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BIOGRAPHY

of TOBEY, WI-NE-MA RIDDLE, WIFE OF FRANK RIDDLE.

[Extracted from "Wi-ne-ma and Her People," by A. B. Meacham.]

About twenty miles north of the line dividing California and Oregon, lies Klamath Lake. It is forty miles long and ten miles wide, dotted with small islands. It is four thousand feet above sea level. Its pure, transparent waters form a beauti- ful inland sea of enchanting loveliness. The mountains on the west bathe their feet in this fresh-water sea, while on the north and east they fall away several miles, leaving a valley of great beauty. This lake is fed by mountain streams draining the

Wi-ne-ma Tobey Riddle. Present day.

eastern slope of the southern portion of the far-famed Cas- cade Mountains. Its principal feeder is Williamson River, which comes in on the north. At the south end of this charm- ing lake, the mountains seem to have shut it up against the mountains on the north and west until the water forced a passage through, cutting and tearing its way, leaving the sides rough and unshapely, with the rocks just as they were rent at the time of the separation by the mad flood. Through t