Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-01-27

simple black calico dresses and barefoot;
both sexes Joining in the cava!caoe
Three or four days service procures
them a pair OF shoes out OF the store.
This building is little farther on and to
The left nearer to the residence, and is
smaller log building, Of TWO stories 1t
is hacked 50 tul of goods that they can
scarcely he gotten into. On the opposite
side of the residence is q granary, in
ward filed with ten or q dozen enormous
wheat stacks 10 be th,eshed al tic proper
time, or drawn upon for fodder in the ap-
proachng winter. Beyond tie residence
is an orchard, bearing all kinds OF tfuit
in great abundance. Beyond that swn,
extending t. quarter of a mile down to
the river, forming the rear OF the toltlh-
cation. On the further side OF the river
is the Indian village, an irregularly scat
tered collection OF board and weather
board cottages, reached by a bridge and
road frem the outer gate OF the premises
/ already tesCiIpeu'
The entire aspect is leudal In wit
Messing the relations OF these half evil
lied Indian families. the swarthy country
people of British Columbia, and es-
pecally of their young men aud women
in the transition state of life, to the estab-
lishment, of which caught glimpse as
indicated, in the hall, I experienced GU
rious susceptibility of the imagination.
In the eyes OF the Comely girl, who with
her female relatives formed a part of the
eapectant retipue, could sec that PEN
ticten was a great place, and that the
people of Penticten were great people.
imagined that these subjects belonged
TO some outlying terraced lake, or valley
of the mountains, aud that they had been
waiting some time tor their opportunity
to earn the price of pair OF nice shoes
and other comforts. In the eyes of the
young men, who were busy with their ar
engagements, could see the same respect,
imagined due partly TO the tact that the
proprietor of Pontlctcn is a justice of the
peace, and in hls hands lay the power of
confinement or liberty; and if indirectly
none the less substantially the dictum OF
life or death Which of these women
might be the wife OF Pierre; and the
scenes aroundl the table and 4 DOR of the
hall in the trial Of that lonely wsnderer,
revolved in my mind and reconstructed
themselves before my mental vision
Pierre was the only Indian we could find
who was allie to guido US through tho
Gold Range, the mountainous country
which extends northerly and southerly
between this valley and the Columbia
Lakes; owing his knowledge OF that OUT
lying wilderness TO the circumstance OF
his being an outlaw OF the Indians.
Pierres wife was another mans wife be>
fore she conspred with Pierre, having re-
placed her affections in his behalf, to pro-
woke quarrel with her former lord, in
which affair the latter was killed. Then
getting afraid of Pierre herself, she told
the story; taking good care not to appear
against him at the trial. Pierre faced his
sccusers and was discharged, but found it
necessary to absent himself and has led
since then a solitary lie in the remotest
places, from which he descends periods
cally, carrying his life in his hands, to on
gage in the service of his white friends
the farmers, at Spallumsheen Valley
To be candid, there is an illusion about
this picture of Penticten. have painted
it faithfully as saw il, but / have not
told you all. met the Squire after
wards in the Keremeos Mountains, and he
locked every inch squire, in his leggins
and riding breeches He was accompa>
MED on horseback by handsome white
boy, from which circumstance it is an es>
sential addition here to state that there is
also lady of Penticten, who was absent.
In order to escape the heats of Okanagsn
she was spending her summer twelve de
grces further south, in the latitude OF San
Francisco. Squire Ellis is the owner of
10000 head of cattle. lie is not over 35
years of age, having been advised by Mr..
O'Reiley to go into stock farming at this
place about fourteen years ago, and hav-
ing possessed, at the ordinary age OF self
conceit the rare good sense to take advice
from one who knew the elements OF the
situation better than he did.
III have stumbled first into the corral
in the season when Mr.. Ellis herds were
feeding in the mountains, and mistaken
bis massive improvements for ieudal walls,
his horned cattle for feudsl subjects; il
have mistaken his posscssory financial
supremacy over the people aud country
described fer feudal power, albeit exer-
cised in modern way, can rcc,ify in
word what after all is only common
blunder-