Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-03-19

and TO 1885 B,muol Parker aud Marcus
| Whitman started Tor Oregon. on reach.
. ing Green river the mlsu0Iaglll
met some OF tho Ntz por1ts Indians,
aud whitman, being impressed boy She
magnitude % the wa,k before them
lsluruci Tor relniorcemonis. In 1886
Che enthusiastic missionary aud bic
young wife, NafcIsse Preltiss, Co. clm-
ragy with another couple, began their
long Journey across The county. on
fuo gII 10 September they drove the
Uu, wagon that over crossed tho cJE-
fluent 90 She gates Of Font WhlIa
Walh ON the Columbia river, rbe
prflls and difficulties encountered
were inuume,abic, bu, they were al
overcome.
Three ycla later the whit.
mhu mission station was visited
Toy On American traveller. He
found about Two hundred ami
n.ty acres enclosed, two hundred OF
which wore under g1oi cultivation.
There wvfe two buIliIns1 aui one Ia
c0ure 0f erection, aud "a small gflst
mill Forty or fifty Indian children
attended the school and a good work
was carrIoI on among tho natives,
Oregon l0frtory, where the mission
station was located, was at tho time
under the control o. the Hudson Bay
company and the purpose was to TO-
deem Tho o3ugty Tor Great Eutain.
Whitman learned that British au.,Iofs
woro making their WY down
from tho SaskacnCwan 90 take
possession OF tle c0ultry. lie
started iof Warrington, well
kaOwlng that tho value Of tbs region
was unknown 90 au American sialul.
mol. Winter was coming co. but
aollius could prevent him from at.
tempting thu psrllou8 journey When
Whitman aud bis companions, con-
sia.iug fan Indian guide aud n young
white man, reached Fort han on the
Snake river Idaho, they iluud that
the ulual trail was impossible, They
then struck iot the Santa Flo ,uil, 90
the south, through an unbroasu wl'-
i0rncs. On they pushed through
snow and leo, over mountains ami
rivers and the 3ri OF January, 1913,
thoy reached Bcuts fofi 0u the Az
kansas rlvrr. WhiumaUs face
anu feet were badly irazsu, but
he rode on, telling lho settlers OF the
wonders Of the new county ami an.
nOunoing bile Intention OF lcauiug a
company OF colon.Fis there on biz return
tack. lie reached Washington, March
., but Mr.. Webster, then SECRETARY Of
state, received him with indifference.
Oregon was not worth auythlug ni that
time. President ryle5 however,
promised that 70 20 could bu proven that
the country was accessible for settle.
mont j, would not bo celci to Cleat
Britain.
Tho mission thus luldlIol ia wash
ington, Whitman returned and Ia the
SUMMER o. 1913 he led across the
continent aud through tho Rocky
Mountains a wagon-.rain consisting o.
two hundred wagons. From tho Walla
Walia valley they went to tho william.
cite, and the colonization Of Oregon
had commenced,
la tho fall Of 1917 measles broke out
among the Indians, and these CON
sidered the sickness due TO the medicine
aiminiitefed by the missionaries. On
November % the shvagcs surrounded
the rtalIon aud slew Whitman and bic
faithful vile, besides number of
others,
Commenting ON tho wonderful rr.
suits achieved Hy tho work OF this
pioneer, The dlruoa ays'
Tho United States paid slO0ll.OIl for
Alaska 10 bought Louisiana f1r mII-
lions moro. ltTAiI "a Mexican war, blood
uut money Tor tho acquisition UI IuNas
and Sow NUAigo, Hul what $3.50 BE- pay
iuT Washington and oregon and Idaho.
10 territory Into which Sow I.ugaul aud
th1 Middle tate, might Boo pGJ, with
Maryland, Virginia and Wo-t Virginia.
and fhfDU DuuurHtlUuIHl 10 paid MOI ono
cent That VBst region cost lho nation
nothing. 10 only cuHl 10 tho HuuprIurs
aud U0rls NJ Marcus Whitman, Who
rIskuI His 100. mud uu Iurnd 600 hlrlshlpH
that tHU territory 10 hIs adoption might
belong Go Coo country uih4 birth.
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