Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-11-15

missed, though they were good shots.
The bird escaped
Jim turned 70 ne and sid: !" The
soldiers think me kill you. BE was
correct. for the report VS. heard q
the camp and Il VS. thought ! had
been shot.
The place Of meeting was one hun
dred yards from the cave. THIS was
on an elevated plateau and the In
dams were building . stone wall
around IL In few minutes fifteen
or twenty Of the men came % us and
among them was Bogus Charlie.
Through him the talk was carried on
between Jack and myself. Litile was
said by the others They acted like
men who had made up their minds
and arrived 81 . decision from which
there was no appeal.
The occupation Of the land; few
hundred acres on Lost River or HOT
Greek valley, was the demand male
by them sad upon the solution OF this
question hung the lives Of General
Candy and many other valuable men,
Could il have been possible 20 get the
question Of the punishment vt the
Modocs who had been indicted by
the grand jury Of Jackson county,
Oregon, settled, IL ID my opinion that
Captain Jack should have been allow
ed 10 live at Lost river. where he and his
people were born and where the bones
Of bis ancestors were buried. He had
up TO the time (Nov. Goth. 1879 when
he was attacked by the soldiers.
borne q good character and was re-
spected by the settlers Is q man OF
honesty and truth. Meacham has
shown in his "Wigwam and War
psth" that Jack did not want to 60 TO
war, and was told by Geneal Wheat
en- that few days after the fight 10
January Jack sent word 20 him that
he did not wish to fight the white
people. He was told by the general
| that the Indians mist lay down their
arms and that no talk would be had
until he had done that.
Among the Indians were eight
who had killed the settlers In No
vember, 1872, the day on which
jackson had fight with them.
They killed men but spared the wo
men, and that after the Oregon set
tiers had killed an Indisn girl Il
years old and babe in the melee oil
that day; here the settlers should mol
have interfered as It was q question
between the Indians and government
the latter represented by the sol
diers there.
Among those indicted was Black
jim, father of the babe which had
been killed, and he was expected Il
to be surrendered to the whites, b.
tried by white jury and TO be hang
ed for killing white man after hi
child was shot by one of his enemies
| After remaining an hour or NOR
and urging Jack To make peace, Jack
Charley and another stripped them
selves and crawled into wick-i-up
which was covered by q BLAKE
and carpet. Into this they put man,
stones which had been heated in
fire near by. and then commenced Il
sweat and give utterance to the mos
diabolical sounds. Bogus Charlie
told me not to be afraid; reptile,
that had / been afraid / would no
have come among them.
1 The noise aud sweating having con
tinued some ten minutes, Riddle an,
| his wife came In from Gen. Gillem'
camp to make arrangements for th
meeting on the morrow. which wa
to be the last day that Gen. Canb.
and Rev. DIR. Thomas would behol'
the sun.
| My mission being ended, Ireturne,
to Mason's camp, and thence to head
quarters and reported what / hat
seen to Gen. Candy.