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Reservations: 1-800-253-8831 www.evranch.com E-mail: [email protected] Page 8 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Summer 2001 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Page 9 KENTUCKY CANNIBAL IN CARIBOO A STORY OF THE KILLER, BOONE HELM Jason Young Never before in the history of colony of British Columbia had such a viscious and depraved badman, in the character of one Boone Helm, travelled amongst us. Having killed, robbed, cheated and even eaten so many of his honest brethren that it is doubtful whether even he, could have given an accurate account of his crimes; still, he escaped the laws of two countries over a period of some twenty years and left a legacy of infamy that lives on to this day.

orn in Kentucky in 1828, Boone moved with his parents to one of B the newest settlements in Missouri when urging his horse up the he was very young. “stairs into the court-room, The rough pur- (Helm) astonished the judge suits of border life by demanding with profane were congenial to his emphasis what he wanted ... tastes and, as a young man, he became known for his great physical strength and his rowdy- ism. He delighted in nothing more than any quarrel which would bring his prowess into full display. He was also an inordinate consumer of liquor, and when thus excited would give way to all the evil passions of nature. On one occasion, while the circuit court was in session, the sheriff attempted to arrest him. Helm resisted the officer, but urging his horse up the stairs into the court- room, astonished the judge by demanding with profane emphasis what he wanted with him.

Boone determined to emigrate either to Texas or California. Littlebury Shoot, a neighbour and friend had promised to accompany him. By some accounts, Shoot had made the promise to a drunken Helm with intent of pacification. When Helm heard that his friend was intending to stay in Missouri he called upon his friend’s house and an exchange of this sort took place:— “So Littlebury, you’ve backed down on the Texas question, have you?” Shoot, attempting an explanation was stopped by the preemptory demand:— “Well, are you going or not? Say yes or no.” “No!” At the utterance of this reply, Helm dissolved the brief partnership with a bowie knife between the ribs. Shoot died instantly and Boone fled West. The brother of the victim and a few resolute friends followed in pursuit. They tracked him for a distance before capturing him by surprise at an Indian reservation and returning him to Monroe county for trial. He was convicted of murder; but his conduct was such while in confinement as to raise some serious doubts of his sanity. In the words of the court, “His manner was not only unbecoming but unbalanced.”

After his conviction, under the advice of physicians, he was consigned to the lunatic asylum from which he eventually escaped and fled immediately to California. I had crossed the Snake river just “above Fort Hall, pitched my lodge Helm killed several and was entering to indulge in a brief persons then in 1858 sleep, when I heard some one outside escaped arrest by ask in a loud tone of voice, “Who owns flight to the Dalles, Oregon Territory. this shebang?” Stepping to the door and looking out, I saw a tall, cadaverous, sunken-eyed man Late in October Boone standing over me, dressed in a dirty, dilapidated and several com- coat and shirt and drawers, and moccasins so panions left Grande worn that they could scarcely be tied to his Ronde river for Camp feet.” Floyd. A first hand narrative of this adventure was detailed by John W. Powell who unwittingly saved the scoundrel’s life near the end of his journey:—

“...on the 10th of April, 1859... I had crossed the Snake river just above Fort Hall, pitched my lodge and was entering to indulge in a brief CANNIBAL ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 sleep, when I heard some one outside ask in a loud tone Page 10 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Summer 2001 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Page 11 THE GREEN GOLD OF THE CARIBOO the FIRST CATTLE RANCH IN WESTERN CANADA? rom Cache Creek north to Quesnel, Highway 97 passes through the grasslands that are the Cariboo Road. It is now an historic site. Innkeeper green gold of the Cariboo, grasslands that have been raising beef cattle since the Antoine Minnabarriet brought cattle Ffirst days of the Gold Rush. from his Oregon holdings to his Basque Ranch operation near Along with leaving thousands of miners with no prospects, the end of the Spences Bridge and California gold rush left ranchers in the northwestern United States with no Clement and Henry market for their beef. The came along just in time for all Cornwall established of them. The first boatload of California prospectors arrived in Victoria in the Ashcroft Ranch April, 1858. The first herd of Oregon cattle crossed the border at Osoyoos further along. two months later. By 1870 the General Joel Palmer, a veteran of California beef drives, trailed that Cariboo gold first herd to the BC goldfields. Travelling with cattle, cowboys, and rush was all but oxen-drawn wagons carrying supplies, his crew spent two rough over, and the months on the treacherous trail. Palmer sold the oxen and supplies ranchers had at Fort Kamloops, and the cattle to meat- hungry miners prospect- little local ing along the Fraser River. market for For the next few years there was a steady stream of cattle their product. coming into the country. Drovers bought the cattle for $10 a head Most of them and paid $2 duty for each at the border. Riders wages were $30 had everything a month plus grub (sow belly, beans, and bannock). The cattle ate they owned free, and were sold for $100 to $150 dollars each at the gold fields. invested in the Most stockman made more money on one cattle drive than many land, and they miners made during the entire gold rush. had put down roots, so they Drovers bought cattle in the US in the fall when prices were low, stayed. Vil- crossed the border, and wintered the herds on the lush grass-clad lages had slopes around Cache Creek, Kamloops, and the Nicola Valley. A man grown up or two stayed with the herd. The owners returned in spring and the around most of drive continued on its way. the spreads -- some of the big ranches, Heading home with like the Gang and gold in their pockets, Douglas Lake, were vil- drovers were fair game lages all on their own. The for thieves. On his first trip cattlemen adapted with the to Barkerville, Ben Snipes, times built the country. Their age 22, was paid $50,000 in gold descendants continue to do so. dust for his herd. Warned of robbers, he left town at night. Riding a mule, not the Raising cattle is a sustainable industry, speediest of beasts, and travelling only in dark- ranches established during the gold rush are still ness, he made the 1120km trip home to Washing- in operation. A few, like the Dougherty ranch near ton in seven days with the gold intact. Clinton, and the Moffat ranch near Quesnel, are operated today by the fourth generation of the Jerome and Thaddeus Harper were among the original families. first drovers to realize the grassy slopes were ideal E for raising beef. They acquired property early on contributed by Diana French H O TO T O IB and their holdings grew into the legendary Gang CA R Ranch, once one of the largest cattle operations in

Canada. In 1863 they joined forces with the three von Volkenburgh brothers who owned slaughter houses, and the partners controlled the BC cattle market for the next twenty years. A typical Harper Zellers • Overwaitea • Liquor Store drive would be 500 steers, 50 cows and as many horses, all to be sold. They pastured the cattle and drove them to the slaughter houses as needed. Whether you’re camping or fishing, or hiking, Barkerville residents alone consumed around 1400 you don’t have to spend your time in the great head of cattle a year. outdoors experiencing The colonial government encouraged settlers great with a generous lease system and laws which discomfort. ensured the least possible interference in ranch Take a stroll affairs. By the mid-1860s ranches were strung like through our beads along the travelled routes to the gold fields. two levels Some of the first holdings were no more than a and we good garden plot but that was big enough. One guarantee you’ll find fellow at Soda Creek sold a crop of turnips for more than $3000. enough to Pennsylvania prospector Peter C. Dunlevy, the make your first to make a stake in the Cariboo gold fields, journey used his money to build roadhouses and later a perfect huge farm near the boom town of Soda Creek. Other ranches developed in combination with roadhouses. Herman Bowe’s Alkali Lake Ranch, believed to be the first beef operation in western Canada, began as a roadside inn on the Fraser www.botaniomall.com River trail. Hudson’s Bay Company factor Donald at Highway 20 & Highway 97 McLean (later killed in the Chilcotin War) set up Williams Lake, B.C. the Hat Creek Ranch and stopping place by the 250 392 4169 Page 10 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Summer 2001 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Page 11 WILLIAMS LAKE ORIGINALLY A SECWEPEMC VILLAGE - NAMED AFTER CHIEF WILLIAM September 22, 1862 he city of Williams Lake began as a Sec- Twepemc village, located at the northeast- No man can work the ern end of a lake where a number of trading mines hear exept he has some trails met. During the fur trading years, these capital. Surfis (surface) diging is … out. You trails were used by the fur brigades travelling must then sink 40 to 50 feet to the bead rock then between Fort Alexandria and the Hudson’s Bay‘s you may (reach) the bar it lies in. Hair thair is no use in a southern trading posts. The name came about man coming hear that cannot work at any thing. Not clerks after Roman Catholic Bishop Modeste Demers not townsmen nor traidsmen but sutch men as can swing a visited the village in 1852 and his reports refer to wooley cradle or chop ... . Not that thair is any ploughing or cra- “Chief William.” Thereafter the lake was called dling in B.Columbia for I have not seen grain Enough to keep a thresh- Williams Lake. ing mill for 2 days working for a distance of 700 miles along the fraser nor When gold was discovered in the Cariboo, a farm I would take as a gift. It is all hills mountains rocks exept some ... of prospectors poured like ants along the brigade poor land. trails heading for the goldfields. Thomas David- son established the first farm, roadhouse and Victoria November 16, 1862 store in Williams Lake in 1859 and the next year Gold Commissioner Phillip Nind chose the set- tlement as his headquarters. A year later, Tom Tel no clerks no city gentlemen com in fact too Menefee, one of the first to strike gold in the many has come if evry third son of the … gentlemen Cariboo, bought the Davidson holdings. By 1862, in Canada are sawing wood scraping streets and many when construction of the Cariboo Road began, other nasty jobs … A man who come hear must turn Williams Lake was well on its way to becoming his hand to evry thing.. the distribution centre for the Cariboo. Gustavus Wright and John C. Calbreath won Do not beleav evry thing yo read about this country the contact to build the road between Lillooet … it is the most wicked country in the world cursing and Soda Creek. Williams Lake was to be on the gambling drinking and some times shooting. I have saw route but when the contractors needed money some killed some dead an walked over gravs as uncon- and Menefee refused to lend them any, they re- serned as I have through a potatoes field at home. routed the road, bypassing the village. Nind and Many Indians maid drunk by whits and kill each other everyone else left for Barkerville, except Nind’s nor can I say half what I want to say. I cannot dwell any assistant, Constable William Pinchbeck. Pinch- longer beck and partner William Lyne acquired most of the land in the valley, established an Upper and a Lower farm where they raised meat, produce Sunday is no more respected than Monday. Hear all and prize winning wheat for sale to the miners. work gambling and drinking is seen to a grate extent. They had a sawmill, a gristmill and a distillery Whiskey 25 cents per glass it is paid as read as one cent where they made White Wheat Whiskey. they have not seen my 25 cents nor never will. In 1888, Pinchbeck borrowed money from Gang Ranch to buy out Lyne, but times were November 16, 1862 hard and he died in 1893 before he could replay I have saw many strang seens many strang faces of the loan. He was buried in what is now Pinch- evry nation sence I saw yours. beck Park by the Stampede Grounds. Thair is plenty of gold in Cariboo no doubt but it is Robert Borland bought the property and oper- onley one out of 100 can find it thair is onely 3 months ated a roadhouse at the Lower House and leased of sumer thair and it is rainey wether mostl.y You the Upper House land to Chilcotin pioneer Mike want about 5 or six hundred dolers at least to find Minton. The two farms slumbered along until the any gold. Pacific Great Eastern Railway arrived in 1919 and Williams Lake was reborn as a major cattle I have a claim on the far famed Williams Creek. shipping point. The Borland wheat field became Thair is gold in it if I can onely get gold anough to an instant town as entrepreneurs arrived by the get it out. I am determin to try though like thou- score and scurried about throwing up tents and sands I may not sucseed it is 600 miles from hear to shacks to house banks, stores, hotels and res- Wm. Creek. taurants. Almost sixty years after the first try, Joseph Halpenny Williams Lake became Cariboo’s main trading and service centre. It is still a major cattle shipping point. The Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin in downtown Williams Lake focuses on the area’s rich ranching and rodeo heritage, and showcases the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame which honours the province’s working and rodeo cowboys, along with cowboy writers, poets and artists. contributed by Diana French Page 12 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Summer 2001 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Page 13

“CANNIBAL” ... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 on three miles... where bag containing bullets we cooked our repast a attracted their atten- of voice, “Who owns ing, weary, and snow- la mode Cariboo.” tion and saved my dust, this shebang?” Step- blind; was unable to which being tied in the ping to the door and proceed. Helm left him, Some have reported old shirt pocket... was looking out, I saw a tall, and continued on for that Boone befriended not seen. They emptied cadaverous, sunken- the Fort. Sokolosky & co. in my pistol, gave it back eyed man standing over Antler Creek, although to me and told me to me, dressed in a dirty, Reaching the fort, he this seems unlikely ‘git’ and not look back. dilapidated coat and found it without an given Collinson’s account. As my road was down- shirt and drawers, and occupant. He then More probable is that hill, I lost no time.” moccasins so worn that returned to Burton, after passing Collinson they could scarcely be reaching him about on the road, Helm and A. Browning had just tied to his feet. Having dark. When out in the his associate met the arrived in Quesnelle invited him in and willows procuring fire- three men either at Forks the day after the inquired his business, wood, he heard the Keithley Creek or murders had been com- he told me substantially report of a pistol. Run- somewhere between mitted and saw the the following:— ning back into the there and Heck’s ferry. bodies brought in. He house, he found Burton After an exchange of gives the following illu- His name was Boone had committed suicide lead slugs, in which mination: Helm. In company with by shooting himself. the three gold-laden five others he had left Helm decided to try and miners were slayed, “The trail leading down Dalles City, Oregon, in find his way into Salt Helm & friend, buried the mountain to the October, 1858, intend- Lake valley. Cutting off, the greater portion of Forks of Quesnelle was ing to go to Camp well up in the thigh, gold and left the bodies a mile long and as I Floyed, Utah Territory. Burton’s remaining leg near the road. Boone came near... I saw on Having reached the (having already eaten Helm and his partner the trail... a procession Raft river they were the other) he rolled turned back to of men carrying three attacked by a party the limb up in an old Quesnelle Forks in stretchers. I found on of Digger Indians, with red flannel shirt, tied haste, intending to meeting them that they whom they maintained it across his shoulder, retrieve their cache at were carrying three a running fight for sev- and started. a later date. dead men. They were eral miles, but none of found on the trail the party was killed or Boone Helm eventu- Collinson continues: coming from Cariboo, severly wounded. Late ally made Salt Lake City robbed and murdered in the evening they where he was again “We stayed at the Forks for... each of them [had reached the Bannack driven out of town for his next day and saw the been] carrying bags of river, where they atrocious deeds. There murdered men brought gold... Who was the camped, picketed their is good reason to believe in. They had made a murderer, or who were horses near by, and that before Helm fled brave fight, every man’s the murderers? Every- stationed two sentinels. from that town, he mur- pistol (good six shoot- body said in whispers During the night one of dered two citizens in ers) was empty, and it was Boone Helm, a the sentinels was killed, cold blood. each man had a bullet gambler and cutthroat the savage who com- through his head. who had escaped the mitted the deed escap- From a letter pub- Boone Helm and his San Francisco Vigilance ing on a horse belong- lished in the Colonist chum killed these three Committee...” ing to the party. newspaper on April 4, men, took and hid the 1864 we learn that dust, and if no stranger “Pursuit down the trail (Eventually) … they Helm has made his has found it, it is there was determined on, and reached Soda Springs way to Cariboo. yet. For Boone left the $700 raised to pay the on Bear river... and country, I have proof of cost of pursuers. Boone, travelled up that river In July of 1862 the vil- that... I imagine, got wind of until they reached lain is reported to be all this, and escaped Thomas’s fork... where at Antler Creek, some “After leaving the across the line...” they found a comfort- sixteen kilometres from Forks, I … journeyed able cabin and went Barkerville over the on down, stopping at From Browning, we see into winter quarters. heights of Prosperpine Beaver Lake, Deep that the case was Their provisions soon Mountain. Here our Creek, and Williams viewed with grave sin- being all gone they story picks up in the Lake. I met Boone Helm cerity by the commu- commenced subsisting words of W. T. Collin- and his chum at Little nity of Quesnelle Forks on their horses, killing son, a miner of the era Bloody Run ...a few and that every effort one after another... who had the misfortune miles above Cook & was made to capture making snow-shoes out of meeting Boone that Kimble’s Ferry (now “CANNIBAL” CONTINUED ON of the hides of the fateful spring, and the Spence’s Bridge).” PAGE 14 horses... and started good luck of surviving towards Fort Hall. to tell the tale some 31 “The first thing I heard years later. was, The party kept together until they had got “Throw up your hands!” beyond Soda Springs, “Tommy Harvey, alias ‘Irish Tommy’ and where some had and looking up, I saw myself left Antler Creek become so exhausted the muzzle of a dou- with Sokolosky and two they could scarcely ble-barreled shot-gun Frenchmen for Forks travel. With their meat about four feet from Quesnelle. This was on supply getting low, my head. It took his or about the 18th of Helm and a man named partner about five min- July, 1862. We jour- Burton concluded not utes to cut my pack- neyed together until we to endanger their own straps, after taking my arrived at Keithley lives by waiting for the six shooter and purse. Creek, where the three wearied ones, so they The latter contained aforementioned gentle- left them behind. three Mexican dollars men, carrying on a mule and three British shil- and two horses about When they had reached lings. One of my old $32,000 in coarse gold, the site of Cantonment shirts contained a good stopped for dinner. Loring, Burton: starv- wad...” but a “small Harvey and I, continued Page 12 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Summer 2001 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Page 13

several crude cabins dead than alive; but a the town in such a state THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME Jessop with the presumptuous hearty meal of newly that he was comic relief ... CONT. FROM PG. 6 title of Fort Kootenay, baked bread and rash- for the troops. His hat rode to a larger camp just south of the U.S.- ers of bacon soon resus- was just a rim, his boots 100 MILE HOUSE of 14 to 15 lodges. In Canada border on the citated me.” tattered moccasins; his this camp was a Kute- Kootenay River. HBC There was a pack pants had no legs below nai Indian returning to trader John Linklater train leaving Fort the knees and not much he origin of 100 Mile House goes back the Tobacco Plains west greeted them warmly, Colville for B.C. the next above; and his shirt had even further than the well-known of the mountains. For a explaining that they day so John hustled the gold rush of the 1860s. Even before were only the second T gift of blankets, cloth- 20 miles north, reaching JESSOP CONT. ON PAGE 16 the discovery of gold at Barkerville, 100 Mile ing, a rifle, ammuni- party to pass through in House was known as Bridge Creek. It was tion and tobacco he his six winters at the agreed to act as guide. fort. The season was too During the night Jes- late for a direct route sop’s horses disap- to the Fraser, he told peared. After several them, so they would hours of searching a have to head south into reward was offered, the Washington Territo- and in short order ries. He had few pro- several young braves visions but could trade rode the “lost” horses them some grizzly meat into camp. Pack sad- and berries. By October dles were made from 15, after a few days’ the abandoned carts, rest, they were on their and the westward pro- way. cession continued, the Progress was steady easterners fully aware now. At the Pend Oreille that this chance meet- a popular camping and resting place for fur River half the party ing had likely saved headed north to Fort brigades travelling between Fort St. James them from starvation. Shepard in British and Kamloops via Bridge Lake and the North They followed the Columbia while Jessop, Thompson River. Waterton River into Duff and two others When fur trading gave way to gold fever what is now Waterton continued south and many of the fur company factors took up acre- National Park, where west toward the Colville ages along the Cariboo Road and built log the mountain freshness, Valley. Food ran out cabins and barns. Tom Hamilton and his wife, green grass and spar- again, but a handful of dried salmon skins Christine, were the first to settle legally at kling water gave their at an Indian camp saw Bridge Creek. Their house became a series of dejected spirits a lift. Their new-found exu- them through to the log cabins joined together in an ingenious way berance was spiced end of their journey. to make it more convenient and comfortable with the relief of having Jessop arrived at a set- for travelers. a guide and knowing tler’s house, “…more As the Hamilton home changed hands over their location for the the years more additions and alternations first time in months. were made. The late Marquis of Exeter pur- On October 2 they chased the property in 1912 and by the time zigzagged up Blakiston the house was razed by fire in 1937 it had Creek beneath cloud- become a great labyrinth of pantries, parlours covered peaks and and alcoves. crossed the South Koo- tenay Pass in falling The name 100 Mile House and all the other snow to reach a west- “mile designated” placed along the Cariboo ward flowing river. In Road were all derived from the Gold Rush six days they left the days when the only route from the Lower Rockies and arrived at Mainland and coast to the B.C. Interior was from Harrison to Lillooet. Lillooet came to be known as the starting point for the 300-mile trek to the Barkerville gold Xats’ull Heritage Village • Site 12, Comp. 62, RR #4 • Williams Lake • B.C. • V2G 4M8 • Canada fields. The number of miles away from Lil- looet designated stop- overs along the route. So 100 Mile House was 100 Miles from Lillooet, one-third of the way along the road to riches and considered a most suitable place to stop for the night.

compliments of the 100 Mile & District Histori- cal Society Page 14 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Summer 2001 The Gold Rush Trail Journal ~ British Columbia, Canada Page 15 “CANNIBAL” CONTINUED and two securities in made for his surren- Fort Yale on the Fraser it? I ate him up, of FROM PAGE 12 And on the 17th. 20 each; in default, der, but as nothing River, and handed over course.” Helm and bring him to suffer one month’s transpired, he was in due form to the cus- to justice for his evil “Boone Helm.- … was imprisonment.” released and three days tody of a Mr. Brandian, “The man who accom- deeds. Strangely, Boone brought before the afterwards the demand a special offecer sent panied him has not Helm did not go ‘across Police Magistrate yes- Boone defaulted and came.” across for the purpose been seen or heard of the line’, or at least, terday on a remand spent the next month by the U.S. Authori- since, and from what not for any length of from Monday last. The building and repairing By that time, Helm was ties...” while another we have been told of time. The Victoria Col- prisoner was defended the streets of Victoria gone and it wasn’t until BC paper reports “He this case-hardened vil- onist next reports him by Mr. Bishop, by in a chain gang. the spring of 1863 that was brought into the lain’s antecedents, we showing up in that city whom it was urged he was again arrested, city last night strongly are inclined to believe on October 13, 1862. that a prejudice had As another historian this time at Fort Yale in ironed. The first clue he told the truth. It is been created against echoes before me, “It the . of the detectives was said this is not the first “Boone Helm, said to him in the minds of the seems odd that in the the report that two time he has been guilty be a dangerous char- residents. The Police newspaper articles at W. T. Collinson says men had been seen of cannibalism.” acter, was arrested by officers present denied the time of Helm’s court this: trudging up the Frazer Sergeant Blake last that any such arrange- hearing in October river on foot... Helm’s Boone Helm was trans- evening.” ment existed so far 1862, that no reference “The next I saw of Helm conduct on the road ported from Victoria to as they were aware, is made to the suspicion was at Sumas in the is conclusive evidence Port Townsend where And on October 14th: and the Chief of Police that he was responsi- spring of 1864 (Collin- that he was aware he Collinson reports he swore that he was ble for the three deaths son has his year con- was being pursued. He “dug out of Townsend “ S u s p i c i o u s known as a bad char- in the Cariboo that fused, it was 1863). passed around the jail and once more Character.- Boone acter. The proprietor summer.” Victoria was He was along with a more populous set- made his way to the Helm, represented as of the Adelphi Saloon a popular wintering packtrain owned by tlements, or through hills, finally fetching up a bad character, was testified that he had place for miners who Dan Harris (alias Dirty them in the night time. in...” either Boise, taken into custody on procured drinks there, had ‘made their pile’, Harris)... Helm was on When overtaken, he Idaho or Bannock, Sunday night last, and then when pay surely there would have his way to get the dust was so exhausted by Montana. upon a charge of was requested, been those in Victoria hid at Quesnelle and fatigue and hunger drinking at saloons replied, who had heard of next day I got on my that it would have Here begins the final and leaving without Helm’s involvement in way to intercept Helm been impossible for chapter of Helm’s settling his score … “Don’t you know that the slayings at at Yale, him to have continued depravity. Having Sgt. Blake, who made I’m a desparate char- Quesnelle Forks? many hours longer… teamed up with the the arrest, said that acter?” From the Colonist: Upon being asked notorious Henry Plum- he understood the The Colonist reports what had become of mer, who was sheriff accused had killed a Sergeant Blake said that authorities held “...a notorious charac- his companion, he of Bannock and a thief man at Salmon River that people who knew Boone Helm in “safe- ter named Boon [sic.] replied with the and murderer on the (Florence), and fled to the accused best, were keeping for some three Helm, who it is said utmost sang froid:—” side, Boone and his British Columbia. afraid of him. The or four weeks, in the to have committed a friends raised the ire Helm was remanded Magistrate ordered expectation that a murder somewhere on “Why, do you suppose for three days in order Helm to find security charge would by pre- the Salmon River, has that I’m a — fool CANNIBAL ...CONTINUED ON to see what account he to be of good behavior ferred against him by been arrested by the enough to starve to PAGE 16 can then give of him- for the term of six our cousins on the other British Authorities at death when I can help self.” months, himself in 50, side, and a request

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