The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-04-07
FORT SIMCOE.


Mrs Nichols is visiting friends in Yak
ina this week.
Agent Lynch leaves tomorrow Tues
day for Spokane.
Pay day is over and Fort Smcoe has
returned from town.
March came in as a lamb; March
marched out as a sheep.
Mrs. Alice Catlin and Mrs. Hughes re-
turned from Yakima Monday.
Elmer Knghtlinger, the popular ladies
man, returned from Yakima Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilman returned from
Yakima Sunday, reporting a pleasant
trip.
Walter Charley has rendered his resig
nation as teamster. Fred Colfax is his
successor.
Johnny George is fast recovering from
the injury he sustained some time ago by
breaking his leg.
The Fort was we'll represented in Yak
ina last weekday day feeds the purse
going to town starves it.
Annie Thomas, the assistant laundress,
has resigned. Aurelia st. Martin, one
Of the school girls. has been given the po-
sition.
Ice cream and cake was served at the
pleasant home of Mr.. Embrees on Friday
evening in honor Of Messrs. Casson and
Devling. All report very ENJOYABLE
time.
The little folks will long remember the
"taffy pulling" of last Saturday evening,
credited to the thoughtfulness of Misses
Hail and Steinman, who ever have the
interest and pleasure of the little ones at
heart.
Messrs. Stein & Lewis, carpenters from
Dayton, Wash, arrived Saturday to be-
gin work on the general improvement OF
the agency row. The buildings will be
raised, new flooring and paper will grace
the interior, while the exterior will have
fresh coat of paint.
We were glad to welcome Mr. Casson
of Yakima at the Fort again, but were
sorry his visit bad to be so brief. He
was accompanied by an old.time friend,
Mr.. Devling WAS greatly impressed with
the beauty of our Fort, and especially
interested in some of the old historical
buildings, such as the block house, Gen.
Sherman's quarters, etc.
On last Sunday party from the Fort
attended the Indian pun pun service at
the Toppenish church. From a member
of the party we learn that the service
was thanksgiving service" commemo-
rating the return Of spring with its fruits,
flowers and roots, and has been observed
by these people for generations. The
Toppenish Indians have never been much
affected by the teachers or missionaries
of revealed religion. Even good old
Father Wilbur, with all his force of char
acter, failed to impress them. They be
lieve in immortality. This fact corrobo-
rates the assertion of Theodore Parker
when he says ut is the belief of man
kind that We shall all live forever" This
is not doctrine of Christianity alone
it belongs to the human race. You may
find people who live homeless in caverns
of the earth; people who know not the
the use of fire or even of clothes; but no
nation or people without the belief in
immortal life. These people do not seem
to recognize the God of revelation, but
the God of the universe they recognize
in all things around and above them.
They believe in that elder scripture
writ by the hand OF God" They believe
God
Warns in the sun and refreshes the breeze,
CLOVIS in the stars and blossoms in the trees.
They teach that the God who gave US
this beautiful world is not to be feared
that some day He will finally bring all to
one home or reservation. Who knows
but what these poor Toppenish Indians
are not partly, at least, right?