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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1922)
Thursday. 'huh ?A 1092 rK irrFlNTN'fl OBSTTtVER PA OF, TTrRFT1, OLD OREGDN THE OUTBURSTS OP EVETIF.TT TRUE b Hondo TBI'S TALE ISPiJ mm Wilson Price Hunt Expedi tion iind '"Great Migra tion" Told in Serial liy Walter ). M enchain. BY WALTER E. MEACHAM. i President of the Old Oregon Trail i Association. (Continued from Yesterday.) In their extremity, Mr. Hunt sur; : gested that the horse of Pierre Dor- ion be killed and eattn, but the own- i er doK(te,dly refused to part with his j ainmal. Continuing on, the party j came unexpectedly iipon a camp of: Shoshone Indians who fled in great j fright when the white men came in j sight. The party immediately caught j five horses and killed one for food, j They made a boat of the skin and sent meat over to the starving men j on the other side of the river. One 1 of the Canadians. Jean Baptiste Pro-1 vost, returned in the boat and because I of his hunger and enfeebled condition,! became excitei on beholding meat j roasting before the fire and upset th'.1 ; canoe and was drowned in the cold, ! swift current of the river. A station on the Homestead branch j of railroad down the river is named j after the unfortunate Canadian andj one also in honor of Ranlepie, another Canadian boatman who ferried meat! across the treacherous stream for the relief of the men on the other side. Proceeding alonor the river banks the party met with some Shoshone In-I This village must have been near dians and tne lure of an old tin kettle what w now call Celilo Falls as it secured another horse for food. ' spoken of as the fishing mart of Mr. Hunt now came to the Weiser;the I,uli"ns hfl'c " s'"' river where a band of Shoshonis were, "ere "P'''11 lls thy t0 'en camped. From them he traded for a , tnc TUP"13' couple of horses, a dog and some dried i This tribe was cnlcld the -Tlak-Luit cherries. After considerable bickering ; "ml are described as being very sly lie procured an Indian guide to lead ! mi thievish, them over the mountains to the Co-j lumbia. On December 23, to party1 all crossed the Snata, leaving it witn no regret, the Canadians calling )t the ''Accursed Mad iRiver." The route now led up the Burnt WHICH IS RIO.WT AIVD (VHICH IS I l- ITT of ffl r THAT'S f' DISHWASHERS ARE NOT BROKE (Rv Aspoolnti-d Press! SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 30. All hotfl and rfHtiiurunt iliHhwualiorH are not "down and out;" ncvtiriHiiK to George P. 'M. Howiib, San Knm- Cisco titshwanher, a leader in the union movement nnd one of the beat orutora In labor ranks In thin city. ' 'The average? ciiuuwnttlior lt well educated, " BowriB said recwntly. "A turtle number of them are .c-oIIpkh or university grutluuten. You will find In our runkfl mtv who litive Kruduated In law, mud if I no and oth er profeHsione. I am a dlnhwuHher by choice." Bowiib says lif Is a graduate of I'nlon colli'Be, Schenectady,. N. Y., and unHerU he attended the Na tional Catholic university in Wash ington, r, , f(,i some time. He wae mined Ui Troy, N. Y. At present Howns is vice-president of Cooks Helpers' Union Local No. 110, president of tho local Joint lAeeutlya board of the cullnnry crafts, tiimictal secretary-treasurer rOUGHS Aprxy over throat and chest swiilow small pieces of S iff the San Francisco t.ubel Section and member of the law iuiiI legis lative committee of the San Fian otnco labor council. During the last ftfleon 'mouths. Downs has helped Increase the mem bership of his union from 3X6 In 8!7. I'luclng men In positions Hliere they receive a minimum waKu of $21 per week. "CUup. I Catsup Is ii word derived from Hit I nume of an East Indian pickle. The i term was first applied to the boiled i spiced Juice from sailed mushrooms, j but is now freely used for various ! sauces which consist of the pul j twilled, strained and aeasuued of tomatoes, green walnuts, etc. USE SLOAN'S TO WARD OFF PAIN ITTLE aches grow into bin pains .unless warned on dv an applica tion of Sloan's. Khcumatitim, iicuraia, stiff joints, lame kick won't fight lobg uguiitvt Sloan's Liniment. For more than forty years Sloan's LiniinentXiias h 41 pod thousands, tho world overY You won't be an excep tion, it cerVinlytloes produce results. It peiictra without rubbing. Keep this old familX frlrnd always handy (or instant use Able your neighbor. At all drugijisJ-35c, 70c, $1.40. VAPORUB Oner 17 Million Jan Used Yearly Liniment MS Vcnenw !a few Dalles. miles up the river from Th; T PROOF - AGflipiT: route now led up Tiver rrom the present site 01 nuni ington to where Durkee now standi and on across the hills to the Pow der river valley at the present site of Baker, which was reached by the: ...,.,j ..., party on December 28. The party TIIB dall Ore., Mar. 30. continued on across the valley, pass--wheat tctally resistunt to mnut. in(? the . present site 01 names arm something North Powder. Mount Hunt, one of the highest peaks in the Bnisley-Elk-horn range was named after Mr. Hunt. It was in the vicinity of North Powder that the wife of Pierre Dor ion gave birth to her baby. The main party kept on while Dorion remained with his wife and children in the'r heretofore unknown to , plant pathologists, has been evolved as a result of expttiments con- i ducted at the government experi-1 ment station at Moro, by D. IK. , Stephens, superintelndant, and his : associates, Stephens has announced ' here. Smut long has been the bane of eastern Oregon nnd Washington rude camp and attended her in heriwlleat growo,.s ofttimes taking good sickness. percentages of the crop.i. To date On December 30, the party arrived Superintendent Stephens has sue-1 in the Grande Ronde valley and found j ceeded in producing four distinct' six lodges of Shoshones camped in j varieties of wheat that are complete-- the vicinity of the present town ofjly Immune from smut, he said, ad Union. On December 31st, Dorion and i ho has brought forth a number of! his family caught up with the main hybrid varieties of great promise, paity. It is fitting at this time tojby crossing his smut reslstlngwhc.it! pay a tribute to tne inaian wue oiiwim some or tne most productive ot Doi ion. who had shared the hardships of the dreary march with as great fortitude as the men, though she was far advanced in her pregnancy. She exhibited a force of character in many of the trying situations faced by the paity worthy of one in a much higher walk of life. The praises of Sacajawea. the In dian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey across the continent are heralded in song and story while the patient little Indian woman with the Hunt expedition is un named and unsung, while the priva tions she underwent were ten times greater than those of Sacajawea. The party spent Snew Year's day with the Indians feasting on horse and dog meat and celebrating the day in the best manner possible under the cir cumstances. The following day the party struck out to cross the Blue Mountains pass ing near the present location of La Grande. The journey across the mountains was very difficult and the varieties now known. PORTLAND II KNEW ROOSEVELT (It? AMKorlnlrd FrrNR) PORTLAND, Mar. 30. Admri ation of Theodore Koosevelt as a man end citizen prompted Dr. Hen ry Waldo Coe, a Portland physic ian, who knew Koosevelt as a cow boy in North Dakota, to donate to tho city of Portland, an equestrian statue of the former president. The statue is now 'being made by a Phimlster Proctor, noted sculptor. It Is expected to be finished some time this coming sumrher nnd Pres ident Warren G. Harding has been asked to officiate the unveiling, if tedious, the snow being waist deep: the statue is finished at the time nnd the weather very cold. The child of Pierre Dorion died on the trin across the mountain. On January 8 the-camp of Sciatogas on! Dr. Coe was at tv, F.u.O-tal-a. or Umatilla, was, met as nuniers reached, which -was near the present side of Pendleton. These Indians had brass kettles, axes, tea kettles and other imple ments showing that they had com munication with white traders. Here horses and dogs were bought for food. A blanket, a knife or a half pound of blue beads bought a ; they reached hnrse. Thes Indians did not eat:slsted upon horse flesh but feasted on elk and the pnhldent makes his proposed western trip. When Roosevelt llvfd lit Mndora. Mnnd.in, nnd they Dr. Coo hud some hunting dogs that Roosevelt liked very well, and Koosevelt used to visit the Manda;n region where the hunting was better than around Me dora. In later years Dr. Cue visit ed with Jtnoaevo'.t, tin his train, while the president was making a western trip, nnd relates tlsnt whn Medora. Koosevelt ln shaklng hands "with every person In the town. The. statue Is df heroic sine be ing 13 fi"et high above the base. An architect is tn ho enpaced lo de sign the base which will he about 10 feet high. A site for the statue centrally lo- deer meat, but they asked such a high price for it that the whita men were forced to content themselves with a bit of horse and dog meat The Umatilla abounded with beaver and the Indians were induced to trap has 'been chosen In a this animal as its slsin could be easil icatea parn. sold o the white traders. The party ! Dr. Coe plans to place somewhere pressed on and reached the Columbin'ln North Dakota the cast from w':ch on January 21, at a point between the the statue is made. Mnndnn, Mlnnt mouth of the Wallah-Wallah river, 'and Illsmarck have asked for It, Here fish and dogs were secured bnt the place has not yet been se from the Indians found there. Stray ted. bits ofo information from the Indians j gave the party hopes that McKenzio, Way t0 Hod the Cook and McClennan and party had pass-! Knlcker "How In the Heine of the ed down the river some time before. seven wonders ut lh world do you Pr eceding down the noer tne part j mannge to hang on so ii.ng to the Oirivelat the Indian villao? of Wish-: CQn on Janvflry 31st. Oi?0-n loc.Od ncr what i jow the ton of Spedis, Washington, same cook?" Hooker "She's a golf fiend, and my wife and she play every day to aee whose day off it Is." Houston Post. 00 p?W CURES COLDS KM! V ,N A1.AV' fci;rjj Rsl&J nmI, VaujiArad tot Wriat J-i Of.'l U'-Tjn H,. UdTl Lumilm4 mim E'.Vk Florence Mary Lynch Announces he Opening of a Studio For Voicikalid Violin Pupils. ' Resilience Studio 1806 First St. Phone 255W The Magic Carpet y: OU' could sit on the frtbMJ 'farpet of Bagdad and oiw tlii; world'. In the whisk of aSi wi-lash. it would carry you any place you wanted hi go. All you had to do was wish. ,. Advertising is a sort cf magic carpet. 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