Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05

majOr, uninterrupted was done by the
two Indian companies-one under DR..
Plllie Mckay, the other under his brother
Donald. You see, the same Indians that
fought against the whites in '55 now fought
for them. But the Shoshones We're the
hereditary foe OF these tribes around here,
and our Indians were glad to get crack
at their old enemy.
1.-The Mckays were educated men. Their
father was of the old Hudson Bay Com
pany; their mother full blood Indian.
The boys went to school. Billie became a
doctor, and was government physician on
the Umatilla reservation at the time of
this trouble. These men knew that the
whites must finally get this country, SO
they lit in to help quiet things"
We had now turned away from the Una
tilla, and were driving along little ridge.
Below us was a creek lined with willows
and underbrush
That little strip of woods down there"
continued the major, reminds me of one
of the daring deeds of that campaign. One
of the Indian scouts in DR.. McKays COM
pany was named -ay-a-wits. He was
the bravest man that ever lived on this
reservation. The Indian scouts were lead
ing the white troops along ridge like
this. Below was clump of trees and
brush The scouts passed ahead. All at
or CO the Shoshones in ambush below fired
at the white soldiers. The soldiers were
scared, because they didn't know how many
II dams there were hidden in the brush.
Inc lnQldn SCOUTS CdluC tuning DdCk.
Got His Indians.
''Ya-tin-ay-a-wits said to the soldiers:
Why you no get him out?'
1.-The soldiers replied: We don't know
how many there are. There might be three
or three hundred
81 get him out said Ya-tin-ay-a-wits
$50. taking a revolver In each hand, down
into the brush he jumps There was lively
poppin' of pistols for a. minute or two.
Then out comes Ya-tin -ay-a-wits.
4" Go down get lnJun, was all he said
'The soldiers went tG the bed of the
creek, and there they found six dead In
dams. Ya-tin-ay-a-Nits took all six scalps"
Guess he kind o. holds the scalp recod,
don't he?" remarked the scout.
This plan of making Indian fight Indian
| was a fool one, as far asresults co." went
| or the major. Down Inv the Goose Creek
| mountains the whites, after killing thirty
| Indians, captured thirtysfve. These they
| The Indian knows no warfare but extermi-
nation. When the swhttas came back the
| thirty-f1ve prisoners Wereahanging to limbs.
| guess the Indian volunteers must have got
| just a little scalp hungry
Crooks Campaign.
| AFTER Crook came he pushed the cam
| paign hard, letting the Indians under the
McKays do most Of the fighting. He made
| a winter campaign In fact, It was Crook
+! who found out that this was the best time
| to fight the Indians. The reason of this is
| that the whites are better able to keep UP
| their commissary department during the
| winter. At that time there Is no grass for
| the Indians pony and the ground is frozen
| SO that he himself can't dig roots. You see,
| an Indian can live on a few roots. Then,
| there's the tracks. The snow makes 1t
| easier to keep line on EN-. The tell-tale
| smoke from the tepee also gives 'em away.
| II the Indians are pressed hard they scat
ter like flock Of quail. Their plan is to
| get the white man as far from water and
| food as possible. Crook kind o. turned
/ their tactics around on 'em. F.4s.sse
LAS long as Crook let Billie and Donald
McKay's Indians do the fighting he Jared