The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-04
HGHT!EG F0R ! WIFE.

Victor Trevit, the founder of Lew iston, Idaho, was one of the most re- markable characters the history of the northwest has ever known. He was a half breed. Among the Neg Perces was beautiful squaw, the daughter of Tall Pine, noted chief. She was known as the Flushing Rose. Trevit conceived passionate love for her, and intimated to Tall Pine that he de- sired to make her his wife.
 The proposition pleased the old chief, but when the plan was laid be- fore Flushing Rose she signified her displeasure by declaring that she would wed no man but Leaping Pan- ther, handsome young brave, who had distinguished himself in the chase and whose intrepidity and skill in the use of the rife were the wonder of the tribe.
 The old chief, with an eye open to his personal interests, tried to laugh down the protests of his daughter and coolly informed her that she must throw aside her silly infatuation and become Trevit's" wife, whether the prospect pleased her or not. She threatened to kill herself if she was pressed into distasteful union, and Trevit and Tall Pine were in quan- dary as to what move to make, when the brave young warrior, Leaping Panther, offered solution to the diffi- culty by suggesting that Trevit and he fight duel with knives, the girl to become the wife of the winner.
 Two warriors quickly tore the shirts from the mems bodies and strapped their left hands behind their backs. Thus naked to the hips, with a gleaming knife in their hands, the men moved toward each other with the stealth of the tiger in their move- ments and the cunning of the fox in their eyes. The combat was not of long duration. Trevit suddenly rose to the full limit of his splendid height and rushed upon his foe with force and yell that caused the young squaw by the powder to turn pale and tremble, but a smile of exultation lit up her face as she saw the massive form of Trevit reel and the blood gush in flood from his side.
 Leaping Panther's agility had served him well, and, with spring, he was on his wavering antagonist, who, with a wild sweep of his long arm, sent his glittering knife through the muscles and tendons of the young braves shoulder, and the two men fell to- gether in helpless heap. For many days Trevit lay at the point of death, but his powerful constitution pulled him through, and he became himself again. Leaplng Panther never recov- cred the use of his right arm, and was obliged to relinquish Flushing Rose to Trevit, as the half breed had been declared winner in the fight, since he had rendered forever useless the fight ing arm of his antagonist. In due time the young squaw became the wife of Trevit, but she never forgot her first love, and two years after be- coming the wife of the old pioneer, one morning her remains, together with those of Leaping Panther, were found at the bottom of Snake river. They had deliberately gone to their death clasped in each others arms.
 One of the most desperate games of poker in which Trevit, a noted player hereabouts, ever got mixed was played little more than year after he mar ried BiushiDg Rose Unknown to his Indian bride he staked her against the claim of a prospector by the name of Bill Gooding,'a miner who had seen Trevit's wife and was not slow to ex- press his admiration of her charms. In the rear of Grifiin's saloon was . room partitioned of from the bar that was devoted to gambling. One even- ing Trevit and Gooding found them- selves together in this room.
 There were several of their friends there, and one of them, anxious to see the two men get at each other with the cards, pulled cut a bag of gold dust from his pocket and said:
 Boys, there's pile that says that TreSit is better man with the cards than Gooding."
 His "pile" was promptly covered by the other occupants of the room.