The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-09-22
LETTER FROM DEER LODGE
DEER LODGE City, Sept. Sd. 1866.

/ nEk LODGE CITY, Sept. Sd, 1866.
| EDITOR PosT:-I hasten to compl,
with your request, that if any thins
worthy OF note came within my cogni
zance would communicate it for the edi
hcation of the numerous readers of you,
valuable paper. But in complying,
feel that in selecting me for that pur
pose, you have not shown your usua
good Judgment, and that am really in
adequate to the. task imposed. However
l shall endeavor to interest your sub
scribers to the extent of my poor ability
and in all cases state the unvarnished
truth in as explicit and concise a manner
as possible.
Our usually quiet community was
somewhat startled a few mornings since.
by the report of finding a dead man
s., some fifteen miles south east of this CITY
Inc facts of the case, as far as am en-.
aoled to gather them, are as follows: A
person, identified as one Isaac Brewer
formerly a resident of Milo, Bureau
county, Illinois, had been mining alone
IN a small gulch, not named, south east
OF this place. He had performed quite
an amount of labor, and worked his mines
with slufce boxes, living. as it appears
IN hut constructed with poles and
noughs' with a dirt roof. 1t is supposed
sna1 ne came to his untimely end by the
breaking of the ridge-pole, and the fall.
ing IN OF the roof, during the night of
'he ooth OF August, as he was in bed
ana appeared as if he had laid a couple
OF Gays when he was found. On recent
OF the news, c. E. Irvine immediately
a jury, and repaired to the
scene of the accident, and after a thor.
ough investigation, the jury returned in
usual form, their verdict-accidentaI
aea!n us from the caving in of the dirt roof
OF the tent: Yet over all this hangs a
mystery. The diggings bore evidence of
the industry of the deceased. Quite a
Iarge amount of work had been done bv
nln' out no tools could be found. excent |
one shovel. A few letters were brought |
% hight on his person, whereby he was
dentlhed, a box of black sand. and a |
very little grub, but no money still the
presumption is, that he must have taken
'ut money to induce the amount of labor
expended. ''
Speaking of Judge Irvine, reminds me
nat ne is, or ought to be, the happiest
nan tnat lives, having, on the LIST inst.
co 70 the hymenial altar, Mrs. lydia
each, Ss OF this city, Judge C. P. Hall
Nur city, at present, is relieved from
Is dull routine by the visit of O. large
eiegation of the Bannack and Shosbo-
les tribes of Indians, here under the
guardianship of Mr.. Nathaniel P. Hall,
your city, and for the purpose of con,
ludlng a treaty of peace with the Flat
cad and Pen d'Oreille Indians. They
re awaiting the arrival of the parties of d
ne secopd part to the treaty, and are {
avlng gay time, ofFording plenty of {
musement for the b'hoys. Col. Chap t
ian, Indian Agent at Jocko. together
18th General Meagher and other digni.
'ries, is expected here to take part in the 7
roceedings, A "big thing" is looked '
".
News from Elk and Bear gulches is c
The former is perfectly Q
aged out and the latter is rapidly play i
g out. Prospcctors returning from d
aimon river pronounce it as perfect a {
blk as Elk creek. Highland is. at o
'esent, the great Eldorado for our hun v
y prospectors, and they are Showing" +" C
that direction quite lively. We are P
'pecting to hear every day of it's rrov- a
g humbug, or that some one has C
struck it big" More anon. a
G. w. |. Il