tangle protruded the notice—“To be Let or Sold.”

necessary to fight the confederated tribes east of the Cascade Range

of mountains, in order to disabuse them of the idea that they were

sufficiently strong to cope with the power of the Government. He

therefore at once set about the work of organizing and equipping his

troops for a start in the early spring against the hostile Indians,

intending to make the objective point of his expedition the heart of

the Spokane country on the Upper Columbia River, as the head and

front of the confederation was represented in the person of old