Show > j WILD IRISHMANS REMAINS a If r t i Frozen to Beatli A Model United States Commissioner Down South fARYSYALE September 8 1885 Correspondence of THE HERALD Some years ago a man knowh here as the Wild Irishman an eccentric miner that owned amininjr claim in Bullion went to Pioche to work in the mines there and late in the fall returned to Beaver with the intention of coming back to Bullion to work on his mining claim He left Beaver and has never been heard of since The remains of a dead man were found on the 3d by one of the United States Geodetic Survey parties about onefourth of a mile below the summit of the Mt Baldy Bench near the timber line The skeleton was five feet eleven inches in length Mr Foisey one of the jury summoned by Marion Smith the Justice of the Peace informs me that the name of the Wild Irishman was John Daugherty and that he firmly believes the remains lobe E lo-be that of John Daugherty Mr Marion Smith the Justice of the Peace summoned sum-moned out Mr Tom Ferguson Mr I John Lee Jr and lrEd Foise asa I as-a jury to examine and Dury the body They proceeded to the place and mad examination of the remains and found a verdict to the best of their beliefs that the deceased who was unknown to them had been frozen to death while Attempting to cross the range in the winter and it would appear evident that their verdict is a true one On examination ex-amination they found a box matches a pocket knife a few pistol balls but no fire arms and that the deceased had cut off the legs of his overalls and wrapt up his feet in them and bound them on with strips of cloth The skull 1 was found some tnree hundred feet down a declivity of rocks from the I body The left leg and a portion of the left side were not found The remains were buried at the place where they were discovered I Everything is quiet here at present although our naughty Fuber cannot re frain from saying that September 2d I was a lively day with a few miners I who got into the good graqiouaof our I United States Commissioner that 1 claims to have no license to wait on people with ardent spirits who dipped it up to them by the cupful and got quite full himself The next morning it was found that some one had smashed in one of the windows of the postoflice and Judge D P Whedons buggv top I had been slit up with a knife Someone Some-one of the night ranters must have done it BWhat would the people of Great ritain or even in the Eastern States I think of a commissioned judge swagger ing through the streets profaning the name of the Deity 7 What he was go ing to do with a certain portion the community Would they raid him out They would and that quickly In nil these things we try to keep cool and placid in mind but our riaugnty pen oh it gets burning hot It would seem among common tolks that when a man is appointed to hold the judicial ermine over the people as a iudge he should appear with a civil and honor atile deportment and suavity of manner man-ner that would go to show that he was a gentleman of intelligence unbiased in mind and worthy of the respect of I I the people But we are sorry to say that we cannot I can-not view the incumbent in that light Saul the son of Cis hewed to pieces a yoke of cattle and sent it around to all Israel with the threat that he would drive them that way and more so if they would serve them and defend Israel against the Philistines We want a pair of commissioners just like the one we now have but not to hew them to pieces We want to present them to I Mr Barnum > as an example of judicial g da h fl irdjS cussedness for the whole United States MAEYSVALEITE |