Good old days

8 years ago

May 20, 1887

On Tuesday evening last, about 8 o’clock, Jack Boyd and John Bergen, a couple of rivermen, became involved in a drunken quarrel in front of Cole’s saloon at Palouse City. Bergen drew a long, ugly knife, but Boyd knocked him down before he could use it. A half hour after the fracas, Boyd started for camp. Bergen sprang out at Smith’s livery stable and stabbed him in the abdomen, disemboweling him in a frightful manner.

Watchman Callison arrested the murderer and found the deadly weapon, covered with the blood of his victim. The murdered man was conscious for about a q...