Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-07-13
How the Nex Pcrcs> War Bexzn
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I!AN wAIIITZE To ExsIx 1T.

The following Memoranda fur.
nished by correspondent Of the .NeW
lNorthr,St deer Lodge) will be of in
terest in showing from what trivia
circumstances the assault upon the
whites near Mount Idaho originated
| insert here some account of Wal
litze during the day tefore he COM
menced his bloody work. Wallitze
was a fine looking Indian and the
Nez Perces had laws something like
the Turks-one might have as many
wives as he chose. Wallitze was a
gay Lothario among his tribe, and
one evening he made love to one of
the red female beauties, and advanc-
ing toward her asked her to go with
him to his lodge. At his request she
consented and went with him. Ear
ly the next morning the mother of
the girl was told her daughter had
gone to live with Wailitze. She
started for his lodge raving mad, en-
tered the lodge, and seeing her
daughter lying with Wallitze, she
took hold of the girl and threw her
toward the door. Then, turning to
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have had many wives and line wo.
men, but you have no regard for
them. You always leave them. You
neither love nor support them. I do
not want my daughter treated in that
manner. l see you are a, man who
likes to go after women and try and
insult our people. But you did not
act like q man when your father,
Tp-iala-natzilkan, was murdered.
There he lies in his grave little
way off, and here you are,, Why
don't you go after the whites?"
To these words Wallitze gave no
notice. That evening there was a
kissing dance among the Nez Perces,
q place where many IN Indian would
have been pleased if Wallitze had
not gone. On reaching the dancing
floor and while dancing around he
was told by one of the young braves,
a relative of the girl he took the
night before: Here you are again.
You need not be so stylish when in
public. We know you are cow
ard" Of these words he took no
notice. On the second round the
language was repeated by the same
Indian. Wallitze stopped and asked
Do you mean what you say?" The
brave replied, II do. You are cow
ard and nothing else. There is your
fathers grave. He was murdered
by a white man and you have not
the manliness to kill him who slew
your father" Wallitze being thus
spoken to in the presence of SO many
women and men of his own people
was abashed. "All right" he said,
"you will be sorry for what you
have spoken" He left the dance
and went to his lodge to sleep. The
next morning at dsy-break he was
up. Some Indians say that Tip-sis-
ill-pilp was with him already, but the
third man, the young boy, was not
seen. He said: 81 remember the
last words Of my father. He sad.
tell Wallitxe, my sOn. for my sake and
for the sake Of his brothers and sis-
tern, and for all ths Nez Pescs< nation
b bold his temper and pos se, his de-
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