The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-07-29
Agents for the Idaho w Wo1.ld.
LETTER FROM A. G. TURNER.
LEWISTON, l. T., July I4th, 1865.

LEWISTON, |. T.,'July l4th, 1865.
Ed. WoRLD-Dear Sir: .Havirg promised
many of my friends, and yourself among the
rest, that | would, on my arrival in Coeur
d'AleEe, write back to them and give all the
particulars relative to the mines which l, in
reasonable tune, might be able to CLEAN, I
have. nnder the circumstances, changed my
mind, and will address you, from this place,
general letter, which if you will publish,
each one Of my friends may consider as ad-
dressed to himself.
i have now been in Lewiston. five days.
Before arriving here, however, met several
gentlemen on the road, returning to BOISE,
who told me they had just returned from the
place where the Ceur dAene mines were
reported to be, but which they, in company
with some sixty others, failed to find, after
thoroughly prospecting Trout Creek, and all
the adj Jcent country without finding the
color-much less diggings that would pay to
work. These gentlemen left in disgust, vo-
ting Wilson liar and scopndrel and Cour
d'Alene humbug of the greatest magni-
tude. Last evening | had the pleasure Of
meeting Mr.. D. Thayer, an old q residente
the reported mines. He also informs NE
that the mines are humbug, and that Will
son, the originator of the excitement, is, or
was when he left the ground, in the hands of
an excited and exasperated mob of about two
hundred miners, who have probably, ere this,
hung him. Mr. Thayer informs me that be
never saw a more frenzied crowd of people,
and that it is his firm conviction, new that
%hou hov AZ
having turned him loose once-that the mob
will hang him. Wilson protests his inno-
cence, declaring that he never wrote letter
to any one on the subject of the Canr Alene
mines; nor did he induce any one to go to
that country with him for the purpose Of
mining. However this statement of Wilson's
to the mob who have him in custody may be-
it certainly does not agree with what Squire
Dupuy, Of Centerville, a gentleman of ve-
racIty, and personal friend of both Wilson
and myself, told me only the day previous to
my departure from Boise. put the ques-
tion directly to Squire DupHy-asking him
if he had received letter from Wilson. He
told me he had, and that Wilson said in his
letter tuat he had found basin in which
were mines that would pay $40 per day or,
in other words, ten dollar diggingS. He al
sin, where, on arrival, his provisions gave
out and he had returned to Walla Wala for
a new supply, upon which he meant to re-
turn to the mines be had discovered for the
purpose of working them.
This is Squire Dapuy's statement to me of
the contents of Wilson's letter to him in re-
latiou 10 diggings he had found; and as con-
slider Squire Dupuy truthful man, shall
hnlta Il l.. 49,
A great many disappointed Ceur d'Aleneites
lchiedy from Boise) have congregated here
In Lewiston, and every hour brings more ar
rivals from the same place. These disap-
pointed and badly humbugged individuals
are becoming very restless, and begin to
talk very freely of what OUGHT to be done
with the merchants of Lewiston and the RAJ
diator Office; all of whom, associated with
the Oregon Steam Navigation Company and
merchants of Walla Walla, have been instru-
mental, as they believe, in getting up this ex-
citement torthe purpose Of gorging their al
ready weli-illed purses at the cost and ex-
pense OF the hardy and adventurous miner
upon whom they all do and must depend tor
suStenance.
Since my arrival here, I have freely con-
versed with the editor of the Radiator, the
merchants and several other leading citizens
of the place, on the subject of the Ceur
d'Alene country, and from their actions and
demeanor, should freely and unhesitatingly
acqait them of any completely in this extra
ordinary swindle perpetrated upon an indus
trious and unsuspecting public. 1t is true
the Radiator contained an article mpon the
subject that was calculated to excite the Gu
pidity of the public, but in conversation
with this gentleman few evenings since,
jndging from what he told me, he, tdo, has
evidently been imposed upon 1t appears
the Radiator based its article upon statemlents |