The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-03

sold TO q man for abauf 800 an ecre, and he had
paid SIS 900 on The property. He could not pay
the balance and the mortgage was fogeciosed,
and 20 he lost his $3.50, and il is said the loss
made him q pauper. Cow, our attorney, in in
vestigaring the chain O. title, discovered fatal
irregularity in the foreclosure proceedings,
which rendered the foreclosure null and void.
The title was thus vested in the man who had
lost everything in beying the property, and
who supposed that he had lost the property
Also We did not knoss where the man was or
anything about him, or perhaps we should have
hunted him up He owed 5000 on the tract
and we were willing torgive $4,000 Tor 1t Thus
this man was worth 31e5000 and didn't know it
Finally the putative - ners found him, and he
reinquished all his rights for 5000. He gave
them . quilt claim coed, and then the tract
passed into the handle Of the San Diego syndi-
cate. So you can sec what little piece OF legal
Information would have been worth to that
man. II would have been the difference be.
tween poverty and aflsenca"
Cart J. R. DeIAmar and W. R. Houghtsling,
OF New York, left for Spokane yesterday. "Mr.
Houghtaling had never seen q mine," said the
captain, "and so brought him out to see my
mine in Idaho / had previously shown him
some OF the ore had taken out-great chunks
four feet square and four inches thick, and
about three-fourths patiye silver-and you
ought to have seen bis eyes pop when we meas
ufeQ the distance between walls ouu tOuuu IL 10
be seventy-seven feet This was all ore, with
streaks of varying valee, but without horse
In the vein, and every pit removable with pick
and shovel, no powder being used. While We
were down at the mine got q small specimen
TO take along with me. and here it is" Here
upon he dug up from his valise box lined
with cotton and containing q chunk OF
almost pure native silver about ten
inches square and four inches thick.
While the b. holders we're feasting their eyes on
the rich stuff the capts1n remarked: with four
men In six weeks l took out $iSo.0o0 worth Of
this ore, and OF course q lot of other ore, high
grade in itself, but nothing to this. It's only
been five years since First went down into that
country, and within q little over three years
had cleaned up SS.0OG0O0 net was offered
$2,oo0,0Oo for the mine, but refused to sell more
than half interest az any price, and finally
Henry Bratnober, woo promoted the Drum,
Lummon and Elkhorn sales in Montana, got up
an English company, and let them have
hall interest for 81 ,00o 900" On leaving the cap
tain said: "Oh, yes, We'll come back here again.
This is only preliminary visit"
George Kostrometineff IL guest OF the Alaska
hotel. He is q Russian and the court Interpreter
at Sitka. He 10 on Gov. Knapp's STAFF, aud &C.
companied him - far IS Chicago, where he took
part in the dedication of the Worlds fair build
ings Mr.. Kostrometiaof Is . well educated
man. and speaks not oaly English and Russian
but is also familiar wish all the native dialects.
This was his first visit to the East, and he was
greatly impressed by what he saw.