Good Old Days April 27

8 years ago

The Commoner

April 22, 1892

Thursday of last week, two droves of horses herded by half breeds with covered wagons passed through Colton en route to some point south.

The first drove, which numbered about 40 head, passed through at about 9:30 a.m., and the second drove, numbering about 20, a few hours later.

At 6 o'clock Saturday evening, a couple of men from the Potlatch reservation arrived in the town looking for stolen horses.

They claimed that a party of half breeds had taken from them 20 head of horses.

The description given by the men tallied exactly with some of the horses...