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The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-04-04
By Martha Edgerton Plassman1
Daughter of Governor Edgerton

have Plummer come over and de-
mand that the prisoner be given
into his custody. Unfortunately,
for Ives, when Lane reached Ban
mack, he found the chief of the
road agents diligently engaged in
looking after the safety of Henry
Plummer. Guards were posted on
the hills around Bannack to warn
him of the coming of the vigilance
committee he had heard was on its
way from Virginia City. perhaps
to arrest him. Ives could hope for
no aid except from his friends in
and around Virginia City.
The story of his trial has been
often told, and always with Colonel
then a young man barely
thirty years old, as the central fig
ure. But there were other lawyers
in this trial, one for the
and three for the de-
tense, who are deserving of men
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ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRIAL OF GEORGE IVES;
SANDERS INVITED TO JOHN COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE

lsey's ranch, where he kept them.
He was never again seen alive.
His employers naturally thought
he had taken both the money and
the mules and left the country. 1t
later developed that on his return
journey with the mules, Tbalt was
met by George Ives, and deliber-
ately shot. He was then dragged,
while still alive, but dying, into
the neighboring sage brush, where
his body was later found, while his
murderer decamped with both
money and mules.
1t was through mere accident
that the body of Tbalt was dis
covered. A man shot grouse. 1t
fell on the victim of Ives, whose
corpse had lain there concealed for
ten days. After finding the body,
the man met two road agents, Long
John and George Hilderman, and
asked them to help him put the
dead man into a wagon, when it
could be taken to town and identi-
fled. They replied: mo; that is
nothing. They kill people in Vir-
ginia every day, and there's moth
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ing said about it, and we want to
have nothing to do about it." In
some unexplained manner the body
was placed in the wagon. When
brought to town it was identified
by ]. X. Beidler and William Clark.
This, briefly told, is the tragic
incident which reused the citizens
of the territory from their state
of indifference, and led to the trial
of Ives, and ultimately to the over
throw of the power of the road
agents. 1t was quite time or the
life of any man might be imper-
illed.
Even after Ives was captured
and held under guard, his fellow
road agents did not fear the out
come of trial; but it was thought
Ives might be freed more expedi-
At once lawyers were con-
suited, and George Lane was dis
patched in haste to Bannack to
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on the Yellowstone or it's tributaries
The first two had been located on
the Big Horn, the earliest, Fort Cass,
having been built about 1892 and
abandoned about 1885 to 1888, fol-
lowed in the latter year by Fort Van
Buren,, which had been located on the
Big Horn at the mouth of the Rose
bud. This latter post was sometimes
called Fort Tullock, after it's builder
A. J. Tullock. 1t, too, had been
abandoned when Larpenteur built
Fort Alexander on the south bank of
the Yellowstone, giving it the chris
tian name of Major Culbertson Mel
drum was in charge of this post in
1916.
The voyage to Fort Alexander was
being made at the request of Colonel
Redfield, agent for the Crow Indians,
and was made in two boats, one in
charge of Medium, carrying goods
for the fort, and the other with an
nuities for the Crows. Due to the
swift current of the river the party
frequently found themselves at the
end of day of arduous labor still in
sight of their camping place of the
At the mouth of Powder river Col
onel Redfield was taken sick and the
goods were all loaded in one boat,
which continued in charge of Mel
drum while in the other Cu1bertson
and Redfield returned to Fort Union
and upon the recovery of Redfield
the trip to Fort Alexander was made
overland.
A story of Meldrum's dealings with
the Indians along the Yellowstone,
Big Horn and Rosebud rivers, was
told to Lieutenant Bradley in 1876
by Little Face, one of Bradley's
Crow scouts, then man of about IS
years. His narrative referred first
20 a trader known among the Indians
Is The Crane, who was stationed for
several years on the Rosebud. He
aid:
1.-THE Crane did not stay long, but
eft another man, Big Nose, in his |
,lace. The Crane went away east,
-mong the white people, and never
anne back. He had two wives among
he Crows, whom he left when he
ne of whom he took away with him.
lie was tall slender man with long,
andy hair. The Crows did not like
Big Nose because he was rude to
hem in trade, often throwing their
obes back into their faces when they
vere not tanned soft enough to suit
i'm. So they told him they did not
rant any such men to trade with I
hem and that he must take his
GODS out of their country, and he {
Id so after the fort had been at the J
.osebud for three SHOWS (three {
ears). II
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MAKES FORTUNE
OUT OF FARMING
RECORD OF LEWIS AND CLARK
FARMER ONE THAT SHOULD
INSPIRE TILLERS
Came to Montana With a $40 Gold
Piece Which He Still Possesses;
Went to Work as Farm Hand;
Now He is Wealthy.

One of the most successful, If not
the most successful, diversified
farmers in Montana, after demon
strating for 80 years in PfickIy
Pear Valley, that it is diversified
farming that pays, has decided to
quit and enjoy the fruits of his la
bors. The man is John Leggerint,
who came to Montana with $40
gold piece as his sole cash resource.
Mr.. Leggerini says he is going to
quit active work, but those who
know him, while they will take his
word in other matters, do not
when he says he is going to enter
the simple life"
This part of Montana has produced
pioneer gold miners, pioneer stock
men, and in Mr.. Leggerini, it has the
pioneer diversified farmer. Born in
northern Italy, when a very young
man he came to America, going first
to Denver. Wanting to go further
west, he started out on foot for Mon
lana, walking all the way; working
when it came to him and holding on
10 the $40 gold piece with which he
started Arriving at Helena, he found
work on the Hugh Kirkendall ranch,
lust north of Helena. There he has
been for 35 years, first as a hired
land, for many years renter, and
or the past seven or eight, a partner
With Harry w. Child, in what is now
allied the Green Meadow farm. He
las not only been able to retain that
original $40 gold piece, but he has
.dded to it many times over, so that
oday he has lands and other interests
n many parts of Montana, and is
ounted among the financially sub
tantial citizens of the state.
Asked how he has accomplished it,
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TT was inevitable, after the &C
quittal of Buck Stinson, Haze
Lyons and Charley Forbes fol-
the killing in broad daylight of de
putty sheriff Dillingham;, the Grim
inal element should become more
daring. Sentimental women had
wept over these cowardly murder
ers, and the attorney for the de-
tense, H. P. A. Smith, in lachry-
NOSE condition, fell on the neck of
Forbes on learning the verdict, ex-
claiming, "Oh, my boy, my boy!'
1t, without repentance or repara-
ton, good looks could serve as
plenary indulgence, other road
agents besides Forbes were posses
sed of it.
This was especially true of
George Ives. He was young, about
u years of age, of light COM
plexion, and his eyes were blue. He
wore no whiskers in day when
men wed with one another in the
abundance and length of such hir
suite adornment, whiskers often
reaching to the waist, or below. |
recall one man of that period, who
braided his carroty red beard and
tied it with blue ribbons.
Thomas Dimsdale, who knew Ives
we'll, says Of him: "His height was
nearly six feet, and he wore SOL
dier's overcoat and light felt hat.
The carriage of this renowned des-
perado was sprightly, and his cool
ness was imperturbable. Long
practice in confronting danger had
made him absolutely fearless. He
would face death with an indiffer
ence that had become constitutional
and the spirit of reckless bravado
with which he was animated made
him the terror of the citizens. Hei
would levy blackmail under the
guise of loan and as a matter of
sport, and to show the training of
his horse he would back the animal
into the windows of store, and
then ride off laughing"
The personal charm and dare
deviltry of Forbes paled before the
qualifications in both res
poets of George Ives. Here was
man, if the occasion arose, to move
weak-rninded women to tears, and
melt the hard heart of a lawyer
and the occasion promptly arose.
An employee of Butschy & Clark
named Nicholas Tbalt, had sold
hem some mules, for which they
made advance payment. Taking
he money with him, Tbalt went to
BRING back the mules from Demp-
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ton. Colonel Sanders has drawn
a vivid pen picture of Charles s
Bagg, who was his efficient aid. He
says, in Sanders History of Mon
tana, of Bagg; "He was short,
stubby, hairy, fatherly looking
man, somewhat rude, of dilapidated
garb, whose bootlegs did not have
sufficient fibre to stand up, and
into one of which he had vainly
essayed to tuck one of the legs of
his pantaloons. He spoke intelli-
gently, and made it manifest that
he had been deeply stirred by the
events that had taken place. If the
lawyers of the defense appealed to
the miners on questions submitted,
the appeal of my colleague was
with greater frequency and inten-
sity to the Almighty, with whom,
judging from his speech, he was on
terms of considerabl intimacy"
This little man, who presented
so ridiculous an appearance was, in
reality as great hero as ever fell
on the battlefield, and his memory
should be cherished by all Montan-
ans who honor courage and devo-
ton to principle Colonel Sanders
credits Charles S. Bagg with hav-
ing rendered valuable service dur
ing Ives trial.
The leading attorney for the de-
Tense was Harry Percival Adams
Smith, whose names, or initials, we
have seen as those of the counsel
who succeeded in turning loose
those arch-criminals, Buck Stinson,
Haze Lyons. Charley Forbes,
Moore and Reeves, again to prey
upon society. Colonel Sanders
says of Smith; Though somewhat
demoralized, he was man of very
ability" He informed
Colonel Sanders that he, Smith,
had been sent for to "get the boys
out of a scrape."
Also for the defense was another
lble lawyer, James M. Thurmond.
On his way to the place of trial,
Nevada City, Colonel Sanders fell
n with him, when he explained
hat some of his clients were in
rouble. having been arrested and
lccused of the murder of "the
)utchman"; that he was counsel
or these fellows" and generously
that Sanders should
hare in the defense, and in the re-
ulting fee, as "they had plenty of
money"
Ritchie, the third lawyer for the
was a consumptive and an
nebriate, perhaps in consequence,
S wine or whiskey was then a
avorite prescription for consump
ion, as we'll as for snake bites. His
yeakness incapacitatetd him from
ontributing greatly to the aid of
Concluded on Agricultural Page)
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Accountant Seeks Position

Nine years experience, with recent special
training in st. Paul and with VIM. b.
Finlay, @. II. A., Great Falls, Montana,
wants position with responsible business
where opportunity for advancement is to
be had. Address: Accountant, care Of VIM.
IL. FinIay, C.. p. A., Great Falls, Montana.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
COOLIDGE CHOICE
OF WOMEN VOTERS
Mrs. A. T. Hert Praises
Child Labor Policy.

what the future holds for the
wage Garner and the wage earner's
family, is of vital interest to the
women of this country Mrs. Alvin
L. Hert, vice chairman OF the Repub
lican National committee, stated in a
recent interview. Therefore, the
promises of the political parties on
the subject of labor are of the great
est importance. When we reflect that
there are eight and one-half million
women wage earners including two
million married women wage earners
who are directly affected by labor
legislation, as well as the wives of the
laboring men who are interested in
the protection afforded labor, the Inn
portanee of the question can be plain
iy SEEN
ssEvery woman in America is In
terested in the question OF child labor
and wants to see the children of this
country safeguarded during the most
important years of their lives.
"A fair deal to labor was assured
by the Republican party in Its plat
form accepted by the national con-
vention in Cleveland. Tie platform
pledges continued progressive reduc-
ton Of taxes, rigid economy in govern
ment and promises protection against
undue exactionA
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
ssvres Blue.

For a long the ii was believed thai
the famous blue color given to the
porcelain manufactured at Sevres, in
France. was the result of d secret pro-
cess and there We're many legends in
regard thereto. 1t has been proved,
however, that it is an error to sup
pose that Sevres blue cannot be pro-
duced elsewhere. AS matter of fact,
1t is produced in many French pot
teries where sufficient care is taken
and where r,ire oxide of cobalt is EN-
ployed. Formerly it was difficult to
procure this article free from certain
impurities that injured the color, but
chemical science has overcome all the
difficulties The same is true of the
Chinese green known as celedon. 1t
was invented in China. but it can be
perfectly reproduced elsewhere.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18

ened him that he determined to
live and not only to live but to
again earn money and to again take
his place in the world of useful
persons. He was resolved to make
the barren ground he owned sup
port him. Fighting back the numb
ness in his swollen hands and ex-
ercising them a few minutes out
of each hour in the day despite the
agony it entailed, he managed
within three months time to
manipulate a hoe, and with this
hoe and the aid of his wife he titled
the entire plot of ground before
the Spring of that year had closed.
Before the summer had waned his
hands and arms were obeying him
instead of he obeying them. Dur
ing that summer he raised enough
choice vegetables to not only sup
port hi:lself and his wife, but to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
By
Edward
Mccullough
AUTOcAsTER

Ten years ago when Charles H.
Jury of Pasadena, California, was
81 years old he reached the break
ing point of his life. A year before
ne had been wiped out in business,
losing everything he possessed but
small cottage and bare plot of
ground rs by 100 feet. To add to
his troubles he was stricken with
incipient rheumatism of SO pro-
gressive a nature that he became
hopeless cripple. Starvation
faced him and his feeble wife. A
specialist whom he couldn't pay
told him he would never walk
again and probably would never be
able to use his hands again. A
neighbor gave him a wheeled chair
and he settled back to die, either
of starvation or creeping paralysis.
The haunted and pinched face of
his feeble wife, however, so fright
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
Yes. Why Not2

IF the worlds chemists and the
worlds engineers would hold annual
meetings in friendly spirit, Tor the
salvation of mankind. If they could
agree together that to exercise their
ingenuity on the perfecting of destluc-
tive agents for the use of governments
was a crime to take money for il a
betrayal of their species If we could
have such exchange of international
thought as that. then indeed we might
hear the rustic Of salVation's wings.
And-after ali-wlly not John
yn,Ss, itrf ilN
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
ViIIenaae.

Villenage was a system Of 'snd fen
ure introduced into England ats' ist
Norman Conquest 1065 A. - Ni.ts.e
ny the occupants of the soil we:e sept
permitted to hold land only on conai
ton of performing mental service for
their lord and superior Such persons
were called viileins tof or pertaining
10 the vilD, whence is derived the
common English word william. Vii
lena.e, although never formally abol-
ished in England, ceased to exist in
the Sixteenth century.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
Firth OF forth Bridae.

canfilever bridge erected over
the Firth of Forth at Queensberry.
Scotland. in 1883 1890, is famous
on account of the length of its
spans. The two main spans are
each Ito feet long, and the total
length Of the bridge is 1926 feet. The
towers are 343 feet in height. The
bridge contains $1,000 tons of steel
and the whole cost of construction
was about S13,0O0OOO
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
County Board Proceedings

September 8 1924
adjournment . the
County Eagle
Meeting called order by all mem
Minutes of previous meeting read and approved
On motion the matter of rent for County officers were referred TO COM
mftee public property
Boards Q m. chairman Hall
The following resolution unanimously adopted
No
RESOLVED enter
into lease with Alex Higgins period
Municipal
Six Dollars and that the
hereby authorized and
such lease the of Villas County
Signed: FRANK A HALL
referred to COMMITTEES
audit and approval
motion the Board took recess until 9 a. M September n
Meeting called to order by chairman Hall
Moved and carried that Highway
county $4,000 exchange for
a new Hupmobie.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS pursuant provisions Wisconsin Sta
1921 Villas County has employed
Ann chrstman duly registered nurse as county nurse OF WAS @
Dollars and her neces
of her duties and
automobile oil including the maintenance Of said
autom said County Nurse
AND WHEREAS the opinion this board for the best interests
OF County be re-employed
that the reemploy Ann
certified health county nurse Of
ending the fnst Monday January a.
the is hereby fixed at the
of necessary @
duties
her official
Of the salary be paid at the
in salaries that the county
and upon filing
verified claims the
board that the county shall furnish
automobile and maintain the same and
and
written contract with said
herein above set forth
o September A D. 1924
Signed: E BOWEN,
Supervisor
of which
as follows chairman be authorized
to issueo Of
Wisconsin
1924
Villas County Wisconsin
referred sund claims
filed in
be allowed
forth the schedule hereto attached
o E. BOWEN A. n fASDfhoON
PETER ART JACKSON
De
r sETI sTROM
cEo MAYO A.
LAUNDIE JOHN BENSON
General Claims
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
Oriuin Of Victoria Crc.s

The Victoria Cross, given for con-
spicuous bravery, was instituted in
1856 on the close of the Crimean war,
and was given to citizens who had
borne arms against the Indian mu-
tineers. In 1911 the decoration was
extended to the Indian army. A bar
may be awarded for an additional act
of bravery. With the decoration is a
pension for noncommissioned officers
and men of ten pounds year, with an
addition of five pounds for each bar.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18

sell few to local market. That
Winter he began raising rabbits.
His feet and legs were paralyzed
and still are and he has never left
the wheel chair excepting to be
lifted into bed and out again.
But the rheumatism and paraly-
sis have been kept localized there.
His swollen hands and arms obey
him. He is a breeder of Belgian
hares, which he sells to local deal
ers, and his carrots and cabbages
are the finest in California. he
owns a new home, has every com,
fort and is regarded as fairly Wen
to do.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
General Claims
Amount Allowed

Name of claimant Nau o Amount Allowed
Winchester Funeral Expense 70 =
Castle Pierce Supplies .@- Soo
County of Marathon Normal - -. l65O |
IJa1I nnbar 81 TJ,r plaster paint etc
Ferns Stamp 5ooo
Chas.H Hauling - - 9oo
DorOth -
Co Of Milwaukee, Medical attendance $3.50
H. Prisoners ..--- - loloo
H. Work dorothy FetD 3D. looo
Carter, ~-.- - 81 70
OConnor, ----- - 1879
Supplies Jail e- '1oo
4elke Furniture Co, Funeral - - 9ooo
Walter NIerica a and Jail - lZoo
ohm Frank, Sheriff services - 60OO
Supplies .--..- . 100
tin w. r -
Marathon Co and Care 32e Il
Bowron murray supplies ~
Robert Assessors Fees -.... - 80
L. e -
c.. - -
;agle Review, Supplies -.--- 20
,agle River Lumbe loads - a9o
Korpal t-....- - ooo
Expense 93o
Niedecken s--...- - $40
Supplies ----s fzl4
artha -..~-- DO
ller &c, as- oloo
,wn of Funeral Expense 4Ooo
Carter Service .~---. -- lA"oo
maid Adams,-D - 4ooo
I'm Hanson, e- -- o4oo
hn Salary & Expense oaoo
H. Investigations l'ao
as --A-- Ao4oo
Hunter, Work - o4oo
ry Hong, Clerk Expense - ne
rlen - 1l.oo
w Thorpe, Medical Attendance o1zo
hert Persohn, --- ooo
anBA Purchasing Agent Nv
ank Cater,Co Judge -.-- - zoo
of Lincoln Aid to Poor ~
--- . DIV
- r-~.-. -- oV'lO
Com Work o
Bowen, Work DIV
Rurke Co - OH
andard Expense A'"1o
rl Eiason Car -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
Loaded

It may not be possible wholly to
eliminate biting and chewing from the
noble game of football, but at least
the practice of fling the teeth before
each game should be stopped Phil
adelphia Public Ledger.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
Sincerity.

To every poet, to every writer, we
might say BE true, if you would be
believed. Let man but speak forth
with genuine earnestness the thought,
tie emotion. the actual condition Of
his own heart; and other men, so
strangely are we all knit together by
the tie Of sympathy, must and will
give heed u him. In culture, in ex-
tent Of view, We may stand above the
speaker, or below him; but in either
case, his words, if they are earnest
and sincere, will find some response
within rs; for in spite of all casual
varieties in outward rank or inward,
Is t'!ce answers 10 face, so does the
liean Of man to man.eThomas Car
lyle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-18
Signed: MARY HOUG.
County Clerk.
GUST TWENTY-oNE"

One of the important factors
in the election of the man who
is TO be the next President OF
the United States, will be the
Young men and women who are
lust old enough TO vote.
Some of these first voters are
wage earners, others are still in
college. They share common
responsibility, that of express
8 ing the views and wishes of the
youth OF America.
Here and there when a young
man or woman can be persuaded
to talk. about it, they are heard
to say that they want to keep
President Coolidge on the job at
Washington for the next four
years. They can 90 1t.
. .
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-17
MORALLY INSANE!

The subtle business Of getting
those two Chicago specimens of de-
pravity. Leopold and Loeb, in the cata-
logue with Thaw, appears in the in
terviews put forth as news to the
effect that learned insanity experts
agree that they are morally insane.
Then a dash of piquant sauce is
added in the published statement of
the alleged sweetheart Of Loeb that
she is still sticking by Dickie" and
knows he will be free again.
If this doesn't excite the gorge of
people who have some conception of
the sacredness of human life 1t would
be hard to guess what would do so.
Murder and mangle an innocent little
fellow. sop his face with acid to burn
out any resemblance. then to attempt
to blackmail the parents Of the little
one, all for the sake of getting a
thrill" and all the time cocksure
their money would get them out II
caught.
Morally insane?" So is every
mind in which is lodged the idea that
money will save it from conse-
quences: so are the minds Of the
train bandits, although theirs was a
comparatively decent expression of
It, so were the minds of the little
school boys near New York who mall