Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-10-27

Next Jamie the Sootchman.
Then Charles, whom they sDsv;
let received latter Cromwslll
Another Charles. too.
Next James the second
Assembled the throne,
And William and Mary
Together como ON.
Till Anns, Georges -four,
And fourth william al paaned.
God sent us victoria-
May she long b the Last.
4 SCRAP % EARLY ulsroRY.
A correspondent Of the WaitsburR
wv. - Times writes a. follows:
Tho Union Of Sept. 3Oth, in speaking
OF henry SpauldinR, says that his father,
Rev; II. d. Spaulding. settled at Lapvai
IN 1854, and that his mother was Q vic
tim OF the Whitman massacre in 1915.
l believe this locates Mr.. SpauldinR at
Lapwai two years before he arrived there
and know that tho massacre occurred
IN the fall Of lS47. Nor was Ara Spaul-
ding murdered by the Indians-she was
at her home at Lapwai when the
bloody tragedy was enacted. and lived
TO 60 TO the Willamette Valley after
wards, although the hardships endured
while flying from this country to place
OF safety shortened her self -denyinQ
life. 50 much for the corrections. /
Will now eBy something farther about
the Speulding family in connection
with this matter.
Mr.. SpauldinR's mission was at Lap
val, DR.. Whitman's near where Whitman
Station is now located, while the CathO-
lies had established one ON the Umatiila
near where Pendleton now stands. Mr..
Spaulding was returning from TIE VIII
lamette Valley on horseback and alone,
when between Umatilla and Whitman,
he was met by Catholic priest named
Brouillette. accompanied by an Indian.
They talked together q while, Mr.. s.
saying he was going to Whitman that
night. And here arises a disputed
point which has for s. years remained
unsettled, and will doubtless stand in
the same condition TO tbs end of time.
Father Brouillette then fresh from the
scene OF the massacre. saying that he
told Mr.. Spaulding y hat had happened,
while Mr.. Spaulding to his dying day,
denied that the priest had limited At the
matter, but said that after the priest had
gone ON, the Indian Jagged behind and
told hum Of the massacre and that an
Indian who was coming ON behind, was
In search for Mr.. 5. with the intention
of killing him. Thus warned, our mis-
sionary hero left the trail to avoid a
meeting with his would be executioneer
and bore to the left; striking the Walla
Walla river,he rode into the stream and
followed down its bed that no tracks
might be left. He then followed in
general direction up the TOuchet, travel
ing az fast as possible at night and hid
ing in the brush during the day. One
night while travelling about q mile north
Of where Prescott now stands he heard
Indians voices in the trail ahead of him,
they were coming to meet him. He
quickly turned to the left mp little
gulch, threw himself fat on his horses
side, caught the animal by his nostrils
TO prevent his nelghinR and listened.
The Indians saw the horse, stopped and
looked at him, and then saying it was
only loose horse, rode ON. He under
stood their language and from their
conversation. learned that they were. as
he had suspected. party in search Of
him. He then pushed on up Mckay
Hollow and at day dawn, sought seclu-
sion and rest in the brush at the place
where Mr.. Louis Neaoe now lives, and
hero he put in day of suspense. At
this place his horse got loose, and true
to his cayuse principles, refused to be
caught. The only alternative vas to
foot it, which he did, but was tantalised
by seeing that same horse follow him
clear into Tukanon, always careful to
Inosn <ru,< - ~oa~h
While lying in the brush on this
stream, MI. Spsulding had the satisfac-
ton or Otherwise of seeing an Indian
catch and lead away this treacherous
animal, Mr.. Spaulding not even % much
a. limiting to the Indian that the owner
Was then Watching him. He continued
his journey and when his boots hurt his
feet 90 badly that he could wear them
no longer he threw them away, and
barefooted through sage brush and over
rocks, took his weary journey, unArmed,
unprovisioued, through q country
swarmin0 With Indians, securing in
every direction, clamoEous for his blood.
It lasted for five days and nights and Q
moro thrilling night, pursuit and escape
was never enacted In real life.
He never swerved or faltered for
moment, his aim being to get home to
protect his family, for he bad boen told
By either the priest or Indian that In
dams had already left Whitman,s for
Lapwai to instigate another massacre
there. But when at length he staRees-
ed into IN Indian camp near homo, not
knowing whether he would b. received
g friend OF an enemy, his ouapsoss
vas greatly lessened on learning that
the Indians had refused to allow tho
bloody work to 20 further, and that his
family had been removed to . place Of
comparative safety In q neiehbo1inR In
dian village. Yet his suspense and that
Of his family vas not ended, for bad
forgotten TO say that at the time of tho
massacre Mr., SpauldiuR's eleveu-year-
old dauQhter Was attending soho0l at
Whitman, and is wss supposed that che
had ahared the fate OF her teachers. She
Va in the room when that hosnble
butohery commenced. Her hair Was
sinred 6y the are from the guns. An
Indian Ieyeled his gun 20 oheot: ohe
avaitinO deAth. but he ralnnt0d and oho