Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-08
COVERED BY REFUSE.
DEAD BODY OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
FOUND IN THE WOODS.

FOUND IN THE WOODS.
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4 r.ncher's Remarkable Discovery ~
calls an Interesting story OF the DssxA-
Ter Of . Pioneer Settler Of washinGssa
Territory.
The body Of young girl was found
lsst week in the northern part OF Walia
Walla county in the eastern part OF this
state by a rancher ysile clearing Up
small piece of land in the vicinity ofnis
barn. The body was first seen lying about
two feet under ground near the root OF
a tree as the stump was being grabbed
out. 1t is generally supposed to have
laid there for nearly 90 years. 1t has
been identified as the body of Eneide de
valliere, the daughter of a Frenchman
who settled in that section about quar-
ter of a century ago. The finding of the
body has brought to light a remarkably
interesting story.
The appearance of the land and the
position in which the body was found
have led to the belief that it was never
buried BY mortal hands. but it must in
all probability have been covered from
view by the continual drifting of earth,
dried leaves and the many decayed sub
stances that undoubtedly accumulated
at the base of the tree during the years
that have passed since the girl disappear
ed from her home.
The body was removed to the cabin of
the rancher, where it was washed and
thoroughly dried. when it became as
white and as smooth rs the purest mar
BILE. 1t was removed To the residence OF
a physician in Idaho. where 1t now Is.
There is not flaw or scar visible to mar
the symmetry of the graceful proper
tons of the figure or the beauty of the
phenomenal coloring OF the lips and
cheeks. which has aroused the interest of
the few physicians that have been per-
mitted to gaze upon il. The coloring.
strange rs it may appear, comes and
goes with the rising and setting of the
sun.
On dark, rainy days the face remains
as pallid as an ordinary piece of marble.
Just at sunrise this flesh tint of healthful
repose is seen to settle upon the features,
giving the face the appearance OF quiet
slumbcr, but which Immediately disap-
pears rs the shades of night begin to
fall. As the sun begins to disappear
over the western horizon the litelike
form gradually changes, the whiteness
reappears. and the body is again i'll the
icy clasp of death and becomes cold and
clammy.
When the body was found. it was per-
fectlv nude. Thare was, however, a
tiny gold chain encircling the neck with
II little star attached. upon which were
The initials ''E. de v" These initials
gave the first clew to the identity of the
body. When it became known thai the
body was that of Eneide de Valliere.
few of the old settlers i'll that section re-
called the parents of the girl and how
they had worked and lived in that part
of the world on their little piece of land.
The Indians that inhabited eastern
Washington, Idaho and the neiChboring
country 40 years ago had not learned the
power of the government of Uncle Sam
or that the whites We're beginning to be
lieve Davy Crockett's statemcnt-that
the only good Indian was dead one.
They made frequent raids upon the few
white men who had the courage to in
wade that section either i'll search of
gold and other minerals or to till the soil,
One of the earliest settlers who dared
brave the dangers that threatened every
white man who venturcd into eastern
Washington was Jean dc Nallicre. an
L L ,T,,1
by his young wife and little girl. lie
Quilt himself II little log cabin and
turned farmer. Years passed away, and
the little girl grew to be Il magnificent
looking woman. She made pc~ce for
her father with the Indians, and soon
She and her parents We're on unusually
friendly relations with the red men.
The Beautiful Lily, as the girl WAS called
by the Indians, played and frolickcd
with the children of the old warriors.
and AS she budded into magnificent
womanbood she was courted by the
young mon in the different tribes.
Eneislc was scarcely years Of age
when she first manifested symptoms Of
/ weak mind. During the hours of the
lay she was blithesolne and gay, but at
inghifall she became listlcss aud inelail-
choly. She would stroll from her fil-
Their cabin and wander ai,nlessly about
the great forests, needing no one and
acting like II poor idiotic child.
One night she walked ont ON tho track
and disappeared. As she did not return
her father went in search of her. but she
was never found. Her mother had died
n the meantime. and the loss of his
laughter worried the old Frenclman 10
hat he finally broke down, and after
brief illness died. Tacoma Cor. Chicago
Times.