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A DUIDE IN THE PLACER MINES.
FOR TSE TRIBUNE.
I had been in the West for a num
ber of years, and had mingled with
all sorts of men in my travels in the
Montana gold fields. At the time of
which I write the gold excitement
had subsided somewhat. The camp
in which I was located, was a good
one. In the first place, rich diggings
had been discovered, and, after a few
months work, still richer placers had
been located. Everyone was pros
perous. Gold dust was plentiful and
was of course spent with a reckless
ness only to be seen in the flash days
of a gold field.
I ran a hotel in the camp. If there
is any business on earth in which a
man is likely to meet all kinds of peo
ple, it is that one. One day while
everyone was at dinner, the stage
drove up, and among the passengers
that entered the dining room was an
individual who attracted much atten
tion. He was no other than what is
now termed a dude-we called such
things swells and snipes, then. He
marched into the room with the air of
a lord and took a seat at the upper
end of the table. Being a stranger
and a real out and out curiosity to
all present, he was subjected to their
searching gaze. His visit among us
was exceedingly brief, he only remain
ing two days. I will briefly recount
his brief career for the benefit of all
dudes who think they are fit to go
West and grow up with the country.
So here goes:
"Waitah, I say waitab, come heah!"
Presently the waiter, a big, red head
ed, good natured son of Erin, put in
an appearance.
"Waitah, what is the bill of fare?"
"Biled thripe and injuns, antelope
sthake, praitie soup and dough-gods,
pot poy an'--"
"Good Heavens waitah! what was
you aw said; boiled tripe and Indi
anal You do not aw eat aw Indians,
do youn? I am suah twipe is bad
enough, aw !"
"Sthranger where does yez come
from.?" asked the waiter.
The only respones was a dignified
stare from milord.
During this dialogue there was
much speculation at the opposite end
of the table about the snipe. Whisky
Bill suggested the propriety of "hav
ing lots of fun with the one-eyed, spi
der-legged whelp." One-Eyed Dick
said "that air snipe thinks he's party
slick. If he stays around these 'ere
parts long, he'll l'arn a thing or two
that he can't find in the books." "Oh,
let the poor cuss alone," said a more
respectable member of the communi
ty. "Its none of your business," re
torted the others.
After dinner a lot of the men ad- m
journed to the bar-room; some drank
and smoked, while other overcome by t
the fascinating excitement of the
green-cloth, were soon absorbed in a s
game of cards. Presently in walked
the dude, sporting a big diamond in s
his shirt front and a cigarette be
tween his fingers. Taking a seat a
near a window and sucking away at
his cigarette quite complacently, he s
was startled by a big, burly fellow "
coming up to him and saying:
"Wall, pard where do yer come
from ?"
"I aw come from Bosting, my deah v
fellah; wheah do you come from, and
what aw may be your name?" a
"Stranger, my name is Cavorting
Jack; I come from Arizony; I'm the S1
boss of the mountains. You behold g
in me (striking his brawny, half-ex
posed chest) the champion committee c
of one for the extermination of snipes a
an' card shards. Young man come
up with me an' take a swig of fire
water and let us be joyful."
"Aw, well, Mr. Jack, you are so aw
kind, don't you know to take so much e
interwest in me aw, a total stwanger €
you know. Of course I shall aw be 1
only too glad to imbwibe a little of I
the aw ambwosial with you."
Up they came to the bar. The
swell was used to nothing stronger s
than sweet cider and lemonade, but
he took the "lightning" because he
wanted to be be as big as any of
them. I
After the drink, Cavorting Jack
had little trouble in persuading him 1
to take a hand in a friendly game of f
cards. "Of course, my boy," he said,
"I would not advise yer to gamble, I
never gambles myself, an' I don't
like to see the rising gineration goin'
in fer such ungodly disserpation; but
yer know we may jist as well have a
little bet to make the game interest
ing. Say we put up $5 a piece on
ther game; that aint much."
The dude was secretly appalled at
such reckless risks, but he made up
his mind to be one of the boys, so he
acceded to what was asked of him.
He knew little or nothino about cards
and lost the first game. He then took
another drink with his new friend and
played three games in succession, and
won everyone of them. The drinks
were befuddling his brain, but being
excited by this time, he wanted to
play some more. The "committee of
one for ther' extermination of card
sharks" was nothing loth, so they
kept it until nearly supper time, the
dude winning about one game in five.
By this time he could play no more.
He managed to got to his bed some
how and went to sleep.
After a time he awoke feeling dead
ly sick. Cavorting Jack had follow
ed him to his resting place and stow
himself away in a corner. He took
the whole thing in and related it af
terwards to his friends. The swell
sat on the edge of his bunk [moaning
and holding his head, and murmur
ing, "aw, weDally, I aw wish I was
dead; I feel suah I shall die. Why
did I evah come to this aw
confounded, pesky place whah they
aw eat boiled twipe and Indians-Oh!
my poah head! The words of,the poet
aw do naturally apply to these dwead
ful fellahs yw:
Whose daring wevels shocks the sight,
When wice and infamy combine aw,
When dwunkness and dice invite,
As every sense is steeped in wine
a-aw !"
In a short time he became quieter,
and turned his attention to his pocket
book. He counted and recounted his
pile and found he was $150 short.
"That large man with the wart on his
aw nose who aw calls himself aw-oh!
how sick I-am; my tendah stomach aw
webels awainst whisky, just as much
as it does against boiled Indian; I am
suah to sorwow that I have been in
toxicated."
It is needless to toll any more. He
went out after awhile looking rather
limp. We saw no more of him until
the next morning, when he came into
the diining room as trim as usual.
He could not heold scratching hist back
during the time he was eating his
breakfast. The miners noticed it of
course, and conunenced to laugh.
One of them said to him:
"Wall, pard, you've got a family
this morning."
"Aw, now weally, whuat do you
mean sir?"
"Why, you darned fol, I mean yer
have grey backs !"
"Sir, I will not aw wemnain hoah to
be insulted by aw such as you, a man
who will abide in a place aw wheah
they eat boiled twipe and Indians."
After scoring, as he thought, such
a brilliant victory, the dude quitted
the table, and strolled into the bar
room where he fortified himself with
a cigarette.
There were a few loungers in the
room, and aching for a little excite
ment, they tackled the swell. The
master of ceremonies said to him:
"Say, iMr. Spyglass, will yer favor
the gentlemen present with a song?"
"Aw, now don't you know, I nevah
sang a song in-my life."
"Wall, thats no reason why you
should'nt sing one now."
So saying, the speaker whipped out
a revolver, and said:
"Now toot! Give us something
sintemental-a sweet an' milodious
song."
The swell was in a fix, but had
sense enough to make the best of the
situation, and sang in a tremulous
voice, "The Last Rose of Summer."
Afterward they made him take a drink
and then dance for their amusement.
At last that kind of sport became too
stale, and they inveigled him into a
game of cards. He lost heavily.
That night during a little friendly
chat with me, he said he had lost
about $200 since breakfast.
"And my deah fellah," said he,
"wot a wile, unpwincipled lot they are
to aw take a fellah's money that way,
when aw they aw can get money so
easily by just digging it out of the
gwound. I am suah that this is no
place for me, you know. I aw am
positwively disgusted with it, and aw
I shall stwart for home tomorrow.
Those horrid wermin aw make a sen
sation down my bwack like aw a
stweam of icy watah."
The next morning came and with
it the discovery that his big diamond
pin and pocket book was gone. There
was weeping and wailing, and gnash
ing of teeth, so to speak, but he was
comforted by finding enough loose
cash in his pocket to take him home.
He left on the coach that morning. I
iremember it well. It was a bright,
balmy day, and not a cloud was to be
seen. His last words as the driver
cracked his whip were:
"Good by, now and forevah to this
land of gold and fweedom, wheah
Cavorting Jacks and committee of
one aw for the extwermination 0of
sni-aw I should say gentwelmen and
aw card sharks are as aboundwant
s and aw as bloomwing as the flowers
in May, aw. Dwiv&r pway make your
s bwest time aw out of this horwid,
k dweadful hole, aw.
G ILGnT DaBoIcL
CfEUR D'ALENE PLIACERS.
At no time within two years, says
the Coer.; d'Alene (Idaho) Record,
excepting about three months of
winter, has there been, probably, less
than one thousand men prospecting
in the various districts comp)rising
the Coeur d'Alene mines, and it is
bossible that the hlimit of the placer
district can now be defined, and the
gold producing creeks named. First
in size and value is Pritchard creek,
which is known to contain gold in
paying quantitics, for eight miles of
its length. Dream, Missou!la. Dry
Nugget, Buckskin, Alder, Gold Run,
Conger, Wasp and Reeder Galches
and Butte Creek, all tributaries of
Pritchard, add about seven miles
of good paying ground to the list.
Along the mountain ridge in which
the tributaries heap, lies a large
deposit of old wash. This has been
opened in several places, and many
rich spots found, but owing to its
great depth and extent, it will be
many years before the wealth it con
tains can be gathered by man. Lying
between Dream and Daisy gulches,
the latter being a fork of Eagle, is a
tract of old wash a thousand miles in
extent, which must be in its centre
from four hundred to five hundred
feet in depth. A shaft over one hun
dred feet in depth was sunk on the
rim, on the Daisy side, and pay
found, but owing to bad air and the
amount of water on the bedrock, the
work was necessarily suspended.
Four miles of the lower end of Eagle
Creek, and two miles of one of its
heads, are known to contain pay.
This creek is supposed to contain
gold in paying quantities for its
entire length, for though its channel
bed has never been reached, gold has
been found upon its rim wherever
touched. Daisy and Fancy gulches,
forks of this stream, have about wages
diggings, as has Lost Creek, which
runs into the north fork of the Coeur
d'Aleue. Across the divide to the
southward are Trail Creek, which
pays well for three miles, Potosi
Gulch, which carries pay in the creek
and on a bar running parallel with
the stream, for a mile, and Placer and
Prospect gulches with about a mile
more of rich ground. There is also a
paying, bar running almost the entire
length of Trail Creek on the west
side. Beaver Creek like Eagle, has
not been prospected, but there can be
no doubt that it will pay from Pony
Gulch to its mouth. Pony, which
has two miles of moderate pay, must
have given some gold to the main
stream, banks of old wash run parallel
with it for miles, which, with the rich
overflow from Trail must have depos
ited enough of the precious metal in
Beaver to pay for mining it. Outside
of the Pritchard, Eagle and Beaver
districts, all the placer mining is but
an experiment. But our prospectors
who are digging holes in every gulch,
mountain and canyon for fifty miles
around, may yet open up a new field
for mining enterprise.
ALASKA NEWS.
Alaska news to November 20th, per
steamer Idaho. is: News from Cas- b
siar gold fields, say the Hill diggings
struck on Dease creek pay $14 to the 0
pan of earth.
The report of the government offi
cor who visited the Granite creek
mines is published and gives a glori- e
ous account of the prospect of the
mines there. He saw $400 taken out
of a rocker in a single afternoon by 1
two men, and several claims are yield- e
ing from $250 to $400 a day. t
The steamship Idaho brought $70,- 1
000 in gold dust from Douglass is
land.
The working of the placer diggings
in the Silver Bow Basin is enjoined
by F. A. Fuller, who claims the basin t
by virtue of an original location.
Some miners paid $5,000 for their
claims, and have not been able to work
more than two weeks during the whole
season on account of injunctions. t
Judge Downe, who was removed by
President Cleveland shortly after his
appointment "for cause," has disap
peared from Alaska. He left Sitka
on the 2d of November in an Indian
canoe, and is believed to be some
where in British Columbia. As a i
matter of fact he has been seen on
Skeena river. It is said that he is
wanted at Portland for an unsatisfied
claim of $30,000.
The North Pacific Trading and
Packing company of Prince of 'Tales
island have had a most successful sea
son and have packed 8,000 cases of
salmon and cut 300,000 feet of lumber.
An Indian tradition prevails on Prince
of Wales island that on Summer is
land, forming one of a group, about
4,000 feet high, with almost perpen
dicular sides, an extensivelake-bxistsi
with shores and bottom of "glass
rock," probably chrystalized quartz.
The Indians state that a kind of fog
overhangs the mountain about half
way up, which, when reached, takes
the hunter in its embrace and carries
him away, never to be seen again. On
this account Indians will not camp on
the shores of the island or venture
near it for fear of this atmospheric
edition of the Catskills will carry
them away.
SHOOTING BEE.
Word reaches us from Three Forks,
says the Bozeman Chronicle, of a
shooting "scrap," just across the river
in Jefferson county, by two men well
khown in this county. For sometime
two ranchmen- neighbors, named
VanCleve and Gibson, have been
mortal enemies. Last week; on Fri
day morning they met on the road,
VanCleve armed with a shotgun
loaded with heavy duck shot and
Gibson a revolver, which he borrow
ed from a friend near by. Gibson
opened the battle by several quick,
harmless shots from his revolver, and
upon approaching within gun shot,
VanCleve returned the fire by firing
both barrels of his gun simultaneous
ly, both shots entering Gibsons body.
The wounded man was at once remov
ed to a house close by. while Van
Cleve went to Boulder City and gave
himself up to the sheriff.
CATTLE DISEASE.
A special telegram says: Among
the large cattle droves in northern
California and southern Oregon black
leg is reported to be raging with great
violence. The death rate is very large.
All efforts made to arrest the progress
of the disease by veterinary surgeons
thus far are unavailing. The disease
is rapidly spreading, and much alarm
is felt among large stock growers.
TILE MAIL SERTI'F.
A. D. Hazen, third assistant post
master general, in Lhis annual report,
says that the total postal revenue dur
ing the year was $42,560,843, while
the expenditures, actual and estimat
ed, including compensation to the
Pacific railroads for mail carriage,
were $50,942,416, leaving the excess of
estimated total cost of service over
gross receipts $8,381,571. With re
gard to two-cent postage, Mr. Hazen
says that, taking into account the de
pression in business,,the results of the
reduction of the rate on domestic let
ters are not such as to afford discour
agement to the advocates of that
measure.
A BUFFALO CHIPPER.
November 30th, the Tew York Sun
says: Qgprge Bird Grinnell of this
city has just returned from the west.
In speaking of the depletion of big
game, he said: "There are not more
than 700 bison or buffalo left on the
American continent. About 180 are
in the Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming, and the remainder are in
the Panhandle of Texas. These are
all that are left by hide hunters. Since
my return home I have heard that
twenty head of bison were killed in
the Yellowstone Park by a party of
English tourists. If this is true the
slaughterers should be severely pun
ished. The government should cer
tainly do everything to protect the
few survivors."
THE ALASKA 0BOOM.
It is clear that a boom for Alaska is
being fixed up, says the Salt Lake
Tribune. Whether it will be upon
merit or whether the companies who
own the idle steamships on the coast
are engineering it, is not yet clear. A
good many shrewd miners who have
been there do not speak flatteringly
of the country as a placer country
and it is clear that placer mines, if
found, could only be worked for a
few months in the year. On the oth
er hand, the monthly shipments of
gold from the quartz mine of Senator
Jones and others, indicate that Alaska
may be the great quartz-gold-bearing
land of the future. Humboldt locat
ed the far north as the place where
the great mother deposits of the prec
ious metals would be found, and
whether he merely guessed at the
fact, or reasoned from scientific data,
it does not matter, the thought has
haunted a thousand minds, and it will
furnish the deciding reason for many
to go that way. if a boom shall really
be started. Privately, we believe, a
few good claims will be secured, but
that of every hundred men that go
there next year, ninety will return in
the steerage next autumn.
THE HORSE IARKET.
Mr. P. H. Powers, of New York,
whose arrival here to look at Mon
tana horse farms with a view to open
ing up a trade be.twcon their owners
and the New 'York market was report
ed some weeks sinico, returned from a
trip to Butte last Saturday. Mr. Pow
ers expresses himself as being highly
pleased and surprised at the advance
ment that has been made in the horse
breeding industry in Montana, and
believes that the Territory will soon
t eclipse Kentucky as a producer of
fine horses. Of the Belmont Park
stock he speaks in high praise,. and it
is understood that Mr. W. H. Ray
mond intends shipping some forty or
fifty head as a starter. The sales of
the house which Mr. Powers repre
sents-the American Horse Institute,
owned by Peter C. Kellogg-average
over one hundred and fifty thousand
head per annum, and the most noted
horsemen in the Union are numbered
among its customers, while its sup
I plies are drawn from all parts of the
country. He speaks most encourag
ingly outlook of the horse trade here
and says that he sees no reason why
it should not become one of our most
I important businesses. Mr. Powere
awill remain in Montana during the
r winter, and will visit all the loading
horse-growing establishments in the
Territory before his return.-Madi
e sonian.
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JOI.-TItNALISTIC RE!iL1 CTIO'S.
Salt Lake Tlriboe: Thir news of
the hanging of Ri>l hL:- to , carriedc
four miles on hurs(back to a tele
graphic station on the Canadian Pa
cilic. From that station it was wired
to Winnipeg The'e the mres-sage had
to be carried byI a ,nei-senger tihre
blocks to the office of the Great
Northwestern Telegraph company,
where it was put on the direct line to
Chicago, at which city it was deliver
ed just forty-three mihnutes after the
drop fell at Regina, u00 miles west of
Winnipeg. In one hour and a half
after the hanging" 2,000 words giving
a full description of Rieil's last hours
and the execution was in every prin
cipal Associated Press oilice in the
United States and Canada. It was
marvelously quick work cos'idering
the obstacles in the w"-y.
New York Mornin: Journal : T-o
Canadian governmienit is not ipy.
Having done a foolish and cruel thing
it is haunted by a nameless dread.
Orange has not always proved itself a
fast color, and the fruit is perishaiae.
Wars of the roses deluged England.
Whiten orange flowers deck an execn
tion there is likely to be e blood on the
face of the moon.
7Iadisonian: The prospects of a
quartz boom in Madison county b.
come brighter and brighter. and any
doubt as to the ability offthe mines
to furnish first-class reduction works
with ore in unlimited quantities is
rapidly being dispelled. There is
scarcely a lode being worked that
does not show improvement as devel
opment progresses, and the next year
will demonstrate the fact that we have
as good and as big quartz mines as
any district in the Territory. Let the
good work go on.
A special from Montreal says: The
best judges of the Indians, appear t>
think there will be another rebellion
in the Northwest in the spring. There
is, too, some fear that the Half-breeds
who went to Montana after the Riol
rebellion,!may stir up sympathy there
among the American Indians and
Half-breeds, and the fact that the
Canadian government is not recalling
the two batteries of Canadian Regu
lars that went to the Northwest in the
spring, lends color to the rumor that
the Cabinet is in possession of seer t
information which lekds to the belief
that the danger is not yet ovtr. It is
thought that if the Indians rise egain
they will confine their operatiojs t
the south of the Canadian Pc I fic
railway, as they will then be nearer
the American border, and be in a
country where there are plenty cf
cattle.
THE INDIANJA-l'OJ3LE-3.
To abolish the tribal relations of
the Indians, says the New York IIHr
ald, give them lands in severalty, edu
cate and civilize them and clothe them
with rights, duties and responsibili
ties of citizenship, as advocated by
the committee that called on P'resi
dent Cleveland, would be a happy so
lution of the Indian problem if it
were practicable to do it at once. But as
the President very sensibly pointed
out in his reply, there are seriou, dif
ficulties to be considered, and while
he is in sympathy with those who
have the peace and welfare of the In
dians at heart, he does not overlook
the fact that a reform so radical can
not be wrought in a day. The Indian
policy of the government may be
steadily improved, but the proposed
millenium can be approached only by
gradual processes or stages.
TREES AND RAINFALL.
l In the official report of the geolog
ical survey of Wisconsin is an account
of the determinations made by Dr.
J. M. Anders, of the amount of water
puimped from the earth by treos. He
finds that the average exhalation from
soft, thin-leaved plants in clear weath
er amounts to about one and a quar
t ter ounces troy per day of twelve
hours, for every square foot of sur
face. Hence a moderate sized elm
raises and throws off seven and three
quarters tons of water per day. In
the report the facts are applied to
what is going on in America, where
certain inland fertile districts are be
coming converted into deserts by
wholesale clearings, and in other
places, such as the plains of Colora
do, where only five or six years of ir
rigation and planting have already
produced a measurable increase of
rainfall. It is maintained that the
deserts of Syra and Africa are the re
Y sults of cutting down trees, and that
original luxuriance may be restored
Sby skillful replanting.
ANGRY FLATiIEA S.
Three Flathead Indians convicted at
k the last term of the district court at
-it Missonla were taken to the peuitten
r- tiary at Deer Lodge last week A
>r number of their tribe, under the im
f pression that the criminals were to be
hanged, made all haste to reach the
- place, and camped in a meadow just
ae above the penitentiary building. They
d had so timed their march as to arrive
d a little in advance of the sheriff and
d the prisoners. The band numbered
.- forty warriors. They were well arm
Le ed, and their avowed purpose was to
- prevent an execution if attempted. A
.e good deal of uneasiness was felt
y among the people of the town, for it
at was impossible to foresee what the ro
is suit might be should an attempt at
a rescue be made. The Indians were
g fnally convinced that their comrades
e·reIe only to beiprtisoned, and soon
i- after folded theirtena and stru-nk ot
for thffe-reservation.·-I-nt~er-Mou~tid-nta