The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-01-02
ATTENTION, I. w. V.
OFFICE OF GRAND COMMANDER OF !
INDIAN WAR VETERANS OF THE :
NORTH PACIFIC COAST.
SALEM, OREGON. Dec. 2G

INDIAN WAR VETERANS OF THE
NORTH PACIFIC COAST.
| SALEM, OREGON. Dec. Goth, 1890.
| Comrades and Indian War Veterans: At
meeting of the Grand Encampment of
Indian War Veterans, of the North Pacific
Coast, held in Portland, Oregon, on June
| the 18th and 18th inst, there was a COM
nittee appointed to draft some resolutions
in reference to the preservation of the
iames of all the men who have enlisted in
any of the Indian wars of the North Pacific
coast. After due deliberation said commit
tee reported as follows, to-wit:
| Grand Commander and Grand Encamp-
ment of the Indian War Veterans of the
North Pacific Coast: The committee to
whom was referred the matter of collecting
and preserving the names and organizations
of the Indian war veterans of Oregon and
Washington respectfully report as follows:
The noble men and women who staked
their all and blazed out and opened the way
to Oregon and Washington, and made pos
sible the planting, budding and blossoming
Of those young and justly proud states,
should be held in kind and perpetual re-
wars in what is now Oregon and Washing
ton, who, themselves pioneers, voluntarily
placed themselves behind their rifles to pre-
serve the lives, safety, happiness, homes
and property of friends and loved ones at
home against numbering, burning and plum
dering savages, and who opened wide the
door for the certain and safe settlement and
habitation of this great and unequaled
Northwest; also deserves the esteem and
kind remembrance of our good people, past
present and future. Therefore your COM
mittee recommend that the honorable, the
legislature of Oregon and Washington, be
respectfully requested to deyise and execute
some PLAZA by which the names of the regi-
ments, companies, officers, privates and at
taches engaged in the Indian wars of this
northwest coast. may be recorded and pre-
served as interesting and important inci-
dents of our carly and eventful history.
Respectfully submitted,
G. L. ROWLAND,
T. b. WAIT,
A. E. WAIT,
Committee
This report was unanimusly adopted, and
comrades Col. John Kelsay, Hon. Edward
Evans and Hon. T. G. Shaw We're appointed
q committee to present the subject to the
two legislatures at their next session,
As the legislature of Oregon Will convene
in January, 1891, and that time will soon
be here, we desirous to block out some
plan of action by that time that will be
Veterans, whether they belong to IL camp of
such or not. And as every one is apprized
of the fact that whatever is done will have
to be done as thankoffering, for there is
no money in the treasury of the Grand En-
to pay anyone to travel over the
country and organize camps, yet it would
seem that something of this kind ought to
be done in order to arouse the patriotism
of those old Indian War veterans
again. But it is now too late to
do anything of this kind. hope that every
Indian War veteran that may see this com
munication will use his utmost ability to
find out how many veterans there are in his
or county for that matter,
and be able to give names OF veterans, and
names of captain of company anil number
of company and the year and what wars
they were engaged in, so if we should get
this measure through the legislature we
will be partly ready to commence work as
soon as the law is enacted.
Respectfully,
r. G. SHAW,
Grand Commander |. w. V.