Telegram-herald., 1891-01-05

ef Aney1ean you>n< H. efcuE& eun As
already replaced kb fstAer in haAest
sAd profitable business sn1 the daaghr
tsrs are respectfully married
The old .-voyaeeurs,s fr<nch eni-
grants 70 the West from Canada, who
served the Northwestern fur eomps-
mics. and Travelled through the wilds Of
Oregon. were encouraged - sestas here
snd there among the Indian tribes
They were naturally Led - marry In
dian women Tss Hudson's BAY Conn
pany, IL is said, made il = policy TO
favor such marriages Tsrefors you
find half breeds &ad French descend
ants Of these enterprising s'voyageurS"
gion. They are not generally On par
with our best business people of the
West, though some are IN the front
line of progress. yet. for the most part.
they are a kind, steady, self<upporting
race. Their sires or their grand sires
were tho husbands of Indian women
Many of their descendants to-day are in
the West As they usually are in Texas.
proud of their Indian blood.
The first time the writer visited the
Spokanes he came with military es-
cort to the crossing of tho Spokane
river, many miles below the falls IL
was the bridge you cross to go from
Walla Walla TO Fort Colville. Here
were the bell-shaped tepees of the
Indians pitched in regular groups, per-
haps twenty of them altogether. The
skeleton poles protruded beyond the old
canvas outsides, and smoke in small
puffs was gently ascending above them.
At tho bridge was the white man who
took the meager toll, living In a
wrefched apology of q house. The
tepees in cleanliness and order were
preferable. He had a poor. hopeless
looking squaw wife and numerous lit
tie half-breed children, who gazed curl
ously upon strangers and ran to cover
here and there upon approach. Soon a
white man. Il lame minister. made his
appearance, having come hither from a
distant mission. He had been invited
to oficiate at a wedding. A white man,
rather of the old Georgia Cracker"
order, poorly dressed in old, gray cloth
IuGs u0ISS tAAl Will -hsO SCofo
of age, was the bridegroom.
The bride had come with her Indian
parents. She was Is or II years old,
had healthy, handsome countenance,
but a very sulky, downcast look. We
who looked on could but feel that
somehow she had been sold to this man.
The ceremony began by the singing OF
Christian airs, like the ''Old, Old Story"
In the Spokane language, first in the
several tepees and then at the gather
ing at the toll-keeper's house. The GER
emory was very brief, it being that Of
the ordinary Presbyterian marriage.
The two white men, the groom and the
toll man, were Americans. In all that
upper country they were called "squaw-
men," They will soon perfect them
selves in the Indian tongue. The entire
explanations of the conduct Of other
white men, and as soon as possible
make them and their wives their inter-
prefers and their mediators-
Again referring to ancient Israel, we
notice that a certain Levite married a
woman of bethlehem, Judah, and that,
notwithstanding that she was his wife
and he himself named in the records
distinctly as her husband, still our
translation calls her his concubine.
There are several similar interesting
inter-marriagcs between whites and In
dams. For example: An old and dis
tinguished frontiersman, whose name,
should / repeat it, would at once be
recognized, was married after the In