HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. Herald 02/15/1912SPUD PARINGS
GROW BIG CROP
C.P. Herald
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Pioneer Constance Feeds Hungry Reds
Makes Friends.
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Speak Iraq of weather-rondi:inn= ir.
the commercial cluL rooms Mnndxy t
evening Mx5'r>r Leaver, a native son n( r
[he Vallee, tnlA of hia granA fa thee, t
Isaac Constance, who came U~ the vat- t
le}' with his Camily in 1552. rand sr,v red I
fl donation claim nn a Iwrtiun of which '
pert ur this cite now stands, and how, `-
in February, idSi, he punted hia putx-
[oea anU Barden stuff. even beans and ~ '
nthee tender vegetables. Fhr:e all 'f
grew rapidly sort were. wt injured Ir.
the least with frost. 1
P6[atbe§ rr the w'in[er had been °
packed in Porn Crrgun City and were °
so valuable that the pa rings were saved r
and planted. From these I.ut ato oar-
fogs, planted in February, .ll r. l:on- i
etance raised a Luuntiful crop, l:avinq
more: potatoes than he could use. Th. `
fOn"M'Ing R•III tC r, F1Uw L'VC r, 8 IIP,BI'_: '
snow tell, and thu Nugue River [radian>. of
who had (Wiled to put up their usual
nmount of food. u•rrr starvir:K. Nr.
Constance supplied them with spuds C
(mm hia Lountiful supply' and by thi= 1'
means their Ilves were saved. Twn or "
three years later, during the Indian I'
Chief Sam and his followers name
war o
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down from the upper Sop:.:• river in L
war pain[ and trappings intending tr, C'
massacre all the white! is [he coun[n-. . tl
They camped at Table [lock and wh'.Ie t"
these olA Sam remembered the Cl.r.- tl
stance potato episode. "Fo killam }'
Constance. no killam- nim I:r.ighin ~.-:,~• '
declarod Chief~Sam. and he forclrv_ith
sent his young daughter, ?Inry•, [n tell
Ale Constance [ha[ nn harm ;iloci,i 6r-
fell his or his neiKhtnvs' familiee_ The
girl swam Kugue river iu the night aroi
ei
walked N Che C.mistanve r:u:r'n, v'here yt
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she delivered her we!cume me~sagr. ,
Tha Aldiana continued on dawn the r
rlvee [u the Galice creek mines. where P
they planned to kill ail of the miners, ee
but fortunately the miners had been s}
reinfprced Ly §oldiers, the Indiana were
repalaed end~ecattered. This raid prec- of
tically ended the war. Mr. Leaver
~th§t~~B~-htbry of thP=blg°EAttlr
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at Table Rock which wea said to have .
Laken place at that time when roman-
cars say many Indians threw' them- fi
sel/es Cmm the rack and were dxshcd
to death 111(N) feet below, is a lure
m}'lh. No bottle occurred [here anti
no ludiana were ki11uU in such away.
however, had it nut been for laanc
Constance's potato Varings it is ait11- at
cult to toil what might have happc ntvl Cr
in this part of the callcy dunng the ,
war. ac
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