The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, March 17, 1905, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Textft SCOVEL UNEARTHS MANY SKELETONS Much Interest Aroused at and in 4L-U-,tn Vicinity of Chat rT ' ... COlet. MAY HAVE BEEN BURIED MORE THAN A CENTURY r Aged Priest Gives Explanation - That Probably Solves the ' ;) r ' (Special DIsDatrb to The Joarntl.) v i Chateolet, Idaho. March 17. Much In ' terest baa been aroused here and aur rounding places bjr the recent finding of, many, human skeletons, on rocky point sear her.-" The Oregon Railroad 4c : Navigation company's -steam ahovel v working at that place la reaponalbla for th discovery, having- turned them up while loading dirt and rock 'for filling bridges. 81 nee -then much speculation 1 baa been' Indulged In,, and many theories .advanced to account for their presence I la that Isolated locality, situated in-a forest and remote from all permanent habitations. 8om theorist belley that a battle muat . hare beea fought 'titer many 1 years ago by a number of Indian tribes ' and traders of the Hudson Bar com pany. Others shook their heads doubt '. lngly and asserted that all ths bones ' wer surely those of Indians and at- - trtbuted their death to natural causes. ('. Zaf onaatloa Soagbt. - : Th Journal correspondent wrote to : Rev. Father Joseph Carwana. . who has ' beea in charge of th Roman Catholic ' mlasioa si DeSmet, Idaho for more than, 4 years, requesting any Information be - might ' possess through tradition or stherwis on those mrsterloua links to a bygone age. Ths correspondent also bad a personal interylew with Clarence h Butler, a young man who was born near the Ceur d'Alene Indian reservation, - said who ha spent a number of years - among them ia a position under the ; Ignited States government, and speaks their dialect fluently. . Th answers of i these man' are the . most . reliable In- formation possible to obtain, and should settle wbo Ums people were, and the approximate Urn at which they laved . and died. '. - Father Carwana's' letter, riven ver- batlm. follows: . - To your Inquiry abont th skulls and human bones found on th O. R. AN. . right of way west of Chatcolet, I deny ' th theory that they belong to white ; people. The theory is, evidently false from th very fact that no whits had ever been seen In this locality before the Hudson- Bay company mad Its ap pearance among th Indiana of ths northwest soma 10 r 7t years ago. Even then th company did not succeed In staying permanently with the Coeur d'Alene, as it did with the Colvlile, Ka . llspell and ' Flathead Indians. . Those , bones, therefore, could not belong to whites, but wer evidently, those of ' . Indians. - . ' . Th Coeur d'AIen Indians In large numbers, used to live ,ln camps around Coeur d'AIen lake. Th two largest of these cam pa war situated, respectively. sit Nehlmkilgosv now Coeur d'Alene city. SOME EARLY SIGNS OF SPRINGTIME - A .' '. : . -TVTirV : 1 1 ' -; Arc; - V S rV - ' ' . 1 h-Mj . Jpp- uli ' i - r. . . . : . . ' -, . . . . - 1 '"- ). I w - m ' an m . t..-- , . & - . 1 M . ...r, Xbet, Foor"Confection,' ia Milliiwrr Arrived on tlw l$t Steamer From Pari, , . , TbeM FoConfcctiontw in Millinery ArriTed on the Lest at, a . - - r . and on the St' Jo river not far from Harrison, 1 ' ' ... "Boms 41 years ago, when quite young, on my first coming her. I met th hesd Coeur d'Alene chief, Joseph Stellaam.. who waa very, very bid,- and blind - from advanced age. He muat have been at that tuna at least tt or IS years of age. Then and in subsequent years I learned many of their .old tradi tions. Among many things relating to his tribe. I was told by old Chief Stel laam that he heard from his father of a terrible plague , (probably smallpox. aa iiear as 1 could maks out), which dec imated the whole tribe, and they need to bury th victims of that, plagu far away from their camp, which was situ ated on the stream which Is now. known! as ths Bt. Joe river. , )"H Is not morally certain that thli la. the solution of that mysterious find Ing of human skulls and bones near Chatcolet. That tradition goes back to ISO or 200 years." '. . Aged Ksdiclme Ksa Talk.' , Clarence Butler, the young man before mentioned, said In reply to questions: . "In I went to, Chatcolet In com pany with a Dr, Smith, who was at that time Dbyalclan for the Indiana at DeSmet mission. Dr. Smith was an antl quartan, and had a fad for collecting all sorts of Indian curios. We msde the trip to Chatcolet in the nope or rinaing something interesting to add to nis ai ready large collection. - In strolling over the rocky point west of the depot we found a number of human Done ana skulls which bad evidently withstood the ravases of time for a great many years. rTher were then a. number of Coeur d'AIen Indlens . encamped-. Dear the mouth of the St Jo river, among w'aom were two men of very great age. Th elder of the two who wer known among their tribe as medicine men, was caiieo Bosso, and could not have been less than S and nerbaps 100 years of age. Tb younger was known ss Old Paul, ' and was certainly not leas than 90. - "On betne- shown the skulls ana oemg asked If they knew anything snout mem, tney replied In their jargon, that when they wer children they bad been told by their parents that many of their peo ple had died and wer taken from camp ana were ourieu nwr . probably tb St Jo river. - i SeUos 180 Tsars Old. . Neither ' of tb old men bed any' rec ollection of any of their trib having been burled there during their Ufa time. and I inferred from their taut mat tn relics then In ray possession must nave been at least 1(0 years old, and perhaps even a rreates- ag than that . .. t - -"The Coeur d'Alene Indians never fol lowed the custom of' sotn other tribes in placing tbelr dead in the forks or trees, but always deposited them In th ground. Before th sdvent or th uua son Bay company-tney poasosseo no nicks, shovels or other Instruments for excavating ths earth, consequently tncy selected a rocky place for burial, loose rocks were- removed with their hands until a hollow place -was mad large enough to contain a -body. The corpse was then placed therein and a heap of rocks piled on top. That compieteo. ins so-oslled burlsL"' ) These statements, which are given very evidence of fact, seem to prove thst th bones which are now viewed with so much curiosity and Interest had laid undisturbed for at least a, century and a half before being brought to light by the Implements of modern civilisa tion. They wer laid in. -their rocky beds long before th war of th revolu tion and perhaps even before Braddock and Washington marched to defeat and slsughter nesr old Fort Duquesne. t larca number of thesa relics have been -taken to all parts of the United Ststes by tourists and travelers. ' Some have beea sent t esstern museums and many more are In th possession of Idsh and Washington curio seekers. , THE ; QT2GON' DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY 7" FOUNTAIN A UUGE MAGNIFYING GLASS Remarkable Natural Wonder Dis covered In Spokane County, , ., Washington. . OBJECTS ON ITS SLOPES- ARE STRANGELY ENLARGED Persons Climbing Appear Several ; . ..Times Natural Size to Die-' , tant Observers. (pseial Dispatch t Tb learaaL) Cheney. Wash.. March 17. Ths Pa cific northwest abounds in many natural wonders, and some of the mountains must be Included. Situated In Spokane county, Washington, Is a somewhat rugged mountain which possesses a very peculiar feature that of greatly magnt fylng objects along Its side i summits. -'This elevation Ms ' known as Moran mountain, ana - in aau tuds "is about 1,040 feet abov tti level of tb valley - and - probably about 4,000 feet above tide water. Moran manntain Is not Isolated.' but is connectea. witn anotner snost aeiacnea chain..-' : ... Th western and sonthern sides of tb mountain are comparatively tlmberleaa. Only a. 'spars growth of stunted pines end occasional small clumps of bushes cloth those sides .of the - elevation. Around th sonthern and western bas of Moran mountain extend, high rolling plains, sort of elevated' plateau. - That Ibis mountain has tne remarka ble power of magnifying objects aeen along th tlmberleaa sides, is beyond question. This very peculiar feature has been on of th natural wonders of this' region. - Cattle, horses and sheep seen at a distance of several miles ap pear as If only a few yards away. Con sidering ths distance th effect Is gro- tesque, . startling. Cowboys.' when seen galloping along the i mountain side. rounding us th drove -are greatly mag nified, and appear unnaturally large. An other peculiarity of this mountain Is that t be. rocks. Umber and decllvltl along Its sides ar not magnified at alL Small children, when viewed long war Ui l, MVH1 iargvr- low grvwu pvrwoi, . The , cause of this remarkable phe nomenon. Is, a mystery ' pasallng - the scientists, some of whom hare mad In vestigations without discovering the rnun of tha. maralfvinsr. The moat plaustbi theory, advanced. Is tost tb enlarging 'power must be da to some peculiar - atmospheric conditions. Ob jects sppear larger and clearer .early In th morning and . Just Deior twilight. provided th skies ar cloudless, i ,r MRS. QUIN HEARS LONG - CALL OF HER BROTHER Mrs. W. JQnln, for who address Sheriff Word asked through rTb Jour nal yesterday, on a request from her brother, P. C. Mudnall of ' Sllverton, Colo., today notified th Sheriff that she resided at (SS Kelly street and that she had been endeavoring for two years to ascertain where her brother waa. She has been living In Portland for two years and has repeatedly tried to learn th whereabouts of Mr. HudnalL . Steamer From Paris sey"eswsAssna)sssssi CROSSED FLAIhSI.'J "'-'. '.a DAYS OF FIFTY-TUO James Cooper and Wife, Pioneers . of Oregon, Observe Anni , f" , .versary of Journey. HAD SEVERAL RATTLES - WITH HOSTILE INDIANS Started 'From (owa , Home and .Made .Trip With Thirteen Wagons Over Continent I J' Y.I, - ,. ' (BeecUl Dispatch te The feoraal.) Coeur d'AIen, ' Ida., March 17.- March 1. 1S62, or il- years ago, James Cooper, his wife and one. son, together with number of selgfabors. left their horn la Iowa, on th long and tedious Journey bv ox taaun for th land of th Orecona. They proceeded to ths western part of tb stats, waars they found cheap feed for their stock, and camped until th snow had disappeared-- on May 7. when tney crossad us Missouri river ' at the point Omaha, now stands." their long western Journey began In earnest. Thar then IS wagons in their train, composed of men and women Innured to tb hard ship of pioneer life by their residence In th frontier of Jowa, A braver, more determined band never took up- tb march : from civilisation to 'face tha well' known dangers of hostile Indians and privations Incident to such a trip. Ten days out from th Missouri, on Mar IT. tb hardy, band bad Its first real tast of Indian lighting. A band of Pawn attempted to stay - their progress Into th Indisn country and a hard but decisive battle nsud In which the- great war chief of ths tribe lost his life.. This fight resulted In a vic tory-for the whites and. gav them tast of what might follow as they wended their, way toward tb land of th setting sun. This battle was followed a few dsys later by another skirmish with tb asm tribe, in -which th Indians wer again driven off. The Journey oontlnned, fol lowing th old Piatt river trail Into Wyoming ana across ins Kocay moun tain 'without unusual Incident of any kind except Jthe rouUn of every day Ilfev To' th" Cooper.' however'ther' oc curred while encamped on th banks of th Green river up In th mountains, ai svsnt 'that marked an epoch In the fam ily -history a 'sow was- born and his parents named him George. He Is now sn honored and respected citizen of this gi7H' ,t t. i A.- i - . ' ..... Ths Immigrants arrived at Old Fort Halli Idaho, tben In Oregon, July t, and tb commander af that' post tried to persuade them to stop for a few weeks as tb. members of Or. Black's party. a few days ahead, bad been surrounded by Digger Indians and wer killed. Mr. cooper and his -associates anxious - to continue, and against tb earnest protests of th commander, re sumed tbelr Journey. A week later they cam onto the bostlles ' and a fierce battle'- resulted in the killing 'of at least five Indians and th routing of th remainder of tbo red men by tb crack shots of ths whites. At Salmon fails another skirmish with ths same Indians took plae. and at Burnt - river tha same tribs waa aaet one mor. .By th middle of August tbey wer lq th Bin Mountains and f enjoyed th most pleasant and pictur esque part of their Journey. Their trip until they- reached th Cas cades was again free from unusual lnd dent. Her, Mr. Cooper says, be learned something of high prices, paying $14 for a. sack of flour, -which -helped them out until they reached Oregon City, where they laid hi a good supply of pro visions. . A few days later they reached tbelr destination, 14 miles west of Salem. In Marlon county. They war six months And seven days on th road. The Coopers remained la Oregon until 1171. when tbey cam to Whitman county, Washington. Mr. cooper was th pro moter of tha first flouring mill In Col fax. He cam her with his wife 11 years ago, and sines tben bsa been a highly respected ettlsn of Coeur d'Alene. MRS. LINCOLN HAS X- MANY GRATEFUL FRIENDS At th horn of Mrs. Osmon Royal, 41 East Morrison strt ther la a guest who will b remembered by all 'of Oregon's soldiers wbo havs visited the Presidio, at Ban Francisco. She Is Mrs. L.lnooln. a - deaconess and - Bad Cross worker; 'who has spent th last five years In ministering to th sick la th military hospital at th Presidio. Mrs. Lincoln Is oa her vacation, and will spend several weeks her. Msny citizens of Portland who wer soldiers remember th sympathetic ears with which she attended to their wants. - Her actlv .labors sav endeared her to the officers and thslr families at th Presidio, well as to tb soldiers who have been stationed ther during .the period of her work. In appreciation of her efforts she was granted a vacation until ths last of April. Efforts ar being mad to persuade Mrs. Lincoln to give a lecture, narrat ing ths most interesting experiences of bar work at th Presidio, which Is the largest military post in this country. SHAMROCK FLAG WORN . IN HONOR OF THE DAY Although green U much In evidence for 8L Patrick's day, ther la only on real Shamrock, nag on rlew, and that Is owned by Elmer K. Klmberlin, a watch man at th poatof f ice. , , Mr. Klmberlin prises his decoration highly, as It came to him from l Sir Thomas Upton. . Th Portland man nee worked for Sir Thomas, and whsn th Irish sportsman brought Shamrock III to race for th America a cup, h sent his old employ a remembrance In the form of a green and gold pin. The face is a flag with a- shamrock In ths center and an edge of gold surrounding It It Is modeled after th -official flag of tb yacht. Mr. Klmberlin Is wearing th pin proudly today, , r -. , ; Fair Opens Tomorrow Night. Th Congregation Ah aval Sholom fair at Merrill's hall, on Seventh street, between Oak and Stark streets, opens tomorrow evening at o'clock. The large hall is gaily decorated with flags and bunting. Twenty booths ar loaded with goods of every kind and descrip tion. A hundred pretty girls are flitting bout putting ths finishing touches to the pooks, and corners of th booths. 1 " m 1 MAXUtOX LOOtU AXD XTTM. (flpeeial Dispatch te The Jasraal.) . Coeur ' d'Alene, Ida., March 17. Archie Phillips, sged I years, waa yes lerdsy . found In the act of opening United States mailbox bar. Much mail has beea lost recently. He Is thought to have been tampering with tb mall for soma time, ; .'.. 1 L- ..' ... ... . EVENING. UAECII ' 17,'KJ. mi j .s "i w -I ms ', 11 PVV'restLBtgsmw' . 1 Nyf.-n-y-'-iai5r : it ' 4t i s. .- v.v-..-. f-irmf i ........ s i ... r This Umbrella Rack for . . , ,-. , NO HIGH TATER IN RIVER THIS YEAR Fall of Snow Has Boon Unusually Light In the Mountains -.(; . This Year. ' STREAMS RISING IN THE CASCADES WILL BE LOW L022er1-w.11 - 5imer.-as win Miners and the Shipping - ' Interests Here. By man who hav closely observed conditions. It is said there will be no high water this year In the Columbia or Wlllamett rivers, nor in any or - tne streams rising in, tb Cascade moun tains, for. the reason that thsr Is no snow, the melting of which Is th usual oauss of - spring freshets In these streams, f "Our reports from all parts of tha Cascade range adjacent to th Columbia and wlllamatt ar to-the .effect that there Is no snow on th mountains," said John W. Alexander, resident mana ger of tha Clarke County Timber com pany. - Mr. Alexander Is also local rep resentative of th Twin Falls company and tha Weyerhauser Timber company, agents of which concerns ar scattered all over tha timber regions of ths lower Columbia river basin. . "Thar 1 10 feet less snow than usual In th Cascade rani." h said. - "Very little snow is found on these mountains aU tb way to th California, line. It means that ther will b scarcity of water te float logs Jn th streams tribu tary to th lower Columbia, and ther 111 not b water enough in southern Oregon streams to carry on placer min ing to, any considerable extent. .. Thar may be heavy spring rains, which would hslp ths logging Industry -some, but would not hsvo snd continued, effect in benefiting the mining earn pa. Tb pres ent low water la very unusual, and Is hanging up millions of feet of logs' that the owners would Ilk to deliver to th mills.? ' - . ,. - 1 r , . He says there was not nly a com paratively UgbH fall of snow In ths mountains during th wlntsr, but th m weatner of th last month has gradually melted th snow that' wss there, carrying off ths water so slowly that no appreciabl effect hss been seen lu th streams, - Ther Is mor snow In ths Rockies, end th melting of this will bring tb ususl freshet In tb Snake river, which will be the. - only - flood feeder for tb Columbia this year. , OHN BENDER DEAD ! f AT EVERETT OF CANCER ' (Journal Special Bervtea.) Everett, , Wssh.. March 17. John Bender, one of th most prominent tnln- ng mn In th northwest, died last night of cancer. Hs discovered th famous Bonans $ueen group of mines. I . . m -- nxo wmovr mah.i. Claud Egglaaon. charged with entic ing Marian Charter, a 17-year-old girl. la to th Badger saloon, was held to th grand Jury this afternoon by Judge Uogua, , H will not be allowed bail.. - - - - - : 1 H i ; Onlv Ona to ' a Cnstomcr ft er . I . .. .. - ' . . - .... . I ' . . .'- it The Store that Saves Yon Money Cor. FOST Al TAYLOR STtUULTS FLOOB AWASH WITH CHAMPAGNE THEY SAY What A an Orphoum Evening . Meant Is Explained Jn a Lar ceny Case in Court. . 1 X P. Reed, a waiter, and LUlie Stet son, a performer at the- Orpbeuoi the atre, wer. In th municipal court this afternoon on a charge of larceny .pre ferred by, C W. Pace of Sonnyslde. wbo say a they took ahut 1 110 of his money. Ths ess was continued until tomorrow in order to scur th testimony of a witness who, it Is asssrted, will contra diet a part of Pace's statement. ' Pace swore yesterday-thst hs bought only thre bottles of wine. Th waiter, the performer and ' Proprietor Simons testified positively that he bought 21 pint bottles. Another witness, not con nected with th theatre In any capacity, swor that Pace purchased at least li bottles of wins. AU th witnesses for th defens except tb last testified that Pac was told rteMeav th plao al l o'clock and did so. 1 tfudg Hogu wss Interested particu larly in trying to asoertsin how ths man could hav bought s much' win and re mained even partly sober. . Hs was In formed that th woman pretended; to drink most of th win, but really poured it on th .floor when Pac was not ob serving her. A change had to b mads from on box to another. It was learned. because tb floor was covered with win. DOCTOR TAKES SUDDEN NOTION TO LEAVE TOWN Dr. J. M. "Williams, wbo aam to Port land 10 days ago to open a millinery store, and wbo rented a plac at 201 Morrison street, at a coat of till, Is missing. His -wife and sister-in-law ar vainly endeavoring to locat him, being left her practically penniless, it la-ssid. Xr. Williams until recently, was in business In Indian TWMttarv. H hsd money snd. after ordering a large stock of goods In Chicago, cams 10 roruaao with th jtwo sisters. Yesterday. It Is said, h had a misunderstanding with his slstsr-ln-law. Mrs. J. E. Plgott. ovsr the ownership of th stor, and this morning h is supposed to nav iit town, without revealing his destination, 1 Th doctor intended to praotio' his profession In Portland, and has an ap plication pending befor th Stat board of. medical examiners. . . . BELIEVES WITNESS ; PERJURED HIMSELF , ssass iwssBaiessseaws Becomlns convinced that William Bimons, a witness placed on th stand In th polio court this aftsrnoon by J. B. Walker, charged' with assaulting Howard Shire man at th fair grounds, is perjuring himself. Judge Hogu ordered him to leave the- stand and in structed Assistant District Attorney Hsney to prefer a charge of perjury against him. r Simons swor h took walker noma with him the night of th assault-and that Walker slept at his home.. Walker testified yesterday that he slept down town. ' Other witnesses also contradicted Simons' statements, v The defendant wss foun guilty 01 tns charge of assault snd battery and fined - Prefer led Vtaeh Oansed sjsaaa, Allan Livli' Best Brand. . - Regular Sale Price $1 CUBArr OFFICIALS ; ; TO VISIT THE FAIR ''M' Supreme Judge of Court Cof figny Will Be Cuest of . j . . Commercial Club. ; CABINET MEMBERS ARE J ' GREATLY INTERESTED J. Wt Flanagan, Ex-Portlandes Now at Havana, Says He . Will Be Here. - Working through a personal friend of Its president at Havana, tha Portland Commercial club has enlisted th Inter- In a trip to the Lewis and Clark fair, and It Is probable that members of th Palma cabinet will attend. J. W. Klannagaq, general agent of th Southern -Pacific oompanr's Havana- New Orleans stesmshlp line, at Havana, writes to tb Commercial club as fol. lows: - . , "Secretary Carlos Orf la . y Cofflgny supreme judge of th courts of Cuba, anticipates th pleasure , of visiting your sxpositloo. I have pre sented your Invitation, which I assure you was an honor highly appreciated by myself. - As soon ss ths nsw cabinet Is thoroughly Installed I will take 1 up th matter of visiting your exposition with them, and am sur Jhat some bf our leading people 'will hav th honor of being your guests. Today United 8tats Minister Squires sd vises thst. If pos sible,-, he will take advantage of this opportunity of visiting ths northwest. "I am particularly Interested In as sisting you and your asauciatea In Risk ing your exposition a sucevss on ac count of . ths - Southern Pacific's connection with Portland;. and. furthermore, - some twelve yesrs ago I bad ths pleasur-of being a resident of your city, and at ths present time I ran anticipate no feature that will afford me a greater pleasure than I am sur will be -realised by a visit to th old associations and surroundings thst no doubt ar In existence there; changed possibly lb a manner) which would nat urally b caused through such excep tionally .pleasant features as havs be come necessary by ine associations of such agreeable And ' successful people as those wbo are engineering th destinies of ths proposed Lewis snd Clark cen tennial exposition.'. '' aocuvxd or TrmaxaT. Tong Chong, a Chinese, appeared In th police court this morning on a charge of burglary." He was captured by C T. Banks, a clerk in 'the registry depart ment of th postofflee, after being seen crawling out of the window of the house occupied by M. B. Runkl. . a railroad man,, at, 411 Alder street. - He hsd no stolen property on him when turned over to tb pone. His case was continued until tomorrow, and on account of th lack ef evidence on th charge of burg lary, it will probably b changed to trespass. . otjsstbia Money Can't Bay. . From ths Lincoln Journal. -- A good stomach ia better than sreal riches. . V A) vr