The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-06

% s VERY Indian tribe in this country has had to
have one good Hclcin before they would
quiet down" began Major Moorhouse as we
- jaunted one day alongside the Umatilla
river. Bill Woodward, the old scout, was driving
After the Yakima Of So" continued the
jor, things quiet out here in Oregon until the
close Of the civil in the south Then settlers came
pouring out into the northwest. The Umatillas cay
uses and Walla Walas had gone peacefully upon this
one reservation out here and not kicking up a
muss any more. But the shoshones, who had never
tasted white mans lead, began in 81 to waylay emil
grants and rob kill them. All along the road from
oregon to salt Lake the Indians raised Cain Those
coming across from California had to watch shy.
You see there three divisions of the Sho-
shones-those down in Idaho. those in the Malheur
toJintry eastern Oregon and those Just north Of
California in the Warner lake region. But they all
spoke the same language and We're in truth just one
tribe scattered i'm three different places The two
oregon bands had moved over from Idaho after the
20 war They had been too far away to take part in
''The Indian you know is those days had no idea
now many people there in the east; they really
thought that they could wipe the whites off the earth.
one ola chief Out here went TO Washington. He
started out with "A long stick When the train
stopped at some small place he'd count the number
1t possible warriors around the station and each
ing he landed In Sbica@o tI baG tn en- t,,g the
heart of the city getting from station another.
lie chopped pretty lively on his stick for awhile but
he hadn't gone more than a block or two before he
threw IL away. saying. Heap white man-all same
buffalo. imam no whip white man
ot his feet three times big the other. They
could track him for awhile. then all Of sudden they'd
lose all trace of him."
scout
Z What started the ban a-rolIin~ went on the ma
~ was the massacre of a bunch Of Cinnamon.
About eighty of EN- their way from Chico.
p tal, 10 the Owyhee mines i'm Idaho. They
went along with white teamsters who protected
gthem But one Chnaman strayed away
Teams and got among the Indians They treated him
well He reported this to the other Chinarden. and
they thought they would quit the They struck
the Indians lii I'm 'em. The Cinnamon didn't fight
: back, although they We're well armed An Indian
would run up 10 a Chinaman and the Chinaman would
hand the Indian his pistol and get killed with own
gun III along the creek for mile scattered
dead Johns. The Indians cut 'em up horribly. They
We're especially proud Of the scalps with such nice
long tails to em- For arterward YOU could
Chi~a-7cu.
Just Chinaman got away. He came into Can1p
Lyons. down i'm southeastern Oregon gave the
alarm 20 the little squad of soldiers These
regulars had several engagements with the Shoshones
nut nothing that amounts 10 much done against
them until General Crook came.
. The scouts and volunteer Indians did the real
The reglars didn't know't all by a d. sight" old
Bftl broke in Did they, major?'
Most of the fighting" continued the major min
rerruptsd was done blythe two Indian companies--
one under Dr. Billie Mckay. the other under his
brother Donald You the Indians that
But the Shoshones the hereditary foes of these
TRIBES around here. and Indians were glad TO get
crack at their old enemy.
The MCFays educated men, Their father
was OF the old HUDSON Bay company: their mother
tull-blood Indian. The boys school. Billie