The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1899, Page 31

THE EUNDAY CALL. L ) : : 81 Fn Indianp Who by &ribal Rights @laims All the (reat Gahoe Qouptry The Land Bitterly Folusht For BL His - Ancestors and the Pibies, He Callz His Own. steeps to the Washoe country. Then has returned to the exact hillslope he instilled into Dick the tribal pride where his ancestors before him lived. that is the chief characteristic of Dick's The other Washoes have forfeited thefr Indian makeup. He told him the story rights, so by tribal law it all belongs of the Washoe-Piute conflict fcr Lake ta Dick. Tahoe. It {8 an unwritten page in his- The Washoes and Piutes have long tory. 7 £ smoked the pipe of peace, Dick The Washoes, once strong and among them. But he has never al- mighty, lived on the shores of Lake Ta- lowed himself to slip into Piute cus- hoe. Other tribes coveted the lands toms. His ears and the ears of his where fish and game were so plentiful. children pierced according to Especially aggressive were the Piutes. Washoe regulations. and in v There was an annual contlict, and though the Washoes Dicke Render, Last cof the Waghoes, SEITT Tl to the Habits, Haunts and Qustoms cof Kis Rage. RAVELERS who have sailed the Washoes, the only buck of his triba who have jaunted Ue to the habits and haunts of : =4 e hoes who have E ountains to In and, declare t ez R > than Tahoe there s r ructed hut The other I tuate the! disgust at per and always drove the 3 both Iig first wife, a Plutes back, the mountdin sides r b an aftermath of skuils. T 1 not long corflict was when Dick's g 1d wig- b was himself a lad. e is Te- The Piutes, many thou tion at the Ine came over the mou and expects ta again for the iake. T o them on the hills whic by name, . Idlewild, the Crocker ent flabby days they fought, the autiful in 1 driving the Wa s bac ssed to having 1 con Point the Washoes had left for her, but » e e Piutes w © s certain of vic e lgng way was x marked by dead and dying W b4 But within sight of their families, h s ‘Washoe, with the strength of ten, i turned upon the Piutes,” and inch by as he can afford, some time one dollar, inch they drove them back the blood- some time fifty, whatever he have. s stained way. That all, no ceremony, then they mare That was the last concerted attack ried. Divorce same way; just say, of the Piutes. The white man was en- ‘Here, I don’t want you any more; you b croaching upon their territo ' Squaw can say same thing to hus- turned Then they got right to marry is_exceedingly frank. When questioned as to his ability to read or For some unknown cause they died by write, he said: e I know how very: the hundreds. well. But then think I know it all, At the pow-wow given in honor of and never practice, so I forget.” How- little Dick's return w gathered all ever he asked us to 1 two letters to the Washoeg, and they num hite men in Cars City, and they T fifteen hundred. Dick’s grandfa addressed in a fairly legible lowed him to return to Mr. | v ’ once a year he brought hi “fishes on the lake during the of the Washoes that he 1 for a living, and is very popular N his tribal tincts. There came a day the amateur fisherm whom he wher the Government gave the hand- tes into trout mysteries for a sti- mighty tribe 5 » on the Pine ever leaves Lake Tahoe with- out hearing of Dick Bender, the last of the ces. No one ever leaves Dick BENDE 4 s ha bark of the tree then he sst out Tahoe Scenes by R. J. Waters. Photo _One on Lake Tahoe. Dick without sympathizing with the v for Carson Ci s he expected of Dick Bender by W. L. Frier. Washoe's the Benders The land around the lake was once chimera he nurses in his imagination— His grand- staked out so many paces per Indian that he is the owner of Lake Tahoe the mountain family. Dick Bender year after year and the bordering lands. Z € d by a Plute e 5 i spoke a strange language nor recognized his grandsire, father