Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-05-08
From the San Francisco Chronicle.l
PORTRAITS OF the SAvAGES.
Pen photographs Of Captain sack, John
Schonchin and Boston Charley.

sacre of General Candy and the
Peace Commissioners has awakened
a keen interest in the savage perpe-
traitors. The following sketches of
them will, therefore, be read with
interest. The writer saw and shook
hands with every one of the monsters
barely six weeks ago in their own
stronghold. They were then appar-
emily desirous of peace, and those
who visited their camp can only now
realize the danger they ran in repos-
ing confidence in such merciless be-
ings as they have since proven them
selves to be. 1t is highly probable
that they even then contemplated
their wretched treachery, and were
only waiting to get the three Com
missioners in their power to begin
their dreadful work. Hence they
met on friendly terms all who came
to them until they could entice the
Commissioners within their grasp.
The night of the 2Sth of February
the writer slept in Captain Jack S
cave, lying down beside the latter
with a feeling of perfect security.
Since the dreadful news of the mas
sacre the reflection that he did that
almost makes his flesh creep.
CAPTAIN JACK.
Captain Jack, the Chief of the
tribe, and author of the villainous
plot, is full-bloodedc Modoe Of
about thirty years of age, though he
looks much older. He has a good
head, though, like all Indians, the
forehead is low and retreating. His
complexion is dark, being a bright
copper color, and his eyes are black,
full and piercing. His hair is long,
hanging down to the shoulders, and
his face is entirely destitute of
beard. His mouth is large, and its
shape indicates firmness and deter
mination, though it by no means de-
notes cruelty and baseness-traits
which Capt. Jack seems to possess
above all others. In manner, he is
cool, self possessed and very digni-
fed. He insists upon being treated
with the greatest respect by all with
whom he comes in contact, and the
chief ruler of forty millions of peo-
pie could not be greater stickler
for official etiquette than is this
same miserable savage. He never
smiles. His greeting of his visitors
on the occasion Of the visit referred
to was a splended exhibition of in
difference and haughtiness. notwith-
standing at the time he was so i'll he
could not stand up. Before this act
of treachery he was believed to be
the soul of honor. Settlers in the
neighborhood who had many deal
lngs with him said that they never
knew Capt. Jack to do a mean or
base act, nor would he knowingly
permit any member of his band to
do one. If any of the ranchmen ev-
er complained of any act of specula-
tion or other annoyance, Jack was
sure to visit punishment upon the
head of the offender. He was elect
ed Chief of the tribe two or three
years ago, and Squire Steele, of Yre-
ka, acted as Judge of election-a
fact which has always made Steele
Jacks fast friend. He was the last
man in the tribe who it would be
thought could lie guilty of so base
an act-and entirely out of keeping
with his best character.
JOHN ScHoNCHIN. -.
John Schonchin, brother of "Old
Schonchin," Jacks predecessor in
the office of the Chief, is a man
about forty years old. He is a light
er colored man than Jack, but a
great deal stouter, being broad
shouldered and quite corpulent. His
hair is long and straight, and his
eyes small and expressionless. His
face is pleasing in expression, and
he is much less determined in look
than the younger chief Schonchin
is a rival to the place occupied by
Captain Jack, he believing that he
has hereditary right to the Modoc
throne. Consequently he and Jack
have not been on the best of terms,
though in their humble plot they
seem to have worked together. He
is the man who shot Meacham, and
inflicting the wounds from which
the latter is likely to die. Schon-
chin, in all these peace negotiations,
has been more exacting in his de-
mands than even Jack himself. On
the occasion of Steele's first visit to
the lava bed, he was less friendly
than any of the others. He even
went so far as to accuse Steele OF
wishing to sstalk with two tongues, %
and the latter had to make him q
sharp speech in reply to prevent a
recurrence of the insult. aE ;" i'-,iS
BOSTON DHARLEY, a '-.
the man who shot and instantly kill
ed the Rev. DR.. Thomas, is a young
Indian about twenty-five years old.
He is practically white, and his COM
plexion quite clear. Hence the name
of :.'Boston" given him by the Indi-
ans, which signifies "white.' He
has no history at all, and gained no
prominence in the tribe until the
peace negotiations began, when he
acted as Messenger. He was one of
the youngest savages who came out
to Fairchild's with Steele and party
to talk to General Candy about the
first of March. The General treated
them all very kindly, and their re-
turn for this is his brutal massacre.
"Boston" was one of the best dispo-
sitioned Indians in the tribe. He
was good humored, always laughing
and seemed to like the whites better
than the Indians. He was one of
those indicted by the Oregon Grand
Jury for the killing of settlers, but
he was known to have had nothing
at all to do with the matter, being
on the west side of the lake at the
time. r a-7-t1 @. HE
.-- FINE TALK, s4lsr ~
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