The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-24
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race Some ghIrty=tIye years ago result
ed IN sacrifice and heroisin.
In 1851. wnen the gold Fever was
lending men necrosis the lava beds lying
between Oregon ana California,
young ReIituckian an ex-serge1nt OF
the United StnteS army rank Riddle
wis among those who trespassed mp
on that desoiates region he found
there WtneEna. an Indian girl. fifteen
years old who was considered the
most attractive of the AIodoc women.
Riddle not only got gold, but he got
Winemn for his vile. The young
couple lived In the gold diggtngs, and
the VIE became weaned from her peO-
pie. But sIIe knew that II size showed
this cigne.e or 9 loye Tor her husband
to her people they would XIII her
AS more gold fields were discovered,
moro Whites swnrned across the lava
beds, and the Indians began to mnr-
der them. This melted the whites to
revenge, and a band of seventy five
men went from California to punish
the Indians. After pursuing them for
long while to no purpose they tnYit-
ed the chiefs to meet them for the pur-
pose Of making q treaty. The invita-
ton was accepted, and both parties
went into camp near each other on
Lost river. In the gray Of the morn
ingSof the proposed conference young
AIodoc squnw, with clothes torn and
feet bleeding, hurried into the white
camp and asked to see the leader. She
had walked nine miles over a rough
mountain trun to warn them that at
the conference they were to be muir
dered. This she Ind learned the night
before at the council DIRE.
ISL, u h
truth of her story, determined to meet
cunning with cunning. Going into am
bush near the place OF meeting, the
Modocs fell into their trap and but two
ESCAPED witt, their lives. The squaw
who bore the Information was Wine
ma, Her people never learned that she
had saved. The whites at their expense
or She wc5ld "llave died by torture.
This massEcre of Indians brought on
a Svpr hsreen the United States
troops aisd the STo.locs. General can
by coimnG.a4d the troops. while the
A:oG5es sait-lt GaGer ;tl India.l csifed
C.,ifs:lt.l ) .5rI5. !siGtiie AID other whites
VINO mad Ius-rr RI sgaaws stroye TO ef-s
feet a settbealeEt, bit failed. WineIng.
who hal dorc much to prevent che
murder % sastiera by her people. con
tlplted her etiorts. but now both she
allfA %" klN y 4'fi-tAE 70 3 srs3- s4s5t <
Ell CT Pre-. e.e.4a Tor the whites. W.
was obliged to sleep in secret places
for fear Of being murdered.
a'svo peace conferences We're agreed
upon between the whites and the In
dams At the first the Indians did not
appear. The second was arranged be
tween the commander Of the military
post of the district, Colonel Meacham,
who was doing all IN his power TO
right the wrongs on account of which
the Indians We're fighting. When he
was about to start TO attend the con
ference Winema besouGht him to re-
main away. Since he would not listen
to her she erasped his bride rein. ut
the same time calling upon General
Candy, who was also to attend the
conference. TO listen to her. When She
found they would not. she mounted her
pony and rode with them.
What followed filed the country
with horror. The meeting was an In
dian trap and resulted Ia a massacre.
General Candy was murdered. A blood
thirsty Indian, Scouchin, attacked Colo
mel Neachnm. Winema threw herself
upon the savage and begged him to
sDure her white friends life. Other
Indians came up, and Winemn ran
among them. turning their weapons
aside or knocking them upward.
4 bullet struck NIeachan senselesS,
and n buck ran forward to dispatch
him. Tile squaw turned the weapon,
crying: "IIim dead! No use to shoot!
Scouchin tried II scalp ALeachOm, and
Winema grasped the knife. ScOuchM
struck her. Then she shouted, "phe
soldiers are comtng!" This turned out
to be true, ana in another moment u
troop Of cnvalry dashed among the in-
dams. Seeing among the other In
dams squnw, many cnrbines were
aimed ut her. NO shoot me"' she
cried. II tried to save them! Then
a man IN the ranks recognized her ana
yelled:
.sI'he man who hnrns her iii kill"
Such, is the story OF this wonnn's
work. By her first warning she saved
seventy-ave white men. Had those
to whom she give her second warning
listened to her she would hnye saved
a major f:ciee;sl and a esi9aal II the
I'rit,.d stiise.s tfTii,I Size ,i',;,ai-f she
and hprshut.anl paiA far h5a ioiity
TO ti,4 whites uply relg@i:S ~ he stGt.
oil on tlSc ,lstt az thc i-iliir.s or Can
by ana Ai2Acli.tya. : ,tis.5n. 49, -,22
oil loFseBacg over taelaya i@rls was
shot from ia nmlG,sh by an iidian.
The uiree little children o. EiS.ile and
VVincnip &ere murdered wllie sleep
Ing and fire lint burned Oyer them,
Winelna, aeeing III njglIt fi.oai her
tribe and her family, mnile her way
across the lava beds to she govern
ment post. Though III ana d9S9iate IN
the loss of her husband aud her cllil-
dren. she HiIts5ed Colonel AtenchnIn.
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