The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13

in the outer room from Eastern Ne
vada and wanted to see HIM. Sharon
said:
4" Show him in
"He greeted him pleasantly. asked
what family he belonged of Sharons
and after while came down to bust
ness, when the young man said that
he could control a hundred votes in
Eastern Nevada, vote them just as he
pleased, but it would take little
money. Sharon asked him about how
much money it would take, and he
said it would take $l00 apiece. That
is, he meant a strike for cold $4,000.
"Sharon sprang out Of his chair and
with a perfect torrent Of invective told
the man, after exhausting all the ad-
ieotives upon him. that he would give
him $500 If he would petition some leg
islatnre TO change his name, but not
another cent on. any other account.
"That Dodge incident reminds one
that 1T would be good If people knew
just how much money Mr.. Ralston had
in investments in which he did not ap-
pear at all There is no doubt but
what he bought the Northern Belle
and supplied all the money to build
the mill and that his understanding
with Dodge perhaps was that Dodge
was to receive 10 per cent Of the
profits. but there was no record Of if
that the public could ever get and
Dodge had it all.
'..Mr. Ralston' s family know Of sew
eral other investments of the same
kind, but his family does not know
them all for w. G. Ralston was a
prince: he never did anything that he
did not do gallantly. For twenty years
he was more to the west coast than
any other one man, and il is theme
of perpetual regret TO hundreds Of men
who mover had any business at all with
Mr.. Ra]ston that his true nature is
not better known, and that the world
never appreciated how high his soul
was and how great his heart"
"About the strangest and most in
teresting thing | ever heard Of in the
he'd by subsequent events, was Bill
Beachy's dream said one of a party
of oldtmers who were exchanging
stories Of the occult and marvellous at
the Golden Hotel in Reno several
nights ago. "Bill Bcachy was, in turn,
a pioneer of California, Idaho and Nc
vada. He was a splendid example Of
the, energetic and euterprising men who
assisted in developing the resources Of
the Pacific coast, though his name does
not figure in the list of those who sue
ceeded in amassing a great fortune
Hls speciality was staging, though he
also generally conducted a hotel in CON
necton with that business. He at diff
fereDt times operated stage lines in
Callfornia, Oregon. Idaho and Nevada.
the last Of them being one from Elko
TO Hamilton and other points in the
eastern part of this state He diad at
Elko, in 1874.
IF 1t were conceivable there copId
be anything morbid or visionary about
one thus actively engaged in the most
stirring of pursuits, AN acquaintance
with BIll Beachy would have dispeIled
any such notion SO far as he was CON
and practical in his views,
fet, whllo disclaiming all belief in the
he used 10 tell of n dream
ne once had that foreshadowcd a hor.
rlbly tragic event and prompted him TO
course of action that led to the arrest
and punishment Of the murdcrcrs.
There can be no doubt about the
ruin OF hls narrative, for in addition
TO his own high character for candor
ma Veraclty, every material point in it
IS n matter of record and the main
Lacts were given great publicity by the
newspapers at that time. I shall not
attempt TO repeat Beachv's account of
INC affair literally. but give only such
4 bare summary of il as will make n
connected and ineligible story.
'The tragedy and most of the events
connected with it occurred in the Ter
-itory of Idaho, which at the time ON.
oraeed l1 si not only the area of the state
d the same name but all Of Montana
and part Of Wyoming. Tn 1863 Hill
Bcachy was keeping a hotel at Lewis,
on IN the. extreme western part of this
giant territory, and at tho same time
was running the stage line between
that place and Wallula in Oregon. the
nearest point Of connection wifi steam
BOAT navigation on the Columbia river.
All the supplies for the mines in
those days came from the west. and
were taken INTO the interior by pack
rams. Among the men most extensive
y engaged in this trade was Lovd Ma
9llder, who would conduct trains with
100000 or 100000 worth Of merchan
llse hundreds of miles 10 the eastward
and dispose of IL in the new mining
amps, He and Hill Beachv were close
friends, and Mrs. Magruder lived mt
ne latter 8 hotel while her husband was
absent on his long trading trips.
Ia august ICpo, MdpfnGcr at
Lewiston with his pack train and some
S3O,O worth Of goods, ready TO start
next morning for the newly discovered
mines at Virginia City, about 400 miles
away to the eastward. That night Hill
Beachy dreamed that he saw his friend
sitting by camp fire, smoking. while
2 heavy snowstorm was raging: inst
behind him were two rather question.
able Lewiston characters, Dos Howard
and Chris Lowry; and as the latter ad,
vanced and threw down some wood and
Magruder stopped TO fix the fire be
saw Lowry split his head open with
~ axe.
E'The dream was so vivid and i'm.
pressed itself so deeply on his mind
that Beachy told his wife about II IN
the morning. She urged him 10 tell il
10 Magruder, but he said that would be
wrong, as it was nothing but a dream.
and knowledge Of il could only serve
TO make Magruder uneasy,
80 the two friends parted without
4 word about the dream but Beachy
warned Magruder to be vigiIant, and
presented him with a HenrY rifle en-.
Joining him to always keep It at hand
when IN camp.
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