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GOLD ON SADDLE

From earliest times, stories were told that Demars had found gold
up Saddle mountain way. When his finances got low he and his little
dog would disappear to return with Little sacks of nuggets. He lost
an eye and was left for dead during the John Cole and Henry Rose
wiskey-crazed battle of 1902. Some folks will tell you the battle
over money for ties started as. these men rowed south from Nakusp,
to the 160 acres, on District Lot .8153, then owned by Henry Rose
At that time and place, Herbert Redfern lived in a small cabin up
from Henry Rose's cabin. This Henry Hese's cabin was probably built
about 1887. It still stands in good repair. It is west of Donnelly's

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FIGHT RESULTS IN DSATH - _ Sm

The chain of owners of lot $153 being Rose, Redfern, Durkin,
Rosick, now Mabel and Ray Donneliy. Mrs. Molie Karsten says the bat-

tle was fought on the old trail from Nakusp as the men walked down

to Rose's fishing lines, Denis 5t. Denis told me July Ist, 1952,

while we were in the company of G.H. Gardner, cf Nakusp and the iate
Mr. Joy Nelson Historian. (Our native daughter, Florence Leary took

a picture of us at the time.) He. said he saw tangled®fish lines,
broken iron pots and pans, gsmasned wriskey bottles. John Cole lay
dead and Nels Demars had teen left for dead, but later came around.
Mr. St. Denis had accompanied officers of.the.law-to: the-scene of the
crime He also said "You know we liked Henr y Rose.: He worked for us",

One bloody cudget plainly snowed xose's right hand finger prints,
as for years he's been. minus two fingers on his right hand, after being
bitten by a dog.. When he was hung at Nelson, Herbert Redfern filed
claim and got Districs Lot 8153, in 1902.. At that time there were ©
two moss rose bushes, and ten or twelve apple trees, coming into bearing.
Jochum Borgat, Nels Demars, and Rose ned set out apple trees-in the

80's.

After Demars got ar

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cund again, ne still carried his map to his
gold field, but he was aging fast anc could not make the mountain
trips. Mrs. Parent says "A brother and sister came from Quebec to
care for him and they three, stent tne winter before his death, in
the Old Bank Building built by Frank Sourne but now owned by Mrs. P.
Sather in Nakusp No trace of the map was ever found. Father Jeanott
prepared him for “his Journey to the land of eternal life but Demars
didn't reveal to him his secret of his gold cache. He died in 1908
and lies in an unmarked grave in the Caznolic cemetery in Nakusp.

THS TOM ANTHONYS
In 1910 Demars district streched from the bluff south to the

Louis Pabst place, now Val Hort son's. Tom anthony came up from the

U.S.A. in 1901 and quite soon bought 165 acres there, the chain of

land owners were, Anthony Meyers, Harry Baerg, and present owners are

Betty and Jake Reiner. Tom anthony quite scon got work with the C.P.R.

He owned a gas boat, set out apple, pear, cherry, and plum trees. Mrs.

Anthony never liked Demars. it is possible that stories told abcut

ghosts pitching bottles and pans while they cussed in both french and
english bothered her. Hrs, Karstew said that for years ghosts were
seen or heard all along that old trail. i myself, have heard blood
curdling coyote yells, but ecyotes, I know, from that direction.

There were three anthony boys who lived and went to school in Nakusp.

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