Harvesting on the Flathead Reservation near Kalispcll, Mont. 



are devout adherents of the Roman 

 Catholic religion. The men devote 

 themselves to athletic sports and games 

 between the ceremonies, being espe- 

 cially fond of baseball and horse-racing. 

 Indian officers maintain a vigilant po- 

 lice system, and offenders are punished 

 by imprisonment in the jail at De Smet. 

 Drunkenness is not tolerated. 



The reservation is situated wholly in 

 Kootenai County, Idaho, and contains 

 approximately 625 square miles, or 

 400,000 acres of land, of which two- 

 thirds is cultivated and capable of high 

 development. The rest is heavily tim- 

 bered with white and yellow pine, cedar, 

 fir, and tamarack, and is subject to 

 entry under the homestead laws at its 

 appraised value. The cost of these 

 lands has not yet been determined. 

 While the principal crops produced are 

 wheat, oats and hay, the soil has proved 

 itself to be admirably adapted to the 

 cultivation of potatoes, sugar beets, and 

 other root crops, also tree and vine 

 fruits. 



The Indian population of the reserva- 

 tion is 500 Coeur cl'Alenes, of whom 

 466 



255 are males. There are also ninety- 

 seven Spokane Indians. A census taken 

 early this year shows the sexes are 

 nearly evenly divided. These people 

 each own 160 acres of land, and have 

 2,500 head of horses, 1,200 cows, 600 

 hogs, and 175 sheep. The reserve is 

 traversed by the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 and Puget Sound Railroad and the 

 Tekoa-Burke branch of the Oregon 

 Railroad and Navigation Company, 

 the latter carrying all members of the 

 Coeur d'Alene tribe free of charge 

 between Tekoa, Wash., and Cataldo, 

 Idaho, fifty-seven miles, as the result 

 of a contract made when the Harriman 

 people secured a right-of-way across 

 the reserve in 1889. 



Pierre Wildshoe, chief of the tribe, 

 and successor of Andrew Seltice. who 

 died in 1902, while not the wealthiest, 

 is one of the most respected and influ- 

 ential men on the reservation. Pierre 

 Moctielma is sub-chief, and John Dav- 

 enport, who was raised by a white mer- 

 chant of the same name at Colfax, 

 Wash., is head of the Indian police. 



