Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-01-31
The Indian War Veterans of the North
Pacific Coast.


]. w. V. of n. 2. c., has furnished
the following from The records of the
largely attended annual meeting uf
the Indian fighters of a past genera.
/ tion:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov. 10, 80.
On Tuesday, June II, 1890, in the
Grand Encamlment, comrade A. +.
Wait of the Grand Encampment,
presented and read The report of the
committee ON collecting and pre-
serving the records of the Indian
war veterans as follows,to wit:
Grand commander and grand en-
campment of the Indian war vet
erans of the North Pacific coast;
The committee to whom was re-
ferred the matter of collecting and
preserving the names and organiza-
ton of the Indian war veterans of
Oregon and Washington respect
'Na'y ~ 90 lOliOMSs
The noble men and women who
staked their all aud blazed and op
ened the way to Oregon and Wash !
ington, and made possible the plant
ing, budding and blossoming of these
young and justly proud states,
should be held in kind and perpetual
remembrance. And the veterans
of the Indian war in what is now
Oregon and Washington, who,
themselves pioneers, voluntarily |
placed themselves behind their rifles
to preserve the lives, safety, happl-
ness, homes and property of friends
and loved ones at home, against |
numbering, burning and plundering
savages; and who opened wide the
door for the certain and safe settle
ment and habitation of this great
and unequaled northwest also de-
serve the esteem and kind remem-
brance of our good people, past,
present and future.
Therefore, your committee recon-
mend that the honorable legislators
of Oregon and Washington he
respectfully requested to devise and
execute some plan by which the
names Of the regiments, companies,
officers, prlvates and others, engaged
i'll the Indian wars of the northwest
coast may be recorded aud preserved
as interesting and important Incl.
dents of our early and eventful his
tory.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. l.. ROWLAND.
Il. B. WAIT.
a. q. WAIT.
Com.
Which report was unanimously
adopted, and comrades Col. John
kelsay, Elwood Evans aud Hon. II.
Shaw were appointed II committee
% present the subject to the legisla-
OiS bJ IuC ueAl SeSSlOu.
A bill has been prepared and pre- ,,
'ented by MIR. Minto, of Marion and
s entitled "an Act to Provide for the
by the Secretary of !
state, in record to be kept by him :
n his office, of all the names of the
indian War Veterans of the North
Pacific Coast and Attaches thereof"
THE TENT OF THE BILL,
SEC. /. That the secretary of state
# the state of Oregon shall record
n II book or books, TO be Kept 10y him y
II his said office, the names of all the Il
indian war veterans of the North \
Pacific coast and attaches thereof,
rom AID. lS47 to A. lSi7,und also .,
he company and regiment the veter-
ms served in and the date Of the
ervice.
SEC. 2. The certificate of the I
rand commander of the Indian war
'eteraus Of the North Pacific coast
CERTIFYING to the service OF the vet =
attaches aforesaid, shall be
efficient evidence of the said
ervices when presented to the r
ecretary of state, and he shall /
hereupOn record the names as pro- n
Ided in section l of this Act; said t,
ertificate shall state the company n
nd regiment said soldier and :,
ttache belonged to, aud the year in
'hich such service was rendered.
SEQ. 3. Whenever any person n,
no shall have registered with the =,
'cretary Of state under this act, shall ~
asire certificate Of such fact OF
gistraiion, or whenever 1t may bc
'cessary or proper under any law
this state or United States, or 9th
wise, TO prove such fact of regis Br
alton, or the fact of being such 10
ldier or attache, upon payment to tilT
ch secretary Of state the sum Of so or
nts, he shall issue to such person, --
der the seal of his Office, a certih-
te If such registration, stating the =
NIX, company aud regiment or de r.
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rimcut to which such attache ~
l0n26d, and the year Ia which
rh Service was rendered, which Is
shall he sufficient evidence
the fact therein recited for any y
rpoees required 10y law.
SEC. t. That the Grand com =
Iuder Of the Indian war veterans
the North Pacific coast, shall be
,Ued ont of any Inobev I'm the ,,-,