THE WOLF POINT HERALD «««’.HÎffilMONTANA iOeiETY OF PION R FOIRTY- H0W F- “SANDBAR m SAYS SLADE WAS ~ --“ BROWN GOT HIS m CASCADE PIONEER WORKED ON SECRETARY OP THE MONTANA SLADE’S CLALM AT TIME OF PIONEERS EXPLAINS WHAT “SANDBAR” MEANS VIGILANTE ACTIVITIES UTTE recently enjoyed the hon- territory May 26, 1864, are cordially j eye was noted as white-haired men'lips; Mrs.| A. Trask, Powell; Henry j Indian Episode on Famous Old Min­ Pleads the Cause of Montana’s First or and the pleasure of playing invited to attend a meeting to be and women who crossed the plains Buek, Ravalli; J. W. Culbertson, souri, In Which 3 Reds were Slain Governor; Says that Sidney Edg- B host to one of the most re- held at the courthouse in the city of J behind ox teams, slept with pistols Richland; S. H. Erwin, Rosebud; On a Sandbar Is the Real Source markable organizations in the nation, Helena, the capital of the territory, under their pillows, lived in dugouts ; A. J. Lansing, Sanders; Levi S. erton Was Not Given Fair Chance the Montan Society of Pioneers! on Wednesday, September 19, 1884, j and log cabins, and fought with na-; Wild, Silver Bow; Edwin Burke, of Peculiar Cognomen. In the Early Days. Composed of men and women who at 10 a. m„ (the day being during j ture In the raw, to add another star i Stillwater; Mrs. L. J. Daggett, To- may by common consent be called fair week), for the purpose of or-1 to the galaxy of states, answered ton; Mrs. Jennie C. Kamp, Treas- Frank D. Brown of Missoula, * A resident of Montana before it “the fathers and mothers of Mon- ganizing a pioneer’s associati-n, or j "here” in quavering voices. , urer; C. H. Newman, Yellowstone; ! again elected secretary of the Mon- had even a name, let alone an inde­ tana,” the Montana Society of Pi- society of pioneers. | The convention was well prepared J George H. Bruffley, Lake, j tana Pioneers, is known to thons- oneers occupies a place in the affec- , “This society will not be organized | by the Butte comittees of both the ; Message to Senator j ands of Montanans and all mem- pendent political status, Jimmy tlons of the people of this state that jin any hostility to, or as a rival of | Pioneers and the Sons and Daughters A telegram to Senator Clark, Austin of Cascade county paid his re- | hers of the Pioneers as “Sandbar” first visit to Butte after 61 years j Brown. Of the many who call of residence in the state, in attend­ M j him “Sandbar,” but few know how ance at the recent convention ho acquired that cognomen. “It was in 1866,” said Mr. Brown, Montana Pioneers. ■ M j when asked by a newspaperman to Austin came to Montana in 1863 I explain the peculiar significance of with Sidney Edgerton of Akron, Ohio, feagpsgv ■ ■ appointed by President Lincoln as :( the name; “with two other men I governor of Montana. While admit­ was riding along the Missouri, about ting that Governor Edgerton came seven miles above the Marias. One is ■ v::: > ' - of the men was across a ridge and not as a trail blazer, but as a holder f W 4: of political appointment, Austin is an Ä m my other partner had crossed the : river and had disappeared from view. admirer of Edgerton. ■ ■i m Defeated Indians. “Sidney Edgerton was a fine fel­ - m ' i^i ' m. •if ; “I forded over to a long sandbar, low,” Austin insists. He also de­ -ii> $ > m clares that Jim Slade was unjustly m W got the three horses hidden in some & willows and backtracked, as we knew hanged, “because Slade didn’t kill ii-; if: 4: ■i anybody around here,” as Jimmy m some Indians were following us. Hid­ puts it. XV* - '§ 0M den behind some sand, I saw three % Bloods following our tracks. They “Of course Slade killed Jules Beni, mm m had their guns ready, and you know that Frenchman that Julesburg, Colo., is named after, but didn’t they 4* Bloods never gave a white man a ■ chance. They always killed from am­ declare war on each other ,and Wl bush. As the first Indian got over wasn’t it a fair killing? Course it :• :;f: to the bar, I fired and he dropped. was, and a Denver jury said so. My partner heard the shot and came Course Slade cut off Jules’ ears for P--’' '* ri-^>^:i running back. I get the second In­ souvenirs after shootin’ him, but /y f .■/ dian and my partner got the third. that was just what you might call a m «^1 little pleasantry.” Jimmy Austin was working on ■ V-. Slade’s claim in Virginia City when * ■ Wk-i■■ mmm the former stage boss who shot and 04% i hanged men right and left in the ap­ f •:>: parent belief that he was himself . i: the law, was hanged by the Vigi­ lantes. “I often wondered why they Lxv I# '• didn’t hang me up too,” Jimmy says, 4 v “I was pretty close to Slade, you know.” It, ^ > ... f , Hardly A Square Deal. J ■ y -:V Coming back to Sidney Edgerton. f g ■•:: Austin said: “They didn’t give him exactly a square deal. Lots of the n 'H first arrivals in Virginia City were 1 m Confederates. With them came a lot of scrubs, toughs from Texas, Geor­ gia, Misouri and other places, loud­ l\ \ V; mouthed, fighting shooters, who 4 Wi wanted to fight the battle of the j ■ South in Alder Gulch diggin’s. They llpa • ■ : i£! : • went about hollerin’ for Davis and : Lee ‘the two best men America ever j:**: ■ -• ; produced,’ and when P. George Heldt ass ■ Wi Frank “Sandbar” Brown, Who Was hoisted the American flag one Fourth Recently Re-Eelected Secretary of of July those rapscallions tore it wom^n Z-u în f,ro,nt, of ‘he Co,,r‘ Houge, Lewie and Clark County, Helena. Montana on September It, 1884, 41 years ago. It hIiowh the pioneer men and the Montana Society of Pioneers* down. That’s the bunch that Edger­ (he slate’s most refehrofe.w^imm,»^ ** thf or8aniza”on of the Montana Society of Pioneers, and was taken Immediately after the oricanlzati perfected. Many of ton, an Ohio man, and Colonel San­ ÂBÏ have been i“en,i,i-a- The ...................... — f Mr. Waiters ders went up against. We scalped them and threw their *FosLTnt!v-nÏÏZtïlV™ 0,,w“riA> 8’rnkuon ; 9, Unknown ; bodies in the river. I guess that’s “You know they named a county Unkn Marc* 11« f.i««ner ; 18, John wSSox^’ïB^wîlïe^W1 niT1>1ê*ee<tft2a u,,d p’ ,yj"lkno'rn : 23- George W. Irwin 2nd; 24. Pat Patten; 25, XV. O. Dexter; 2«, oho Potter: II; 28, Timothy how I got ‘Sandbar’ tacked to my Edgerton county, but when the oth­ S8 Sam Schwab- SO^Tohn1'^ Min!?; 40^dToh Ii8kf! iVfStVn; 32’ 33 and 34’ t; »k ; 35. A neust, Weisenborn ; 3fi. William A., TorrenceRamsey ;O 37.’Don George XV. Morse; er bunch got in they changed the 47’ Charles! nib 1er?'48 rnWn'.M ^ niaL ‘ilo41.’» C\.K T EB'eB’tgton: 42. Unknown; 43, XVilUan A. Sutherlin ; 41. Unknown: 45. Junius G. Sanders; 4« Unknown; name.” name to Lewis and Clark. tvallwo 1 Mineein-5«’ w ?’m lr- L. Steele ; 51. George 15. Foote; 62, FranclB Adklnson; 53, James Kirkpatrick; 51 and 65, Unknown; 66. Mr. Brown, who is remarkably ,,‘or-e' Travis* nR Tame« R Rolé«1 fi- ii. 'f’ ,59> Barry H. Thaïe; 60, Unknown; 61. Matt Mryson ; 62. Unknown: 63. J. H. Kennedy; 64. Robert S. Hale; well preserved for his age, has had a “But, what I wanted to tell you known-« Tame.’ w am«..'.. -! « V C; »cooke Sr. ; 68. Charles Burnley; 68, Benjamin Ezekiel; 70. Cornelius Hedges; 71. Charles XV (a was this: Edgerton wasn’t appoint­ 8> IntoO xv Hotter'i«? i T ’î The?do™ H’.^Klcnschmldt; 76, Unknown; 77. Colonel William F. XVheeler; 7». H. H. Sapplngton ; 80 and 81. Unknown;: 72, Un- I most colorful career. He came west ed governor of Montana in the first S' tr'I' VÄ„8„3.’ ?,°h" ,T’o,MUÆj î?k"own» Fj'oolmvn; 8«. Col. XX’Ubur F. Sanders; 87. Tllghman H. Clewell ; 88. Tom Baker; 88, XX ill Flowers ; as far as Fort Union for ...a trapping . RÔlIshaek- 08 î ’r!ifT.ifsT’ d»>nes J • MtE'I »4. XViIliam Y. Pemberton; 85, John K. Watson; 96. John K. Sanford; 97, XV. Y. Simonton; 98, K. O. and fur trading Company in the early place. He was governor of the Ter­ SonnefleId’-‘iioJ'William,V H Aile™’ lîl jôe \' Br»™-' V12^Svî^an Vr» I 3’ Li?14«"’"’ 1<Ki’ Charle8 »• CurtJn, 107. Unknown; 108. John A. Featherman; 109, Henry F. ’60’s; he ran a newspaper Called the ritory of Idaho. Idaho ran clear to knowÄ. C Vend.1'Tony i m?” Unknown ; IkS^F.' and ^6 “4* lnknown' S“lnueI 118’ Virginia City Post in Alder in 1865. the Missouri river. He was figuring on making Lewiston, Idaho, his capi­ ; cut cordwood for river steamers in ! 1868, and was scout for the army tal. He changed his mind. Edgerton 1s paralleled only by the national the Historical society, but in its gretting his absence from the con-1 until after the Baker fight in 1873. had 12 families in his ox train. I of Pioneers, and the ever-thinning veneration for the Grand Army.