Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-08-06

Pierre until such time as they deemed
it necessary to take further action.
But Walsh was far from being salts
fed. During the next several days
reports reached La Pierre that Walsh
was making threats hat he would get
the heathen." La Pierre was greatly
puzzled to account for the persistency
of the vigilants leader after the rest of
the camp had said quits"
The fourth night after the mysterious
fall of the big rock was a very stormy
one. Sin Louie, who in accordance with
instructions from the miners, was
sleeping in La Pierre's cabin. About 2
a. m. Pierre was awakened from
a deep sleep by the explosion of a
six-gun, not ten feet from his bunk
Springing to the floor with a single
bound and his own weapon ready for
immediate action, he lighted a candle
attached to one end of the table. BY
its faint CLEAN he beheld Louie stand
ing in the doorway, grasping a six
shooter and peering tixedly into TIKI
darkness. Outside someone was groaTl-
ing as If in terrible pain.
whats going on? Who's doing the
shooting?" La Pierre cried.
Lick the Chinaman exclaimed,
~gesticulating excitedly in an endeavor
to make La Pierre understand his "pid-
gin lingo" HE come cleeping, cleep-
ing to cabin, tly stick knife in my
Ibis. I shoot 'um, then Lick yell, lun
out door"
Louie would have kept on indefinitely,
but La Pierre had heard enough. Seiz-
ing a pine torch he kept for emergency,
he lighted it off the candle and went
outside.
1t was Walsh. The Chinaman's bull
let had caught him in the m lscles CT
the right shoulder, inflicting q pain
full but not serious wound. Between
them La Pierre and Louie bound the
hands and feet of the wounded man
and then attended to his injury. The
connection had aroused the occupants
of neighboring cabins and a crowd COL
lected in a very short time. While car
ing little regarding the life Of a heath
en- Chinese" the inhabitants Of the
camp were incensed over Walsh's action
in trying to get Sin Louie, in direct
violation of the action taken following
the collapse of Pulpit Rock. Before the
night passed it was decided that Walsh
be given an opportunity to explain his
action at a hearing to be held the next
afternoon.
But again the fates interferred. When
the miners assembled TO hear Walsh'S
story on the day set for the hearing
there was no Walsh. During the night
he had taken French leave.
However, he escaped n fate only
to fall victim to another. A party OF
prospectors CHANGED across his body
several weeks later in the vicinity of
Mount Haggin. Apparently he had been
endeavoring to make his way into the
Salmon River diggings in Idaho, when
he was trapped in a rock slide. A loose
boulder had rolled on him, knocked him
down and pinned him to the ground
Whether he was killed instantly or had
succumbed to thirst and starvation will
never be known. A search Of his pack
disclosed several pokes of gold dust,
among which was discovered the identi-
cal azurite nugget stolen from La
Pierre.
If there was any doubt before as to
the identity of the gold thief in the
Silver Bow diggings, the finding OF La
Pierre's specimen in Walsh's pack set
tied them. One thing certain, no thefts
were reported following Walsh's de-
parture from the camp.
During the rest of his tenure on Sill
yer Bow creek. Sin Louie was La Pier
res constant companion, and when the
latter married and took up his residence
in Anaconda, Louie accompanied "his
platner'' to the city. He lived with La
Pierre's family for IA years after
Walsh's death, and then. with his "
ings returned to China to spend his
remaining years in comparative COM
fort.