Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-03-25

discovered several pools of blood and
also four fingers that belonged to one
of the first families of Washington.
They had been cut off with sabre
that was swung by Assistant Engineer
Girty. He struck at an Indian that
was in q canoe holding on to our
guards.
The volunteer forces under the COM
mand OF Major Gilmore Hays, and the
United States troops under command
of Colonel Casey, routed the Indians
drove them over the mountains where
the Eastern Washington and Oregon
military forbes Joined ours in putting
the Indians to flight, and brought the
war to a close.
In 1857 Hunt and Scranton re.
turned to Puget Sound from California,
bringing the propeller Constitution.
They had very rough passage up.
She Immediately commenced running
between Olympia, Victoria and Bel
lingham Bay. carrying the U. S. mails.
Chas. E. Williams of Olympia was
purser. After several years service
she was converted into sailing ves-
sci and carried lumber between Port
Gamble and San Francisco. The
Constitution was followed in the
winter OF 1857 for q few months by
the steamer Wilson G. Hunt, which
was followed in the spring OF 1858 by
the stern-wheeler Julia, Capt. John
it being followed the same
year by the side-wheeler Sea Bird,
Capt. Wright, which was burned to
the waters edge that winter in Vic
toria harbor. The Sea Bird was sue
ceeded by the Eliza Anderson, which
had nearly monopoly from 1859 to
1868. In 1858 the fast side.wheeler
Surprise reconnoitered the Sound for
business, but left shortly after for
China, and was there destroyed by
fire. The Eliza Anderson was com.
at different times by Capts.
Thos. Wright, d. B. Finch, w. C.
Clancy. VIM. Wait aud David Wal.
lace; Pilots, John Suffern and Jimmy
Wallace engineer. l have seen the
Anderson leave Olympia for Victoria
with her main deck crowded with
cattle. her cabins full of passengers,
cabin guards filled with sheep and her
deck covered with boxes Of
fruit, poultry and other merchandise.
The first rates we're: Olympia to
Victoria for passengers, $40; cattle.
each, 500, and sheep. $3.50 per head !;
freight per ton, charged $5 but gener-
ally collected $40. At one time she
was II mint for her owners.
G. A. Meiggs' tug-boat Resolute was
brought up, 1 think, in 1859, from San
Francisco by Captain Pray, who was
the pioneer in that time. The Reso-
lutte burst her boiler while towing .
boom OF logs in the Squsxon Island
passage. The explosion of the boiler
split the hull from stem to stern.
Capt. Tom Guindon, who was in the
pilot house, was thrown up in the air,
fell near the boom of logs, and had one
of his arms and leg badly broken.
He was brought to Olympia in canoe
by the only other survivor, a deck
hand, and some Indians. At my re-
quest he had DR.. A. H. Steele OF
Olympia, attend to him. The doctor,
being an expert surgeon, soon had him
in ship-shape again.
The next tow.boat was the Cyrus
Walker, Captain A. B. Cove, followed
by the ]. B. Libby, Captain Libby.
The Ranger, No. 2, a small side.w heel.
er that was formerly running as q
supply wood boat on the Sacramento
river, and there owned by Jose Artega
was brought up by Capt. John S. Hill
and surprised the Victorians in 1865
by steaming into that barber from
San Francisco. Capt. Hill WAS about
forty days coming up, but eventually
arrived there. She was the first gen.
eral jobbing boat on the Sound. Her
successor was Captain Hills second
boat, the Black Diamond. a small
stern. wheeler. In 1861 the Currys ol
Victoria placed the Enterprise on the
Sound for while, but she was with
drawn for the Fraser river trade.
In 1866 / was the lowest bidder iol
carrying the United States mills in
steam vessels between Olympia and
Victoria, and withdrew my bid from
Washington by wire in favor OF Messrs
Hale. Crosby & Winsor, who were to
allow me an equal interest and to
select o suitable steamer. But un'
fortunately, Captain Crosby had the
high-pressure side.wheeler Josie Nc
Near showed onto him by the McNeari
OF San Francisco, and steamed her W
to the Sound. When l learned OF the
purchase I declined taking any inter
est or position whatever. The McNeal
had long and very rough passage up
and arrived with the forward tub'
sheet of her boiler cracked. She wa
wholly unsuitable for the service re
quired, and coon picked her owner
pockets in her efforts to compete will
the Eliza Anderson, SO the owner
added q bonus of $4,000 with tn
McNear and traded her off to tn
Oregon Steam Navigation Co. for tn
New World. The latter boat sooI
financially swamped Messrs. Hale