, 1890-12-11

shore" he was tho happy possessor
Of Sl5 and pair OF double blankets
He says shingle making was n
pretty good game at that time, and
they brought 50 per thousand. He
could rive half n thousand a dnv
then, ami that helped him out vory
much, until he found an opportunity
and started in business.
MIR. King was u newspaper man.
He published the Standard, the
second paper gotten out on Van.
couver island. An old Washington
drum hand-prcss was brought I'm
from Frisco and set on the shore
Then young King rustled for local
matter, wrote editorials that stirred
the souls of those who could read
among the trappers and traders and
settlers, after which no ''stuck tho
type" himself, ground the papers Off
with toll and tribulatlon, on tina
cranky old press, and having
reached this point, put on his LONG
rubber boots, girded up his loins'
and waded on through the mud To-
deliver the edition over about six.
teen square miles of territory.
There wasn't great deal of monev
in the enterprise, and the subscrlp.
tions were not always paid in hard
cash. Occasionally he had even 10
fight before the bills were settled
but the life was interesting and OK,
citing, and probably no newspaper
editor was ever more thoroughly nc.
quaiutcd with his constituency
than was he.
Thursday morning Charles Shep
uster brought III to Okanogan tho
report that another Indian had gone
to the happy huntiug-ground. A
club in the hands of one of his
dusky brethren caused him to eml.
CRATE.
The Outlook says: Mr.. Shepuster
was coming up from Ruby, and
when opposite the Indian camp
near the slaughter-house he was
dians. They were terribly excited
row on his hands.
Although he could not understand
their jabbering, he finally discov-
cred through their motions and ges-
lures that they wanted him to go to
their camp, so he followed them
over. There they showed him the
dead body of an Indian, and the
club with which he had been killed.
IL seems the whole gang had been
drinking heavily and got into big
drunken row, which terminated as
above. The Indian who committed
the deed is called Poker Jimmy,
and belongs to tough gang OF
Okanogan Indians, whose leader Is
the notorious Puca Mica.
The man killed Is n Nez Perce,
and belongs to Chief Joseph's band,
who had been Ia town the day be-
fore with lot of oats to sell. 1t
seems there had been bad feeling
between the two tribes for some
time, and this killing may lead TO
further hostilities.
Coroner Price held an inquest on
the body yesterday, and statement
of the facts and testimony in tho
case has been forwarded TO tho
proper authorities.
Victoria antiquarlans are at pres
ent brimtul of enthusiasm over the
subject of graves--the ancient sepul-
chrcs long known To exist on Mac
aulay point having recently been
made the subject of special invest
CATION.
The Colonist says: The graves
are very numerous about Macaulay
point, but they are also to be found
90 lF.lLAHs hoo xpI,sIA thar. "a rat
haps half dozen on Beacon hill
itself. On digging into the little
mounds a big flat stone will invari-
ably be found covering the roughly
constructed little boN-grave ofstones.
The body in each case Is found
placed in the same position, doubled
up, chin and knees together, and
laid on the right side with the head
to the south. The method OF doubl.
ing up the body for burial is adopted
by all the Indians of the coast to-
day, but they are never known to
place their dead under the ground;
they even prefer to place them In
tree-top.
The skeleton now in the pos.
session of Mr.. Hastings Is that OF
very small human being, having
sonle Of the peculiarities Of the
siwash or the Chinese. 1t Is also
argued by those who claim that the
Mongolian tribes of Northern China
and the Indian races of the coast
are the same family; that in the ex'
istence of these graves is found an
other proof of their theory. To this
day the llumas of Manchuria and
Mongolia continue the custom oil
burying their dead in kneellng
posture, often cross-lcgged, after the
Buddhistic style. The moment life
has fled the body Is made to take
this position, and In this posture Ii
committed to the earth.
1t is thought that the stone graves
In and about this city bear the
heavy slab covering they do to pro-
tect the bodies placed therein from
the wild beasts. The graves them,
selves are in good preservation, ana
in q few have been found arrow
heads, but no other implements OF
utensils. Thera thus buried were
evidently race of dwarfs, but inc
skull Is of better shape than that Oh
the present generation of Coast ln-
dians. Signs of rude intrenchmenls
or Notifications, supposed to have
been thrown up by the same race,
have also been discovered near this
city, and u paper upon them ans
the supposed builders will very
shortly be published.
The slauphteripp of deer has al-