Show LA E FRONTIER vigilantes CLEAN OF the ladr leader of the thiv wal was the tb sheriff in 1864 63 thirty titio paid the penalty of their crimes N old timer inter fl 0 v viewed 1 e w e d by the omaha lice gave as some start startling ling e experiences X per perien lences ces of frontier vt life in montana when that state wae mas but a frontier mining camp for some sometime jimr he said lawlessness h had ad run riot and life and property appeared to have a better chance to be sacrificed than to be preserved there were mere tags of a comin coming g storm manifested manifest eA j a the law abiding portion of the community which steadily grew until it wae was only a question of some aggravated ase lase coming up to cause calse it to break out it was n not ot long waiting tor for an opportunity an innocent german went down the gulch from virginia city to look tor for a mule which waa was missing mi saing and which hau evidently been stolen he lie found the mule but it cost him hia his life the finding of the dead body of the german nas N as the sign of the breaking out of the storm and the now thoroughly aroused citizens soon traced the crime to i it rough character chir acter named george ives lie waa was captured and anti then the question rose as to what method should be adopted to dispose of him there were two factions fact lone one of which proposed that he should be b tried b by what Is known as a miners court the verdict of which A was as arrived at by taking a vote late of the entire number present the more conservative faction proposed to give ghe the accused ae as near a egal trial as was po possible sible under tinder the tile existing conditions the fenall prevailed and a jury was aas and a judge appointed A wagon box sei seivel vied as a dock and another for the judge and jar W F sanders who wis was after afterwards ardt db senator from montana was appointed as the prosecuting at attorney torne and a young kentuckian Kentuck lan named thurman was to defend ives and right croall did he stand by his client the pleas of both of the attorneys were able efforts but the evidence was eo so conclusive that the efforts of lawyers on either aide side were superfluous and were only brought into play ila that the forms of law might be observed A verdict of guilty as charged was promptly rendered and anti as promptly carried into effect there was no appeal to the supreme court ind and no pleadings for executive exe culive clemency this hanging quieted the lawless element for a alire but the soon resumed their old ways horses were stolen men who were out on the many trails leading from mining camps to the larger settlements were held up and robbed and it if they offered any resistance were murdered finally some papers fell into the hands of the law abiding element which showed that there was a regu regularly larl lv organized gang of road agents regular accounts of their doings were kept and a divide of the proceeds of the forays made the gang was shown to number at least eighty and llena plummer the sheriff of the county NN wis is ascertained to be ita its leader this discovery led to the formation of a regularly organized vigilance ig ilance corn brittee and the members of the committee waited until they the could catch a as many of the gang in town as po possible sIble before making an adv move when the time for action came they placed a guard around the camp at night in order to prevent the escape of an adv of their intended victims some of them got wind of the raid in frome tome manner and did make their escape but five of the most notorious notor loua of them were captured A prompt trial and ready read rope were mere provided and the five were vere hanged before the setting of the sun next day three of these were hoone boone If helium ellum jack gallagher who was a resident of omaha before he went into that country and big foot george the names of the other two have ei taped me I 1 one of those A who ho escaped wae h as caught some time after over near hellgate Hell gate which la Is in the Nici vicinity nit of where the city of 0 helena now elands stands he had suffered creati from the cold and hs hta feet were nere bozen his ills condition however did not save him one alty la in disposing of the victim waa was encountered there was as not a tree wagon magon tongue or an anything thing else in the neighborhood to which he could be hanged the problem was flolly solved b bv setting him on a horse behind one of the vigilantes IgIl antes ta tang ing his feet and hands se cu curel irel placing one end of the rope around his neck and tying the other end to the pummel of the saddle the horse was given a vigorous Nigoro tig ip of the whip and spur and the victim slid off behind and hit neck aia sn is broken by a sudden jerk hear plummer the leader of the gang N was as trie by the vigilantes over at bannock fit and hanged other othe r members ivere caught and executed at various places and il together thirty 11 five 0 paid the penalties of the through the c isantes of th the nihat notorious min h infested th the border also met h j at the hands of the vigilantes 0 lvin ginia city but it ws for no onn e is 1 i with this band of road roid agent it se n was slade who beff an rini i gt 0 ginia city had left trai 4 hind him on the git gnu E he lie waa was engage engaged in freighting fou salt ike lake to virginia city and al 1 diett a dairy lust just 0 outside u tattle of the ut t carup sold milk to the miners hen heril h anil he re t I 1 was gentlemanly and q ma when in hia his cups he pois u eie I 1 the i 4 any of a fiend somi times his alp wor took a turn to de 1811 prop 11 ich am I 1 which he pill if I 1 for ned 8 sobered up he lie was A as not h hinged for anat particular t fling he hid it ne bu h ne ha general principles the 0 ing decided the nul ul e better off jen I 1 without his 1119 alf kimn fa v e don they had no desire to rl I 1 t t ret hie his company compan at the of 0 ath earthly community after fit his long ion me blood career he died like i 1 I ra agne when aien he found the ha hai 11 atlie aided to take him film in ha hind nd he artem N to escape but his ills effort wa was waa A una mi con essa d ing the |