Show v- v Missionary Work Among Indians Will Be Shown MOSCOW Ida June 4 ono One One of ot the I strong irons scenes Kernes In the pageant of ot Idaho r The Tho Light on tho the Mountains Moun Moun- tIng which University of ot Idaho students stu stu- dents dent will present the night of ot June S 14 9 depicts Father O De and Father Point pioneer Jesuit missionaries re re- re I deputation ta o of t Crow Indians Indiana re 1 ro rota dI at the mission I of the h Sacred Heart Hearton I on the St. St Joe river near the present site sito of ot St. St Marie daries In 1842 Pierre Jean DeSmet was wag born In a II j small Belgian village in WOl 1801 Influenced Influenced b by an American missionary who was Int Interested rf in procuring more recruits l. l he left lett for tor America where he entered the at Whitemarsh White White- Whitemarsh marsh Md Ed I In Jn 1840 8 O he started preaching am among ng the Flatheads around St. St Louis and continued to do this this' until 1845 After much traveling through the different missions he came camo cameto to the land of ot the tho thoi I or Snake n ke Indians who treated him with the greatest respect and reverence The Flatheads and anti af l with whom he spent i I federal months could d not do enough I for tor him to show their gratitude and J I happiness at his coming camillI After Atter a 1 short time spent in St. St Loul Louis D DeSmet Smet again I to 10 the Northwest where he established a a. mission on the site of ot the prevent present city of ot Helena calling It St. St Marys Mary's mis mis- sion slon In 1842 he continued west and preached to the Coeur COUI d' d dAlene Alene In Indiana Indians In- In diana founding a mission among them This Thill mission minion the Sacred Heart was originally on the St. St Joe Joo river about a 4 mile from the south end of or orthe the tho c Coeur eur dAlene lake It was moved however In 1846 to Cataldo on the ad dAlene rl river r and again i l in 1877 to a site In the be beautiful If Hangman hangman Hang hang- n man manalle valle alle valley There It remains to this day In a 0 small town the postoffice address of which Is DeSmet DeSmet had great power o among the In Indian li tribes who ta all knew h him f and loved him He was a white whit man In whom they had implicit faith ralth ana ano trust To them Father l DeSmet was the tho one white man whose tongue dor does dols s not lie The Tho government was compelled to I call on him several times for tor assistance assist assist- ance In quelling troublesome Indian tribes One of the tho most important of ot these occasions was at he time of ot the Yakima war var in 1855 which was caused by bv the encroachment of ot the whites upon upon Indian lands The In Indians In- In diana even the peaceful Flatheads I and Coeur d' d Joined the league to repel th the Invaders l Father ather DeSmet was sent by the United e States a ti to I Ithe pacify c t en the e Indians Indian d and after rt visiting the different tribes DeSmet succeeded ed edIn in bringing the chiefs together and reri renewing Father DeSmet peace s e with vJ died d tOo In l 1873 government and rat was laid to rest In St. St Louis He lie was mourned by Protestant and Catholic alike and perhaps most of ot all by his beloved children of the wilds who I held as they thoy called him so highly in estEe esteem u H I |