Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — An Indian Goldfish Pond. [ARTICLE]

An Indian Goldfish Pond.

Port Townsend Call. Several Indians have been observed around town for the past day or two peddling goldfish, which they sold at 25 cents each. The Indians are reaping a harvest at the business, and strangers remark that it is a mighty prosperous town where the go around selling goldfish. It has been something of a mystery to most people asOto where the source of supply existedQthat has proved such a veritable bonanza to the meek and lowly siwash. Judge James G. Swain yesterday discovered the secret. He says that several years ago a vessel from Honolulu brought to Port Gamble a small lot of these beautiful fish, and not being able to dispose of them all dumped them into a pond near Port Gamble. The fish continued to thrive and multiply, and now the Indians there have a monopoly of the goldfish trade and no doubt will be able to supply the whole State with those aristocratic fish.