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Told by the Pioneers The little town which he founded was called Hardersburg, and later was changed to Kahlotus. He bought 15 sections of railroad land. 'Ve always raised stock and farmed. .My father introduced irrigation into Franklin County, and raised the first alfalfa. INe belong to the Lutheran church. In the early times we had no churches. We even • conducted funerals without a preacher. I was born February 3, 1894, in Franklin County, Washington. I was married October 15, 1917. \rVe had a house of rough lumber and our furniture was home-made, when I was a child. The railroad had reached the Snake river at the time my father arrived, and by the time I was born people enjoyed about everything we have now, excepting airplanes and automobiles. We rode horseback, as a rule, and traveled miles for our mail. For a long time my people used cattle chips for fuel. We had plain clothing, and raised our own food. Father helped build the first school here. We played one old cat, ante over and drop the handkerchief, etc. In 1905 there was a cloudhurst and Lake Kahlotus raised ten feet. We fished in both the Palouse and Snake rivers. I recall some queer old characters. One man hung his hardware on the kitchen wall. We had little recreation, and our schooling was limited.. I quit school at the age of fourteen years and began farming. Our Fourth of July celebrations were usually spent at Washtucna, where the principal sport was horse racing. I served as countV commissioner of Franklin Countv. I live on the • • ranch that my two brothers, sister and I inherited from the man who looked ahead, and bought when land was cheap. In "Hoosier Schoolmaster," we find a pioneer woman advising her husband to "git a plenty while you're gittin'" and that's what my father, Hans Harder, did. It was 72 miles to the postoffice and 60 miles to the nearest doctor, when my father came from Schleswig-Holstein and settled near to what is now Kahlotus. Often he and his brother saw no other white man for six months at a time. When father sold his horses at $2.50 a head, he bought railroad land at 10 cents per acre, the railroads being anxious to encourage settlers. He bought 50 sections and started raising cattle and sheep. He was one of the first settlers in this vicinity and his choice included a fine spring, enabling him to practice irrigation and alfalfa growing. Some of the less fortunate settlers in the county hauled water 20 • miles as there were no wells at first. There was very little money in those days, and we used to trade wheat for hogs, living mostly on wheat and roasting barley for coffee. 63
Told by the Pioneers Funeral services were conducted by the women, who sang and read the Scriptures. Burial was on the ranch, there being no cemetery. Father made the coffins of rough lumber. Our family started plowing the land and raising big crops of hay for winter feed. The country developed, and five ministers came, to file on homesteads. They stayed one night at our ranch, and it being a dry season, that night the preachers joined in a petition for rain. Their prayers were answered in a downpour which continued eight days and ruined the hay which the Harders had cut and left drying in the fields. After that, father never kept any preachers while we were making hay. Cattle and sheep wars were common in the early days. Sheep were killed and the camps destroyed. Near Sulphur Lake, an entire field of barley was burned and a flock of sheep literally starved. The scarcity of feed led two men to drive their sheep onto Indian land. The men were armed but it did not take long for the Indians to disarm them, as they were new to the business. The Indians then ran the several bands of sheep into a corral and asked forty sheep as payment for damages. The Frenchmen went to Walla Walla for legal advice and were told that they would have to settle v;rith the Indians • the best way they could. Our familv fared better when a thousand head of cattle were driven • through our alfalfa. ~eighbors helped disarm the cowboys ~nd took possession of the cattle, keeping enough of them to pay well for the damage done. When our family began raising wheat, they brought in "rild horses from the range and broke them for plowing. When the season was over, we turned them out again. We camped in the hills, two men in each camp, when we started our spring work. It was too far to travel back and forth from the ranch house, so we did our own cooking and went home occasionally to stock up on mother's bread and other provisions. We turned the horses out to graze at night, and in the morning we got up at about 3 0 'clock. While one skinner rounded up the horses, the other got breakfast. Compared with life today, we went through many hardships and had few of the wonderful advantages offered young people now. Yet I believe that in spite of those hardships, or maybe because of them, we were better fitted for life than young people of today, for this reason: hardships are stepping stones to people of ambition. 64
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TOLD BY THE PIONEERS IN MEMORIAM Wh
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WASHINGTON PIONEER PROJECT ADVISORY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Name &: Count~·
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Tvld by the Pioneers of Tennessee,
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Page 45 and 46: Told by the Pioneers "·We had a on
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Page 69 and 70: Told by the Pioneers LOUIS F. IMAN
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Page 85 and 86: Told by the Pioneers MINING EFFECTS
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Page 101 and 102: Told by the Pioneers ADDIE PITT Yak
Page 103 and 104: Told by the Pioneers MISCELLANEOUS
Page 105 and 106: Told by the Pioneer~ PERRY W. BAKER
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Page 109 and 110: Told .by the Pioneers SOPHUS JACOBS
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Told by the Pioneers ily bring the
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Told by the Pioneers had our beddin
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Told by the Pio-neers MRS. JESSE E.
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Told by theP'ioneers papers. The fu
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Told by the Pioneers THE ROUNDUP ON
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Told by the Pioneers obtained a fai
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Told by the Pioneers JONATHAN RINEH
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Told by the Pioneers had increased
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Told by the Pioneers WILLIS BENNETT
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Told by the Pioneers 'Ve were left
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Told by the Pioneers unafraid. Away
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Told by the Pioneers THOMAS M. NEEL
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Told by the Pioneers PIONEER MAIL S
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Told by the Pioneers from The Dalle
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Told by the Pioneers to insure the
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Told .by the Pioneers MRS. MARTHA J
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Told by the Pioneers MELVIN F. HAWK
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Told by the Pioneers a most beautif
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Told by the Pioneers of good fun. "
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Told by the Pioneers Father started
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Told by the Pioneers ing of our fir
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Told by the Pioneers MONSON THORP,
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Told by the Pioneers burg. ::\lail
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Told by the Pioneers In 1856 my par
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Told by the Pioneers It has lasted
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Told by the Pioneers resented by st
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Told by the Pioneers couldn't stick
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Told by the Pioneers There were no
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Told by th6 Pioneers with lots of s
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Told by the Pioneers My foster fath
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Told by the Pioneers the log house
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Told by the Pioneers small lad, and
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Told by the Pioneers Nelson Chapple
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Told by the Pioneers Then, when the
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Told by the Pioneers Hoquiam's firs
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1'old by the PiOtleers HUBBAR1' STO
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Told by the Pioneers was organized
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Told by the Pioneers del" to should
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Told by the Pioneers teach our scho
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Told by the Pioneers JOHN P. SPANGL
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Told by the Pioneers OSCAR ROSWELL
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Told by the Pioneers not only the c
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Told by the Pioneers forest, and al
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Told by the Pioneers boys shingled
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T old by the Pioneers that the stor
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Told by the Pioneers Nannie 0 'Donn
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Told by the Pioneers efficient teac
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Told by the Pioneers style of The P
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Told by the Pioneers efforts to pro
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Told by the Pioneers THE COLLEGE OF
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Told by the Pioneers ern California
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Told by the Pioneers school. On .Ma
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Told by the Pioneers rise as needed
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Told by the Pioneers playground spa
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Told by the Pioneers of many local
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Told by the Pioneers UNPUBLISHED IN
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Pratt, Aurelia Rosencr
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Mills, Henrietta E. Mi
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BIBLIOGRAPHr Padfic County Brown, C
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Ketchum, Abraham La Pr
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INDEX Aberdeen, Washington, 191 Abr
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INDEX Carr, Edmund, 206 Carr, O. J
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INDEX Dyer, 67 "Dying Californian's
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INDEX Harris, Lafe, 212 Hart, Charl
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INDEX Lake Union, 150 Lake Washingt
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INDEX Neah Bay, 37, 39, 145, 184 Ne
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INDEX Red Shirt, mine, 84 Reed, Cha
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INDEX Stewart, Mark, 40 Stitzel, Ja
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INDEX Whitworth, Harry, 17 Whitwort
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