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THE STANFORD WORLD. fok • • • 4 WHEN PLUMMER, THE BAUM CHIEFTAIN,CADVIE TO MONTANA; HOW HE MD HIS N1E1 TERIROMIZED THE WESTERN COUNTRY panted hint to Montana when the to violate. ) mare, from his pocket, which he had first approach of cold forsook their WILL PAY TO U. S. TREAS- discovery of gold promised rich loot. mines, and crowded into Lewiston to URY JUNE I\ Plunpner's men had two points of bangs were located were the only ' he dismounted, and was about to spend the winter, bring with them The two roads upon which the she-) obtained five hundred miles away, i , rendezvous, which they called \she- thoroughfares in the country, and Prove his ownership, when the rut- the hard earnings of their toll. Poi - If Big Wheat Crop Is Harvested As bangs.\ They were in mountain fast- not a day passed that they were not fun( jumped into the saddle, and, lowing in their wake came the pro- nesses, and almost impervious to at- traversed by people in going to and seizing the bridle, rode rapidly away. fesaional gamblers and sports and, Is In Prospect, Next Year's Tax tack, They would ride to these bases returning from the interior mining The wayfarer called upon the by- mingling with the common mass were the wretches who had reached the - Will be Considerably in Excess of after a robbery and divide their loot camps, and in coming into and de- slanders to assist in the recapture of al Tax Now Being Paid; Ten Days in security, parting from the country. The num- the animal, instead of which they lowest depths of human depravity. A of Grace. One was located between Alpwal her of robberies and murders corn- knocked him down, stripped him of letter from one of the early settlers known. myster i ous d i sappearances him to leave. lie entered Lewiston says: \Late In 1862 a large number mined by the bandi t ti will never be ever thing in his pockets, and told f 1 1 a and Pataha creeks, on the road from o. aew.s.on, written at the time. Lewiston to Walla Walla, about 25 The income tax that will be paid congregated hero to pass the winter. miles from the former, and the other soon became of almost weekly oc- utterly destitute. by residents of Montana into the at the foot of Craig's Mountain, be- currence. The danger which every Bravo Express Hiders about seventy-five per cent of these treasury of the United States within tween Lewiston and Oro Fine, at a man incurred of being robbed or No occupation in the northern were cut-throats, robbers, gamblers and the next ten days, on individual earn- point where the main roan was in- killed was demonstrated by numerous mines district tested the courage and escaped convicts. Hones( men were in a fearful unlearnt , and dared tersected by a trail for pack animals. escapes made by horsemen who had honesty of men more severely than logs and incomes during the past not lisp 01' the arrest and Mulish - and that of the express riders. TIceir dit- year will amount itt the aggregate There were several smaller sta_ been assaulted and fired upon, lions nearer ..to Walla Walla and escaped by the fleetness of their ties, in riding front camp to camp the e ir a n way in e evrything.\ e to a sum exceeding $20,000,000. Lewiston, which were occupied only horses- It was fully understood that nquently for hundreds of miles' ment of criminals; the villains had , as occasion might require. A close whoever passed over either of these This statement does not come from -- where there was not a dwelling car- The Trick of Gambler Ruby any official source, but from an in- communication was established be- roads would have to run the gaunt- r‘ ing large amounts of treasure. A gambler named Kirby borrowed dividual who is thoroughly conver- tween these localities, by which the let in the neighborhood of the site-Man ( e a Gthorn objects of frequent at of another a re( oit ea secretly will-- operations of each were speedily bangs , and people generally went tack. Tried men were selected for drawing the charges front ,,it, an sant with the revenue producing pos- known to all. Plummer, meantime, prepared. Crime was fearfully On this business—men as well lanown for hour later he Fit al r it, mut request- sibilities of the new income tax law while secretly directing the affairs the increase all through the secluded personal bravery as for (heir adroit- ed the owner to lend him a few as it applies to this state, of the shebangs and issuing orders districts which separated the river „„ s i„ the use of weapons i„ per- ounces of gold dust, witivIk request It represents a sum equal to about continually to the men, contrived to front the distant tunra d camps. sonal encounter. The notoriety of was declined. Knowing that he had ward off suspicion front himself and Battle Milli Bandits this class was sufficient as a general the money. Kirby, enraged at the re - $25 per capita, indicating the sub- preserve the appearance of a harm - The two shebangs swarmed with thing to protect them pu m ntiZ front attack. fusel, t e iZIO of a loaded re- stantial incomes enjoyed by a large less and inoffeusive citizen of Lew - ruffians. On one occasions a party unless it could be made under every volver to the temple of (he other and number of residents. iston. His notoriety as a gambler oe possible advantage. It is a remark- i .ow out his brains. No arrest was m If the wheat crop of this season was shared by so any better men, f half a dozen vicinity of o cr t a t i while g,sA l 0 riding in t n ,were able fact, and speaks as little in attempted. The cold-blooded, mid - comes up to expectations the total in- and by a great majority of the min- stoppe d b y a vo ll ey f rom t h e s h e b ang favor of the courage of the despera- day murderer walked the streets of come tax collected for the current ere themselves, that it really protect- w hi c h, being harmles s , was r eturned. does as in Praise of the daring no- the town during the entire winter, year will be very much in excess of ed him in his character as a robber. A number of well -mounted robbers Milt)* of these early express riders. i 1 1 t I es _ that few of the latter were inter- atnng.ea .1, Lie sports and escaped unwhipped of justice. Three yearn that paid into the federal treasury While, therefore, he was prying into started in pursuit. Tito party this year. the financial condition of those with caped by hard spurring, one of the rupted in d the discharge of their u- afterward he was arrested in Oregon Due June 15 whom his profession brought him number, to lighten his burden ties. throw- and turned over to the Idaho autho- The time for payment of income in daily contact in town, be was at Mg several large bags of gold dust They were ever upon the alert. It rities, open the requisition of Gov - tax as fixed by law is June 15. In the same time informing his coaled- into the grass. They were after- was the work of an instant only, ernor Lyon, but no WitiletnieS appear - connection with this, Collector W. C. orates at the shebangs of every de- wards recovered. A butcher by the when attacked, for them to draw ing against him, he was suffered to Whaley says; parture which boded success tc their name of Harkness, of Ore Fino, was and discharge their revolvers, with go at large, t \Income tax may be paid on or enterprise, also assaulted an w h o deadly effec, and follow up the d fired upon, When Crime Was Rampant before June 15 under the law, but Gamblers Were Masters owed his deliveraece to the fleetness smallest advantage with the no less In a state of society where the mat- es the taxpayer must settle accord- Such of the population as were of his horse. Owners of pack trains fatal bowie -knife. One man has been jority of the people depend upon vi- ing to the notification received by not, to a greater or less degree, in- never attempted to pass without force known in an encounter of this kind done purslane for a livelihood, want him from the government, it has not volved in the gambling operations sufficient to intimidate the robbers. to kill four assailants and escape un- and destitution are the natural etc - been urged that advance payments be of the community, although perfectly The other ahebana was u harmed. used as a ments. Increase of crime in all its made, In order that confusion in the i cognizant of the designs of the rob- receptacle for stolen horses. It was GraeY & Company of Lewiston , had forms follows. All throegh the win - collector's office might be avoided hers, were too insignificant in num- under the superintendence of a noted a pony express route front that town ter of 1861-62, and until returns be - through second demands and read- hers to offer any active opposition. horse thief by the name of Turner, to Salmon River, a distance of 75 gnu to come in from the mines the justments. Being without organization they, who had been a partner in the busi- miles. Their messenger, whom we following spring, Lewiston Was daily \However there Is -to penalty at- hardly knew each other. Such was ness with Bill Bunton. Any mem- only know by the name of Mose, was and nightly a theater where the en- tached for non-payment of income the state of feeling that, if a gamb- ber of the band, whose claim to rec- a man of great intrepidity, and per- tire calendar of crime was exhibited tax until 10 days after you have re- her or rough desired to possess airy ognitien was founded upon success reetlY familiar with all the risks of in epitome. Murders wore frequent; ceived your notfication of how much of the articles on sale by merchants in any thieving or bloody enterprise, his business. In single encounter he robberies and thefts constant; gamb- you are owing, from the Helena of- or grocers, he entered t store, select- could leave his jaded steed here in was understood to be more than it ling, debauchery, drunkennesa and fice. • The notices are now being sent ed for himself the be the assort- exchange for a fresh one. A single match for any man in the mountains. all 1 heir attendant evils, openly out. ment afforded, and took it away with incident will illustrate the manner Some time in the early fall of 1862, flaunted in the face of day in defiance a plan was laid by Plummer and his of law. Money and food were . Ho associates to capture Mose. The sca, ,. that robbery with the sporting place selected for the purpose was community became an actual neees- GOVERMOR D. IF„ 'WHITE OF D1LLOK AND 19S the trail crossing of White Bird sity. How to protect themseiVPA Creek, at a distance of 60 miles from againat it sorely taxed the wit and Lewiston and 18 miles from Salmon tried the courage of the unfortunate CAREER OF ADVERTUNE Affn BUSMESS River. At this point the creek runs , property holders. CatiVas Malls of - between very abrupt banks densely; felted slight resistance to determined covered with cottonwoods, rendering thieves and life was not protected by One of the factors in the devel- both descent and ascent tedious and) them front murderous bullets. An opment of southwestern Montana difficult. The robbers, in antieina-! exemplification is furnished in the is Hon. B. F. White, last territorial lion of the arrival of Mose. as usual following incident; on a keen lope, after darkness had A German named lintebrant kept governor of the state, who still en- set in, had felled a tree across the a saloon in n large canvas building in joys the big game of business al- trail at a sufficient height to ad- the center of the town. It was the though he is in his eighty-first mit the passage of the horse, and at principal rendezvous for Germano the same time strike the rider In the anel a popular retail -- establishinent. year. Ile has lived a life of adven- chest, and throw him suddenly from Hiltebrant was known to possess a lure, tempered after the years of the saddle. They then intended to considerable amount of coin and gold his youth with much success in kill hint and rob his cantinas, which dust, which the roughs resolved to business. When he was 19 years of it was supposed would contain sev- appropriate. The barriers in the way age he left his New England home oral thousand dollars in gold dust, involved only the possible murder of At Chapman's ranch, near the cross- the owner anti two friends who occu- and went to sea, sailing to Aus- ing, Mose was told that several sus- pied a large bed in the front of the tralia and China. Two years later plclous characters had been prowling saloon. Between 12 and 1 o'clock on he went around the Horn to San In the neighborhood during the af- one of the coldest nights of the first ternoon, and with that keen sense week of January, the door was suet- Francisca), arriving there in 1858. which had been educated to scent denly broken from its hinges, and He placer mined in California. dangoefrom afar, he at once compre- a volley of balls fired in the dime - In 1866, Governor White located headed the whole plot. Carefully tion of the bed. Illitebrant was in - descending the bank, he discovered stantly killed. His two companions, in Idaho, where he built up a salt _./ the snare, and turning to the left, after returning the fire of the rut - mill, Saving the salt by evaporation avoided it, hurried through the flans, seized the treasure and escap- from the salt charged waters of a creek, and ascending the opposite ed. One of the villains was wounded lake. This proved a very profit- able undertaking, and he supplied bank, cast a look of derision back in the finger. When the firing cons - upon the foiled highwaymen. This ed, the robbers cooly enterea the ••fearless Messenger continued in ser- building, lighted a candle, and pro - practically all the salt that was vice long \after this event, but his ceeded to search for the money. Find - consumed by the miners of the gold future trips were made under the ing none they departed, uttering gulches of Montana. .During this escort of well -armed assistants. curses upon their ill -fortune, not, period of his life, Former United Miners' Leisure Months however, until several citizens ap- Winters are nowhere more dreary peared upon the scene and witnessed States Smator Lee Mantle, then a than among the placer miners. Frost the enormity of their crime. The boy, worked for him. and snow bring their labors to an murderers passed fearlessly and un- When the Union Pacific built end, and for three or four months concernedly through the crowd, no they either remain In their camps in effort being made to arrest them, into Montana he became connected a state of listless Inactivity, or seek lest a rescue might be attempted, with it as a freight forwarder, and 'for occupation and enjoyment In the which would prove fatal to all eon - while in this undertaking he main- excesses of the nearest populous set- corned, and possibly result in the tamed the largest wagon freight tlement. Iluodreds of them actually burning of the town. The next day, service in the history of the west. squandered during the season of however, a meeting of the citizens winter all that they had obtained by was held, for the avowed purpose of At one time he had over 2,000 wa- the most severe toil during the rest punishing the murderers and deVIB- gons in service, and with his asso- of the year. With the terrible ex- Mg Lneasures to arrest the further crates maintained a bank and a a ample before him, he must be a man progress of crime. of resolute will who can long refrain Plummer Against Judge ,Lynch large commissary. Governor IL F. White of Dillon, Who Has Done Some 1 , :inpire Building from embracing vice In all its forms. This was the first effort of self - He arrived in what is now Dillon On His Own Account in Southwestern Montana Gambling became a favorite occu- protection made by the people. The in 1880, with the railroad. He was Dation, and whiskey a common baver- moment was a _trying one. MI knew one of the owners of the Dillon townsite, and opened the first bank in that section of Montana, an insti- age. The society of abandoned worn- that the roughs were In the major- tution that has since developed into one of the strong banking houses of the state. until every moral, fly, and no one Was bold enough to en lured him on resistance to their a stance He was appointed governor of Montana - by President , Harrison in 1889. Although that was nearly 30 social, and virtuous resolution IS recommend open years ago they still talk in Dillon of the celebration which followed his appointment. -Among other things that was done that night the new governor fiddled while his admiring constituents danced. Old enmities were forgotten, and everyone rejoiced in the first big distinction that had come to Dillon. Midwife at Statehood's Birth Governor White served until the organization of the state. As a matter of fact for about half a day he was the first governor under statehood, that much time elapsing between the hour when Montana be- came a state and the inducting into office of Governor Joseph K. Toole. . Governor White stands high in the esteem of his fellow townsmen, which is 'attested to by the fact that he has been mayor of Dillon more than two-thirds of the town's corporate life. He was a member of the legislature in 1882, and was speaker of the house of representatives two terms, and represented Beav- erhead county in the senate at two sessiops, serving always with distinction. He was commissioner for Montana of the world's fair in Chicago, and served the state in a like capacity at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. Governor White's father was Benjamin White, who was born at Plymouth, Mass. and was a direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born anniong the Pilgrims who landed from the May- flower. He was a cotton manufacturer and was connected with the first cotton mills erected in Rhode , Island. In the First National Bank of Dillon he has built up a solid institution, which has done much to de- velop the resources of Beaverhead county. In particular he has fostered the flockmasters of that sec- tion and the cattlemen of the Big Hole basin, until Beaverhead ranks first among the wool producing coun- ties of the state, and the prime beeves of the Big Hole have a reputation in Chicago that brings top prices. He is one of the few bankers of the old school who lend more money On the moral risk than they do on securities, having faith in the men of his picking and in the country .of their opportunity. In this respect he has made few mistakes and there are many well-to-do men in Beaverhead county who owe their pros- perity to his good judgment in loaning them money, when,. by all the laws of banking in the modern sense, they were not entitled to it. Before Henry Plummer, the ban- a request that it should be charged ill which many of the horses were ob- broken down, and the experience of tilt chieftain, who half a century ago, or stated that some day when he was tamed. A gentleman riding a beau- a few months of such it life wholly INCOME TAX WILL held Montana in thrall until the VW- ) in luck he would pay for it. Rather tiful young mare, on his way from unfitted tuna for a return to his ear- lantes organized and hanged him and t than risk an affray, the dealer sub- Oregon to Ore Fino, while she was tier pursuits. This Was the eXperiellee TOTAL $20,000,000 nack, he was chief of bandits oper-I was generally made, the gamblers auddenly confronted by a man who who sought for fortune among the ating in theh m Lewiston, Idaho coun-, entertaining, among themselves. a claimed her as his property. Several gold mines. Most of th h is class who 60 of Ins highwaymen, came to Ban— mitted to the imposition. Payment drinking from the stream nearby, was of three -fourths of tile young melt try, and many of the men who oper- standard of honor in such matters persons were witnesses to the meet- had been occupied in placer digging ated with hint in that section, accom- which it was considered disgraceful ing. Drawing a bill of sale of the daring the saintlier and fall, at the THAT IS ESTIMATED SUM STATE NEILL NITONALD BACK IN GOTHAM FORMER GRANITE youvrv EEG- ISEATOR NOW MAJOR IN CA- NADIAN ARMY Enlisted as it Private when Be Wee Veers Ohl, and Won Ms Way UP le Welk; Went to CellIel11 When CObelt 11001114.41; in the 1.1b4 erty Loan DriVe. Among the veterans of the Cana- dian army sent over from Europe to New York to help in the Liberty loan drive is Major Neill McDonald, for- merly representative in Ito' Nlontana 10giSiiit lire i (I i - J114' 4,11 V. and popularly 1.1,.. a - i , i) ) -Ellq11\ Me- i/MI;(111, Oii Wilt( III ae, ,tentorial t \tee The ti-i u ),Iitior Mel)on- it ht's return to Ne%., ii k oas brought I o Montana la; a resident of the mate a h a h, o ) aist rettirned from New York citt. \I Foghorn a as the hit of New Vol k. Ile raised $3 2. 0 011 in less than five minutes at the \Vahlorl Astoria and yol1 COIllki !war his t ()Ice as far as alsidtson square Cmaien.\ MoDonald has 111:1111) a mat velour; l'(11.01-11 lit tile aria\! and 1111e hall 1'1111- 11)111'11 11111)11 hilt) ab011t every medal nunid 11t11.01-atille that Killg (i0Orge and the Canadians hate ita Ililoul Ottt sluieo the War bega a. With his usual mod - eat y, '•laogliorai\ says if it were not for the fact that he is 1(110Wil to be 11.11 American citizen he would be a commanding general by now in the Canadian army. alcifonald was runt doing much In Montana when the Cobalt mining boom broke oat. Ile Jumped Into Canada and inside quite a name and some money as a mining engineer. When the it ar came and half an hour after Canada opened the first reorult- ing station, \Foghorn\ bree2C11 In and shouted lie wanted to enlist. - Can't take you; mare too old,\ replied tho officer. \NVialitai your limit ?\ asked Mc- Donald, who, by the way, was 63 years old at the thee. - Forty. - \WOIrt he -in for six months yet,\ mustered m. I Iffictlit, and he was ac- cepted is a :iris tte and two days later left with the tic I Canadian centill- gent of 1.200 ries ,for Salisbury Plains in England. encia.). - liments, for fear of eons°. quet!..-., Henry Plummer took an actI!,.! ) , ,,)Iu the proceedings, de - Pi' I in, - it It lervid elotmence \the horrors of anarchy\ and solemnly warning the people to \take no steps that might bring disgrace and 1111011 their rising young city.\ Known 1114 a gambler only and sus- pected by few of any darker asso- ciations, his winning manner had the effect to squelch in its inception the initiatory movement, which at no distant period Wes to burst forth and overwhelm him, with hundreds of his bloody associates, in its aveng- ing vortex, The brother of the murdered Hine- brant was in business at this time at the Oro Fine) mines. Hearing of the murder, he openly avowed the in- tention of going immediately to Lew- iston to bring the authors to justice. The banditti sent him a message that he would not live to get there, which had the effect to daunt him from his purpose, and the amassins, for the time, escaped punishment, In all this chaos of crime, Henry Plummer, the sally° cutthroat, was the master, lie came to Montana with his organization, men who would stop at nothing to follow his orders, proViding there was an abun- dance of booty. Plummer set him- self up in Bannack as a sort of gen- tleman gambler. In a few weeks he was in the confidence of the best men In the place, and a few months later he was elected miners' sheriff. This put him in a commanding posi- tion, and where he could advise his bloodthirsty fellows to advantage. With the discovery of gold at Alder gulch the importance of his place was increased, and he had the young ter- ritory at his mercy. Great Falls Brick & Tile Co. OREAT FALLS, MONTANA Manufacturers of 1,10IIT, DUFF AND DARK FAUN BRICK, FIRE BRICK, DUILDINO TILE, HOLLOW BLOCKS, FIRE PROOFINCL DRAIN TILE Office! MEI lit National Bank Build g \QV Extra Strong Granaries \Q 0\ GRANARY No. 850—CAPACITY 1,000 I11.1811E1A tiler 12x14-11trongly Dullt—Bent Ever Bargain Prices - Buy Now - Save Money Our No. 850 'CIO\ Oranary 14 denlgned to hold I,000 buoheln of graln. It 14 t,iuitt on WI ittli, or akIdn, SO that you can hitch a pale of harries to It and take It anywhere on your farm, The JolOn ere fall's and the atuds are 2x(ra, I fret long and nPlked to the end of the, Johrt and put together with rroaa-llea every four feet, ahlch make. tut, granary AR solid as R rock, It can't spread. The heat of everything la wool and ire guarantee to fur- nish enough, maternal to build Oda granary complete. Our lum- ber bill includes hardware and paint. ThIn granary la to build and the price Is reasonable. For a Antall granary It can't be beat, We are told to look out for higher prices.. DUI' NOW— HAVE MONEY—HAUL LATER. IF THIS DEMON DOES NOT MEET YOUR ft1;QPIII,11:- .MENTS, SEE NEXT WEEK'S AD. ROGERS-TEMPLETON LUMBER CO. as
