White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-23

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One night twenty -four years ago,
when Idaho was q frontier and ro-
nance still lived in the forests and
the hills, a six-months-old baby was
stolen from his crib beside his mothers
bed in a little log cabin in the noun
teins, 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 a 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
a party IN Oakland a strange ira
ditional story of a white baby that had
been ole 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, a 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
10 Idaho 10 seek wealth in the mines.
Years after. when the gin was fifteen,
he became seriously III.
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 neal
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
appeared among the Indians at Lap
wal in June. 1895, and asked the
Indians TO care for a baby boy. The
Indians refused and the white persons
went away. leaving the infant on a
pier.
A young Indian mother took the
baby for her own. When the Indians
went away on a hunting trip the child
was left with white persons and when
the Indians returned the baby again
was missing.
II developed that Wilson. a squnw
man, had a COW he didn't want. He
did want the white baby. The trade
was made, and as Howard Wilson the
boy grew up. He saw the squaw man
beat the aged Indian woman, who took
the beatings stolidly and said she
hoped the white boy wouldn't be like
that.
The sqnaw man died and Howard
Wilson was adopted into the Nez
Perez tribe. The adoption entitled the
tribe TO draw government rations for
him. When the old woman died the
boy received all her property and built
owe her grave a tombstone such as
never was seen before at the Indian
cemetery at Lapwai Ferry.
Mrs. Denley took up the case with
government agents at the reservation.
They traced the story of the lost white
boy and found II was her son. They
told the young man about 1t. He was
doubtful, for be didn't know what a
white mother would be like.
The night of July II. Mrs. Denley
met her boy. Soon he will be living
with her, for now he is convinced that
she is his mother and that 1t is better
for him to live as a white man than
as an Indian.