The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-22

Some Injun say: Good woman Injun XIII him hus-
band; she pray for Injun- Some Injun very bad.
one man. Lewis for name, his father white,
window. de see Sister Whitman. He shoot Sister
Whitman. Big shame, Joe Lewis! Friend take SIS
use chief. take him scalp Sister Whitmau-ong pref
try hair all same leaves when frost come Big shame.
Tam-su-kyl"
When the Indians saw the missonary's wife pray
ing for them after they had struck down and hacked
her husband, many Of them turned away from their
crime. afraid perhaps that the Great Father would
call them TO account. lit only few who
fends enough to carry out their plot. Many of the
Cayuses in fact We're not i'm favor of the massacre
When one young buck came from the scene of muir
der and the first 10 tell about 10 TO old Peu-
peu-mox-mox yellow Bird. this chertan said to
his braves: Hang this Indian limb"
Ip-na- thal-a-talc. having begun would finish her
story: "1ujun take him an white woman. am white
child prisoner. Five Crows take him one white Voc
man his tepee-heap pretty woman one moon, King
George man come. He bring heap blanket, heap
shirt heap tobac gun King George man give him
Injun heap blanket heap shirt heap tobac, gum; In
jun give him King George man all prisoner. Five
Crows heap cry. He gave back white WIFE
This, suppose. was the end Of the affair, wasn't
it?" said I to the major.
"Oh, no; Peter s. Ogden head Of the Hudson Bay
company. hearing % the massacre. came
post and, Ip-na-t ha-a-tac told the Indians
blankets shirts, tobacco and guns for the captyes.
But the whites wrought became bent on having
the mUrderers. The Indians fearing The white would
kill them, went on the varpath.
the short. learned chat only
a part of tribe. the Cayuse took in The
sacre The other tribes of the region-the ImatHas.
Nez Perces. Walulas and Spokanes-turued against
lows.
feathers and worked themselves up into frenzy;
but they drew to the whites they became
sick at heart. To drive away this fear the braves
War Eagle and Five Crows, their chiefs is battle,
the earth their mother would not let any harm
TO them. War Eagle swore: IF Boston shoot me. War
Eagle catch him bullet between teeth Five Crows
told his braves that lead from white mans
guns could get into his body The faith OF the
Cayuse chiefs like that of the 1loros in our
battles in the Philippines To prove that they
free from harm, War Eagle and Five Crows left
their band behind them. where they could see, and
wauds. Riding straight up. they were fine marks.
Colonel Gillian, commanding the whites gave the
pleasure of shooting the chiefs TO the leaders
o. the Indians ScOuts-TOm Mckay and Charlie Nc
Kay. the haIf-breed sons Alexander Mckay part
ner of John Jacob Aston i'm his fur trading the
Columbia. Forward the chiefs rode in the face of the
whole regiment. Tom Mckay, as he has told many
q time. chose War Eagle. who said he could catch
the lead ball between his teeth. waited until the
chief close up. They kind o. hated each other
anyway Then bang went went Tom Mckay and
down War Eagle-shot through the heart stone
dead. Charlie Mckay didn't quite Kill Five Crows,
but he wounded him badly This enough for the
Indians 1t knocked their Smoholie religion out of
them and they said quit
'WeII, what about the Indians who killed Whit
MANI"
oh they we're taken up and taken down to Salem
and hung-hve OF them.
when we get back III show you picture of
the tomahawk with which Tam-chas slew Whit
..I'u tell YOU some day this country viii build a
high monument over the Whitman graves. said the
major when left the house of Ip-na- thal-a-tac.
AS went to our horses we heard the OLD In
dian woman grooming hymn she had learned from
the Book of Heaven given her by the martyr-rlis
sionary wife
Copyrighted 1903 by Charles n. Crewds9n.
Photos by Major Lee Noorhouse, Pendleton, Ore.