The Newtown bee., 1904-05-13

AY 13, 1oo4.-TEN PAG1 tt ties of the manufactured product for Redlands, Los Angeles, Riverside and othe places along the coast. The San Jacinto River runs through the town, when it does run. At this time the river bed, in some places 100 rods " lde, was nothing but dry sand, the water supposed to be running underneath, to crop out again at some point further on.
 The Indian valley of Saboba is on the opposite side of the river bed from San Jacinto, and we turned and drove through that. It is on 8 sandy plain lying next to the foot hills and may be, contains 75 families. It is not a government reservation in the sense that they have been evicted from their. own hunting grounds and forced to come here, but the remnant of tribe that were liv- under Spanish rule, not ferooious as the Rocky mountain tribes, but living peaceably in. their nomadic fife with the San Jactnto mountains and valley for their home. At the time of the earthquake four years ago, many of them were living in adobe houses, and all but two Of them were shaken to pieces, and several Indians were killed. The ruins of many of the houses still lie as they fell. Now, they all live in small wooden houses and cultivate small patches of land. We passed one field where we saw corn and potatoes growing about foot high. The prick ly pear abOunds, one species growing spreading branches, and large prickly leaves from the end of which come large pink blossoms, and later, a luscious fruit in much favor with the Indians. They have yearly appropriation from our government and an Indian agent who lives in san Jacinto looks after them. Driving along through the vil- lage, discovered flying from staff the Stars and Stripes. "Oh!" I ex. claimed, "there is the schoolhouse." Sure enough, nestled among cotton woods, was the schoolbouse, and I asked the driver to stop. The teacher, a white man, met me at the door. It was near the closing hour, but I sat tion. There were 16 Indian children, eight girls and eight boys, the genuine article, skin pure copper color, with straight coal black hair and coal black eyes. They were up for 2 recitation in geography. I told them my home is in Connecticut. The teacher had them find the state on the map, and they found 1t way Of, as they said, on the Atlantic ocean. As the school closed the teacher sent out a bright little fellow to take in the Flag (yOu see write it with big Fl, and left them glad in the thought that they will at least be taught the rudiments of education. The teachers house is under the supervision of the United States governments; a pleasant episode in 2 wonderfully interesting trip. Night drawing on reminded us that we must find camping place, and that must be where hay and water could be had for our eight horses. At the first we made we could get neither hay OF water. The second stop there was water, but hot sulphur water the horses would not drink. The third stop we found woman, hay, and wat CT, but the man was not at home and she was 10th to part with hay. Our driver finally persuaded her to sell hay for one feed, and as it was threaten Id1A 4uN O 044SO O1 OLA &AA4CO oOAOA O we could reach another ranch, the big barn looked very tempting t0.us all, but she did not want to let us sleep in
 the barn for she was afraid of fire.
 Finally she came out to the wagon and said we were respectable looking crowd and we might have the barn if
 we would not set it afire. There were i've ladies and four men in the party and I assured her we would not smoke. It was a, question whether we would drive on six miles on uncertainties, or
 turn in there. The vote was 9nani. nous to turn in. Under the lea of the foothills we cooked and ate our supper, sitting on the ground. It was thick cloudy overhead, o'clock in the evening, but our one lantern and the fire gave us ample light. Before we were through the hogs had come in from the range and gathered about us, 27 strong, and we decided to call our camp for the night hog "holler". The barn was a long rangy building with
 better roof than sides. The mulch on the ground made good foundation for our .bunks, six in number, and B
 horses tied to racks made good com. pany. We were soon all asleep, and 1n the morning with one voice agreed we
 had had good nights sleep and that lU WdS dl4 JO0u AA~s OA e trip in the California mountains the ! 'stnnicky" ones are better of at home The morning of the last day out had
 come. Clouds hung heavy and threat. ening, we cooked and ate our last breakfast for the trip, packed Oul camping outfit for the last time, ant about 10 o'clock started on our home
 stretch of 25- miles after thanking oul
 hostess for our good hotel accommO
 dations, the thought of which will nc
 doubt be among the blessed memories of the future. We had planned to switch off and go around
 through Beaumont, and over 8 new
 stretch of scenery but one of our team
 horses was lamed coming down th'
 mountain, and we cared moro for tn.
 comfort of the horse than any addi
 tional pleasure we might get, ant
 shortened the distance for sake of the
 horse. The balance of our drive wa
 over country we have described before
 reaching our temporary home in good season and in the best of spirits. II our driver, John BlOdgett, we found ,
 typical mountaineer who is a walking encyclopedia so far as knowledge o1
 this western country is concerned, an(
 having man of such general informa ation to consult, made my position Ol the seat with the driver all the nor desirable. No time was wasted in get