Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-09-15

AN IMPosITIoN - WHO Ia RE
8PoNSIBLE

On Sept Sd both the Seattle Intel
ligencer and the Boise City Repubi-
can. two weekly papers, and journals |
of good standing and influence. and
published at points distant about 800 |
miles from each other, received and pub
lished the following telegram:
LEWISTON, Aug. 23.-The volcanic erup.
ton at Buffalo Hump, has renewed with
vigor. Great streams of lava
ore now running down the mountain, the
motion substance burning everything in its
path. The flames shoot high in the air,
giving at long distance the appearance Of
a grand ccnhagration. Tho smoke coming
from the crater is dense and sLiphury.
The scene as viewed from miles is truly
grand and imposing. The high shooting
flames are partly lost sight of in the dense
volumes Of curling smoke and living streams
of lava running down the mountain sides.
At all times low and apparently distant
rumbling may be heard. The crater seems
to be formed a little on the side Of the
mountain, and that at times, appears to be a
living furnace, at times quiet, then boiling
and all OF a sudden spurts of motion rock,
lava and fire high into the air.
At the date of this telegram no such
account of the renewal of the eruption
was known or heard of in Lewiston.
The account of the first two or three
days appearance of things in the vicin-
ity Of the Buffalo Hump, had been
telegraphed, and also published in the
TELLER, and the names Of the parties
who witnessed the scene. But no
such account as the above he'd been
given, and none was credited here by
citizens, nor by citizens of Mt. Idaho
with whom we were in daily communi--
cation. The question then arises,
who sent such telegram from, Lewis
toni Mr.. Blake, the operator here,
wishes US to emphatically state to the
public that no such telegram ever was
sent from the telegraph Office here by
any one. But it must have gone over
the wires in order to reach Seattle and
Boise City at the same time, and the
most natural inference is that it was
sent from the Dayton or Walla Walla
Office, having first been furnished to
the operator there with the location
fixed at Lewiston. We recollect that
certain Walla Walla editor anda Mr..
Holmes arrived in Lewiston on Sun.
day night, Aug. 2lst, post haste from
Walla Walla, claiming to be in search
of the volcano, that they remained In
town till Tuesday of the Esd of August
and then left for Mt. Idaho, as they
claimed, in search Of the volcano.
Mr.. Holmes returned in day or two,
saying that he had not lost any volca-
no. The plain inference here is th t
this other fellow was joshed by some
| one here, when he was here ON his way
up, and exhibited so much vanity and
assumed enterprise about his coming
all they way from Walla Walla to be
first in giving to the world the won
ders of this eruption, and he fastened
to send back by mail or express this
wonderful account to be sent from the
Walla Walla Office to Seattle and Boise
City, before any one else should send
the wonders of the crater. What
wonderful enterprise he did exhibit.
But when he returned from his hunt
in the mountains how differently he
speaks in his paper. Hear him;
1--WE came to the scene we had toiled
and suffered SO much to reach. 1t
was not much after all. The country
rock which was quartzite, had been
shattered by the terrible and unseen
forces of nature, and the scene Of desc
lation was weird and fantastic in the
extreme The explosion had laid bare
the side of mountain canyon, and the
rocks and trees were piled up in indie
scribable confusion, looking like
Hades turned loose or picture from
Dante's Inferno. Amid this wreck
fires were still smouldering, and some
of the huge white pines VIII ch grow
only at extreme attitudes were shiv-
cred into fragments. Fires had desc
lated the country for miles around,
not in one body but in places entirely
remote and separated from each other
Mr. Blake don't want that kind ol
imposition passed on him as an oper