The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-02-06
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We found in q late number Of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat an al4iele
taken from the Sacramento Record,
written by Calvin p. Mcdonald, on
titled a California Duel" in which we
fnd the name Of Miss Sarah Pellet, u
temperance lecturer. IN the last para.
graph Of bis story Mr. Mcdonald refers
to Miss Pellets narrow escaro from
the IndiaHs while in Oregon in 1859,
which htings very foreibly to or mind
tlsut fert of the story which Mr.. Ale.
Donald seems not to have been fully
acquainted with. II our memory serves
us rightly, it was sometime abont the
middle Of October, 1858, Miss Pellet,
while on her way, all alone, lecturing
through Oregon, stopped FOR tho night
at the house Of a Mr. Wagner, who
kept IA public house OH tho main trav-
elsd road from Oregon to California,
some ten or twenty miles north Of
ltoguc river. Our recollection is that
Judge NJ T. Deadly, who was then n
District Judge Of the Territory of Orc.
eon, was a gncst at Wagncr's the same
night. Tho Judge had been holding
court az Jaelion,ille, and wno than on
his way retaining to the Willamette
Naii.,. llc 40 doubt informed Wag.
ner that the settlers and Indians had
had iight few days before wo be.
licvo it was the Stb-en the rcserya.
ton, about ten miles from jacksonville,
aud that there was danger from strag.
ling Indiana.
Next morning after breakfast, the
Judge mounted bis horse and rode away
towarj the north. Miss Pellctt, fear.
ifg 10 ride alone through the hostile
country, Obtained the company Of Dir.
Wagner, who. instead Of taking the
direct road TO yannoy's Ferry, further
down tho river, whero they arrived
without accident. When Mr. Wagner
returned home thnt afternoon he found
his bouse a pile Of smoking timbers and
his wifo aud children gone. Tho In
dians, it is supposed, arrived at the
lIonse shsrtly after the Judge, Miss
PELLET and Wagner bad lef', and set
fire TO the house Wagner's wife and
children were never found, and it was
supposed thst they were bnrncd IN the
house.
\ few days after this outrage we
passed Waener'a place as n member Of
Company "A" Oregon Volunteers. on
Our way ia search Of "O!d John" the
chief Of the Rogue River Indians We
found him away up in the Coast Mour-
tains, where We fought him FOR two
days. when wc were forced TO retreat,
badly whipped and domoralized. There
was. hs near rs We could tell st the
time. from Eevcnty.tiye TO one hundred
weiIarned Indians under the command
of Old John and Iimpy, while the
whites numbered about five hundred
settlers aisi regular soiIisFn. cssptai,.
4. J. Smith had command o( the regu-
lars, and tie settlers, although organized
into companies, fought rs they pleased,
for after the Fight commenced the OIL
sers kept themselves we'll out Of danger,
Shue the less experienced Indian fight
ers. the Irigates, rushed in and were
shut. After the feit, the dcad-eight
or tei- and about firty wounded, were
taken into tie Grave Greek House, on
the main road, tile place is now called
Leland --lhe dead wete buried, aud the
w,undcd, who eonlt ue moved, were
tsiseit 20 Jacksons lie: and few Who
were uot expected 10 rccoyer, among
whom W. happened to be numbered,
were lef5 10 die. The next day the vol
unteer porliois of the command rushed
~ q, Jacksonville, foity-iiye miles away,
..is.t dishanded.
On the night Of their arrival at JaeK-
sonyiile, Aliss Pellet was delivering u
teinieAmce lecture in the church, or
court house, for We think it was used
for both, when the captain of company
A, beas,ly drunk, madc his way into
the church through one of the windows,
yelling and cursipg, and with lis pistol
drawn drove the audience and tic lect.
urcr from the house.
This IS the last time we heard ef Miss
Peliett until few days ago, when VIC
picked up the above paper referred to,
which informed rs that size was in the
East lecturing on woman suffrage
Had she and the Judge remained at
Wagner's a few hours longer the TEN
perance cause would have lost an able
advocate, and Oregon one Of the ahlcst
ablest iurists on tie Pacific Coast.