Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-03-21

big poker game, and to play such game
called for wealth, but, when tell you
tha, such men as Col. Vic played L. W.
Coe and Aaron Kinney, Capt. Sy|e and
many more of that class OF men you
we'll see that the game did not lack
money, if it lacked moncy this class OF
mon had cheek, not bone, books, and
their word without their book was o. X.
I was probatbly the only one who had
no check book to 60, but had need Ter
one when I quit. Ipayel hand or
two, if you think did not you lose. a. /
Kinney was sutler for many years at
Vancouver, W. T., but, the time | rc'er
to, he kept the Metropolis hotel at
Per land, Oregon. Another gentleman
played in that game who was then aud
is now one of Walla Wallas prominent
wealthy citizens, A Luge, mill owner,
and, think, built the second Mill.
John A. Jimm,, I think, built the first.
Char!ey Frush, more about him later,
played in the game. He was purser OF
the boat. Col. Vic, Trevett aud Major
Blake held season ticket, compliment
tarY from the company, and, Of course,
spent their money lavish. It was theu
as it is not now, your ticket Included
your meals and your bed, but, | think,
the passage was $50, it may have been
more, but l cannot say now, correct,
how much it was. One thing l do
: know, the table was better furnished
then than now, not only better but mere
of it, and, think, can explain why
The steward, them days, furnished the
boats stores without any restriction; hs
bought what he thought he needed, ant
!. OF whom and where at any price, oil wa
l.. needed was him to certify to the bill
. and there was the end of it, they wer'
l. paid without any complaint or murmur
So if the boat did not live better thai
t any hotel in the country, the stewar
bad no excuse and was deemed cultus a
/. - and he got -- for it you bel
Ia 1t took foor or five days to get t
7 Lewiston, and when we reached port v
= found every body and his wife or som
other fellows wife, people of all patton
!, alities, creed and color. The bushes
=, was done in tents, hence the place WI
pamed tent town. Goods Of every des
c,iption was held at 40 prices. / r
member selling Mrs. franklin, who ke
restaurant in a tent, potatoes at l23 cen
per pound and -four at $40 sack, a,
L. sold her quite bill. Now Mr.. Edit
YOU certainly remember Mr.. Franklir
- correspondent for the Alta Caltforni
=. and the frs. man that made report, tn
was deemed reliable, about Orc Fin
to the press, yourself one Of the pre-
portlsnd sent +. to Orc Fino to get t
reliable news Of the camp and it "
T. taken as fact from his report that I
section was rich beyond any doubt.
think there was one and only one hou
so called, a few logs near the forks
the rivers, where we tied up. You {
not now identify the forks of them da
II the rivers have washed away the bar
80 that it hardly looks natural. thi
,, when came from Orc Fino, in Move
!, Der, 1861, that John Hernn kept
saloon in the few logs l refer to.
stood near the compauy's old Office, I
both have long since disappeared. n
if can locate tents, jaeger kept ab
Dad where the old court house and Jail ste
e'o' MIR. Buckminster was with jaeger.
&c ,r.r was engineer on the old steamer b.
YOU remember her l know, and
day, must also remember her captain, !
rain Williams, now Of Portland and '
7, ',.s At wealthy, SO said to be. Well we
'lfa. charged passengers aud freight
" steamed up the Clearwater for
Agency. Charley Hutchiogs was,
had been, agent, but about that time
later, A. j. Cain, now dead, took ch
Of the Agency. l remember, so do
N his father as superintendent Of In
Ills affairs for Oregon. The old gentle
was short Of stature but made up fo
in width. He wore large fob chai
gco. bis watch and the charm on it n
aoout his navel, l think. In loo
round I found John Silcott, and be
then whore he is now, at the ferry,
EAR any better then than now, but looks
"A !. few years younger. I was young m
ne. once, but oh, me, its q long time ago
am COW as old as I am and as youn;
r II want to be. Young people have