The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-13
A 'TRA|L-BLAzzER'.
VETRAN FRoNTiERMEN WILL
CELEBRATE tooth ANNlvER-
SARY AT KETTLE FALLS
JUNE 90.
David Thompson Who Explored Paci
fie Slope Country For Hudson
Bay co. IN 1872 Win Be
Honored.

| SioA lioHelCi SiuCu anu carry JtStlci
in the Pacific slop country foregather
ed In the town Of Kettle Falls, Wash
on Friday, June %, to celebrate the
| Tooth anniversary of the discoveryo
| Kettle Falls on the Columbia river
rs miles north Of here, they will pay
tribute to the memory OF DaWs
Thompson, a trail-blazer for the Hud
son Bay Company, which established
it's first trading post ON what now Is
American territory in 1872.
The celebration will be under the
immediate direction OF the Kettle
Falls Pioneer association, headed b.
A. w. Smith. George Fl. Bevan, vice
President of the Stevens County Pho
1eer association, an been selected
to deliver the address of welcome
other speakers being Colonel ]. M
Fish, DR.. B. L. Stambaugh and Thorn
as Ledgerwool The latter clearly
recalls the period when there was
only enc settler along the Columbia
river between Fort Colville and Fort
Spokane, the latter now designated
as Miles in the Postal Guide. II
addition to the exercises there wdll be
the annual reunion of the early set
| tiers OF Stevens county and cen
tennial dinner. The town Of Ket
lie Falls, which viii be host, was
founded in the winter OF 1901, bul
was settled more than 40 years ago
There is an interesting Indian lie
gend of the Kettle Falls and the ori
gin OF its name, probably handed
Town from the Flatnead tribesmen
who referred to them as 1lth-coy-ope
on account of the numerous kettles
IN the rocks. The tradition is that a
pebble was rushed along the current
of the Columbia and found Judgement
in a crack of the rock, and, winfield
in it's new bed, it ground bitt of
the onyx. Other pebbles came down
the stream and bit into the same
stone and in the ages that passed the
large pot-lilse excavations were worn
In the rock. At the bottom of these
cavities today are pebbles grinding
deeper into the ledge, over which
swirl the waters of thousand lakes
and mountains streams on their way
to the Pacific ocean, more than COS
miles distant.
Thompson, who discovered the Ket.
tie Falls, was the first white man to
follow the Columbia river through
lake and ravine from the shadows
of the present. continental divide,
which the stream crosses twice. to
the long needless of uplifted ony
formation thrust out into the river
below the falls. Tracing his way
along the caparicious stream ne
found a tribe OF red men, of whom
he could give no better description TO
the factors Of the post on Athabasca
lake and at Hudson's bay than that
the natives wore long pieces of bone
suspended from their ears. He and
the French voyageurrs who followed
named the Indians as the tribe Of the
Pen dOreiles. Travelling farther
south into what is now the paniian-
die Of the state Of Idaho, Thompson
found another tribe of natives, max
ing of them the Occur d'Alenes.
Soon after Thompson's first visit 10
Kettle Falls and the opening of Fort
Colville, the Northwest Trading com
pany, promoted by John Jocob Astor,
established the Spokane House near
the FUNSTON of the Spokane and the
Little Spokane nivers. tAstor aban-
doned the post in 1916 and It's effects
we're taken over by the Hudson's
Bay Company. Five years after
ward the two posts were consolidated
short distance above Kettle Falls,
with Archibald Mcdonald as CHIEF
trader. 1t was named Fort Colville
In honor Of Lord Colville, then Lon
don governor Of the Hudson's Bay
Company. The posi- remained UNI
der British dominion until 1871, when
the corporation left the font to Angus
Mcdonald, father OF Donald Nc
Donald, the present owner Of the
site.
Among the interesting relics ct
the early days is brass cannon,
It was formerly stationed DIN block
house, which was recently destroyed
by fire. Part Of Its mouth Is missing
Some Fourth Of July enthusiast, cele-
brating the American centennial
overcharged the crude piece, which
was plucked from the plains Of Abra
ham to do duty against the aborig
ines of the Pacific slope, and blew of
the muzzle that was trained al
Wolfe's men as they climbed the
hill at Quebec, lit years before
This piece of brass knew Mont