The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-06

veioplng the mine and returned 10
Wisconsin. He Is back In Spokane
now, prospecting In the neighborhood
OF the Hercules and the Father Lode.
hoping 10 strike IL ricn again. and
knowing enough this time TO hang on
to good thing when he bits IL.
Dad" Reeves, as he Is Familiarity
known, Is to be given most OF the
credit for the development OF the
Hercules. lie bought half interest
In the two claims located by Harper
who Is his son-in-law- and taking
pick and shovel went TO work him.
self rs industriously as any day labor.
er iured By the lust OF lucre,
After be had dug and worked Tor
while he decided TO take In snme as
sistants and sold small share OF his
holdings To August paulsen and
Harry Orchard, the former having
been driving a milk wagon for Syl-
vester Markham for sio month: the
latter, having had his ding at the
dairy business. conducted a general
coal and wood and teaming business
in Burke.
August Paulscn Is today said Ia
be worth practically -, Loo, on, and
Is erecting the largest and most sub.
stantiai Office building In Spokane.
Harry Orchard Is self-conyicled
murderer OF over a dozen men.
The fate OF the two men is declared
by those ''in the knos" to he their
own working out. Paulsen took up
the pick and shovel and went 70 work
In the Hercules aud Firefy like the
proserbial beaver. But Harry or.
chard sat back In the store, playing
poker by night aud by day waiting.
Mica~ber like, for something TO turn
up. James McAlpine, manager OF
the Ajax mines, tells the story OF
how Orchard lost his Hercules stock
in this manner: Harry Orchard
likes TO play poker, but was not sue
cessful, and kept himself broke. He
got into poker game one night
with.W. q. Chapman and Chapman
won saoo from him. Chapman got
Gardener, tie grocer, TO take the
debt OF his hands and Orchard relin.
lquished his interest In the mine for
that gambling debt. IL Is not true
that the late Governor steunenberg
was In any way connected with Or
chard losing his interest In the Her.
cules, as the Haywood attorneys con.
tended IN the trial at Boise. lie had
nothing whatever Ia do with IT.. or.
chard lost his interest 10 the Her.
cuies before the trouble In the
Bunker nm and sullivan property
lie had gone TO work In the Tiger
mine three weeks before the trouble
aud was there at the time Of the ex.
plosion. "
Mr.. cAlpine's references to the
Bunker mn aud sullivan trouble
brings into the Hercules story au.
other character who played q part In
the notorious affair at Wardner on
April 20, 1889. l.. ". Hutton. today
the owner OF a three-thirty seconds
interest In the Hercules mine, receIv.
Ing tLerefrom sls,01 month, was
then engineer on the branch line oi
the Northern Pacific railroad running
between Wardner and Wallace In the
Occur d'Alenes, his wife the proprie
tress OF a small restaurant az Wal.
lace. Hutton invested his tailroat
swings I'm the early days because
Dad" Reeves declared tie prospect,
good. As a result he Is owner of on,
of the finest business blocks In spo
kane today. Mr.. Hutton was tn,
Northern Pacific engineer whom III,
thousand striking miners In tn,
Occur d'Alene district forced at tb'
point OF a gun 10 surrender his trait
and pilot them TO Wardner on theI
message OF destruction the day thej
blew UP the Bunker Hill and Sulli
van mill and concentration, at a eos
OF quarter million dollars. the dealt
OF one man, the injury OF half dor
EN- others aud the throwing out O
employment Of CO.. more.
Three other men Of Wallace wer
. brought into the Hercules deal. on
, vas Sylvester Maxwell. In who's
J dairy August paulsen had worked
e AnJther was II. r. Samnels, o Wal
. lace lawyer. The third was f.. II
Rothrock, then the local butehe
shop proprietor.
MI. Samuels sold out his Interest
prodtine well by the investment, a
be now owns, In addition 10 niue
y waIIce realty, controlling interes
In the Success mine. At one tim
= he owned the Stewart. which Il
afterwsrd sold to y. Augustus Heinz,
!. lie Is also building a five. story hot.
i al Wallace.
- Dad Reeves, who once Owned
!, half interest in the entire property
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