Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-23

VI ILLS SeCllOu OI the big Benz
country, passed away Friday after
noon, January 18th, at 1880 at hi
home in this city, following an i'll
ness OF several months duration
during which time he bore his suf,'
lerlng patiently, Rad he have live(
until next March he would hav,
been 81 years old. Up until abou
five months ago Mr.. Lange was ap
parently in the best of health fol
one of his age. Strong and active
he received great deal of pleas
ure in walking about the city and
visiting with the old timers with
whom he exchanged pleasant rem
iniscences. He was an ardent
sportsman and spent many a hap
py day fishing at the lakes south
of town.
Mr.. LANCE was born March 81,
l849, at Lingkboring, Denmark,
the eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
lily who belonged to the nobility of
Denmark. The following sketch of
his life was wrote by Supt. H. P.
Backus, at the time Of Mr.. andMrs.
Lange's 50th wedding anniversary,
several weeks ago, and appeared
in the magazine section of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES:
LAS young man Hans Lange
said goodby to his native town of
Lingkboring. 1t was then, as many
do not know, he disregarded the
title of "lord" to which he was en-
titled as the eldest son of dis
tinguished family and started In to
become the good eAnerican he
wanted to be when he arrived in
the new world he had decided up
on for is home.
Mr.. LANCE arrived in Iowa in
1871. Shortly afterward he was
driving herd of 100 cattle across
the plains Of southern Iowa from
Clinton to Council Bluffs. On his
way westward. to California where
the gold lure called. He railroaded.
and hunted buffalo.
An expert rif1eman and hunter
as boy he placed fourth in COM
petition with 900 boy maTksmen.
After prospecting In California for
time he came in 1877 to Colfax
and purchased a ranch.
y Being unable to- settle down he,
was again attracted by stories OF
gold, and with small party cross
ed the Cascades in 1878 to the
Skagit country. On the way down
the Methw the party met a small
band of Indians going up into the
mountains after deer. A straggler
in the Indian groug sidled up to|
LANCE who happened to be the last
in the procession Of whites, and
admired a shiny new revolver Mr..
LANCE was carrying on his saddle
horn, suddenly grabbed the weap-
on and was off in flash up the
hill. LANCE rode ahead to his party
ATTAINED his riefle and was soo-
bearing down on the renegade.
Seeing his cayuse was no match
for the white mans hoarse, the In
dian shouted formercy, offering all
his possessions for his life. Mr..
LANCE told him to keep his dirty
blanket and miserable animal ana
to get out of his sight. -.
Others in the party expected to
see one or the other dead. 1t was
then that Mr.. LANCE waspa1d what
he regarded as one of his finest
compliments, CHOW we know that
Won are a real American"
Il was on his return to Colfax
that he met Miss Matilda Hoteling,
his wife. Miss Hoteling, the daugh-
ter of pioneer settlers OF W1scon-
sin. had been educated in mldwes-
tern normal schools and had taugh
In Iowa and Minnesota before COM
ing west on the first Great North
ern train In 1883.
On december 16, 1885, the cou-
ple were married at Colfax ana I'M
mediately started out for the spot
in the Grand Coulee which MT.
LANCE had observed on his trip 10
the Skagit. There where the mlghty
coulee walls swing around TO tne
northwest of Steamboat rock they
h,,ilt there first log hame.
Thev were the first married cou-
Mo tn settle in the coulee and 9TH
or than two bachelors they had no
na,ehhors for years. Mrs. LANCE,
VIII traces her lineage back to the
English Crawfords, was the nrs'
and for years the only white Woman
in that section.
It was in 1891 that the Indian
acare came. RanCOTlHS oNoA ny
c-easing numbers Of white settlers,
tho indians were restless. Army
Iatachments stationed first at Eos
Tar creek and later at the conflu-
ence of the Chelan with the Col
nmhia had kept them in check TOT
time but in the fall of 1890 tTou-
HE appeared imminent. The Langes
could hear the throb of the drums
AZ the war powwow went on apace
M te other bank of the Columbia
and they kept their horses harness
ad to the wagon day and night TOT
w. weeks ready to flee. Fortu-
nately. the return of Chief Moses
from washington, D. c., convlnc-
Cd the Indians their plan was rool-
hardy and quiet was gradually re-
stored. The boom settlement IN
1901 of Coulee City, 80 miles TO
he south, brought the isolated
FAMILY renewed confidence"
During the many years he spent
IN the ranch he engaged very ex-
tansively i'm raising and seiiine
IL, A. ono time his herd or h1gn