Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1920-04-09
GOES TO HIS REAL MOTHER


little more than year old and
not knowing of his parentage
until a few months ago, Howard
Wilson, will now join his mother,
Mrs. A. E. Danley, near San
Francisco. He was adopted by
the tribe and was given an allot-
ment of 12O acres near Sites.
Since attaining manhood he has
engaged in the sheep business
and has small herd near.
kooskia.
Wilson was away to war when
his mother, who was a nurse in a
military hospital at San Francis
CO, learned from an Idaho boy
from Orofino, that a white child
had been raised in the upper
Middle Fork country by Mrs.
William Wilson, an Indian wo-
man. The soldier knew that
the white child knew nothing of
his parentage and as his age cor
responded with that of Mrs.
Danley's missing child, she be.
gan an investigation through
the Indian department and the
Indian agent at Lapwai, with the
result that she has established
beyond all doubt the identity of
the white boy as her missing
child.
1t was more than "a years ago
when Charles Wilson, then a
babe in the cradle, was stolen
from his mothers home at Mt.
Idaho. The Elk City mining
excitement was on and his faith
er was away to the mines. Mail
service was slow and uncertain
and the entire country was filled
with strangers moving to and
from the mining districts. All
efforts to gain a clue of the mis-
sing babe We're fruitless and the
mother finally removed from the
scene of her grief and establish
ed her home in California.
Mrs. Danley never forgot her
missing boy and when the Unit
ed States entered the war she
volunteered her services as a
hospital nurse and was assigned
to duty in San Francisco near
her home. 1t was while render
ing this service to the sons of
other mothers, that she nursed
the soldier who gave her the
first clue of her missing son.
AS soon as Mrs. Danley had
1 positively established the iden-
tity of her son, she came to Ida
no TO await his return from the
army and now the son will visit
! his mother at her California
home.
! Mrs. Williams, the Indian
woman who reared the child,
knew there was something
II wrong in the transaction by
II which the child came into her
i possession, but never suspected
u the truth. She told Mrs. Dan
H ley that the child had been plac'
II ed in her care by white mar
II and was able to give the name OF
II the man who had the child
!; This later information cleared
) up the matter for Mrs. Danley
: as the man named was wei
} known to her at Mt. Idaho, ant
when trouble between the fam
lilies arose, he had made threat
that he would make her suffer
severely, but at the time thu
child was kidnapped the man
who had made the threat hat
! been away from Mt. Idaho fol
some time and was not suspect
! ed. He told the Indian woman
that the child was his but tina
his wife was dead and that III
had no place where the chill
could be cared for. The mai
then disappeared and after du
time the child was adopted b,
Mrs. Wilson, according to lndial
custom.
Howard Wilson said last even
ing that his foster Indian moth
er and her husband had Away
been kind to him. The Wilso
home is up the Middle For
about IL miles from Kooksia an
) comparatively few of the res
dents of the upper Clearwate
knew that this Indian woma
was raising a white child. Whe
the Indian allotments were mad
the adopted child came in for HI
allotment and is now the owne
of a very desirable 120 acre
above Stites.-Lewiston Irlbur