Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-01-22
Sam Francisco Letter.
San FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, I
JAN. 18th. 1869

tuc iAalhcii sOiueNud DOTH. n OFctu
from home and all its pleasures,
Ohio's coast left forlorn, to increase
my sickly treasures, Ger the
plains across in a horn. Ore has
been what's the matter with all
hands. The matter is plain enough
without elaboration 1t is now IL
O'Clock p. m.-the "hand of time
is on the prick of twelve ;" my
carpet-bag is packed, and my boat
is on the shore /; before | leave I'm
thinking most of thee Tom, more
than anybody, perhaps. Iran a pa
per once in Owyhee, somewhat, you
know, when the grass was somewhat
shorter than now, and am in better
health now than then. So you see,
it is hard to say what Teller can
stand up under on a pinch. | find
there is work about starting and con-
tinuing paper anywhere even in
this place. The proposed Herald,
for instance. 1t died once, and it is
question whether it is going to be
resurrected so easily after all. A
notice on brown paper, in front of The
door, says it is owing to Geographic
oppression against it. Nugent's
brain must be in a suffering condi-
tion-getting ready so often, you
know. Had we not better seriously
ask-if man die, shalt he live
again This is a case of several men.
IT'S midnight's holy hour, and | have
but short time to live on this biz of
earth, where land sharks are fiercer
than sea serpents and white caps. |
60 hence by "lhe fast and favorife
ship Montana, connecting with the
magnificent steamer Rising Star"
for particulars, see small bills. The
Scripture, says, 'our lives are as
swift ships" As | come within one
or two OF being the only one booked,
| will have room to swing round,
and give you a short scratch soon
again.
White Pine is everything. Every
body but me and the Emperor Nor
ton is going to be in White Pine by
the first of April-a lucky day for
the majority of us, reckon. Treas
ure Hill is the Ararat for many an
old busted craft the Mt. 1T Olives,
where Gabriel viii call the boys in
through a speaking trumpet and tell
them of the Millennium, &c. Hill
Beachy, Jack McQuaid ct al have
organized Jack left for the scene Il
day or two ago; and Hill will go
tumbling after in few days more,
with an outfit of Concord wagons.
Seven big bricks from the Golden
Chariot, showed off to good alvan-
tage in window on Montgomery st.
t'other day; but the reports from
The mine are what tell. Don't sell /!
dou'tselll Owyhee or White Pine
no more Of it mine-which is not in
tended as joke, but the most seri-
Gus thing ever said: | wouldn't
trade you an interest in smallpox
for the Whole interior-and agree to
stay by it-and smallpox is doing
big business. A mother and three
children died in one house yesterday
D. IN. J. NJ. kirkpatrick, who ran
Tor Congress. with the usual effect in
Idaho, on the Black ticket-leaves
here for White z. in day or two.
Frank Kenyon arrived a few days
ago with wife from Hoosierdom-
be has White z. on the brain. We've
all got it-got it bad / have seven
agencies to sell v. P. feet east. But
Il must look ont for my stomach
before caring particularly for my
heels il heave up much OF It, You