, 1889-11-07
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
An Isolated Camp That Is Pro-
ducing a Great Deal of
Bullion.
An Honest Mana Piece of Con-
tinental Money-A Coon
Hunt-Etc.

the Grangevillo Free Press, and has gone
into winter quarters at James Welch's
ranch on the Cottonwood side of the
prairie. Two of the mules were loaded
with bars of bullion shipped out by
George Riebold, and consigned to tho
San Francisco mint through the Lewis
ton National bank. The bullion weighed
5000 ounces, or 500 pounds. Its value
was estimated to be between $4,000
and $4,000. Its actual value
Will have to be determined by
assay. The bullion Is part of the prod
uct OF several mines in Warrcns whose
owners have had tests of their rock
made in Mr.. Riebold's 8 mill during the
present season. The bullion was only
slightly. alloyed with baser metals, as
the ore had been roasted and concen-
trated in the Little Giant mill plant.
This shipment is the last of a series that
nave been made from Warrens this year
ana II Y had come from any other camp
IN the Northwest "a great hurrah would
DC made about II. II is only few weeks
since Riebold shipped S2O, 900 worth of
sofd bullion, the proceeds of one mill
run on ore from the Little Giant mine
alone. If Wood river, or Cnur d. Alene
or any other OF the hurrah camps were
TO make such shipments the papers
would get out extra editions to advertise
II, and 1t would be paradod as an evil
dence of the wonderful wealth of the
mines. II is fashionable to regard War.
rens as played-out mining camp, but
we wish there were a few more such
scattered around in this county. Let it
from the nearest wagon road, and that
every pound of freight consumed
there is packed on muleback "a distance
of l5O miles, and these bullion shipments
take on new and much more siunjti.
canoe, since If the mines yield SO well
under such adverse circumstances, what
will they not do when wagon roads are
built directly into campY We always
have insisted that with wagon road com
munications Warrens will develop into
first-class quartz camp, and we have
spent considerable money to hasten its
construction along And by the way,
now is a good time for every body TO
write 10 Delegate Dubois urging him to
leave no stone unturned to have the
coming session of congress to ratify the
wagon road bill which was passed by our
last legislature. The building of that
road will be of more practical benefit to
the territory than statehood, because
every mine in Warrens and elsewhere
along the route, which Is now worthless,
will have an immediate money value as
soon as it can be reached by wagon road.
If this road is to be built at all, Delegate
Dubois must bestir himself in getting
the bill ratified this winter, so that it
can be built next year. The matter is
now in his hands.
Walla Walla Union: Sometime in
September, Mr.. Marshall of fSchwabacher
Brothers concluded to tempt fair Dame
Fortune by investing in a lottery ticket.
He bought ticket of +. j. Carlyle, and
| "a tba TINA aniI that if ka ,nlx 4
| the capital prize he would give the
seller of the ticket 10 per cent OF the
prize. Not to be outdone in generosity,
Mr.. Carlyle stated that If he won the
capital prize, he would pay Mr. Mar
shall 10 per cent of the money. The
gentlemen shook hands over the agree
ment and parted Imagine Mr.. Mar
shall's surprise on Friday, to be ap-
preached by Mr.. Carlyle. who counted
out to him in bright new greenbacks,
$500, the 10 per cent Of the capital prize
which Mr.. Carlyle had won. An incl
dent like this gives the ordinary man a
better opinion of his fellows, and at the
same time gives the cynic an opportun-
ity to sneer.
l.. Il. Horris, of Dayton, Wash, pos
sesses piece of continental currency
l12 years old which is quite curiosity
to persons who have never seen bill Of
those early days. 1t is 81 bill and
bears date of May 90 l777. 1t is about
three inches wide and four inches long,
and Is quite well preserved. On either
side is an engraving but the outlines
can not be distinguished. The border
and lettering is all very rude and would
at this day be very easily counterfeited.
The following words are quite plain:
This bill entities the bearer to receive
seven Spanish milled dollars or value
thereof in gold or silver, according to q
resolution of congress passed at Phila-
delphla, May 20, 1777."
Grangeville Free Press: ]. G. Gelbach
and Governor Swartz killed three coons
down on the Swartz ranch in the Fair.
view country last Tuesday morning.
The coons had killed q couple of chick.
ems and were then treed by the dogs
within few feet of the house, when the
men were aroused and came out and
shot them. The largest weighed twenty
pounds and the Others fourteen pounds
EACH These animals are new feature
tions from Missouri John Day creek
is also afflicted with them.
David Latin, recently convicted at
Tacoma Of the murder of G. G. Grant, Q
former Spokane Falls restaurateur, and
sentenced to twenty years in the peni-
tentiary, was resident Of Spangle not
SO very long ago. While here, says the
Record, he was employed in HuIberts 8
harness shop, and seemed to be u steady
going young fellow.
Grangeville Free Press: Judge Lo-
gan, we regret to say, is very sick
man, and 1t is doubtful If he will be
able to hold the term of court set for
this county next December. 1t took
four hours to convey him from Union
town to Lewiston, where no now is.
A gambler was buried in Montana a
week or two ago, and next morning an
anchor, formed OF playing cards, was
found on his grave. Somebody seems
to have thought the most Appropriate
way to deck his grave was to euchre
deck 1t.
Tekoa Globe: An immense amount
of travail is now going over this road TO
Spokrne Falls. Tuesday evenings train
hardly contained standing room. This
is destined to become the popular route
from Portland to Spokane Falls.
The glare of the electric lights up at
Spokane Falls, according to the Spangc
Record, are quite plainly visible in tho
Northern sky at that point, twenty miles
distant, on almost any dark night.
LONDON LIGHTMEN.