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Flathead Reservation

Newspaper excerpts Idaho Kootenay Major and 5 Kootenay Chiefs passed through Idaho en route to Flathead reservation in Montana to inspect lands.

Internal ID: 0050.0099
Medium:Newspaper
Date: December 5th 1891

One Elephant Caught Sunday

Pachyderm captured after two weeks on the lamb; accomplices still at large.

Internal ID: 0042.0180
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 19th 1926

Indians Observe Corpus Christi

Indians attend church; rest of day spent on horses.

Internal ID: 0042.0181
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 10th 1926

St. Eugene Mission

Easter Sunday at St. Eugene Mission. New chapel was filled to utmost capacity three times during the day.

Internal ID: 0050.0205
Medium:Newspaper
Date: April 12th 1898

Ktunaxa Prosecutions

Charges brought against local Indians, one for resisting lawful search and the other for beating his wife.

Internal ID: 0051.0284
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 24th 1926

Provincial Police

Reporting on crackdown by police of motorists speeding and careless driving, dogs running at large and Indians who are in nonobservance of Games Act by hunting during close season.

Internal ID: 0051.0295
Medium:Newspaper
Date: June 24th 1926

Christmas at St. Eugene Mission

A large number of Indians from local areas were at the Mission to attend Christmas services.

Internal ID: 0051.0441
Medium:Newspaper
Date: December 27th 1900

Christmas at St. Eugene Mission

A carload of Indians came over from West Kootenay to spend Christmas at St. Eugene Mission.

Internal ID: 0051.0442
Medium:Newspaper
Date: December 27th 1900

Ktunaxa Hunting

Reporting local Indians in vicinity of Sheep Creek slaughtered between 130 and 140 deer the week before Christmas.

Internal ID: 0051.0463
Medium:Newspaper
Date: January 31st 1901

Meeting of Provincial Board

Opening sessions of annual meeting for the advisory board of farmers institutes included East Kootenay representative informing all the B.C. horses are being rustled and driven across the border into Montana to a canned meat factory selling to Belgium.

Internal ID: 0050.0620
Medium:Newspaper
Date: November 20th 1930

V. Hyde Baker Dies

Reporting on the death of Hyde Baker in England. Baker arrived in Cranbrook over 50 years ago with his father and was one of the first pioneers of the area.

Internal ID: 0051.0681
Medium:Newspaper
Date: October 6th 1932

Tillie Captured

One of the three escaped elephants finally captured and back in temporary corral in Cranbrook.

Internal ID: 0050.0802
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 19th 1926