The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-02-04
1ailg mon.ltainsct.

SOMETHING Asorr Az UNKNOWN NtGRo.-
Near the head of that branch o. the Ceur
a 'Aene River which the Mullau Roal asce' DIS
ordc' to attain to the summit Of the Bit cr
Root Range, there is little strip of prairie
<omc distance off pf the road in the mid Of
the dense fores of Spanish cedar and spruce,
which extends along tho uppcs section OF the
river. 1t is singularly lonely place, and for
some twenty mitvs either way from it, there
is no ace where enough grass can be found
20 feed dozen horses. 1t WIS into this
pace, on the evening of the I'd of July, 1865
that party of disappointed CGur d'Alene
prospector tu ucd oG of The ma no to
camp. Passing along trail, where the
dInse un erbrush Lang across it, thc fore
most rider OF tae party vas starird, on
emerging into lac prairie-gr und, to see an
oil negro man lying dead on the ground.
An examination showed that he had been
stot tn ough the henrt, ,he bullet going
9der the sho2l e blade and coming out of
his breast. The party remained all night a,
the prairie, and humanely butcd the man.
\! that time everybody was travelling to-
~ar $ Black DOT, ind if the murderer or
mnrderers had gone on in that dire ton, il
would be difficult to overtakc thea, and once
in the mines, to trace them would cost more
i duble than anybody was likely TO take for
the sake o. an old uegro. Then xt day after
tae uegro was buried, still another party Of
prosp ctors turned Oft to the little airie to
camp, and finding the grave, supposed that
it might he cache coatai ing liquors, as in
that vicinity there had been several huudred
gallon of whiskey cached some year DE ore
by NJ llun's sntlcr, of which por ion was
never recovered. Nothing wouli seem more
reasonable than that some of these liquors
had cen found and buried, and the stape of
grave given to the cache to keep travellers
from digging it ap. Such things are often
zone in the mountains. Not to be "played
in this way, one of tHe boys started 10 dig
UP the contents Of the hole, and in NONE mt
exposed the face of the poor old negro He
WAS II second time cxanined; the wo ds
b ood on il; na old pair of saddle, ags was
found II another place with n spelling. book
ia it, and several other articles of no par
ticula interest. The negro was sharied again,
and articles taken to be, used in ideneify-
ing him. Atthe Bitter Root Ferry, fifty miles
h.ai, information WAS obtained that t. q
old negro aud an Indian boy were trav+liru
together from ll-llga'c R"ude towards Wallr
Wnii", "Vhe negro had some money and II
rifle. The lndraa had neither arms nor money
Tne teIro wis cuntrabund who had con
Il Gated himself and stole himself al th,
way from Kentucky to Muntsl,. lie was old
harmless nnd stupid; ye, he had bought
speiling book and was in pursuit of know
ledge ahder 3ificnties. The hegros hors,
and rifle had been traded off by mn indir DO,
at the Gear d Alene Mission nnd hnd alren,i-
got back 10 the Bluer Root River III the hands
VI map who WAS huuni Tor BlachtuUt. 1t Il
very iea' onabls 10 suppose thai IN that htt
prairie, encivsed by tie trees which rrare,
their cone shaped tops sky w,ri, with II,
witness but the oirds aud the All-seeiug Ey
W N"N' '"'S wy iehcue'oHSIs SieN
the unsuspiciuus ol black uiun, aud arp O
pria'ed his property. "U,d JAKE" for sucl
VAS tue argro's name, died stranger III
strange ianO, and nll tha, he ever told Of hi
paren'age, nativity anu h,stsry WAS ~ 81
from Oie Krniuckv, Mussa,n Tue balance l.
blank; save that he del from slavery, wa
stupid, bought speIli " book aud WAS mur
ae,e'f. Tue place where he was slam i
called "Niggrr Prairie" now.
NEw JxR-kY.-lu speaking Of the late elec