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REIMAIINS\ Onvon THOMPSON's Friday, March 20, 1925. THE HARDIN TRIBU F. HERA Li) Page Five. House" given in Thompson's sera INMATES OF JAIL words as taken from his journals and REIMAIINS\ onvon THOMPSON'S "SALEESH given above. This deacription of the location WED THEMSELVES seemed so explicit, it looked but a simple matter to determine the pre- "MARRIAGE BY STATUTE" OC- cise point. The year drifted by with- HOUSE" out my DISCOVERED accomplishing If anything in STATE HISTORIAN the CURS IN MISSOULA BY PAIR • direction further than to promise my- WHO ARE HELD. self a BY WILL CAVE journey to Thompson Falls at' goods to a point on the north bunk these occupied lodges. The follow- exceedingly vague character. Along an early date. In Helena in Marjorie Beck. Kootenai lug are the early L. T. McLaughlin and On Saturday, February 28, 1925, of the river just above the the names of the men who ap- near this time, coincidentally per- part of January of this year, pear to while Held on Liquor Violation Charges, at 11 o'clock a. m., Will Cave pres- falls, where McDonald set up two have been with Thompson: haps, Mr. Frank B. Linderman, then visiting the Historical library there, his to Other Be- ent historian of the Society of Mon- "leather lodges" for himself and Mousseau, Forcier, Boulard, Lagasse, in Helena, new of Kalispell ,who had in reference to the question as to who Pledge Fealty Each and pro- Crepaud, tana Pioneers, and acting in the men built a log hut for the Beaulieu, Delcor, Buona- been delving into early day history of may have been the first white man to fore Friends Who Witness Act. parte, capacity of special correspohdent tection of furs and goods. Here in McMillan, and possibly others, Montana, took occasion to call my at- view the Flathead lake, David Hil- for The Missoullan, located posi- the winter of 1808-9 was carried on besides Indians. Thompson made the Hon to the fact that while Manuel fier, librarian, There are, it is said, more than expressed the belief tively the remains.of the fire-place the first commercial transactions in Saleesh House his headquarters until Lisa, merchant trader of St. Louis. that it may have been David Thomp- married aside northwest April 60 ways of getting of David Thompson's "Saleesh the territory south of the 19th, 1810; in the meantime Mo., in 1807 bad constructed Fort son, and from the pocket of one of from the orthodox ceremony before House." present dividing line between the making three trips up the river past Manuel at the confluence of the Big the volumes entitled "New Light Up- United States and Canada. In 1809 the "South Fork" (Missoula) an authorized official or minister of to the Horn and Yellowstone rivers, that on the Early History of the Greater David Thompson came down the Koo- "Great Camp of the Flat Heads," fort was simply a stockade and that Northwest-Henry (Alexander) the gospel. One of the more rare "SALEESH HOUSE." and tenai himself and on Tuesday, Aug- which camp was probably located the first house with root and fire- Thompson (David) Journals" by Dr. use at the county CKNOWLEDGING that Manuel ust about says was put into 29, reached a point on the river the mouth of Revais creek a t lace ever built within the present Elliott Coues, published by Francis recently, when an Lisa, merchant trader of jail in Missoula St. (now Bouner's Ferry), where what short distance from the present town state was built somewhere in the P. Harper, New York, 1897, Mr. Hil- "marriage by statute" A Louis, Mo., in the year 1807, be calls Flat of affidavit of the "Great Road of the Dixon. neighborhood of Thompson's Prairie ger produced the map of the north- of the clerk constructed a "habitation" which he was filed in the office Heads" left that river for the Flat by David Thompson in 1809. This western country, being a copy stating that L called "Fort Manuel" at the conflu- Indians Turn Against Him "about of the district court, Head (Clark's Fork) river. Having circumstance was impressed quite one-half size of original" of one Marjorie Beck ence of the Big Horn and Yellow- procured T. McLaughlin and horses, on September 1, he Evidently Finan McDonald had distinctly upon my memory, yet it drawn by David Thompson in 1812. the oth- stone rivers, but which was a "stock- come had pledged fealty "each to started on this "road;" on the 8th to Saleesh House during the was not until 1923, when I learned Upon examination of the map, I not- for hus- ade," not a roofed-in building; he er" and taken each other also descended a creek (now known winter or spring, as, when Thomp- from Mr. J. H. T. Ryman of a con- ed the "Nw Co." and dot indicating admitting that late in the fall as son band and wife. of 1808 Pack creek) to the "Kullyspell" went from there on April 19th, templated visit to Thompson Falls of the location of Thompson's "House" have been in Finan McDonald, David Thompson's he The man and woman (Pend d'Oreille) lake. On the 9th left McDonald in charge. Mc- Mr. T. C. Elliot for the purpose of en- as situated in a bend of the "Saleesh" 21, held clerk, built a log hut "in the county jail since Feb. which to he arrived at the mouth of "Saleesh" donald does not appear to have been deavoring to locate the site of Thomp- (Clark's Fork) river, at a point resulting from a goads about on liquor charges store and furs" at a point on (Clarke's Fork) river. He picked out very constant in his charge, being son's "Saleesh House" that my per- three-fifths of the distance a down raid made by sheriff's officers on the north bank of the Kootenai river, a peninsular running out from the out with the Indians much of the sonal interest was keenly aroused. stream from the mouth Both of Thompson country dance in Frenchtown. just above the "Kootenai Falls;" east side of the lake upon which o time. Leaving Saleesh House in Mr. Elliott, in a letter to Mr. Ryman, river to the mouth liquor of what is now are charged with furnishing still, successfully, it may be maintain- build his "Kullyspell house" (the April, Thompson went to Kullyspell has signified a desire to have the lat- called Prospect creek. set Comparing to minors. McLaughlin's bond is ed that the first structure with roof ruins of the chimney of this house House, then to the Kootenai and up ter accompany him while making the this map with the description receiv- girl's at $1,000. and fireplace and at $1,500 and the which properly were located in 1923 by Duncan Mc- that river to the portage at its search. Finding that it was Mr. Ry- ed from Mr. Edmond Taylor, I felt furnish the could defined as a Neither has been able to be "house," actu- Donald and others), on what is now source, on to Howse Pass, across the man's intention to accept Mr. Elliott quite satisfied that, given a little required bail. time, it should be a matter application, of no ex- Making out a written treme difficulty to locate the site McLaugh- of sworn to before a notary, the "House" for the reason that no license, but lin secured a marriage matter though every trace of the logs as there Is no law compelling him to had disappeared there must allow be re- do so, Sheriff Rice would not maining the burned rocks of which place. the marriage ceremony to take the fireplace and chimney had been This was said to be on the advice of constructed. county attorney's office. the Visiting the forestry friends came to visit the pair offices, I Some found that as shown and in their pres- on the maps one day recently, here the latitude an attorney, Mc- seemed to tie in at ence and before least very closely girl pledged them- with the point in- Laughlin and the :Heated by wife and later David Thompson's map selves as husband and and description. signed a contract of marriage. The ^ proceeding, it is said, is perfectly le- It was on February 26th that I finally gal and is as binding as if the mar- went to Thompson Falls to undertake riage had been performed before a a systematic search for whatever justice Of the peace or a minister. ,,-- might remain of the chim- - - . ney is provided for in the statute and fire-place. Thinking per- It haps which says that the solemnization the maps in the forestry office • - i---, at Thompson of the ceremony may take place be- Falls might show more 4:,-14I-( ,•,,11 a ,,,, of the fore a- justice, a minister, or attest- ! "locale" than those in the of- fices in Missoula, ing witnesses. , 14 . I went at once to that As the girl is one of the chief wit- --- officesand made known my mis- ,,r....r. !4, , ,'",,,e.i.,: e.„1=ell ',1-• , sion to Mr. K. Wolfe, forester in neSae_a_111. the state's case against Mc- ; .',0, .. ,.:, '"r It_ ••%.4.-"."' '''' 1 charge. The Laughlin, It is probable that she wilt --r-, maps there only em- not testify against him. However, it phasized the _findings in the Missoula possible that she can be made to offices. A sectional map drawn to Is a against- ham- -as-44e- -alleged considerably larger scale in the testify ammo aasesaar's violation of the liquor law occurred office waa then con- sulted and before their marriage.
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