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after I left Wyoming and was related to me by the Indian Agent Dr. Irwin. He was very enthusiastic in his encouragement of the Indians to become settled and establish family homes. WashA-Kie was in sympathy with this policy, and at the suggestion of the Agent consented to have a dwelling house built for him, and he would occupy it as an example to his tribe. He selected as the site for his house, a spot near some hot sulphur spring, several miles from the Agency. He chose this place so that he could bathe in the waters for the benefit of his health, and especially for relief from rheumatism, from which he suffered at times. A three-room cottage was built, and when he moved into it, at his invitation, the Agent and a few other Government employees visited him and they had a genuine house-warming party. On their departure Wash-A-Kie invited them to return and visit him in two or three weeks and see how he was getting along in his new home. They accordingly made the visit at the end of three weeks, and found Wash-A-Kie living and sleeping in his tent standing nearby. He explained he could not sleep in the house, that after spending two or three sleepless nights in it he was forced to go back to his tee-pee to get needed rest and sleep. He, however, thought the house should be used for some purpose. He was a crude Utilitarian Philosopher, and having TIO other use for the house, he had stalled his favorite ponies in it.
FATHER ESCALANTE AND THE UTAH INDIANS (Continuing: "Some Useful Early Utah Indian References.") By J. Cecil Alter Continued from "Diary and Travels of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Velez De Escalante, to discover a route from the Presidio of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Monterey in Southern California," in "The Catholic Church in Utah," by Dr. W. R. Harris. "14th day of September. We did not travel today. * * * (On Green River, near Jensen, Utah.) "It also happened this morning that the Laguna Joaquin, from mischief, mounted a very vicious horse, which fell, throwing the fellow some distance. We were much frightened, thinking that the fall had injuried the Laguna, who, recovering from his fright, began to shed tears and cry aloud; but God permitted that the horse receive all the wounds, injuring his neck, and so being useless."
