The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-10-28
miscellaneous Itemss

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The Umatilla Advertiser is Disguised at the
result of fight near that place recently, be-
tween Martin Deyine, alias, Kelly, and Adam
McNeilly.s They got into a quarrel about
some mules and yeawent after each other with
IreEolversiL firing shpts,enough to have settled
dozen mems worldly concerns Between
them nine shots were spent,tat a distance of
three feet, and ssnobody hurt. McNeilly be-
came disgusted and fled a compliant, and
Devine was fined $3.50. Z sl
The citizens of Owyhee have called ameet-
ing toraise, funds to procure asilyer brick to
be presented to Hon. j, N, ,Ashly, the negro
suffrage missionary. Politics, however, is
said not to enter into it. 1t is an advertising
dodge, to get 0wyhee's name into the East
err newgpapersas 9ab8.E sI8lkfgIf aaP
The Avalanche has struck athe tim" w.
w. Williams having picked up some pebbles
in Jordan Creek, saved some as curiosities.
An assayest tried them and pronounced them
|"stream tin ore'h The creek has been pros
Bpecteda and found toIcontain large quantities
/ Of the pebbles which the people have satisfied
themselves are stin-much of them rs per
cent in value A ledge is thought to exist
in the ineigAberhood. The Government Of
Ffers a rbonnty for the discovery of tin in the
U. s., and the discoYerers Of the pebbles are
after it.
/ TIE pal pers in.the Willamette valley rep
resent the State Fair, just over, as being
crediGable only in its exhibition of horse
flesh, In the products Of the soil, the fair
afforded little or nothing to speak of, show
ing what Oregon is capable of furnishing.
] TwESTY thousand dollars in cash was the
price paid2 a few days since, forone hundred
feet of the lst extension so1th on the Morn
ing Star ledge Four hundred feet of tie
West Fork Of the Orc Fino ledge brought
fifteen thousand dollars These purchases
were made by capitalists who came on that
business, and are huAting more such bar
gains. From what the Avalanche can learn
negotiations are going on for the purchase of
another large lot of feet. a 9u
Two yietems of the Ceursd' Alene sell, as
sert that they discovered two gold quartz
ledges in the Cmur d. Alene mountains. The
pieces brought away with them were assayed
at WalIa w ala. says the Statesman, one of
them going $500 to the ton, theother$ 100.
The discovers will return to prospect.
HENRY MILLER, formerly Of the Oregonian,
and at one time resident of Pioneer City, in
this county, it is rumored has been called to
the editorial chair Of the Dalles Mountaineer
Mr.. Miller will make an excellent paper. HeI
has few equals on the this coast as writer
THE Umatilla Advertiser speaks very san
guinely of the result1ofa trip 1ately made by
2. F. Moody, fromoPen d. Oreille lake to the
Blackfoot country The steamer on the lake
is settled thing, and it is thought the trad
ers' in the Rocky Mountains will lave to draw
supplies through that route from Portland 4
and that St. Louis will be unable to compete
with the rates.
A correspondent Of some religious paper
passed through Umailla, and writing about
the place, reproved the people for having mo
house ofIWorship with spire pointing to
the better home no messenger to tell these
many prilgrims of fairer cline" The Ad-
vertiser says tho they have no church they
have school house they use for one, and
they will put spire on that if it will do any
good and as for messengers" they can find
agood opening there if they will come that
there are sinners enough and money enough
to support preacher comfortably. sa9g
MACHINERY for the new steamer on Snake
river above the rapids is on the way. The
teamsters at Umatilla having advanced their
rates, the machinery was. taken to Wallula,
where it will be hauled to point near Olds'
Ferry. sa-s3