You know the question of diseases here in the northwest often arises. Small pox is probably the most prevailing disease that has ever hit the northwest. It had a great effect on many of our people. I am reminded of a story of small pox that occurred clear down on the Umatilla River in this case. A young lady was with her family on the upper part of the Umatilla River not quite into Canada but maybe near Echo and that area. Early morning her baby was cranky, crying, irritated and she knew she needed, that her mother would help her. Her mother was camped at the mouth of the Umatilla River, several miles away. So she put her baby in a baby board and proceeded to walk down the river. Hours later the baby had been cranky and she remembered on the baby’s body red spots were being developing at that point and time. She knew nothing at that point and time about red spots. As she walked down the river the baby got even more crankier. Then hours later she took the baby out of the baby board on the banks of the Umatilla River. She was in kneeling position and she unraveled the string from the board. To her horror puss was forming on these red spots. And she had heard the stories of small pox and its development. She suspected heavily that he had small pox. She remembered the medicine of one of the doctors that came by. “We’ll save you from the diseases of the white man when they get here,” he said, vaccinating the young child. As she stared at her own son she hugged him hoping that maybe she could get the disease and she could take it from her son so that he might live.