The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-11-20

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] One night twenty-four years ago
when Idaho was q frontier and 70
nance still lived In the forests anc
the hills, q slx-months-old baby was
stolen from his crib beside his mothers
bed In a little log cabin in the noun.
rhins, the San Francisco Chronicle
states
A few weeks ago Mrs. ErIck E.
Denley OF the Oakland apartments,
Oakland, Cal, found her boy at Lap
wal Ferry, Idaho. He was living on
an Indian reservation as Howard VIII
son, adopted son Of squaw man and
an old Indian woman, both now dead,
and lawful member Of the tribe of Nez
Perez.
A soldier from Idaho came to the
Preside last January and related at
party In Oakland a strange ira
ditlonal story of a white baby that had
been stolen from a cabin near a mill
tary reservation one June night In
1895. Mrs. Denley heard Of the story
and at the end OF the trail to which
II led she found her son. Her husband
died eleven years ago after thirteen
years vain search for their son.
viii Sell His Indian Lands.
AS soon as Howard Wilson can sell
the lands and the cattle left to him
by the old Indian woman who
mothered him for years he Will go to
his mothers home In Oakland and be-
come Robert Denley, man OF the
cities.
Mrs. Denley was born In Vermont
and her mother died when the daugh-
ter was one year old. Her father went
to Idaho to seek wealth In the mines.
Years after, when the girl was fifteen,
he became seriously Ill.
The daughter and the son Of the
fathers partner were called to the |
bedside and there they were married |
A year or so later Robert Denley |
was born.
That day In June, 1895. the young |
husband was forced to go to a near |
by settlement for supplies. His wife
laughed at his fears for her safety.
But while the mother slept, the baby
was stolen from his crib that night.
Indians Confirm Story.
Howard Wilson, who will be Robert !
Denley, has heard from the Nez Perez
Indians the story OF his life.
A white man and two white women
among the Indians at Lap
val In June, 1895, and asked the
Indians to care for baby boy The
Indians refused and the white persons
vent away, leaving the infant on
bier
A young Indian mother took the
ably for her own. When the Indians
vent away on. hunting trip the child
vas left with white persons and when
he Indians returned the baby again
vas missing.
1t developed that Wilson, a sQunw
nan. had COW he didn't want He
Id want the white baby. The trade
'as made, and as Howard Wilson the
oy grew up. He saw the squaw man
eat the aged Indian woman, who took
he beatings stolldly and said she
oped the white boy wouldn't be like
hat.
The squaw man died and Howard
wilson was adopted into the Nez
cree tribe. The adoption entitled the
-!be to draw government rations for
i'm. When the old woman died the
~ received all her property and built
yer her grave tombstone such as
ever was seen before at the Indian
smetery at Lapwai Ferry.
Mrs. Denley took up the case with
oyernment agents at the reservation.
hey traced the story Of the lost white
~ and found 1t was her son. They
I'D the young man about 1t. He was
for he didn't know what
hite mother would be like.
The night of July 10, Mrs. Denley
ct her boy. Soon he will be living
It'll her, for now he is convinced that
lie is his mother and that 1t is better
r him to live as white man than
! an Indian.