Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15

The city of Poeatello is one Of the
widest awake communities in the
state. II lies az the cross roads of
the Oregon Short Line, whose N-like
arms and legs reach 70 salt Lake,
Butte, Portland ana All points east.
AT first the town was located in the
middle of the Fort Hall reservation
about 1882 when the Utah Northern
stretched its narrow self from Ogden
TO Anaconda 1t has become sradu-
ally segregated from Indian lands the
government having had the eastern
and the southern portions thrown open
10 settlers The natives on these
rich grounds we're the Bannocks and
the Shoshones. a lnixture Of the rag
ged remnants of creator tribes which
lived separate when stronger; poverty
politics and people sometimes make
queer bed fellows
There arc yet almost fifteen hun
drtti of the MIXED families on what
vas formerly their larger holding
their aboriginal inheritance. The re
mainder of the lands has been lost
10 The ever encroaching white man.
The name Pocatello is said 20 sig
infy "httle female Kitten bat | am
sure | do not know. but il WAS the
Iainc Of a powerful and bloody chief
cr tho 3annocks many years ago,
There are vet living few Of the
raiefares who were there in that long
ago. some ~ whom became sduaW
men by marrying among the redskins.
one Of these living net, only little
While since was "Doc" He had a
small shack on the Indian land where.
he now raises horses where formerly
he raised dndtan1 hair, and eked out
half ration existence, The writer
once went 10 visit him in his barbarian
palace and had a long friendly and
reminiscent chat with him He was
man of more than the average in
tt1ligence his habits of thought and
of living scarcely compared well with
each other for he was q man who
loved tire library. although illiterate.
as well as The tepee He cared for
the vigorous thought Of the scholar
and also for The lazy siesta Of the
non hunting time az the people with
whom he had mixed his Anglo Saxon
blood.
said u him: "Who Mas Pocatello,
Doc. and what became Of him..
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desert suns tanned by its wintry
winds, insraincd with it's dusty sands,
half reclining ON a bunch q piled
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