The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-12-11
STATE ITEMS.

From the Jacksonville Sentinel we
learn that s. f. Dowell started for Wash
ington City on the Sd inst, to urge upon
Congress the payment Of the Indian war
claims CT 1851
The same papefsays that young man
by the name of Wetzel, who has been
working in the tin trade for some time
past at this place, was seized with a
strange fit of hallucination, last Thurs
day night. He fancied he was welded
to the handsome and accomplished daugh-
ter of respected citizen of this place,
and insisted on sending the old gentle
man out on the Ranch, and excepting
hoteP himself for a while. The old
gentleman could not see it in that light,
and as the infatuated young man persisted
in taking possession of the establishment
by force if necessary, the City Marshal
was called in, and he was taken to the
calaboose.
From a communication to the Sentinel,
dated at klamath Agency, Nov. 29th,
we learn that the expedition under Su-
pcrintendent Meacham, whose object was
to collect the scattered bands of Snake
| Indians, and bring them to the klamath
Reservation, has met with pretty good
success. j. d. Applegate and party
reached Sprague River valley on the Goth
ult., with 200 Indians, under Chief
O'che-ho and located them at Yianex, in
the above valley, about forty miles east
of Klamath Agency. The Indians ex-
pressed themselves as pleased with their
new home, and the indications are that
by judicious management they will be
no further trouble. These Indians are
known as the Warner band of Snakes,
and include all the Indians in the Camp
Warner and Goose Lake country.
Including the Silver and Summer
Lake Snakes, headed by "Choctoot," that
came in year ago, and some 25 of the
same band, brought on to the Reserva-
ton in the last few weeks, there are now
in Sprague River Valley 800 wild Snakes.
At last accounts, Supt. Meacham was
yet at Camp Harvey, working energetic
ally to increase the success of his expe-
dition, though on account of the lateness
of the season, and counter influences, he
will probably succeed in bringing but
few of the Harney Indians on to the
Reservation this winter, but it is thought
that he will so prepare their minds that
he will be able to locate them all on the
klamath Reservation in the Spring. So
it seems that Supt. Meacham has not
verified the prophesies of his calumnia-
tors, but has taken the only part of the
year when these savages were to be got
together in anything like numbers, and
has really succeeded in getting large
number of them on the Reservation
We haven't the least idea these fellows
who have been accusing "Meachem &
Co." of an attempt to defraud the Gov
: ernment by undertaking impossibilities,
now that the impossibifty has proven a
success, will mention the facts above re-
lated Z, for if they do it will prove their
little stories to have been manufactured
from whole cloth, and written out of a
pure spirit of malevolence and wicked
detraction-
Henry York. says the Jacksonville
Sentinel of the 4th, fell from his horse
while riding along Applegate, last Sun
day, and broke his leg. He is subject
to fits of epilepsy, and one of these at
tacking him suddenly was the cause OF
his fall