The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-04-24
KENosHA, WIS, APRIL gath, 1878.
CAPTAIN JACK. MODOC WAR.


blooded Indian about IS years Of age and
about FIVE fest six inches in height anc
weighs not far freM 155 pounds rAshel
morose in his looks, and sometimes dress
% in good clothes and bets his money Of
monte alike gentleman" Jack and hi
men have lived with the whites since the
discovery Of geld in 1s49. They can talk
English but Ia council with the Peace
Commissioners they insist on talking their
own language, thus requiring interpre-
ters. According to statement Of the
Dixon Telegraph, on the authority OF
Avery Jchnson, formerly a resident of
Yreka, and we'll acquainted with Cap.
tain Jack and the Lava Bed, Captain
Jack has now deposited, unless he drew
it out recently, about eight hundred dol
lars in the Yreka Bank. If this be true
CsptNin Jack is able to live sSd even bet
his mosey on monte like a gentleman"--
considerably advanced in civilization
the vices or white men,.
Notwithstanding the advances If the
NodOcs in the vices Of white men the
Government has insisted on their being
removed to.a reservation and they have
refused compliance. This difference led
to hostiilties and fran hestilitles to ne
gotistiOns for peace and peace confer
ence. During the peace conference Gen.
Candy and the Peace Commissioner in
sisted on the Modoos going on the rsser-
Tation allotted to them by the Govern
ment and refused consent to their going
where the Modocs proposed to go. On
this refusal the Med0c ooRferees fred
upon the United States conferees killing
Gen. Candy and Commissioner Thomas
and seriously woundng Commissioner
McachAm. This treachery of Capt. Jack
and his confcrees and their assassination
Of Gen. Candy and Commissioner Thomas
has led tea war on the part of the United
States for the determination of the Mo-
docs, and there are few to call on the
GoverHmeat to stay its hand. Some eb-
iect to the extermination of the innocent
with the gsilty, and few even pray for
the Modocs Henry Ward Beechsr being
one of the number. 4
Notwithstanding the vices, the treaeh-
cries and the assassinations of the Nodes
they have probably been sianed against
more than they have sinned-not by the
Government but by the whites. Bad as
the trescherY of the Modocs in murd ering
the Peace Commissioners in peace con-
ference has been, it has been surpassed in |
atrocity in the treachery of the whites in
numbering ModOo Indians in peace con-
ference. In support of the truth of this
statement we take the following special
Dispatch to The Chicago Post:
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.-The treach-
cry of the Modocs iii numbering the Peace
Commissioners recalls the history of o
former massacre in which eighteen Mo-
doc peace men were murdered in 1859.
Northern California being disturbed by
Indian troubles in that year, a, company
was formed under command of Captain
Benjamin Wright and proceeded from
Yrekat Ito the Indian country. Around
Tuls Lake and Lava Bed they fought
three unsuccessful battles, and the toIce
being found insufficient for the subjuga-
tioA Of the Modocs returned to Yreka and
organized large troop, which marched
again to the Modoc country. Winter APP
preaching, found the Modocs' supply of
blankets, ammunition, and food extremely
limited, and consequently they were anxi.
GUS for q cessation of hostilites. Captain
Wright received the Modoc overtures
with great cardiality,a peace conference
was agreed upon and Place appointed
in the immediate vicinity ofthe massacre
of Gen. Candy. The conference met, con-
sisting of about twenty-five Indians and
thirty white men. While discussing the
terms, Captain Wright gave his men the
signal, and in moment they killed
eighteen Modocs. Seven Indians escaped.
Shus persisted the fathers of the present
Modocs Captain Jack WAS then nine
ycarsold. John Schonchin 10, Boston
Charley and Hooker JimS. It is probs
BILE that thus revenge grew with age,
eliminating in the Candy Thomas .nassa-
Gre. Some years after Wright was APP
pointed Indian Agent at Rogue river.
He was apprehensive of Modoc vengeance,
and one night ModOc Chief, named
Enos, murdered Wright and horribly mu'
tulated his body. Chief EDos was after
ward captured and hanged. He died ex-
ultine thai he had wreaked vengeance on
the leader Of the slayers Of his tribe.
That the Indian Peace policy of the Gov
eminent is right, and that the administration
was irving In good faith to carry 1T into effect