Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-01-13

err Mckinlay, in charge at Fort
| Walla Walla, and Chief Factor Nc
Donald, at Fort Colv;lle. In Sep
TENDER, the indignites by the Cay
uses to DR.. Whitman and family
were OF constant occurrence. This
condition of affairs had become
known at Fort Waila Waiia, and
was matter of anxious concern to
Dr. John Mclaughlin. chief officer
of the company, who advised DR..
Whitman to withdraw for time
from Waiilatpu. He invited DR..
Whitman to Fort Vancouver, and
recommended his sojourn in the
Wallamet for year or two, when
the Indians would beg of him to re-
turn. DR.. Mclaughlin urged that
DR.. Whitman's absence would not
be of long duration.
DR.. Whitman was unwilling to
desert his post. To his friend Nc
Kinlay he wrote: &" I thank you for
your solicitude in our behalf. I had
an aversion to writing you, as 1 did
not like the Indians to see us moved.
So tar rs we are concerned We were
never more at ease. We have moth.
ing to lose or gain. 1 am willing
that the Indians should exhibit the M
selves to themselves, if possible. I
fear Joe Gray may have been the
cause of much of the present excite
ment. One of the Cayuses told me
that Joe had been telling Telonkaikt
how the Indians did in his country;
that they raised disturbances and by
that means received property. Kin
kie, or the Crane, also told me that
If any person came upon lands of
the whites and they did not like ii,
they kicked them Off There has
not been cause for as much as you
have heard, but still there has been
enough to make stories. On Satur-
day morning, the Hawaii woman
and an Indian employed by Mr.. W.
H. Gray were cooking at the same
fire. Mr.. Rodgers was sitting by,
and an Indian came in and placed
himself in the way of the woman,
who made complaint to Mr.. Gray.
He requested the Indian to get.out
of the way, but the latter persisted
in remaining saying: Ysu need not
fear, am not going to steal Gray
replied They wanted the room, and
he did not want Indians around that
fire The Indian became insolent,
and Mr.. Gray put him out by force.
He then went into the horse pen and
threw his rope upon one of Mr..
Gray's horses. Mr.. Gray cut the
rope and put him out of the pen.
In the afternoon he returned, took
the horse, no one making resistance.
l saw him catch the horse and asked
hin, If he thus made himself o
thief, how he expected to cleanse
himself His lrother standing near
said 1T would be right to kill cat
tie 1 told him he had shown his
heart and he could kill them, if he
thought it would be WE'LL Seeing
these men SO embittered, 1 at once
went to Mr.. Gray and informed him
lest he should be taken by surprise.
BY this time, u number of Indians
had collected in front OF Mr.. Gray's
new house. We were on the top
and Telonkaikt came forward, and
came up to us. I desired that MIR.
Gray should make 10 reply to him,
but let do that. We talked until he
became a little cool. I then went
down from the building. After
some time he came down to me and
stood around for time. At length
he upbraided me for sustaining Mr..
Gray. I then told him that Mr..
Gray did right. After requesting
the Indian to get out of the way and
having not only refused but abused
NJ. Gray, the latter was compelled
to put him out. He then took hold
of one of my ears and pulled it, I
then turned the other to him and
gave him an opportunity to pull that
also, and in this way l alternated
giving first one and then the other
to his full satisfaction. He at the
same time continued to rap me on
the breast as though to impress me
with something. In this connection
he told me if he was to 60 to my
country he should be very careful
how he conducted himself, lest he
shout! displease and be sent off. I
maintained my ground and temper,
but he could not so we'll contain him
self. He therefore took off my hat
aud cast it into the mud and water.
l asked an Indian to bring it to me
and put it on again. He again took
it off and threw it in the mud. I
called for it again and put it on,
when once more he took it with great
energy and cast it with such violence
that the inside took largely of mud
and water. I called for it again and
in its dirty condition put it on once
more, when he let it remain. After
waiting sometime without word, I
washed my hat and myself. All gave
up that a quarrel could not be raised.
In the meantime the same Indian
who had proposed to kill the cattle,
proposed to throw Mr.. Gray aud
cook from the building and provoke
aquarrel with them. Here it ended =,
and We resumed our work, although
notified by Telonkaikt that we were
laboring in vain, for Mr.. Gray must
leave after the Sable tn. At first he
told US both to be off early the next
day, but replied that we could
not consent to move on the Sabbath.
The Indians who labor tor US have
provoked the jealousy Of the people
because they have food, shirts and
blankets in distinction from them
selves. if you please. Indian Mckay,
this morning, ordered our laborers to
desist and move away. His COM
plant was that by what they &C.
complished for US, it was rendered
ont of the nOwer Of the Indians to