The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-05

know your name, but do know, and may
God bless you, that you are the whites
man IN the mines"
Willing hands in the crowd coon erected
the new tent for the old woman, the
wounded lot-jumper was cared for until nc
got well and then ordered out OF town, and
jim Moore was ever after known as the
whitest man in the mines" Mrs, Ray
sold one OF her lots for Sl4, 900 . few weeks
lafter the scene above narrated, and with
the proceeds erected buildings on the other
lots, which bring her good income. She
resides in the Carbonate Camp to-day, and
the tears come into her eyes whenever any
thing is said Of "the whitest man In the
mines"
MANY more stories in regard to this
strange character might be related, but We
pass them by to the final and strangest act
In Jim Moore's strange life.
One Saturday night there was 4 large
crowd in Jim's place, and betting had been
high and feverish. Jim had been dealing
mpidly and suddenly for hours, Suddenly
he stopped in the middle Of the deal re-
moved the cards from the box and said:
"Gentlemen, pass in your checks Tor your
cash. The deal has stopped and all further
bets are off, and the cases are OIL. Jim
Moore has dealt the last card he will ever
deal in this life"
For an instant there was death.like
stiffness, and then dozen voices shouted,
whats the matter, JIM"
Nothing" he replied, "but am a
gambernO longer. have come to the
conclusion that preaching and not dealing
is my trade. You may call me Jim and
the 'whitest man in the mines the rest OF
tonight, but after this You will please say
Mr.. Moore" IL
All the peHuasions OF his friends could
not change Jim's determination. mo,
boys" he said, II have done lot OF harm
guiding the ROYAL Bengal Tiger, and now !
intend TO do u powerful lot OF good. Bar
keeper, drinks for the house at my ex-
pGnse."
Jim Moore Immediately quit his old
hauns, except when he appeared in them
in the role oil missionary. lie preached
on numerous occasions, and his sermons
were earnest and convincing, although IN
terspersed with slang, and occasionally
bar.roOm phrase. There was nothing OF
the hyp0crite about him, He was ns terri. |
bly, in earnrst US he was when he defended
Mis-. Rays rights, and his old associates
respected him, though they wondered at
him and could not understand II.
But the end soon came, In April 1880,
Moore set out on snow shoes for the Gun
nison country, to do missionary work. ~
he Enthusiastically put it. to wrcstle with
the GunnisOn heather. Nothing heard
from him, and his old and new associates
wondered what had become Of him, until
late in July, when the mystery was ex-
planned. In that month prospectors pene::
tratCd the new country in'Taylor river, and
in one ofthe deepiissures they found dead
body. II was frozen stiff and not ut all de
composed From the way in which
it was wedged in, It was supposed
that the unfortunate man had fallen into
the assure and met his death. NOne0t the
men who drew the body out recognized the
features. But lettering behind, testing the
rocks, was young man from the Carbonate
Camp. When he came up he took one
look at the features Of the dead, and i'm.
medately removed his hat and said with
great emotion: "My God, boys, thisis the
body Of Jim Moore, the whitest man in the
minesW