The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-31
SDoN'r GO TO ALBERTA.

IL 10 Too Near the North Pole-4xperi.
sncs 81 Deiaded Farmers.
Palouse News
The following letter will be interesting
reading to the people who intend leaving
the Palouse country for Alberta:
SOUTH EDMONTON, Alberta, n. w.t.
March 8. 1881,
notice in your last weeks issue of the
Mems Fitxjerald's advertisement of Al
eerta's famous productions, and. - . resi-
dent here, take pleasure in writing up q
lev facts q . warning TO the good people
OF Palouse and vicinity, regarding the ter
rible frauds praeticed BY these Canadian
agents.
We are told BY parties living here, and
eye witnesses to the same, that these ex-
hibits are brought in from the country BY
the load, then the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road Company hires sQuaws and half
breeds TO sort the frozen from the good,
and this same party says he has seen cart
share Of all they had gotten in carried
away to Be- fed to cattle and hogs.
The night Of October 10. '92, it froze
% hard and was % icy cold the next day
that carpenters had to cease work. Wells
thirty feet to the water freeze over, and the
ice remains in them until July. A man 10
digging . we'll at this time, March 8, and 10
~
i've feet Al for raising wheat here, not
one out Of ten can do 90 for . very good
reason. It freezes long before it 10 even in
the milk. There are few having high
ground who manage to get patch through,
probably by blanketing it half Of the sea.
son. but they are in the minority by half
They have samples Of wheat here they call
good. but if Palouse rancher was to see
1t surely believe he would think il screen.
ings and feed it to his chickens.
The flies and mosquitoes are such pest
In summer that farmers have TO quit the
fields, and their horses become wild
through agony from the myriads sucking
their life blood. Horseback men will stop
by the roadside and dismount and build q
smudge to drive away the thousands of
small black sand flies settling all over him.
self and horse, driving the poor dumb
brute wild and making it impossible to
manage him. This man told this himself
in our family.
We are states people. from grand old
hoods OF these agents. We were induced to
leave tho best country God ever made for
man. but We are only waiting for the rob
ms to nest again when We shall hurry back
to the land of our birth. We never knew
what cold weather was until We came
here. Sixty-six degrees below zero with
such knife-like wind you would find
ySoA ASSSb Va 0ny SApOOe0 ROAS Va yVu1
body. frozen before you knew it. We had
to run our horses night and morning to
keep them from freezing. They would
shake as though they would fall out of
their halter, but by giving them q run
night and morning to warm them up,
put them back in good stable, We have
gotten them through. This cold weather
was during January. three weeks steady
without break. But enough of this. I
have heightened my article longer than
At first contemplated. have written
facts and could write more if space per.
mitted. You can publish or not. but I
think it the duty of some one to expose
these frauds. There are hundreds coming
here to starve, for this country does not
give as much work as one county there to
the poor man. Everything is stagnant. If
the settlers did not bring money with
them they would starve. Another bad
feature 10 the excessive heat in summer
during the middle of the day. Man or
beast cannot stand the suns powerful
rays, but more than likely it wifi get 30
cold in the evening that it freezes. / will
close, hoping you will publish as much of
this scribe as you see tit. Yours with re-
spect, Mrs. f.. c. CHAPMAN.
p. S. Winter set in the 18th OF October
Snow is now two feet deep and no prospect
of leaving. Old settlers tell US cattle can
not live until June 15 Trees come out in
bud about the same time