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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1897
Page
6
Patrick Lillis of Roanoke describes a rough encounter with two tramps on a freight train between Clifton Forge and Buchanan. He had worked at Iron Gate but, after a work stoppage, returned home and chose to ride freight to Buchanan when no passenger service was available until the next day.
A Detroit Free Press interview recalls frontier justice in the early West. The speaker notes magistrates who could neither read nor write and recounts a Bitter Creek episode involving a miner at a saloon, illustrating rough frontier governance.
A thief dug up buried dust bags in a camp tent triggering a sheriff led posse. A young eastern man faced trial with a strong alibi after his friend testified and others confirmed he was with someone else overnight. The prosecutor conceded the alibi was proven.
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