Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-02-02
Weippe, Idaho, Jan. %, 1883.
EDITOR TELLER:

s"eI ~ aH aiticic WHICH appcaTeu iu
the Ncws of January II, entitled,
"Young Grabitall's jubilee. " TO a
casual observer, the article n question,
a,pcarn. as it docs, without the authors
name to youch for Il, authenticity, mi.lt
read like the insane rawlings of a disor-
dered intellect. But to one acquainted
with the circumstances, it is no more or
| s., than bitter personal malice, writ
t n at the i,isiigation Of one, who, had
he received his just dues, would now be
lansui,bing in criminals cell, with the
mark CT crime upon his brow. Aud
published in paper, whose editor, for
lack Of more available material, is very
ready to publish scurrilous reports
against the character Of parties, both in
public aud private life, with a total dis
regard for the truth and verscity o! the
same.
The Grabitall family, better known as
the GafFncy's, have resided in Shoshone
county for over twenty years, and are
well known IN the adjoining counties Of
Idaho and Nez Perez. And young
Grabitall is no other than your humble
servant, and, like the worm of old,
turn upon my prosecutors, and to their
face deny, the slandcrous charges which
they have preferred against myself, my
parents and my friends, that l am the
principal one whom the newcomers
fondly hoped to irjurc, is evident, and
the fact that they had no charges with
which to open their Trades against ne.
without first assai!ing the character of
my honorable parents, and next of my
friends, is sufficient to show their low
moral character. True the Galf'neys are
of Irish birth, anu Of that fact are not
ashamed But the charges, as to their
former poverty, and landless condition,
their inscriptions Vaccinations for
gathering wealth, and that they have
pursued u vigorous policy Of deirauding
Uncle Sam of his pablo lands, by "srub
stalking" certain miners, thank God are
falsehoods, manufactured from whole
cloth, aud have emanated from the pen
Of one whose own words commend him
to the public, as more of scandal.
monser than an honorable citizen, Per
haps, Ger the newcomers have endured.
for few years, the cold chilling winds
and driving snow storms, Of our seAli.
artic winters, when they have contracted
the rheumatism from wadlng through
those sloughs Of icc-cold water, which
cover the surface Of the Weippe from
cold December, till ba!my June, caused
by the melting Of the phenomenal suows,
and suffering from the whitening frosts
OF early autumn, and after few more
futile efforts to raise Irish potatoes,
wheat and oats (these three articles are
now furnished them by the Indians, J
they will awake to the realization of the
fact, that the fantastic reports and other
bns5ears, which they alleged were spread
abroad by the Gaifnoy's, were not false
hoods, but stern realities.
As to the Canadian stcpson, l know
Of but one Canadian in this immediate
vicinity, who, in order to live, is actually
obliged to work for wages. And as he
hates the Irish with deadly hatred, it
is hardly fair to suppose that he would
accept Nine G's. usual offer. The person
probably referred to as the c. S., is
native born American, who is now en-.
gagged in splitting rails for me. He
works for wages in the winter, not fer
the reason that he is Obliged to do 50 in
order to live, but because he is possessed
of too many of those manly qualities,
which constitute tho true gentleman, to
sponge of his friends or go in debt for
his tavorite article Of diet--pork and
beons.
Ii the newcomers would emulate the
examples of this "burly, good natured
fellow aud by engaging in the .exhil
ara,ing exercise of rail splitting, cam
money enough to lay in a supply of pro
visions sufficient to last them through the
four winter mon,hs-and not be com.
PEELED to borrow from their neishbors as
heretofore-they would be more of a
credit to the county from which they
migrated. answer the reflections on
my friend, who is described as Miss
Grabitall's most favori,e suitor, by sayin.
that writer who has no more respect
for the mother who bo,o him, than to
vent his spleen for au individual, by crit
ising the personal pcculiari,ics which
nature has endowed said individual with
as birth-richt, aud for which he should |
not be held responsible, is more fitted for
he company OF beasts than that of men.
In answering the charges against my
self, viii state the facts aud let the
'eader draw his own conclusions. Last
october, availing myself of one of the
lights which the United States has zen
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