Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-08
End Game Peacefully Tuesday
Night With Relatives and
Friends at His Bedside
Funeral Thursday.
HELPED MAKE HISTORY
Blazed Trail Into Owyhee Min
ing District-Advanced Self
by Own Efforts-Death Of
Son, John, fastened End.

Timothy Regain, prominent and be-
loved pioneer OF Idaho, died at 11:10
Tuesday night at his home, ITO West
Main street. Mr.. Regan has been in
failing health for more than a year,
but it was only about two weeks ago
that he was stricken down with the
Illness which proved fatal. The end
came peacefully while relatives and
close friends were at his bedside.
Since the tragic death of his son, John
NJ. Regain. on the battlefield of France.
Mr. Regain has failed continually in
health. Deep grief over his lost son
had fastened his death He is sur
vived by his wife, Rose Blacklinger
Regan. son. Will v. Regan and his
wife and five grandchildren
The funeral will be held at St Johns
cathedral Thursday morning at
O'clock The body will leave the resi-
dence at $50 o'clock
Timothy Regain was born In Roches-
ter, n. Y, in 1914. His parents mi
grated from Ireland to this country in
1881, stopping first In Maine, then
moving to New York, thence to Chi
cago, and from there to Wisconsin,
where they settled on a tract of land.
Morgan Regan, the father, died in 1878
and the mother followed in 1897. Both
were devout members of the Catholic
church and universally respected. Tim
othy Regen was educated In the com
mon schools of Wisconsin.
FACED WORLD ALONE.
At the age of 10 he faced the world
for himself. In 1854 he came west 10
California. After journey to Dun
Glen. New. mostly by stage, Mr.. Regain,
with a wagon train of OK teams, loaded
with supplies for the mining camps in
Owyhee county, set out on foot with
the owners of the caravan for Silver
City. Watch had to be kept by night
to protect the outfit from Indians Aft
er Jordan Valley was reached and the
party felt SAFE they went to bed early
Indians had driven off their animals
and they never saw them again. He
started through the snow to walk to
SILVER. The snow was soft and walk
ing was hard. but he struggled on. He
reached Wagontown, whore there was
only log shack, whose lone occupant
was Jack, which had been left there
because he could not make 1t through
the snow. He camped there for the
night and recitins the incident, stated
he was so lonesome, disconsolate and
hungry that he welcomed the compan-
ionship of that lonely burro. Next
afternoon he reached Bonneville with
but he had industry, health and
Astounding courage and hopefulness
which meant wealth and contentment
REGAIN AS WooDcHoPPER.
His first work in Idaho was wood
chopping on War Eagle mountain. Al
this work he made Sc a day. The wood
was used in the ORC Elmo mine. At
that time Marion Moore and Colonel
FOCUS owned the Orc Elmo He finally
went to work in that mine doing the
timbering at which he worked until
the fall of 1866, when tho ORC Elmo be-
came insolvent indebted to Mr.. Regain
in the sum of nearly $4,000. He never
received cent of these hard earned
wages.
Mining was the favorite occupation
OF Mr.. Regan for many years He
worked. In the Poorman mine until II
closed down in the fan of 1865. With
five others he organized a wood chop
ping outfit and worked at this dur
Ing the winter of 1861 The winte,
OF 1858 Mr.. Regain spent in Salt Lake
going all the way on sleighs except
short distance along Goose creek,
where they had to use a wagon. Times
were dun around Silver City until the
discovery of the Ida Gilmore mine in
1858. Mr.. Regain secured a Job there
but In the fall of that year he con-
cluded he had enough of working for
somebody else, so he and John Gallon
went into partnership to haul quartz
and lumber for the mines They had
a monopoly of this work and pros
pered abundantly.
BUYS HOTEL.
There were nine mines running at
that time in that section and son q
four or five mills. They also run a
saWmill, whipsawing the lumber at a
great profit, Lumber at that time
brought 1915 4 thousand, and two men
could easily saw 200 feet day,
Mr.. Reagan did teaming until 1875
at which time he bought a half inter-
est In the Idaho hotel at Silver City,
buying out Manse Eastman, the other
partner being Hosea Eastman, another
well known pioneer who made good In
Idaho. In 1877 he bought Hosea out
and ran this popular hostelry until
he sold 1t to q. T. N. Smith In 1889.
BEcoMEs MINE OPERATOR.
In 1875, owing to the failure of the
Bank of California, all the mines of
SILVER City and vicinity went broke
and their creditors suffered with them,
MT, Reagan being in 100000. The
creditors pooled their issues in irving
to pull something out of the wreck,
the Orc Elmo finally coming into Mr.,
Regan's hands BY dint of careful
management he secured a group of
mines, the Ida Gilmore, the Golden
Chariot, the Minnesota, South Chariot
and the Mahogany, which he sold to
. Philadelphia company, This com
pany ran the famous Sinker tunnel.
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