One Nation, Under God
100 years ago
August 13, 1915
Wagner shooting affair
E.M. Parmenter and Thos. Byers were arrested at Wagner early Sunday morning by Sheriff Shaw for the alleged shooting up of Phillip Douchette's claim shack. The shooting trouble grows, it is said, out of Byers' attempt to locate on Douchette's claim. The latter alleges that while he was away from his farm one day Byers squatted on the place and when he returned both Byers and Parmenter shot at his using rifles.
Byers is alleged to have appropriated 80 acres belonging to Homesteader J. A. Goss and had plowed up a considerable portion of th...
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