The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-09-10
MOX.MOX SCALP
They Brought it to Corvallis of
Indian Wars-Captain MunSon's
Men.

only OF the affected regions, Dut OF
the Willamette valley, several
months to quel1 the disturbances,
and to reduce the Indians to con-
ditions of peace. It is for the dan
gers encountered and hardships
suffered, that the few living par
Elephants in those campaigns have
been recently granted pensions by
the federal government. 1t is said
that of the we'll known company of
Captain Munson, which went to
Eastern Oregon from the vicinity of
Corvallis, and which originally
numbered 65, only four are still
living in Benton county. These
are Wesley Hinton of Monroe,
Dick Richardson of the same vicin-
ity. Henry Clemens of the poor
farm, and Thomas Philips of Alsea
All the rest as far as can be ascer-
tanned, have gone elsewhere to re-
side, or have Joined the ranks of
the great majority.
Many story is told of the ex-
periences of Munson's men beyond
| the Cascades. 1t was the Cayuses,
Klickitats and other tribes that
were on the war path, They be-
gan their depredations in the early
spring of 1855, and it was in the
summer of the same year that Mum
son and his men with other Will
lamette Valley volunteers crossed
the Cascades to give them battle.
The settlers found it impossible
to draw the redskins into a decis-
i've fight. The latter invariably re-
sorted to Indian tactics, fighting
on horseback, and dashing away
as soon as the settlers came within
gunshot. On one occasion a little
band of settlers were surrounded
by several hundred mounted In
dians. The latter for hours rode
swiftly around the handful of white
men, discharging their weapons,
and yelling like the painted de-
mons that they were. A feature
was that they constantly kept the
circle in which they rode out of
the range of the white mems bull
lets. Had the settlers been armed
with 5000 calibre, long range rifles
of the present make, the circle
would have been speedily enlarged
or many a Siwash would have gone
to the happy hunting grounds
Marsh Simpson of Elk City, was
among those who participated in
this fight.
The chief of the hosti1es in the
Eastern Oregon country was P P
Mox-Mox, aud for long time af-
ter peace was declared, his scalp
was exhibited in Corvallis. IN
Smith, quartermaster, kept the
grewsome trophy for long time,
and many Corva11isite remembers
to have looked at it.
The scalp was from the top of |
head, and was as large
as the bottom of an ordinary tin
cup. Attached to it was a long,
flowing lock of jet black hair, |
coarse and heavy, and perhaps
eighteen inches in length. Mox-
Mox was killed by blow over his
head with rife, dealt by Samuel
father of Sam Warfe1d,
of A1sea, now deceased, but then a
a volunteer from Linn county. Mox
Mox was killed near Wa1la Walla,
where Munson's men and many
other of the Valley companies op-
Grated most of the time.
The names of the men who went
out of Benton in Munson's COM
pany are:-L B Munson, captain:
Smith Snard, 1st lieut.; Chas Hand,
2nd lieut.; Sidi H Bernard, 1st sar-
geant; E1t Summers, 2nd sergeant;
W o Kendall, 3rd sergeant; w JI
Kelly, 4th sergeant; Albert G
Lloyd, 1st corporal; w H Tencher,
End corpora1t Jos L Evans, 3rd
Newton J Ward, 4th
coporal. Privates,-J E Pottenham,
S Wishard, H H Howard, A R
Browns Vim Bohannon, VIM Bronse
Andrew limerick, Albert Igo, En-
erson Rednons; L 7 Garrison,
chas Garrison, Geo Elliott, Jas
J P Philips. SIS Hagman,
. Turnage, Henry Clemens, Henry
Wilmer, Vim Nickson, John Smith,
Geo laundering, Alexander Brown,
Aaron Hamlin. Reason Ham11n,
mo A Vanbil er, Vim P Glow, ] w
McIntire, David White, Geo Hunt
.r, J w Hinton, A Lavander, 7 B
A Johnson, w H Rob-
,rt, John Clark, Henry Baterman,
-as Howell, Vim c Mawl, Henry
Brown, Leonard B Vichards, VIM
Buckley, Roet F Raines, W Nc
Donald, Wells Northcott, A J
Henry Williams Jno
King, J E Barclay, Wesley Hinton
Nm Montgomery, R c Richardson
ohm Brick, Vim Gillian, Geo
Stout, Moses Noble, Mitchell Ing
aham, Vim McKellnm, R P Will