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,vv ' FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1914
Li GRANDE EVENING .OBSERVER
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-Home Grown Strawberries"
2 for25c Other Varities 3 for 25c
Fresh Home Grown Tomatoes, 25c lb.
Grown in Union County
Oranges 25c and 45c
Lemons, Bananas, Grape Fruit
Turnips.
Asparagus.
Home Grown Rhubarb
New Peas.
New Potatoes.
New Cabbage.
Spinach.
Hot House Lettuce.
Radishes.
Green Onions.
String Beans.
Housekeepers who want to save time and
money will do well in selecting this grocery as
their regular place for marketing. "We have a
big list of housewives who do their buying here.
Make up your grocery needs in the morning.
Phone M. 75 and your cares of the household
supplies arc over for the day.
The City Grocery
and'; Bakery
The Home of Fancy Groceries
E. POLACK, Prop.
EARLY ii
LOCATION AND SURROUNDINGS
NOT ATTRACTIVE THEN.
Wilbur F. Brock Writes About Early
. Hot Lake History..
Wilbur F, Brock, well known in this
county, but who lives at Lents, sets
aright information about early his
tory in the region of Hot Lake.
Writing to the Oregonian, he says:
Your, contributor, John W. Ells
worth, in The Oregonian today states
known and generally recognized facts
in declaring that Medical Lake, near
Spokane Wash., and Medical Springs',
near Union, Or., were popular health
resorts for the present generations
of Indians, and their immediate an
cestors; also for the tribes of the
stone age that preceded our present
known redskins.
Mr. Ellsworth, in the same article,
asks for information as to ancient use
of the waters of Hot Lake, near La
Grande, from Indian sources. In re
ply to him I will state that I have
interviewed .more than ' 30 .Cayuse,
Umatilla, Walla Walla, Nez Perce
and Snake River Indians and all de
clare that, up to the time of the com
ing of the white men, Hot Lake, near
La Grande, was not used . by the
Indians. The ..Indians tell me thai
they know of the existence of these
hot springs fouj that these springs in
their wild state were not easy to ap
proach; that the locality was marshy
and not inviting for camping. ,
Medical Springs, a few miles to tha
east, were more easily appropriated;
the locality better-for game, fish and
pasturage, and therefor were chosen
as a rendevous by the Indians. Fur
thermore, Medical Springs was more
ra'iily fortified by those in possession
than Hot Lake, on account of the
character and contour of surrounding
country. And security plays an im
portant part with open-air livers in
choosing a camping place.
On this phase of the controversy it
piust be remembered that the upper
or. J of the Grand Ronde Vailcy,
where Hot Lake and Hot Springs are
located in tha open, was the common
battleground, often used, where mu.
in conflict the Snakes and Piutes in
i opposition to t!e Columbia Rivev
j (Cayuses, Umatillas, Walla Wallas
and Nez' Perces) Indians.
Because of its warm, loamy, damp
and sandy river meadows the Grande
Ronde Valley afforded the best camas
teds to be found in the West. From
the earliest times, according to their
ti editions, to the coming of the whitJ
men the Indians of all tribes within
a radius of 500 miles have made pil
grimages to the Grande Ronde valley
for the camas roots, which formed
their staff of life.
Because of their proximity the
tribes of the Wallowa (Nez Perces)
and of the Umatilla (Cayuses, Uma
tillas and Walla Wallas) claimed
suzerainty over the Grande Ronde
I Valley. ' Because of intermar-
with the Yakimns, Palouses and Spo
kanes, the latter were allowed occa
sional use of the camas fields and
pastures of the Grande Ronde.
When bands of Shoshones and
Piutes and co-relating tribes of the
Upper Snake River country came in
to the Grande Ronde Valley they
were driven off by the Indians who
generally were near by. It is related
that in about 1899 A. D. a battle be
gan in the Grande, Ronde and ended
near the head of Looking Glass, in
which more than 700 Umatilla and
Walla Walla Indians were mas
sacred by combined tribes from the
Upper Snake River country. Thii
was in relntion for a long succession
of defeats which small parties of
J j Snakes had suffered. , ,
or more than 30 years I have been
i:i touch with the Indian families who
visit the Grande Ronde valley. The
Brock Meadows, which for many
years I have owned, are used ever)
l ! year by several Indian families. On
1 1 these meadows for nearly 30 years
J 1 1 have met nearly every summer the
! chiefs of the Columbia River tribes,
I some of them old men whose memory
I I runs back very near the coming of
J ! Lewis and Clark, and these skookum
J . tyecs havo conversed with me freely
I upon the history and traditions of 'thu
I urana Konue country. If these
' statements show that I have been
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Now to summarize: Lot Lake and
Hot Lake. Springs were not used by
the Indians r medical purposes, be-
couse of (1) difficulty of access; (2)
unfavorable campgroun3 in the wild
state; (3) windiness of the spot,
caused by surrounding high hills; (4)
the exposed .position of Hot Lake to
incoming war parties of h'ostiles from
the Upper Snake River country. This
is no argument against the medical
value of the w;ater, which for many
ailments, is the most curative water
known on this coast. ' ,
y: ; -j . WILBUR F. BROCK. .
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Races, bucking horses and other events. Umatilla
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