Show rISHER KNOWN AS DESPERATE MAN BOISE Ida Td Nov Noy 30 Jim Jim alias Arthur Fisher was a quarter breed Indian Indan and is said to have been rear reared near near Ore His draN Ira dra- Irani N ni de death th was the logical conclusion e of r an exciting career eer of crime marked by py numerous escapes and arid desperate att at- at L t He c combined all of the cunning daring and ad physical endurance e of the fred man man with the baser characteristics Th In 1305 1905 he stoIc stole a a. horse from front Oscar Oscarr guson r of Goodrich Ida Robert Lans- Lans now no ow v secretary of state was then sheriff of Washington county After a chase through h the mountains Lanson Lans Lans- ilon ion on captured the Indian at Meadows S num had been driven by his l for tob tobacco cco While awaIting a tt In th tho tha county Jail Tann tm made s eral Attempts to escape He dug the theof out of the sink In his ceIl made iy and tried to kill Lansdon After t placed plated hi in u heavy heay irons t TIed d if th the tempered highly steel support t QC f the bottom of ono one of his shoes s 1 he converted after much patient S. S v toll tol an Ideal saw Then he sawed V ill through rough th the irons concealing the fact faul byL by keeping the irons together with a drawn Rightly shoestring This ruse ruo was dl discovered however and his Ws attempt to s scap ape e was v. foiled i was as tried convicted d and sen- sen to serVe live five years in the peni- peni for horse hore stealing He Ho was committed committed com com- to state prison November 4 I. 1 1903 0 when n warped Warden Var en Whitney that hat he was was a desper desperate te character Whitney Whitney Whitney Whit Whit- ney laughed at the the- admonition to guard Juard hip hia prisoner closely and Lansdon bet him th the best of clothes in that the tho Indian would woUd escape inside of six months Lansdon won on the Iho suit with a month and more to spare annum was at first an ideal prisoner and pained gained Whitneys Whitney's confidence He lie was trusted to the extent of being allowed to to help build the new wall around the f ward Ward When the guard turned 1 his back slipped o over r the wall walland r and made and made his hits getaway Ho lie tied fled into Washington county and tried to cross the Welser t into Oregon but hut Lansdon had posted Deputy Sheriff Pence nt at t the bridge and when tho the Indian rode rodo up at night oh on on a pony he or ordered the thc rider ridel to to- halt whirled his horse in t time to fa o escape injury from a a. charge of or J buckshot that tore off oft hi his saddle horn orn Undaunted ran before a 8 big posse osse deliberately dived int into the Snake river and arid swam acro under a rain of fire tire He took refuge in tho the mountains of or eastern Oregon n and eluded the authorities authorities ties for 01 four years living like a a savage Recently he ho herded herded- sheep near Steam mountain fl Hi His ravIng for liquor drove Im into Or Orf OT where he ho got drunk boasted of his crimes and was wati taken Into Juto custody by br Sheriff Ri Richardson hardson |