Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

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conducting the store-as I said I am
an old fur trader-and helped a little
on my books. He spent most of his
time about the hotel. being a Jolly
! likeable fellow and an entertaining
talker, telling Of early times in the
northwest. In 1877, sold out my store
and business and moved to the ranch
on Suys-wapS prairie on Thompson
! river where had purchased some time
( before from Donald Walker didn't
know much about land titles and one
night Provincial Constable John Ar
/ cher came to my store and said that
/ two men, Mcbride and Mcpherson,
we're in Kamloops intending to jump
my ranch and told me TO take his
horse and ride to the ranch. 80 miles
! away, by daylight. so as to forestall
them. It was a cold, snowy night about
April 90 1 got ON Archer's black horse
and reached the ranch at daylight,
and at once started fire When Nc
Lean and Mcpherson approached they
saw the smoke and abandoned the en-
terprise Constable Archer was after
wards killed by Mclean. In 1877,
Ranald Mcdonald stayed with me and
my family at the ranch. and then
he left for my brother Donald's at
old Fort Colville, where ne spent most
of his time UP to his death In 1894.
my son Alexander was born at VIC
toria, B. c.. in 1870; my daughter Mary
Christina at Kamloops In 1876. lived
on Thompson river until 1885, when
moved TO Cow Greek. Mont. Cousin
Ranald occasionally spent some months
with us, and devoted a great deal of
k4r71n IN tnn af1flrfrnFa tracriVfVznr tH1a
girls to dance the heel and toe polka,
and how to mount from the palm of
his hand into side saddles. He was
very tnsiStent upon their manners, and
was always quiet, good-natlred and
mannerly himself. He wrote out part
Of his japanese story at our home In
Kamloops In the eighties, and at one
time requested my financial assistance
in publishing the book, but this, COM
ing during the hard times of the early
nineties, could not aid him. In 1888,
when we were living at Cow Creek
Mont, he gave some Of his books,
records and pictures to my daughter
Katherine kitty, and said, Kitty
some day you win publish them"
Ranald McDonald's half brother,
BENJAMIN Mcdonald, has the following
to say of Ranald: "In the early nine
ties I received a letter from Donald
Mcdonald. son of the cousin of Ben
jamin Mcdonald, Angus Mcdonald, In
which letter he stated that my half
brother Ranald Mcdonald left a box
containing documents papers and
manuscripts with man living about |
IL miles from Spokane, Wash, but some |
time ago lost this letter and cannot !
now recollect the name of the man |
with whom the box Of papers, etc, was /
left by Ranald Mcdonald
Possibly by making inquiry of Dom
aid Mcdonald, whose address now Is /
Dixon, a station on the Northern Pa !
cific railroad in western Montana, you /
location of the party who has the box
IN question and which was supposed TO /
contain manuscripts Of Ranald Nc
OOnalds life, experiences. etc.
MT Donald Mcdonald wrote me
that he had made an effort to get
possession Of this box but was unable
10 do 50, the man claiming that he
had to show proper authority therefor
0efore he would let him have the prop
srty in question. and thereupon Donald
Mcdonald wrote the aforesaid letter to
ne IN regard thereto. I was at that
lime living in Denver, Colo.
MY father, Archibald Mcdonald,
vas born In Glencoe, Argyllshire. Scot
and, on the 18th day Of September,
100. and died at st. Andrews. province
Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada,
N the 18th day Of January, 1853.
Son of Princess Sunday
"On the 18th day of September, 1923,
Archibald Mcdonald was married TO
'rincess Sunday, a daughter Of Chief
at Astoria, Ore, and as
he fruits of this marriage there was
'orn one child, my half brother,
zanaId Mcdonald Princess Sunday
lied a few months after Ranald was
'orn. the time being given as the
salmon running time which Is usual
Y in the months OF May and June.
After tine death of his mother.
sanald was taken by an aunt OF his
10theT, Carcumcum, and Ranald and
IFS mothers sister were kept at
odge at the fort at Astoria by Archi-
aid Mcdonald until a year or two
ater when my father, Archibald Nc
)onald, went to Fort Garry nov Win
ipeg, In the province of Manitoba)
nd there married his second wife,
ane Klyne, on the first day Of Sep
ember. 1925, the Rev Mr.. Cochrane
ffieiating. He then returned to As
1ria, Vancouver and Oregon, where
q was one Of the chief traders Of the
Iudgon's Bay Co. more directly under
r. Mclaughlin
Elm the year 1858, my brother
anald Mcdonald, returning from his
reat Japan adventure visited the
ozne a4 st. Andrews ON hts way from
10 British Columbia, and