 acres in cultivation
plenty of good water. and lots of good
range, will consider merchandise or
land in Payette County. For further
|particulars see, or call j. G. Harris,
Fruitland, Idaho, r. F. D. No. :,
FOR RENT-Office room over
Post Office, N. A. Jacobsen. May Att.
FOR RENT-Sman house on 7th
Ave. orth.-Mrs. Chris Henrichsen.
Sept. 2St2.
FOR RENT-Furnishe room, ia
s. 10th st. Sept. 2St2.
FOR RENT--4 furnished house
keeping rooms.-409 3rd Ave. North.
PASTURE TO LET-Good for SO
to 100 head cattle.-Ben Strohbehn, |
Phone 219-j
Pleating and Hemstitching.- Mrs.
Belle Sur, Phone 268-m. Sept. / 4t2 |
| INSURANCE.? We can give you !
service, promptness, reliability. Con-
suit us.-Payette Valley Realty Co. |
WANTED-Fresh Jersey cows,
must be T.B. tested or owner willing
| to stand test. None with second grade
COWS need answer this.-G. l.. Voll-
mer, Phone 188-R.
FOR RENT-5 room house, close
| in. Apply w. S. Crockford, at Idaho
Power Company.
FOR RENT OR RENT-6 room
house with two acres of ground, See
| e. T. Bowman
FOR SALE-or trade, Ford ton
! truck, pneumatic tires, good cab anc
box, will consider light touring car or
roadster, End house south Lovers
Lane, North 18th street.
| CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN i
President Harding says. 1.-THE
future Of America can not be en-
trusted to children whose spiritual
development is neglected" Accord
ing to Mr.. Harding's statement true
patriotism rests on a spiritual basis.
In the face of this fact we find ac-
cording to statistics there are thirty
seven million children in America
who receive no training. The or
ganization outside the home to sup
ply this need is the Sunday school.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-04-14
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK

Chicago. April 13-Catt!e receipts
1000; active: beef steers mostly 10 TO
25 higher; medium grades advancing
most: top 1925 for heavies and year
l.ngs: bulk beef steers $3.50 TO 8.S5; fat
she stock 10 to IS higher; heifers SNOW
Ing most advance; Gamers. bulls cut
ters. stockers and veal calves, mostly
steady: bulk vealers $3.50 to 7; oulk
fat she stock 1925 to SIS; bulk bolog-
ma bulls, 4c5 10 40; bulk stockers and
feeders s6.:5 to rs; selected half TT
kind al S7.75.
Hogs, receipts $4,000; opened 10 to
Is lower; close Is to IS lower than jos
torday's average: shippers bought
about $500. holdover liberal; top early
slNs5; bulk sI0.14 10 1855; pigs. slow;
weak TO IS lower.
sheep. receipts 1000; fat lambs IS to
5D lovor. sheep steady; best vooied
lambs 1850; other desirable knds
downward to $i440; shorn lamb top 1t%
bulk Sl3 to 1850; few head native
sp-inr lambs to city butcher SIS 70
Is, few Shorn ewes 1915 down