The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-05
Uncle DICK HlLOUGHBY
ssv HOT FIGHTING N THE ~
cssy WARS or WASHINGTON.
s,aska Pioneer Returns To CsvIIi-
.stssa After Years In the wfias-
u~ Recalls Many Exciting Scenes
An the Early Life of This state.

sr-.~,s TJfeksf wIsloaghby, TIE man whc
a. sever seer 4 gailsosa satsl about txc
..s-s ago. ard aho = noE enjoying a well
ss-ssd rsposs f. civilization after spsE.a-
- ALI MS life r. fse wllds. - vetsr&u
s..s.sr--fsf Of the clEil wsr. for he did no.
80 % Il Until Eve years after IL was
.-<r-buf o. tae indian wars Of TIE NORTH
- Although Bis axe IL ysgeing on a
sss-s Ms memory can yet reach back
....v sears and recall the details OF hls
sz..ss. u,fh fhe sayaxes and the nainss 81
=. ~arrsges IN Arts He was a Heutensrq
= cart. Lyfe'H company Of volunteers IN
- Ia3taf vars 81 Washington. ausorx hf4
,r-srsass beng 1o@epa CahilI. a veteran OF
80 Hexse4n var. who was lost with about
- osherz n the wreck Of tae steamer pa
80 Judge Andrews % Olympus. wao was
.ise alestFHauf. Charles and Al Terry.
;s,sry L. Tssaer aad G u. Maynard
s-fhsa there was Old Phillips" ne SAID
.. he vas relating MS "reminiscences 10 a
pest-Intsilgasacer representative gn the
5sssy Of inc Naw England hotel yesterday.
= sender wast hae beeuFae Of him ffn
tsas store rigat here on Front street
"a. rsvsaua cn{fsr shot "a bali right
ssrgugh MS house a. the hattie Of Seattle.
Yss was n that battle. carried a rins
n
ran was shot right by my side.
.sosa sitter sieptoes party vas snsssa-
srsS b. the Indians. oar company in ISIS
,,nf acres the mountains 70 the Wenat-
zee AM Natchez rivers and up the Co
srfss 70 e point about foHr miles above
Lake rhelan. We crossed the river about
,syes miles from Priest sapids and found
nv tracks ~ q party of white men who
ssa gone do~n toward Fort Slmnoe: NE
insw thev wers whites. because the tracks
saasea thaf the horses had shoes we
rf an Imdian named shushuSkin. a rela-
sse Of Chief Seattle and Ne told M. the
jaaans we're coming. buf rot 20 be afraid
Il then. Then one morning We saw about
80 ssokanfe. the party that bad rnassa-
esed steptoa's men swimming the Caifru-
Bis river on their horses. holding their
fsass high IN the air We were on Kltgap
srefs ard they formed line on.a little
ridss OF the creek and flzured around all
msfning without doing anything We had
sheet lel men in al thirty in front and
thirty IN the rear. With the conmissary
and cargo between. ! WAS with the ad-
sance guard and asw an Tndian hidden In
haneh Of sarYls berry throw up his leg.
told Dan Rice: Lock cut: there's busi-
ness They had showed themselves too
soon fer II they had caught US i'm a can
fea seven niles long. a short distance
shove whore they bad stones all ready 20
rsll down or us. they would have killed
fysrs one Of US.
well. that Indian shot and HIT Rgce's
rsif hack ~ the ear I took out a butt Of
iFoa from It next dsv They used 10 cut
W ranrods for bullets because they had
70 lead. told my men 20 tie np their
aqrses and get behind the bushes and
rocks while Capt. Lyle fixed up the cargo.
Then he came w again with the rear
saara and We msde a charge. eighty Of US.
and ran those Indiians down to thu river
End cleaned them up. When YOU are into
ashi. YOU want 10 go ahead aad get into
ias thick OF Il As quick as YOU can. then
the excitement viii be so great that you
Vii not think Of the bullets. Well. we lost
tve men IN that flght and I guess We got
sfew OF them.
Next day we buried the dead In the
sand. and on the second day we went
through the canyon 10 Lake Chelan There
~ sol letter from a ScOtchman named
McI'onald. OF French Prairie. Or. who was
leading party Of about $50 men 10 Kam-
lacps TO go "a the Cariboo mines when
he had got about half his men across the
fiyer al the lower end OF the lake. the In
Clans bad come on them and killed them.
Yes remember Chief Lesehi and re-
member the man who put knife In him
hsas NeAllster, whose whole family had
beer killed by the Indians | saw him kin
lAsrai right before the governor After
GET Wright had got through fghting the
Indians We killed l. loo horses one day, SO
the next and 700 the third day.
After that we went east OF the mount.
ans and Faiehion. one OF the chiefs. came
nc camp and gave himself un. Col
Wright set up derrick OF three scantiings
sad wagon tongue and hanged him from
u AhaL Falchion's father. made leap
o. ass horse from a place about twenty
I'VE feet high. about twenty-five miles be-
sov where You cross the Nooksack river I'm
toihs towards Fort S.mcoe. but a sergeant
NJ him with bullet In the back OF the
seck, inst as he was going down"
fsew was II that you did not hear OF the
CIV war until Il was all overg" Mr.. VIII
'oasaby was asked.
Well | went from here up 10 Carihoo
ssa pat down the first hole on Williams
sFesk where they took out so bounds OF
sed IN eight hours in the Hart. Curry ard
9alsf shafts. I was one OF the first that
1sae mining laws there. and part OF my
avs stand today, We made the claims 100
.aa lac feet long: we did not have any COO
- claims ! left carihoo IN iSfa and IN
- Went on the Stickeen river with old
81 Moore on the steamer Flying Dutch
nan. We went up the Stickeen. down the
ashtnfie, up the Lard. down peily river
saa Then across - Copper river ana came
cosn there. I kept the coast with the
liver river and Yakutat Indians until
sap1 NOW Admlran l.. A. Beardslee heard
r'e ana sent launch from the warshlp
s :. 70 bring me 20 Sitka. That was
november, $50. and then first heard
!. ne war IN an English paper. I went
go back up COPPER river 70 get some ore
en- 0, there
az. Willoughby had been out OF the
ia Tor ten years and no sooner heard
49, -, asd happened than he plunged back