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Hotel Pedicord T. J. Pedicord, Proprietor. Rates: $1.00 to $1.50 Per Day Free Bus and Sample Rooms 209 to 213 Riverside Avenue Spokane, Wash., Sept 17 1897 My dear Uncle I had a nice time with Joseph he took me to Wilbur 50 miles Joseph speaks Chinook as well as his own language and the Chinook language has quite a number of English words in it. I got me a book in the Chinook language and got so could speak quite a little so we got along fine, on the way we stopped at a fruit farm on the Columbia River and saw the finest fruit ever seen in my life. Pears that weigh 1 1/2 lbs each and the finest peaches we gathered 60 lbs of plumbs from one tree unclear Indians and white men are allowed to help themselves and Joseph and I just stuffed ourselves, on the way Joseph would tell me about the country where he lives in but he doesn't like it