Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-20

vous as it was composed of murderers
and thieves and that crime of every |
nature was rampant. His men were
willing to take goods, however, at a
profit of 500 per cent over original
cost and he settled with them with
no difficulty AS to his future he
said:
Il shall proceed about $50 miles
west of this and establish a fort in
order to make sale Of the goods which
remain on my hands. have sent out
messengers to the Pawnacks, Sho-
shones Snakes, Nez Perces and Flat
heads to make robes and come and
trade them at this post. )"
He wrote cordial letters to Francis
Payette, Captain Bonneville. who was
then in the Bear river country and
whose acquaintance he had made the
previous year. and sent his kindly
regards to DIR. Mclaughlin. at Fort
Vancouver. Though in competition
with that great corporation, he APP
pears to have been on terms of friend
ly intimacy with all its officers. On
Juno 81 he broke camp again and
moved up the trail in the direction of
Bear river July A. found the cara
van encamped at the forks of the
Muddy, at a point where the town Of
/ Nugget now stands, and the following
entry in his journal indicates that they
celebrated the day, but doubtless, in
manner much TO the disgust of the
missionaries
81 gave the men too much alcohol
and took a pretty hearty spree my
self At the camp we found Mr.. Gerry
and Mr.. Walker, who We're returning
to st. Louis with the furs collected
by Mr., Bonneville's company, about
10 packs and men going down, to
whom there is due 100000"
The mountain value of a pack Of
beaver, about 80 pounds to the pack,
was $500 July the caravan camped
on the ground now occupied by the
city of Montpelier, on July at Soda
Springs, and on the 10th they over
took the Bonneville party on the up
per waters of the Blackfoot. Actual
ed by a feeling of selfishness, spirit
that amounts almost to n trait with
the American people, the doughty cap
tain was putting forth his utmost
, energy to escape his Yankee compeer,
and, doubtless would have succeeded
; had 1t not been for a social call that
, the nestor OF the fur trade, Mr.
, Thomas Mckay. saw fit to make his
encampment on the Blactfoot.
Trading Expedition Appears.
The captain, with about % men, was
I encamped for the purpose OF taking q
J supply Of buffalo, when a scout an
nounced that Wyeth was approaching
from the Bear river Their load OF
t meat being too heavy to admit of rapid
9 travel, the captain determined t
cache his baggage so he might be
o able to elude the unwelcome country
D men until he could have an oppor
tunity to either kill or drive all the
a buffalo out OF their favorite feeding
grounds on the upper Blackfoot, suct
u being his solictude for a fellow tray
3 eler in the wilderness. While thus en-
= gagged a pack train was seen films
over the divide from the direction o
the headwatcrs of the Portneuf. /
proved TO be a trading expedition o
the Hudson's Bay company under thu
h command of Thomas Mckay, who en-
y camped at no great distance. Now thu
II captain was on his way to the co
e. lumbia, a country under the DONNA
=. ton of that company so he imme
r. diately forgot the object of his vile
n ana cOnJuIeu IN MS Hllnu Stutlnc "
cultivate the friendship Of the
It swarthy brigade commander one of tn
most famous men of his day Here fol
II lowed the celebrated dobauch, on
beverage brewed from honey and al
It cohol as delineated by washington
10 Irving in his 'Bonneviiles Adven
l. lures"
d Before the feast was fairly opened
y Mr.. Wyeth, far in advance of hi
% company rode up and the captain me
= him in a friendly and courteous man
TX ner. He acquainted his unwelcom
s. guest with the news of the mountain
Sc and obtained from Mr.. Nyeth an &C
10 count of events in the east, afte
! which they parted. The following da
n the captain. in his search for the but
falo. was unable to reach his ow
Is camp and was compelled, therefore. I
err accept the hospitality Of Mr.. Wyetl
e The following day a fearful havo
I'd was wrought in the buffalo herds {
is the Blaekfoot, in which all hands {
ne both expeditions took part. Captai
to Bonneville then FASTENED on his joui
q ney, leaving Wyeth to gather up Whs