The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-09

meter and can SLlll De seen at III
st. Ignatius Mission. There, too
may be seer a sledge hammer mad'
by Brother Specht out of tin cans.
The next enterprise undertaken b.
Father Ravalli was the erection of
sawmill. Four wagon tires were
welded together for the crank. A
fifth was first flattened out, and
hardened into a steel blade, by dint
of hammering, and then filed into a
saw.
White trappers came to the mis-
sion and corrupted the simple morals
of the Indians. The missionaries
were no longer obeyed. They there
upon closed the mission, and leased
the buildings to Major Owen. The
mission remained closed for 16 years.
In 1859 efforts of the missionaries
were again directed to the Flatheads.
Father G. Imoda was sent. Father
Giorda followed in 1860. Then Fa-
Their Ravalli returned. A number of
new missionaries came also.
Father Palladino describes the de-
parture of the Flatheads, crowded
out by the whites from their Bitter
Root home to the reservation provid-
ed by the government. The last to
leave was Chief Chariot and about
200 others, Oct. II, 1891. This
event concludes the narrative of st.
Mary's as an Indian mission.
The noted men of the F1atheads
are given a chapter by the writer.
The town of Arlee takes it's name
from a chief who was known in Eng
lish as Henry" and in Flathead as
"Arlee," this being their translation
of the name Henry" He was the
last war chief of the tribe. He was
also known as Red Night.
The betrayal of the Indians
through the Garfield treaty of 1872
is referred to-. The trial of Pierre
Paul, Lalassi Pascal and another, for
murder, is mentioned in detail, as is
an Indians complaint against his
wife, whom he had deserted.
Listen, Black Robe" he said,
"and then decide" He went on to
say that he had been married by Fa-
Their Menetry, that the Father had
given them a wedding feast, a head
of cabbage as big as their two heads
together, and had cooked it for them
himself, and set it before the bride.
"She took a little bite, one, two,
three times, and each time spit 1T
out grimacing," said the Indian. 81
looked at her and asked why she was
doing that; she made faces at me and
said Shut up. If l had not married
thee no woman in the camp would
had thee for a husband / got
angry, Black Robe, and stood up,
and without a word / left her and the
big cabbage and went straight to my
people and got me another wife to
prove to the first one that she had
Father Palladino was born at Dr.
lecto, Italy, about 80 miles from
on August Is, 1887. He re-
his education at the Petit Sem
inaire in Genoa and then to Stazzlus.
Early in life he decided to take holy
orders and at the age of 18 entered
The Society of Jesus as a novice. He
continued his studies for the priest
hood in German Tyrol and in France,
his course at Monaco. His
came in 1868, at Nice,
in the fall of that year was sem
o California to be professor of Latin
Nlcch dt Ot. l6udtiuo COllc5C III
San Francisco. From there he went
O a college at Santa Clara, where he
'emained until 1867, coming thence
0 Montana.
For four years he was in charge of
he st. Ignatius mission on the Flat
lead reservation and in 1871 was
transferred to Helena, continuing his
york there for Is years. In 1887
e was recalled to st. Ignatius and
.ssigned a larger territory, which
Included the Missoula valley. Thence
gain he went to Helena and after
tx years more in that parish he went
D Spokane as president of Gonzaga
University, going from there at the
lose of one year to Seattle and the
ext year returning to Missoula,
here he labored for eight years.
'hanges of pastorate took him to
1aho and North Yakima, Wash, but
l 1910 he was returned to Missoula
8 assistant pastor. He has contin-
ed to make that city his home since
is retirement
When his work during the terri
days is recalled, he is modest
the extreme. He considers he was
lie mouthpiece of his Master, doing
others as he would be done by, and
sclaims the credit so justly his of
aving helped and often taking the
In hewing for the present out
the wilds of the primitive. Com
enting upon his labors among the
dians, he said:
II knew all the chiefs with the ex-
ption of those at the head of the
athead tribe before 1 came to the
curtains, and of these I liked Chief
ctor best. He was a man of dis
lguished parts and a very estimable
IN. Then there was Chief Chariot.
'ople today always spell that wrong.
ley spell it Charles, which gives 1t
meaning, but it is Chariot,
name.
II started my writing on the oc-
sion of the fiftieth anniversary of
founding of st. Mary's mission.
asked by Bishop Brondell to
t together some items for the gol-
4 jubilee and / did so. After l
d finished he told me my work
uld not do. suggesting that I had