, 1890-05-29
Sixty Lodges and Two Hundred
People on Spokane's
Banks.
All That Remains of Chief Garrys
Tribe-An Invalid
Artist
A Pack of Ours Run a Bluff
Game and Get a Call
Down.


civilizing influences of pleasure ex.
curslons ON the cable and electric
roads. Yesterday one group at
tracted unusual attention. The men
were tall and ofadmirable physique,
This Il characteristic of all the Spo-
kane tribe, until contaminated by
misccgenation with wretched speci.
mems of the white race, who are In
most cases more worthless than the
siwash women with whom they as
sociatc. But the Spokane Indian
would scorn to work. The little
runts on the Puyallup reservation,
whom many believe to have de-
scended from early immigrants
to Alaska from China, are
industrious, desirable citizens
compared with the proud
Spokane. He Is nearly always,
winter and summer alike, envel-
oped In "A gaudy blanket, folded
closely about his broad chest and
firmly clasped with one hand just
beneath the nostrils, to protect his
precious lungs against any impure
or chilly atmosphere.
In the group on the cable train
they occupied seats apart from the
women, olisdaining to even look at
them, during ride of over three
miles, from the center of the city to
Twickcnham, whittier REVIEW
reporter followed them, to observe
their maneuvers on Palace car
They sat stoically upright, blank
etcd to the eyes, as the swift motion
OF the train created IA breeze through
the open summer Pullman eNcur-
sion car which they had chosen for
their trip, aud stared straight for
ward, utterlng no word during the
entire passage.
The women were attired in shnwls
of coarse materials. some of them
horc on their crooked backs heavy
burdens Of rotten potatoes and other
vegetables, picked up In the streets,
old clothes that they had begged
while their stately lords paraded
the streets, or bundles of straw for
the cayuses at the camp. Others
were laden with pappooses, slung
upon their backs In the primitive
fashion of their remotcst ancestors.
The thought did not seem To pen
citrate the mind of either of them
that they might lay aside their
heavy burdens while riding on the
cars. Perhaps they did not like to
impose upon the company by COM
pelling II to carry their loads, so
ahu, liant thntta nn tltnir hanka A
entire distance.
I About the knees of all the women
Icltlng ragged and dirty children
clamorlng for u share of the rotten
oranges and cold potatoes with
which their mothers were feasting,
and most of which they had prob
ably fished out of swill barrels In
the rear OF restaurants. Unlike the
hias tyes, enveloped In gaudy blank
cts, who had no burdens to bear,
the women jabbered incessantly In
their child-likc manner and voice,
gesticulating all the while like 80
many politicians or monkeys In u
cage. Thus appeared the picture on
the cable train.
at the west end of the farther
cable road bridge over the
Spokane river Ia the camp of
Chief Garry's tribe. Their
tepees are scattered along In the
valley for II distance of three miles,
but the reporter visited only the two
or three groups near the bridge. He
-. .I h.F tuI, ri
friend, armed with u rugged limb of
NQhosen as the safest defense In the
~ IA precaution well thought OF,
W. the dogs came forward with a
witt bound and n yclp that only
come from an Indian cur when ho
believes his rights are about to he In
yaded. This yelp Is only bluff,
however, intended to terrify tho in
lruder aud make him run. Two or
three swift, keen cuts n the air with
the rugged club, that made n noise
like the whistle ofa mimic ball, con-
vlnced the siwash ours that their
bluff would be seen and raised to the
limit of the game. So they pulled
out, and skunk back to the tepees of
their respective masters.
Chief Garry was not In camp. AS
the visitors approached u group Of
ton young Indians mounted their
ponies, quickly formed in llnf and
sat motionless, apparently not OBJ
serving the two pilgrims. II was
evidently their intention to alarm
the camp and notify the chief In the
event of the discovery of any mis-
chicvous intent on the part Of the
intruders.
"Any stray horses down this
EsEay?' the REVIEWS companion in
VI pired, as he passed up to
hrst young man on horse
ack a cigarette and a
match; lie happened TO know that
nl Indians arc fond Of cigarettes,
and had accordingly laid In suf-
hcient supply for the purpose of an
Introduction, Cigarettes were given
oall, including about dozen men
who We're seated ON fallen pine,
hall concealed by clump Of under
growth, and had not been observed
until the explorers were In their
midst.
The Indians on horseback had
seen no stray horses, and apparently
desiring to prove to their friendly
visitors that they had not been
alarmed, rode away toward the
city.