Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-02
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n IL autumn q 1875 rslidsd b fvnsy-
a-s.d street. Nsw York A genial fsnsv
hoardpr vas . esuxleHlan of about Is yonsA.
sho ~ putting snDs mining saock % -
usrksk Hn name was Cob, aDA - ciai0s4
The d,stinetion Of having for initials tAsss
&C G. Cols-of being - Il - ~
nemhers Of coacres from he nsv asts, -
Of rsc.ivmx de largest milsags sv~ paid -
. Dsmb1 Of cpngr@-over ~. oup-ah naa'
- hsln1 eunpussd from Idaho 70 SAa Jfan-
cisco, tasncs tAzosnd :As Hornsoy way q
Nsv York to Washington He sas . pSonsG
from New York, and for . time keps .
trading sure Il Fort Walh WaliA
On evening shs ssranes nams ct the NV
sale became . sab yses Of comment, and NJ.
Cob gave me the following sceount Of how
ths zane came - be adopted. and also The
ssascted meaning, or rather the meaning
which he and o,bers concluded 70 give = ths
Indian words TRANSLATION One bright morn
ing about 10 O'Clock, in company With A.
other gentleman interested in the govern
menr Of the territory, whils riding over soaas
barren mountain tops, or rather kils. IL
road became % rough - TO compel the slow-
est travelling. As they ploddsd on the name
for the new stats became . topic Of couvsrA-
ton While talking over the various nAme.
that had been suggested they came 70 tbs top
Of . small plateau. On the fArtner sdgs OF
which stood an Indian hovel or cabin
The utter lonehne. Of the spot suggested
70 the travellers that they had come upon IL
hiding plaee a come outlav, OF whom ths
country then boastsd . great number. jus
htl in. in wi
from the cabin, an Indian woman came out
and called out several tins N high spirited.
far reaching voice the word Idaho The tone
was = combination Of tbose Of the SwlD
yods,er, the Spanish Indian and Louisiana
negress. and, Is was supposed, call TO the
squAw's husband The sound Of the voics -
given by Mr. Cob, and he had been familiar
with the Indians for some years, was Eh-tah-
hoo-oo-oo- a drop from the first Z to the &c
end, long q. almost a. If hah, and . musi-
cal, long -dfawn-out dwelling upon the hoo,
using the full force Of the lungs in expiration
and in crescendo.
The squaw's naD was answered BY the sud
den appearance Of an Indian girl about
years Of age She was clean and better look
ing than most Of her race Tbs inference Of
both Mr.. Cole and his companion was thA'
Idaho va. the girls name, and the idea Of
adopting it as the name Of the new state O.
CURED to both men At about tine same time,
Mr. Cole claiming TO be the first to speak
All efforts To find tAe English Of the word
resulted in failure; and finally, in cons,dera
ton OF the sex and surroundings Of the In
dian whose name had helped solve the din
rulty ill finding one for the state, that Of Gem
Of the Mountains was decided upon. The real
meaning OF the word Mr.. Cole never knew.
As the Indians name their children from phys
zeal peculiaritits OF circumstances occurring
at their birth, and as the child was born
about day light the translation Of Light on the
Mountains was first deemed a good one but
its fitness AS II name for the state had TO give
way to the more appropriate one of Gem OF
the Mountains, which was given TO congress
q the translation of the Indian word.
| narrate the tale As | got it from Mr.. Cole
and add what, at the tirie, suggested to him
that the state erect monument on the spot
where the name was selected-and a. amend
ment, that Joaquin Miller, the poet Of the
Sierras, write the inscriptions. Edward r
Roche, II. D., in Boston Journal