The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-03-27
SIGNAL WAS WRONG.
Pioneer Indian Fighter Wrote up Vine
gar Hill Before Signal was Born.

The Signal recently published a
sketch of early days in the Thunder
Mt country, from the pen of j. b.
Redington, and this paper incident
ally suggested that it had published
the first account of the Vinegar Hill
fight In the following letter Mr..
Redington convinces the Signal that
it is wrong, that we were bit off on
who Mr.. R. was, and that he was
there and should know all about it.
We shall try and remedy the weak
spots in our Idaho history the next
time Mr. Goulder or Capt Bledsoe
calls on u.s. By the way, the Capt
has frequently promised that he
would contribute to the SIGNAL some
sketches Of old times, but he is too
busy looking for that lost ledge Of
$40, 900 and is in the Thunder Mt.
country to do so before next winter
Mr.. Redington's Zone "d'') letter 10
as follows:
r. e. Lockwood, ESQ Ed. Signal
Dear Sir-Please accept my thanks
for your kindness in sending me q copy
of your paper, which am glad to see is a
very creditable journal. having all the
symptoms Of being representative of Its
| IN, a6c
reaoing up on its locals | have to con-
clude that the Weiser region has got
away from me, for | can't discover a
name that | camped with while riding
over that country years ago. One reason
| for this is that there was no Weiser town
there then, but remember that Falk's
store was near the mouth o. the Payette.
] And when Hon. W. A. Goulder, pioneer
| of Boise, and Rube Robbins, former
chief of scouts, we're here, they told me
that quite thriving town had built up
on the Weiser And | suppose all the
other valleys on the upper Weser and
Payette where we used TO range over a
vast region uninhabted by whites, are
now all settled up. No doubt Idaho has
made great Roadway and will continue
to do so.
In regard to the article on the Battle OF
Vinegar Hill, regret to note that you
put two DIS into my name, where God
only uses one in his, and thus wasted
work. Your statement about Clyde
Lock wood bringing out the vinegar kegs
. bunghole and putting 1t on file in the
y Overcharge hotel, is very laughable.
hope he kept the hole carefully wrapped
up in his blankets, for l remember tina
, every night was chilly one when anc
q Cut Mouth John and Warjack and thu
rest of us Ingines spread our saddle
blankets along the headwaters Of lh
Weiser and Payette. | regret to have tt
say that it is mistake about my seeing
8 the Signal of few years ago, and | an
d compelled to remind you that 1t wa
possible for me to have been at Vinega
Hill quite some years before that.
8 you meet Warjack or Lieut. Farrow the
/. will tell you they saw me there. l ha
IL hoped there were no twists in my article
altho' of course my memory might hav
been at fault on some points. l kno'
l. that there was another man killed whe
e Jackass johnson was, but have forgo
ten his name | think that one of Col
Bernard's boys was killed on Big krick
d 1t reads sort of funny where you say tina
!, the first published record OF the Bi
~ kricx or Vinegar Hill battle appeare
is in the Signal On looking up the tilt
of the Oregonian find that made som
ID record as to how it happened b4 u
g Signal was born. With best wishes Il
the prosperity of the Weiser country an
l. it's very creditable Signal. V. Il. Y,
" ] -REDINoToN.
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