The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-08-02
TOO MUCH BUN BOOZE
MAKES ANOTHER GOOD INDIAN
Jim Sam.an-Nach Died Saturday
After Drinking Large Guam
titles of Beer.

The lifeless body of Jim Sam-an-
Mach, a middle-aged Indian, was
found last Saturday evening under
the willows along the ditch west of
the track, where Jim had been car
ried by his friends to sleep on the
effects of colossal jag. Foul play
was suspected, and the sheriff
deputies gathered in three of the
class of citizens the town could get
along just as well without, on the
suspicion that they were responsible
for the Indians death. These men
were o. w. Lackey, white, and Matt
Smith and H. ]. Brooks, colored.
An autopsy was conducted by Cor
oner Rosser and DR.. West, and an
inquest was held Monday forenoon
at the undertaking parlors of the
North Yakima Furniture company.
The jury returned verdict stating
that Jim Sam-an-Nach came to his
death from the excessive use of al
coholic drinks. The evidence intro
duced was insufficient to incriminate
the suspected men, and they we're
given their liberty.
The witnesses were w. f. VAL
lup, who found his fellow tribesman
drinking with number Of others in
a coalshed back of building ad-
joining Sandberg's saloon and took
him across to the willows, thinking
he would sober up, and be all right;
Sac-ta-Lah, or Wild Man, who was
drinking with the deceased, but who
was SO drunk himself that his testi-
mony didn't amount to much; John
Shafer, porter at Sanberg's saloon,
who sold the negroes the beer Sam
an-Nach is supposed to have con-
sumed; Willie Clemens, an Indian
boy who was with the dusky bac-
chanalian jewellers; DIR. Tetrau, who
brought Wild Man to life after he
was dead--drunk; DR.. West, who as
sisted in the autopsy, and Fred
Shaw, who brought the dead body to
the undertaking establishment and
prepared it for burial. Louie
Mann acted as interpreter.
From the testimony given it APP
pears that Sam-an-Nach took a rest
from his duties as farm hand for
Yallup, who owns ranch in the
Ahtanum valley, and came to town
Saturday morning purposely to get
drunk. He did: he had enough for
two or three Indians before noon, but
after hearty dinner he started in
again. The better class of saloon
keepers will not sell to an Indian
in their places of business, and the
procuring of liquor has to be done
through a third party. who collects
in advance, gets can filled and
brings it to some more or less seclud-
ed spot, where the sons of the desert
can quench their thirst. This pro-
vides means of support for class
of ioafers who lost their occupation
as bootleggers when the recent de-
cision giving the Indians the right
to buy liquor went into effect So it
was that Sam-an-Nach. Wild Man
and the others Of the party, were
able to keep the can-the witnesses
swore 1t held gallon--in motion
and full most Of the time. Willie
Clemens declared that the first time
the can came in, Jim Sam-a Mach
drank half of the contents without
stopping. He didn't know how
much he drank altogether, but said
he drank all he could.
Yallup finally got Jim on his
horse with the assistance of four
others, and although he had to put
him on several times, finally got him
to the willows, tnen came back to
town. When he returned later to
see II Jim was awake, he found him
dead.