, 1866-03-23


skin on the hard floor. Stickus, the Chief. came
In one day and took the cap from his head and
gave II TO me, and a handkerchief to nv child. u
Ihls Fort Walla Walla is one Of the "St. Bern.
ards spoken Of SO highly by Capt. Mullah ia
nus Valuable Report on his military road, where
tae destitute and weary are ever treated kindly
Strange kindness. The same Capt. MuIlan and
some others shall have occasion to noiice, BY
silence virtually condemned the whole policy Of
Doctor Whitmhn, his invaluable labors ia frsi
opening the Grent Bmigraut route, and .akaiu
his hazards aud suferings in saving it and this
great West to his country, and his unceasing
kindness in giving supplies to the passing Emi.
grants, aud his great work among the Indians
Not word in his book about the good man or
his many good and great works. few more
such religious fanatics in our army and navy
andIndian Department aud 1t would not be DIFF
hcult TO get up another st. Bartholomew in our
country. ..
The sun Of the 3Oth of November refused tc
shine on the once beautiful and happy Valley OF
the Walla Walla, now stained with the blood of
Gods servants, shed " like water round sbout,''
and the bloody work was not yet done! NJ
Kimball with an arm broken, aud otherwise
badly wounded, remained in the chamber with
the four sick children and the two Oldest Sager
| girls, Catherine and Elizabeth. They tore up a
| sheet wound up his arm and bandaged his
bleeding body; but he suffered terribly ell night
and became frantic for water in the morning ;
said he would have it if killed in the attempt.
| He crawled out to the river. A friendly Indian
saw him and hid him in the brush but for rea-
sons unknown, about sundown he erawled out
and came toward his house. Catherine (who
had come over with the chIldren) says 81
! heard the crack of gun by my side and turned
| Frank Escalcom, an Indian, was taking his gun
from his face. Laughing, and pointing to the
fence, he said See how make the Sugapoos
! (Americans) tumble Mr.. Kim6sll was falling
| from the fence near the door, tue blood running
down the rails. Frank then stepped little dis
lance, took Susan Kimball by the arm; and
laughingly said See, have killed your father
and you are to be my wife, ard dragged her
away,
The same evening Mr.. Young, coming down
with team, was met over the hill mile from
! the station, and shot. Two of the oxen were
| shot with him. The same afternoon, General
Brouilette, Vicar General for the Pope of Rome
on this coast, arrived from the Umatilla at the
camp of the murderers, which was close by the
station, who kept-up the scalp dance all night,
the screams Of our'helpless women, writhing in
the hands OF the unrestrained demons in plain
hearing.
But Wednesday shocking deed was com
mitted, that must shudder the heart of every
American and forever blacken aud ruin the
name of General Brouilette philanthropist,
and cannot but equally blacken the characters
Of those persons IN this country ard in Wash
irgtcr, connected with the Government, who
have taken paius to Justify the sayages and
cuse Prouillette. He, the general, told me with
his own lips, as the history will show " This
morning, after | baptized the children of the
camp, ] went ever to see what | could do for
women and the dead bodies" Thus the new
missionary, this priest of God in the vestments
CT God, commenced his mission work in his new
field which he had emphatically gained by
American blood, by baptizng those blocd-s stained
children of these Bloody savage murdererS, the
dead bodies yet lying unburied about him. For
the last eighteen years have not ceased to ask
the unprejndiced what effect this baptigiug in
those circumstances had upon the minds of the
Indians There can but one answer be given.
They understood the priest as approving what
they had done and were doing After the bsp-
tizipg of the murderers, and after the bodies
had been collected, sheets sewed around them
by my daughter Eliza and others aud hauled by
hand inSwagons, put in pit and slightly COW
cred. the Indians collected around the General,
and insisted on his going to the Doctors medi-
cines, to select out the poison, which it was
said had been sent over by the fathers of Mrs.
Whitman and Spaulding, and with which the
Doctor had been killing them as be represented.
Several dispositions sustain this declaration.
Mr.. McLane Secretary to Col. Gillian, says
81 Soon after our forces left the garrison, we met
A delegation from the Cayuse camp, headed by
Stckns. who said When we had but one re-
lipion, we had peace but when another religion
come, there was trouble. We were told the
Doctor was poisoning us most of US didn't be-
lieye. But the Indians killed DR.. Whitman, and
after he was dead the chief who told US these
things came, and we told him to show US the
poison. He went to the Doctors room, took up
several little bottles, then selecting one and
holding it up, said This is the poison with
which the Doctor was killing you. Bury this
in a box, or you will all be dead F" Miss BeW-
lev. Catherine Sager and Eliza Spaulding say
that after the bodies were buried, the priest, who
had been in the Indian camp over night, came
into the large house where the 'captiYes were
kent, and the Indians gathered around him and
asked him to go to the Doctors medicines and
6nd the poison. The priest Vent over to the
Doctors house, and followed by multitudes of
Indians but by no white man except Joe Stan
field. ave trembled lestsOmething should be
found and made the pfetense for killing US all
The Indian women were gathering around as
with their dull tomahawks, and we expected
every moment they would split cur heads OPEN
Joe Stan6eld came out, the Indians following
him and said The Father has found the poi
son here it is, holding up phial which ne
put into box with earth, nailed it up and TOOK
it away to bury it," . .. -. .is
Sails and Bewley were removed to the large
building and commenced to gain slowly The
helpless women and girls, bereft Of their hus'
hawk, stripped of their property, cattle, teams,
their money, and even Of their clothing, TIL
they had not enough to keep them from shlver-
ing were subjected to fate more terrihc tnan
death itself and beyond the power of the pen to
describe. The indians admitted that in some
cases they had to use the knife their victims being
so young. am told by the volunteers that three
Indians who reported these acts to then tue
next summer, rather boastingly, were missing
the next day. Our captive women were COM
pelled to cook for large numbers OF the sayages
every day, who would call upon Eliza to know
if poisoh was put in the food, and recurring her
% eat Of it 6rst. Robbed of most of her cloth
ing, exposed to the cold and the smell Of blood
while sewing sheets around the offensive dead
bodies, constant calls from the terrified white
women and the Indians, 10 interpret for them,
Eliza sunk down in a few days, and was laid al
most helpless in the same room with sails ana
Bewley. On the eighth day after the hrst outen,
cry, three Indians came into the room and saia
that the great white chief at Umatilla had said
that they must kill the two sick men to stop the