TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State

Told
by the Pioneers
war cries and threats and beating on the house with sticks. When they
had made sure the women were frightened beyond sensation, they
would ride away.
My father ,,'as plowing behind the hill one day when he heard a
band of Indians at their innocent amusement. He unharnessed a horse
and started for the house. The Indians ran and father could not
catch up with them.
I will say this for the red man: once he accepted your trust, he
would always keep it. 'Will Farrell ran a harness shop in Ellensburg
and dealt with the Indians for years. It sometimes was a year or more
before he saw them after their purchases, but they always paid. He
never lost a cent through an Indian.
Through many of the pioneers' narratives there is mention of Dave
COITall, saloon man, gambler, fighter. Always his name was spoken
with respect. The famous poker game in "Wenatchee when Dave CorraIl,
Frank Reeves, and Chris Gray played for two days and nights,
is a legend. Chips were $20.00 apiece. At the end of the game Dave
was $20.00 'winner, Chris had lost $20.00 and Frank broke even.
It was Dave who WOll fifteen straig'ht games of sevell-Up, lost the
sixteenth, then quit because the game was "too much of a see-saw."
GEORGE S. MOODY
Ferrv County
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When an infant, I came to Washingtoll Territory with my parents
and two brothers from Pike County, Missouri, in 1869. My father
wanted to come 'Vest and take up land and be where we children could
grow up with the country.
Vi"e came by train to Kelton, rtah, which was the western terminus
of the Union Pacific Railroad at that time. Father bought a team
and wagon and came overland to 'Valla vValla, Washington, and then
drove to a place 18 miles farther on and located a homestead near the
'fouchet River. After living on the homestead for about eight years,
father died. Shortly afterward, my mother again married and the
family moved to Portland, Oregon.
vVhen old enough, I struck out for myself, working mostly as a stock
hand with live stock raisers through southeastern Washington and
Nevada. In 1896 I came to that part of Stevens County in the San
Poil Valley which later became Ferry County. This part of the county
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