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NEYSEEK SITE FOR DAVIDIIof*Sid-an. | tormina Location for Monumentthe5wnosiRpa-to- Ifto Explorer AaficicnedBRrlt;'Wirn:Two officials of the Northern Pa-clfio railway, accompanied by a group of Sand point citizens, left this morning at 8 o’clock by automobile to make a trip to Clarks-j fork to seek a sit© for the erection n'as of the proposed memorial to David the Thompson, explorer and builder of Kullyspell house the first white f,ce man’s house In Idaho the; Funds for the construction of fico tjle memorial, which will cost $1 000. w**re raised by a $500 con-1 l*n8 trlbution from the Northern Pa* * ets cific and an equal amount raised , „ by popular subscription among citizens of this district Selection of a site and the monument itself are now all that remain to be done Agitation for a monument toThompson gained headway following the discovery, In 1923. of the remains of the chimneys of historic old Kullyspell house, destroyed in a forest fire about 1830, on the shores of Lake Pend d’Oreille near Indian meadows. The discovery was made by a party led by M0!d Aleck” Klai-Too, blind Indian, who ch. | went straight td the remaining the stones of the chimneys. In the out, party was Duncan MacDonald of ♦ Dixon Mont.. 79-year-old plctur-tbeandThetio-GAuXAIsLgie,en-ighics-Ed~omdtyesque Indian, and a nephew of the *'Rig Finan” MacDonald of the Thompson party which erectedkn- Kullyspell house in 1809 DuncanShilcsiS;ciwMol alt;to' MacDonald visited Kullyspell house! ^Ar-; as early as 1855 to Included in the party which Is | making the trip today ar© Alex-idv 1 ander Tinling, assistant to the viceoiOlAbl—6, i president In charge of traffic, of iron St Paul, Joel Hindman, special—3, agent, of Spokane both of the | Northern Pacific railway, and Wll-in! Mam Cady, Don O D. Moore, Rob- I wi ert S, McCrea, J G Parsons, H T iny I Irion, H. C. Traue and C. J. Shoe-ilet maker.?hw
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Sandpoint Daily Panidan
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Thu, May 17, 1928
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