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be recognized as the generals legitimate
AUGUSTUS

be recognized as the generals legitimate
heirs.
The fact that General Kautz had two
sons by his Indian wife was never generally
known, though his present wife was aware
OF the fact and has recognized them as the
generals sons.
When the dominion of the Hudson Bay
Company gave place to the authority of
the United States in Washington Terri
| tory, General August V. Kautz, then a
lieutenant in the United States army, was
stationed at Fort Steilacoom. While there
he was married to the orphan daughter of
Chief Lashimere, then girl of Is years,
living with her mother, who had become
! the wife of Sergeant Gordon of Lieutenant
Kautz's command. They were married in
accordance with the rites and customs of
the tribe to which the girl belonged, and
she at once became chief lady of the post.
On March 2, 1857. Nugen, the elder son,
was born at the officers quarters at the
fort, and on February 8, 1859, Augustus
was born at Fort Semiahmoo.
When General Kautz was detached from
the department of Puget Sound and or
dered to report at Washington, Mrs. Kautz
did not like the idea of going away from
all her people, and it was agreed between
them that she remain at Nisqually reser-
walton until such time as other arrange
ments could be made. Perhaps realizing
that by the fortunes of war he might never
see her again, he asked her to promise him
that the boys should be educated and grow
up amid the surroundings of civilization.
General Kautz never saw the young
mother again, and not until the BOYS were
grown to mems estate did he ever see them.
although correspondence was kept up be-
tween them, and monthly allowance for
their support and education was sent bv
the general until they struck out for
themselves.
In 1875 the boys joined their mother in
Olympia, then the capital and chief city of
the Territory, and entered Union Acad-
envy, the leading institution of learning
In the Northwest. General Kautz paid for
the tuition and books and the bows and
their mother provided for the other ex-
penses. Mrs. Kautz was favorite with
the ladies of the capital.
In 1879 the boys left the academy with
high honors, standing 90 in class COM
posed OF the brightest boys of the Terri
tory. Among their schoolmates were
James Picket, son of General Picket, who
became noted artist; Allen Wier first
Secretary OF State; Maurice McMicken of
the firm of Strive, Allen, Hughes g. Nc
Mlcken OF Seattle Robert McFadden. Her
bert Burket of Port Townsend, Harry Nc
Elroy, Lieutenant John Hayden. the Tai
cott noys OF olympia; A. Ferry, youngest
son OF the first Governor of the State; the
three daughters of Judge Bigelow of Oiym-
pla; Clara Ludlow, now Mrs Herbert
Beecher, and many others who belonged
to the brilliant social circle which gathered
at the little capital in the far Northwest.
While the boys were at Forrest Grove
College their mother married Henry
Walker of Yelm Prairie, whom she had
known Tor many years, and with whom
she lived until her death in 1883. She
married man named Diggins sew
eral years before, after she learned that
General kautz had married woman in
the East; but the marriage was not a
happy one and she procured divorce, FL
wood Evans acting as her attorney. Mr..
Walker still lives at Hunters Point. near
Olympia.
When General Kautz was about to re-.
turn to the West he wrote the bows. asking
them to meet him at Tacoma HoteI
Augustus was away at the time, and Nugen
went to the hotel on the day appointed:
but not finding his father there strolled
down Pacific avenue toward the depot I'M
til he saw his father coming half block
away.
The general came up to him. stopped
put out his hand and said, You are my
boy, aren't your" Nugen admitted that
he was, and they returned to the hotel.
The general visited the boys at their farms.
advised with them about their prospects.
telling them TO hold their lands and as
soon as his affairs were arranged he would
provide them with money to carry out
their plans. He also told them that in
case OF his death he had made rrnyiSiop
| for them in his will. Nugen married Liz
zie L. Olney, niece of the late Judge Oluey
of Portland. Augustus was married in
1887 to Marie, the daughter of Jacob Kers-
ner, Mexican veteran of Company NJ.
| under Captain HILL who boasts of raising
the first American flag in the Territory.
Augustus Kautz has remained at home,