The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-07-23
AN Old PIONEER CAMPER
HERE SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Niosss LsEs, sam Living ~ the Age Of
tes Years was PioaseF Camper ON
shers Of ooasT a'Alsns Lake Before
Any other white Msn

A pioneer Of pioneers born while
George Washington Was iiving-a
man who IN middle life was an aDces
tor Of spanlding aud Marcus Whitman
/ "a hunter Who wandered around
+ lakes Pend d'orills aud Occur a.
Alsns sud peFhaps esmped by the falls
" the Spokane 40 years before jim
Glover tFamped through the brush 10
bay the land where 20 many Of this
eltys' biggest buildings stand think
u having such 8 record, and still
living IN these days of Theodore
Roosevelt. Alton Parker aud Eugene
Debs
Al the Union County pioneers re.
union, hsid ia la 6mnde, Ore, the
name Of Moses Lore of Catherine
Greek vas brought up more thsn once.
a. be l. nou the oldest living pionser
ia the county.
Moses Lore IL iO5 years Of age, and
vac born where Montreal nov stauds,
seven days before George Washington
died. says the Portland Telegram He
IL French Canadian. and the oldest
man Ia eastern Oregon. For a. years
be has lived few miles from La
40Fande, on HE ranch ia the shadow
Of the Blue mountains, and three
generations ~ his family have made
bis housu thier home. while the county
Of Union and the state 81 Oregon have
tssn psAsticaily bewn from the wilder.
ness during the Lac, halt Of his event
iui aud thrilling life
born 80 French Canadian parents
Ia Montreal. Ia December, 1888.
I.oIe ahsn boy came 20 Detroit.
then hearipusr,crs for tbs al powerful
iudiau tribes ia the ceutTal sest A.
~ be- came a. 81 Lunls. then the
} oathtius point Tor that wonderful
!. crusade ~ rpyagerH. indlan hghIrru,
trnppors aud baptcrk
lie Joined = private party d hunt~ra.
consisting al 80 mon bound for The
virgin tcav~r Fields Of the RoOtenai,
Hrltlsh CoiumhiA. aud reached tbeiT
goal Fnr 10 years be lived with the
c Indians around Pend d'Orllle aud
Cosur d'Aieuo lakes, only seeing the
faceH 81 white men on the occasional
visits Of HudSou Bay parties 10 tbelI
Indian campo.
firing Of the nomndic Indian lifs
aud bnngerinR for tho sight Of n Whit'
man, be left the indians aud cams
10 the Clearwater. where he worked
for spauiding. the associate OF Marcus
Whitman, Tor 9 year Tie reCaliu
spauIdiBg's Kin ily teachings aud re.
uarkably humane treatment OF th'
Indians. and once warned the mir
sionary Of q plot among The Indian
10 murder all the whites At the mis-
siou. lie came GA down the Snak,
and Columbia and stopped al th,
Whitman settlement. and littl'
later vent 60 the Willamette valley
:" Joined the French settlement II
Marion county. took part Ia the for
nation 81 the Oregon country, ans
stood by the government Of th
United States against the Hudson Ba,
company
He located claim Ia Frencl
D. prairie In 1889. he married n hslfbrec,
woman. from whom ho VAS separates
80 years ago. aud who lives In Unioi
county with great grauddaushte
81 today la the Blue mountains n,
z went to California In seroh OF gold
:, but returned 20 Oregon az years ago
- aud has since lived In eastern Oregon
,n He was the tirst Frenoman to settl
z on Catherine Creek, = settlement
Of French people.