The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-04-28
FELIX WARREN
HAD HIS FUN
And so Did the Other Eel
low, Who Laughed
Last.

The recent articles published In the
clobe. on Felix Warren as stage
driver, have caused more or less COM
ment from various sources. w. NJ.
Morgan, prominent attorney of
Moscow, drops in line with little
.xoerience in the Star-Mirror which
H. had with that famous whip, and
how he came back at Felix. He says:
"Years age" | had to make
,rp from Grangeville to Lewiston and
at time of the year when the roads
were muddy as western roads usually
are in February and March. There
was no bottom to the roads, and il
rained all day something terrific.
When we got part way in we met
Felix Warren and he took the lines
because he believed no other driver
in the country could ever get the big
stage and the load into Lewiston
through that rain storm over roads
that were washed and cut with tor
rents of water that had recently fallen.
We started, and Felix, it was evident,
was intent on maintaining his reputa-
ton of never missing a trip and never
being a minute late. Every ten or
twelve miles we changed teams and
Felix would put the animals, always
the best that money could buy, into
their fastest PAGES. Anyone who has
ever travelled this old Lewiston
Grangeville stage road knows that
there we're some nasty grades, bad
and dangerous even during the dry
seasons, but enough to turn the hair
Of a tenderfoot white with fright as
the big stage turned corners and
rounded curves with the wheels hug
ging the outer rim of the slippery
grades. Felix saw that | was fright
ened and no stage driver ever lived
who enjoyed the sight of frightened
tenderfoot better than Felix. When
we came to a hill he put the team into
dead run, and with every hair OF
my head standing straight up, | beg
ged him to stop and let me walk. He
only laughed and said that he would
get into Lewiston on time all right.
We finally did, some two hours late,
which, considering the roads, was
record time and could not have been
accomplished by an ordinary driver. F"
Felix told his friends about the
Joke he had on the young tenderfoot,
and they squared matters by inviting
Morgan to set EN- up Morgan
says that he told Felix that he would
get even if it took the rest of his natu-
raj life, and this was entirely agreeable
to Mr.. Warren.
Sometime later Mr.. Morgan went
to Washington, D. c., as the private
secretary to Senator Henry Heitfeldt.
In his investigations of the public
library MIR. Morgan discovered sew
eral tons of agricultural year books,
each volume weighing from four tc
eight pounds. Morgan, unknown &c
oenator Heitfeldt, went among the
senator's and representatives and col
iected all their surplus volumes, get
ung in all three or four tons. He
mad mailing list in Idaho and Ne2
rerce counties sufficiently large &c
Utilize the books, and at the proper
ume, when the roads broke up in the
spring, MIR. Morgan mailed out the
cargo of year books, seeing that every
one was SO addressed that it would
iand In Lewiston and from there bt
sent out over the LewiSton-Grange.
vile stage line run by the driver who
mad laughed when he threatened to ge
even. Three or four tons of book
made bulky mail, and the consign.
ment blockaded the Lewiston Office
leilx was notified to remove then