The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
Red Men Sch Horses TO the
French Government at
Good Prices.

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s SPOKANE. Wash, May. 22-Axents
OF the French government are on ne
CoIvme reservation buying horses
from the Indians Many of the na-i
-tiyes are made prosperous by this
business. for It is cash mr. and no
barter and the prices are quite salts
factory, with range from $50 TO $ro5.
When the first white traders came
IN the CoIun5ia from Astoria in 1872
almost any tribe or banble would pur-l
chase an Indian cayuse. The expedr
ton en- route that sumner 10 est1a-
fish a trading post on the spokane
paused at point near the Dalies To-
buy i've horses from the natives
:.The value OF the goods we PAID
for each would nor exceed fSe Shil-9
,linxs IN England, wrote the chronic
Ter of that enterprise. As these
horses were intended for the Eest1e
fhey were doomed 10 instant o5str,:s-
ton. Our comparatively .rera2I sep
aratfon from the land of bread aud
Gutter caused the idea, of feeding on.
so useful and noble an animal 10 BE
at first highly repugnant to our .eel-
fnzs. but example. and above al Ee-
c0SS1tv, SOO0 SOuQUSEc0 l1SSO 43SS&S
6ualms of civilization, and in few
DAYS ~. almost brought ourselves 20
believe that the animal on wnic1 Sse
fed once carried horns. was divided IN;
the hoof and chewed the GUS
Eighty Horses Eaten,
TIorsehesh. in fast, was to become
the staple diet at the posts on the
Spokane and the okanogan. AMI Il is
recorded that eighty causes were
consum.d in .. single winter at Spo-
zane
At the confluence of the Columbia
and the Snake. present site OF Pascol
canned for three d-.ss While tuy1nS
horses for their journeys inland
Horse beef was also staple ar
.icIe OF diet at the. Whitman, Spokane
and Lanwai missions. Cattle were
yerv scarce. Neither love nor money
coIld procure one from the Hudson
Ray onnanp About half dozen
horses were killed for beef at DS
Whitman.s during the winter of 1885
20 and for several years Mr. Ellis WIS
accustomed to salt one down every
winter They were fattened on the
rich bI,nch grass. and with few ex-
ceptions were eaten with relish,
even nv the fastfdious.
AIR F,1ls once wrote: 81 had the lux
,rv Of eating piece of the first COW
fbat was driven into the country.
Indian Csyuse Native Of Mexico.
when the first white men came in-j
+o54l,e interior they found the ranges:
Vel stocked with horses.
.They procure Them from the herds
Of these animals which are found IN
= Wild state between the northern
ia+ifndes and the Gulf OF Mexico, and
Ehtch sometimes count 1000 or d,500l
in . troop,' wrote Gabriel Frauchere,
Ebo vas on the Spokane more than
100 years ago.
..We saw some which had besa
branded by Spaniards. Some Of our,
men. who had been at the South. told
me 7rbaf tl1ev had seen, among the In-l
dtsns hridfes. the bits of which were
silver The form of the saddles used
Nv the indian women proves that
fhev have taken their pattern from
fi1e Spanish ones destined for the
sssme nse.:.
Early day explorers found the In
dams adeptsin the. use OF the lasso and
the can,nrine of wild horses. For
5-;die fs,ey nsed a cord of horsehair,
= +Sch al sro,1nd the animals mouth.
WIZ maj he was easily checked, and
~, IL Iayinc hand on his neck. was
ma not not fafisuins the rider so much