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The Outlaw & His Assassin

How their likeness came to Pend Oreille County A supplement publication of the Newport and Gem State Miner Newspapers

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Historic photo of Jesse James, Robert Ford Page 4

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his issue of Horizon features a story about a historic tintype photo that could well be a one-of-a-kind, a picture of the outlaw Jesse James and the man who would later kill him, Robert Ford. The photo was passed down to Sandy Mills of Usk. When the woman who authenticated a Billy the Kid photo called to tell us about the Jesse James photo, we were intrigued. The photo could well be a life changer for Mills and her partner, Tom Razo, if it is worth what they hope.

Another story focuses on the Cusick Panther, the mounted cat that adorns the wall at Cusick High School. Vern “Fud” Stigall of Cusick, a local taxidermist, donated his work to replace the old panther.

For hunters, there is a story on hunting with a mountain bike, a way to access wild areas without making much noise.

And finally, we have a story about a group of volunteer seamstresses who make pillowcases for critically ill youngsters and their families to help brighten an otherwise dark time.

We hope you enjoy this edition of Horizons.

DG

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Historic photo Usk woman has tintype of the outlaw Jesse James and his killer Robert Ford

By Don Gronning

W

hen Sandy Mills was growing up near Bellingham, in

the northwest corner of Washington, her grandmother, Isabelle Klemann, used to take a tintype photo out and tell the family story of how they knew the outlaw Jesse James.

“Grandma would take it out of a hankie and tell us stories,” Mills remembers. “My grandma was pretty cool. She loved the idea of Jesse James.”

In 2003, her grandmother decided Mills could have the 1880s era tintype photo of Jesse James and his killer Robert Ford and sell it.

“Grandma said it’s been in the family long enough, you could sell it,” Mills says.

Her grandmother passed away in 2006.

The photo could be worth millions of dollars. A tintype photo of Billy the Kid sold at auction for $2.3 million, one of the highest priced photos in history.

At least one expert believes the tintype is authentic and is willing to put her reputation behind it, the woman who authenticated the Billy the Kid photo, Lois Gibson.

Gibson is an acclaimed forensic artist and a graduate of the FBI Academy. In addition to Billy the Kid, she identified the “kissing sailor” in the iconic Times Square photo following the Japanese surrender during World War II. The Guinness Book of Records named Gibson the world’s most successful forensic artist in 2004. She has helped solve more than 1,200 crimes in her 33-year career by sketching faces from memories of witnesses of their attackers, reconstructing faces on the skulls of unidentified murder victims, and age progressing known fugiContinued on page 5 4 Horizon| 2015 Fall

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tives.

Gibson studied the Mills tintype, comparing it to various known photos of James and taking into account the

‘Mills’ ancestors were acquainted with the James gang,’ Tom Razo

family history, and concludes it is a remarkable photo of Jesse James and his killer Robert Ford.

Having Robert Ford in the picture makes it especially rare, not just because Ford is the man who shot James in 1882 for the reward.

“There’s only one known photo of Robert Ford,” Gibson said by phone from her office in Houston, Texas.

Gibson is convinced the photo is authentic, something she doesn’t say lightly.

The fact that Mills, whose family moved to Washington in the 1930s to work in the timber industry, can trace her ancestry back to Missouri at the time of Jesse James is also convincing, she says.

Mills says she has had a hard time getting people to believe the photo was authentic.

“I would talk to people and they always wanted to know if it had been authenticated,” Mills says. When she couldn’t tell them it had been, they lost interest.

“They wanted proof I didn’t have.”

Until now. She credits her partner, Tom Razo, with finding Gibson.

“I had it 13 years and couldn’t do anything with it,” she says. “Tommy found Lois online.”

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Courtesy photo|Lois Gibson

This is one of forensic artist Lois Gibson’s comparisons of a photo of James and Mill’s photo. Mill’s photo is on the right in the lower section and is laid over a known photo of James in varying degrees of transparency.

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“The first part of July I got in touch with Lois,” says Razo. He sent her a cell phone photo of the tintype. She said she had to have a better image, so Razo took it to Image Maker Photo and Video in Sandpoint and had a high resolution scan made, which Gibson worked with.

Mills’ ancestors were acquainted with the James gang, Razo says.

“The family was trusted by the James gang,” he says. Razo says he thinks the photo is the last photo of James taken alive. He thinks James was killed a couple months after this photo was taken, based on James’ death photo. In that photo James had a beard, where he just has a goatee in Mills’ photo. Razo thinks the beard is not fully grown in above the goatee, as though it was grown after the goatee.

According to the State Historical Society of Missouri, Ford joined James’ gang after meeting with Missouri Governor Thomas T. Crittenden, who had issued a proclamation for the arrest of Frank and Jesse James.

In 1882 Jesse James had moved his family back to St. Joseph, Mo., where he passed himself off as a cattle buyer. He brought two new men, Robert and Charley Ford, into his gang to help him scout banks for future robberies. James was unaware that Robert Ford had already talked with Crittenden about getting a reward for killing him.

On April 3, 1882, Robert Ford shot and killed Jesse James. The Ford brothers were tried for murder and found guilty, but the governor parContinued on page 7

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doned them.

The photo came into Mills’ family possession sometime before that, where it was cherished and passed down by the women in the family, Mills says.

The tintype was a type of photography in which a thin sheet of metal was coated with a dark enamel or lacquer, which was used to hold the photographic emulsion.

Tintypes required the subjects to sit still for far longer than modern cameras do. Any image produce from a tintype photo is reversed, a mirror image.

“You can tell by the buttons,” Razo says, which are backwards in the print made from the tintype.

Mills says while the tintype was kept in a hankie for years, when she got it, she put it in a safe and moved it into a safe deposit box years ago.

Mills and Razo live in Usk with their blended family of two sons, 12 and 13.

Mills says they have a happy life.

She moved to Pend Oreille County after visiting on a vacation with her father.

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Hunting with a mountain bike

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By Rick Haggerty

ack in the early 1990s, as I first started to really get into deer and elk hunting, the

normal method of hunting for deer or elk was to drive the logging roads that were open, get out, walk to the landing, and search for any game that might be cruising the edges of the Continued on page 9

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One way to cover a lot of ground in a hurry is a mountain bike. They may not be standard hunting equipment for most hunters, but many people are finding out just how useful they can be.

Mountain bikes are an incredible (but underutilized) tool for hunters.

Aside from the obvious of covering way more miles “pedaling and gunning,” you are also able to get to your stand or location before first light without making a bunch of noise getting there.

A mountain bike, properly equipped, can carry your water and food, your weapon, a tent or sleeping bag, and even the game you bag.

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Next in the order of importance is a way to carry extra gear.

A rack mounted behind the seat is a handy place to carry game bags, rope and lunch.

Water – A water bottle holder mounted to the frame can be a lifesaver on those hot days in September.

Lights – Be sure you also have a battery powered LED light, either mounted to the handlebars, or wear it as a headlamp, or both. It doesn’t hurt to have back-up on lights.

This will light your way in, early in the morning before the sun comes up, and late in the evening, if you have to ride out after it gets dark.

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All of these add-ons distributed around the bike will help you hunt more efficiently off the bike.

At first glance, a closed road is an inconvenience, and can be frustrating. It may mean that you need to find a new place to hunt.

On the positive side, deer and elk are less harried, and way fewer hunters will be back in the area you are hunting.

The more distance a hunter can put between himself and a traveled road, the more game he or she is likely to see.

A closed road is simply a new challenge, a new opportunity. The mountain bike is a way to travel farther and faster than your boot-sore brethren.

Properly outfitted, your bike can carry you far from well-traveled roads and the blaze orange horde, into the high-country meadows and thickets where deer and elk are less pressured. The hunting opportunities can be fantastic.

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Cusick High School’s new panther

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every day from its perch on the foyer’s wall. That’s where a stuffed panther (actually a tom cougar with a dye job) stands guard. Donated and constructed by taxidermist Vern “Fud” Continued on page 13 Horizon photo|Don Gronning

The Cusick School District’s mascot surveys its territory.

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Stigall of Cusick, the newly positioned panther is the Cusick High School alumni’s way of giving back to the community.

“The main reason is so that all the Cusick panthers, young and old, can enjoy it,” said Stigall, who graduated from Cusick High School in 1978. “It’s my way of giving back to the school.”

According to Cusick High School assistant football coach and school board member Ty Shanholtzer, the board was approached last school year by the junior class in regards to the old stuffed panther that formerly resided in the front hallway.

“I’m not sure where it came from, but I know that it had been around a long time and was starting to look worn and beat up. Some of the kids approached us through the Associated Student Body and asked if they could get a new one.”

As it turned out, Shanholzter and Stigall know one another, and Stigall

was more than willing to step forward and assist with the project. Stigall is the owner of All Seasons Taxidermy in Cusick. He says he stuffs an average of 30 deer a year, on top of other assorted animals hunters and anglers bring to him. One year, in a flurry of business, he stuffed 87 deer.

“This county isn’t the easiest to get a good job in,” said Stigall, who has also worked as a logger and heavy equipment operator to make ends meet. “But I’ve always known that I was an artist, and this is a way for me to express that.”

Stigall happened to have a cougar hide he had purchased from a fur dealer in Bonner County, so he died it black to fit over the taxidermy form.

According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website, www. wdfw.wa.gov, panther is another name for a cougar as well as puma. However, the mascot at Cusick is more representative of the black panthers of Asia and Africa, which are leopards.

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Panther mascot recently mounted in our school,” Superintendent Don Hawpe said. “Fud graciously donated the animal and many hours of his own time to complete the project. We are very appreciative for this generous act of goodwill.”

School board member Mike Keogh said he doesn’t know how long the old panther was there but it was located above the doorway as you walked into the school.

“There might have been some sun damage,” Keogh said of the old panther. He is also appreciative of the work Stigall did.

Stigall estimated that the project took about two weeks from start to finish. After taking the proper measurements and ordering the right form, he also made a new base for the cat to be Continued on page 15 Horizon photo|Don Gronning

The new stuffed panther above the wellknown mural.

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According to Stigall, the stuffed panther is in fact made from a tom cougar’s hide dyed black.

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mounted on.

The new panther was installed, complete with mount, in late August.

“It was a big donation for him to

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This is a comparison between the tintype photo Mills has on the left and a historically accepted picture of Jesse James.

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Montana.”

So she moved here, where she met Razo about a year ago. They were both fishing at the Mudhole in Priest River, where he lived.

They moved in together, combing their families.

“Grandma told me to find a good

man and I did,” she says.

They live simply. She has a cleaning business and he works as an equipment operator. They enjoy fishing and she learned to garden from her grandmother, so they put in a big garden that fed them all summer.

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Opposite page: Another comparison by forensic artist Lois Gibson. She points out a number of similarities she says demonstrate Mill’s picture on the left is of the same person as the known picture of Jesse James on the right, things like similarity of hands, eyes, shoulders, ears, and torso, as well as the fact that in both photos the man is wearing striped pants and a vest under his suit coat.

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photo for a lot of money?

“We want to buy some land,” says Mills. She also wants to take care of her parents, who she says provided her with a happy childhood.

Razo says they don’t need much.

A nicer car and maybe a four wheeler.

“We don’t want to impress anybody,” he says. “We just want to live a simple life.”

Mills would like it if the photo sells for a lot of money, but she is equally happy to hear that the family artifact was authenticated.

“Being validated means more than the money,” she says.

She plans to stay in the area even if she sells the photo for a lot of

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Sewing to make things brighter Groups sew pillowcases for sick kids, families

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t’s surprising what a little color can do, especially for an ill young-

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“It means a lot to them,” says Joyce Beach of Newport. When her grandson, Dusten, was in a Michigan hospital fighting for his life, a woman asked if he wanted to come make a pillowcase.

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him,” says Beach. “I was so touched by how bright, colorful pillowcase changed his sterile hospital room. I came back to Spokane and contacted Sacred Heart Hospital, and our local chapter was born.”

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This young patient gives approval after receiving a pillowcase.

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band, Gary, have lived in Pend Oreille County full times since 2000. She and Cherry Edwards of Spokane formed the Case for Smiles Chapter (formerly ConKerr Cancer).

The chapter was a part of the Miles of Pillowcase Smiles event that was held in September in Spokane.

The Me Too Quilt Squad of Newport volunteered to help and between the two groups, 520 pillowcases were made at the Sept. 10 event held at Providence Sacred Heart Children’s hospital in Spokane.

“Our local women have been a vital part of the Miles of Pillowcase Smiles event that is held every September in Spokane,” says Beach.

One of those volunteers is Nancy Furlott of Newport. She is a member of the Me Too Quilt Squad.

“It’s a lot of fun,” she says. It’s for a good cause, she says. The quilt squad takes a day in the fall and a day in the spring to make pillowcases. She says Beach brings in pre cut fabric and the seamstresses go to work. “We sew our Continued on page 24

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This is an example of the colorful pillowcases the group makes for pediatric patients and their families.

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little hearts out,” she laughs.

The 20 Me Too Quilt Squad volunteers, along with other volunteers, helped Beach and her group produce the pillowcases.

“We are known as the ‘Pillowcase Ladies’ at the hospital,” Beach says. She says the help of the Me Too Quilt squad and the other volunteers Case for Smiles chapter has been able to make 1,304 pillowcases in 2014. “We are on target to make over 1,500 this year. That’s a lot of smiles.”

Beach says the extra help is welcome.

“When we have our sewing events, we ask for additional volunteers to come that day to help us create our custom pillowcases,” she says. “These volunteers that come to our sewing events have allowed us to expand our efforts to reach more patients. What started out as a two person group now has more than 60 some volunteers that help us achieve our goals.”

Beach says she is grateful for the local support from the business community.

“When we first started our chapter in 2010, Ben Franklin and the Kalispel Tribe were our first sponsors, and they continue to sponsor money for the purchase of fabric,” she says. All the money raised is spent on fabric. The coordinators cover the other expenses in running the chapter.

Beach goes to Spokane once a month to sew pillowcases for children. She Continued on page 26 Courtesy photo|Joyce Beach

Opposite page: The Me Too Quilt Squad of Newport helps out with the pillowcase projects.

The group, which primarily makes quilts, also helps make pillowcases.

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“The whole idea is to make the room bright and cheerful,” she says, “and more like home.”

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