, 1873-06-26
IL Meachem. the unscalped Peace

ing to the Modoc Secretary of the In
terror for another billet, by endorsing
and advocating a continuance of the
peace policy. He is represented by a
Washington dispatch as saying: :" Ther.
are white Lien in California and Oregon
more responsible for the blood of Gen.
Candy than Captain Jack himself" To
which nearly every man in Oregon ac-
quainted with the facts. will respond: !:
Thou art the man." If the Modocs
were justified in all their other outrages
upon the whites, they richly deserve
hanging Tor the bnngling job they made
with Meacham. by which he escaped
with his life Now he is coming back
from Washington. another dispatch says,
ut the expense of the Government, as
the emissary of the Peace Commi sion
err. to attend the trial of the Modocs
by the Military Commission, undoubt-
edly to try to defeat the execution Of
the murderers; and if successful i'll his
mission, will be responsible for the loss
of man, lives much more valuable to
community than his own.
PoRTLANO.-Portland has covered it.
self with glory by repudiating party in
the selection of municipal officers, and
electing only with regard to honesty
and business qualifications. The vote
on Mayor was declared as follows:
For Mayor-Henry Failing (People's)
LOIS; John McCracken (RepublicanJ
99S; Eugene Semple (Democrat) 142.
Police Judge-O. N. Denny, 1,072;
Risley, J54; Dodge, l25.
City Treasuer-Lewis, 1,099; Backen-
stos. 92O; Bloch. 46.
City Assessor Going, ]. 1.033; Oatman,
$40; Kelly. las.
A CHRISTIAN INDIAN Rev. Theodore
Crowl. of this city, lately visited the
Lapwai Mission in Idaho. Since his
return he received the following quaint
letter from Nez Percie Indian, who is
interpreter at the Agency:
LApwA1, Idaho, June 6. 1873.
My DEAR FRIEND I will write few
words to you. will write my letter
with all my love to you aud with all my
heart to you. Dear friend. l am well
as you left me when YOU went away.
aud am getting along finely in the
school, and all the scholars are well too,
and all the folks are well in Lapwai,
Idaho. and one Indian woman died on
last SATURDAY., and some Spokane H.
dians came to Lapwal and want old .nan
Spalding to go over there to preach 10
them, and some Indians wentwi,h them.
They went aw~y asst saturday.
l think we are getting along very well
with these Indians in Lapwai, but those
Kamiah Indians are not satisfied. they
are doing as they used to do.
Here is one thing 1 will tell you about: :
l heard from the Indilns over in the
Buffalo rountry. They have been fight
ing with the Sioux Indians. When the
Nez Percies seen their camps they took
all their clothes off and went after the
Sioux and commenced to fg bit with
hem, and the Sioux whipped the Me-
Percies and took every thing away fir m
them and left them naked. The snow
WAS about two feet deep, their camp
about fifty miles away, and head Gu
troze to death, and some ofhe:s were
frozen go bad that when they got home
they died. There was tEirty Ill all tina
died. This is all that hearl from the
Buffalo country.
think. dear friend, l never see you
araln in this world, but think will
see you again when the time will come,
so alway pray for you and l hope you
will pray for me too.
JAMES RUTAN.