The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-24
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f&a required 4Tc7}cf 90 HSs&<AEfrf ECfx
far the whole group. 10 secure patents and
then SET bsfsSing priviexes- The legality
% such a p-ocsedsax IN tire subject Of much
discussion. but IL ss<sss 10 be the onsy way
Of establishing towns which nay become
trading cerrers for the miners xsD wiz
fOek into the reservation In Increasing
numbers IS sumrner advances and devss-
opsnent progresses. There q not Q post
os,sc< % a store CO the eested area. an the
dearest pesrofsee IN the United States -
Marcus. se.enty-nye miles from o'Brisn's.
whtch was also the nearest supply point
Ia the states The situation has been
slightly improved by the establishment OF
a score ard psstoffcs az Carson. on the
Brstlxh side, but IL Is a striking anomaly
thas American miners should have 70 go
into foreign territory for mail ard trading
facsisflss- The Miners are crying cut for
the creation Of mail routes and possoffices
fer Their conss1senee, and for the licensing
Of stores The iaw. however requires that
TIE indian agent shall require a. band for
sisss not 70 violate the liquor iass from
any stofekeep<r to whom he grants n H.
cense. and this has hitherto acted as an
sHectunl bar. though the rereat change Of
agents has doubtless had It's influence in
delaying action.
The Red Men Outnumbered.
The attempts to locate their farms AZ
placer ground has naturally had an irri-
tating effect on the Indians though they
are 30 greatly outnumbered. counting only
5e or 80 men. women and children, that
forciDie resistance 10 out Of the question,
even were there any deposition to resort
to II. Frank o'Brfen tried to roll a big
boulder. which had been placed as a mon
unent. on nis farm, but IL was too much
for even bis giant strength: others tore
up stakes and threw them on the ground,
but no more serious overt acts have been
committed. George Heron. who is 6
years old, was born on his farm. and Max
inc Dssotci. who is a French Canadian
married to an Indian woman. has spent
nearly all his life on his. but has no TILE
to II. while he denies the right of miners
TO take possession In the absence of any
showing of mineral. His father. Joseph
Disotei, who Is y years old, Is a pioneer
of the Pacific Northwest. having come
west as a trader FOR the Hudson's Bay
Company In 1876. After few years at
the posts on the Fraser and Thompson
rivers. he was transferred in ISL to the old
Cclviile post. near Marcus. the site Of
which Is now on the farm OF Donald Me-
Donald. In those days the country was
Alive with Indians, but many died of small
pox epidemic in Is4s The Coivilles were
always peaceabie, living on salmon. game
and roots but the Okanogans we're n war
like tribe until the whites gave them a
Okanogan openly boasted TO Mr.. Disotei
near Hope. b. c.. that he had killed six
white men on the previous night and rob-
bed them Of their whole outfit. Three or
four weeks later Jim Mclaughlin and a
party of 100 or i4o men on their way to
the Fraser river mines encountered about
30 okanogans. and killed the murderer
and many others. The tribe has never
forgotten this lesson and has never since
attempted to make war with the whites.
Mr.. Disotel visited Seattle in 1854 and well
remembers Henry l.. Yesier. Hinory But
Ter and other pioneers.
Though they are not over well pleased
at the white invasion OF their wide do
main. the Indians are not slow TO trim
their sails to catch the fayoring breeze
They have been selling farm produce and
salt meat to the miners at famine prices
Oats cost ~ cents pound and potatoes
can no longer be had at that price. o. B.
Nelson sells -four at 90 a sack and II has
to be packed long distances up the coun-
try from his place. Bacon at Midway
costs % cents a pound. but many miners
are going out as far as Marucs and 5po-
Kane for their supplies of this and other
articles. Many Indians are largely in
ereasing the area under cultivation with
view TO a brisk summer trade. The
country, however, abounds in deer, grouse,
pheasant. prairie chicken and fish, thus
saving the people from the mono,ony OF
salt meat besides furnishing them good
sport In the chase. J. NJ. Mohney took
his pick of a herd OF fifteen deer up Gran
tie creek the other day and yenison is a
common sight In the camps.
The Deer Newcomer.
In this connection an interesting point
may DO brought out. that the appearance
OF deer west OF the Rocky mountains in
the Northwest Is of comparatively recent
date. Old Indians remember the time
when there were no deer In this section,
and that then they suddenly appeared In
great bands This so closely coincidei
with the settlement of Montana by miners
and stoekmen. who hunted without stint,
and with the subsequent sudden disappear
anee OF the animal from its former haunts
in that state. that II gave ground for the
belief that the deer had not been killed
on. but had migrated in great herds fur
ther north and west shortly after the
period I'm question the Indians began the
work of slaughter in the Colville ami
okanogan county. as many as !. 30 having
been Killed In ono place on okanogan lake.
until now the timid animal is moving stu
further northward In search OF security
from the rife of relentless man.
There IL no lack Of entrances to the Col
Vile country from any point OF the COM
pass. and its character renders travelling
easy One party of prosaeetors from Seat
tie was met who had imagined that they
would have 10 encounter such tungles as
ciothe the western slopes of the Cascades.
and had therefore taken only such things
as were absolutely necessary and packed
them on their hacks. They found an open
hunchgrass country in which horses can
travel IN any direction without difficulty.
ard even in the river bottoms the bunch
offers no very serious obstacles. They
found every man with his saddle horse
and pack horse riding a, large with an
uninterrupted view over hill and dale and
carrying comforts which a Cascade noun.
tain prospector would not dream about
From the south the main entrance TO the
reservation IL by the Central Washington
railroad 10 Wilbur. and thence over the
san Po-el trail from which trails branch
OF along the several forks and tributary
creeks From the west the road from, We
natehec up the Columbia and okaungan
rivers can be taken 20 the Tonasket school,
house On the latter river, thence by wagon
road Up Bonararte creek. over a low d.
vide IN a bunch grass country to the head
OF tho Terota valley. down Granite creek
and past Eureka camp 10 Disotels ranch
AZ the south en1 Of cgrlew lake The total
distance by this roIre from Tonask Il
school 70 the lake is foTty-sive miles. and
fifteen niles OF light grading sna clearing
VIZ make u n wagon road throughout its
le1gth. From the east the spokane Falls
sna Northern Railroad VIII take you TO
MareaS. whence the old wagon road built
up Kettle river ny Marcus Oppeahsimer
thirty years ago Ieats 20 Grand Forks
where the two branches ~ thar river have
their confluence. a distance q for;y-fve
miles. 20 Carson. about Hfty miles, and 20
Midway. seventy miles From this road
one can 80 up Fourth - July. single and
Boundary creeks noFthwara 20 ;he hound
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