The new North-west., 1896-04-17

| that point having shown themselves
| generous and friendly toward the
| whites at every opportunity, and on this
! occasion turned out en- masse to well
come their old acquaintances of the
! Hunt party with eNtravagant demons
stra tions OF JOY.
1t is curious to note. in these early
invasions Of thn country, how the eter-
nal politician was always in evidence
causing the weak and defensive tribes
to ally themselves promptly to the
white ntruders, who We're sufferers, like
themselves, al the hands Of the strong
and aggressive bands. and the smart
ing red men drew sweet consolation
from the predictions of their white fell
low sufferers Of d time when the hand
Of the white man should be strong
enough in the land to crush all enemies
and reward all lbenefactors. -....~.
TO the credit Of the Wallah- Wa hs
be ii said; hoNever that their friendly
motives We're never mpugned. They
showed Il hospitality Which was truly
white ana tilted out the party which
Was to traverse the continent With Mr.
Robert Stuart with the very best
horses from their numerous bands, ana
this part Of the expedition set off III
nigh spirits on July 81 to retrace the
route Of the Hunt party along the aria
and mountainous course of Snake river.
Who that is familiar With travel in
that alkaline region. even in these DAYS
Of rapid transit and railroad comforts,
but can sympathze with this little car
aNan as for a long summer day they
continued onward without haltins; q
burning sky above their heads, a
n,
lust wind enough to raise the light sand
from the knobs and envelop them in
Sitting Clouds .5.~.. .-..s .-5.
Not to follow this party farther, suf-
fee it to say that they reached their
destination after many months of In
credible adventure, hardship and suf-
fering at the hands Of predatory lntli-
ans. 1t may be of interest, however, to
add that when they again reached the
haunts of civilization they learned that
war with England had existed for an
entire year, ana also that they tasted
bread for the first time in almost the
same period. [---4~
oKANOCiAN AND SPOKANE POSTS.
The remainder Of the marty at the
mouth Of the Wallah- Wuilah divided
into three detachments, one OF which
was to recover the goods cached at the
Caldron Linn on Snake river, anoth
to visit the Okanogan post, and a third
to undertake the establishment Of other
new trading points. The party for
Okanogan. under Mr.. David Stuart, one
of the partners. reached that post in
safety, stocked it with goods and ann
nunition, and proceeded about 800
miles farther up the Columbia where
they stocked ana garrisoned another
trading post. "
The party under MI Cldrke--another
partner--procceded up Snake river to
the country of the Nez Perces, to whom,
by the way, he gave a sorry name for
their treatment OF his party; left there
his boats and proceeded overland TO
"the place on which he fixed for a trad
ing post; a fine point Of land at the
juncture Of the Pointed Heart Occur
dAlene) and Spokane rivers. His es-
tablishnent was intended to compete
with a trading post of the Northwest
Company. situated at no great distance; ;
and to rival it in the trade With the
Spokane Indians; as we'll as with the
I<oOtenais and F'latheads.''
(The post of the Northwest Company
mentioned was some ten miles above
the site of the present city)
The party under Mr.. Mckenzie pur-
sued their way for some distance up the
Snake river-wlich stream appears to
have been known indiscriminately as
Lewis river, Lewis fork, Snake Ca
moenum, or Shaha pla n--and establish
ed upon it's banks a post-afterwards
known as Fort McI<enzie--at the most
advantageous point for catching the
the Columbia river and the Rocky
mountains. From this point a portion
of the party under Mr.. John Reed went
on to the cache on the upper Snake,
only to find that six of the nine places
Of deposit had been revealed to the
Snake Indians by the Canadians who
had dropped out of Mr.. Hunts party
through sickness ana destitution, and
that the goods had been freely appro-
priated by the Indians and their guests.
This was a sad blow to the whole Astor
enterprise, and along with it came the
story of the wholesale robbery by In
dams of both posts established by Mr..
Hunt, who by this means had lost all
the peltries collected in the interval, all
tho horses and equipments left them
and pretty much everything else but
their lives Later on, disaster hefell the
post where John Reed and a consider
able party were trapping during the
winter, and the whole garrison, includ-
ing Reed, the three stalwart hunters,
Robinson Hoback and Risner, and the
airy mongrel Pierre Doriore, were cx-
terminated by savage massacre. Only
the poor squaw of the latter escaped,
with her two pappooses and two horses,
To SDend a solitary winter among the