LINCOLN COUNTY
KENELTY MOUNTAIN
Kootenai National Forest
27N-29W-22
27N-29W-22
August 4, 1927: "His action believed due to a deranged mind, Robert Hegg, a lookout on Kennedy mountain on the Kootenai forest, committed suicide, dying at Libby hospital from self-inflicted wounds, word received at district headquarters of the forest service states.
The young man gave evidence of being unbalanced while on his lookout, alone on a mountain top, and was brought to the ranger station, where he succeeded in what was said to be his fifth attempt to kill himself.
Hegg first failed in an effort to hang himself, and then struck himself on top of the head with an axe, inflicting a dozen or more cuts. A bottle of lysol was the next resort but he drank only enough to make him sick. He tried to cut his throat but only inflicted a severe gash.
Finally, Hegg grabbed a butcher knife, stabbing himself in the abdomen so seriously that he died the next day. The young man was a sophomore in the school of forestry at the University of Minnesota and had come to the Kootenai to spend the summer as a lookout." (The Helena Independent)
The young man gave evidence of being unbalanced while on his lookout, alone on a mountain top, and was brought to the ranger station, where he succeeded in what was said to be his fifth attempt to kill himself.
Hegg first failed in an effort to hang himself, and then struck himself on top of the head with an axe, inflicting a dozen or more cuts. A bottle of lysol was the next resort but he drank only enough to make him sick. He tried to cut his throat but only inflicted a severe gash.
Finally, Hegg grabbed a butcher knife, stabbing himself in the abdomen so seriously that he died the next day. The young man was a sophomore in the school of forestry at the University of Minnesota and had come to the Kootenai to spend the summer as a lookout." (The Helena Independent)
July 9, 1956: "In the Fisher River Ranger district, David Griffith of Caldwell, Idaho, on Kenelty Mountain." (The Daily Inter Lake)