St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-03-30
A Matter Of Local History
The Diar, Of James 81 Johns Now
Printed For The First Time.
Prepared by George II. Hines.

III TWO - tlblk. iltit w Nh-
campcd. There came up small
cloud, with the appearance of a
| light shower Of rain. As it arose IT
grew darker. The thunder roared,
the rain and hail came until the
sround was covered with bail as
large as partridge eggs, and some
four times as large The rain
ceased a little while in the evening,
but commenced again and raincd
nearly the whole night. The
guards had bad night for stand
ing. All the baggage and every
thing the rain could get at was in a
dreadful condition in the morning
but as bad "a. the weather was
there was a wedding in the camp
| this night-Mr. Kelsey to Miss
Williams by Rev. Mr.. Joseph
/ Williams.
June 2-This morning a council
wo, held for the purpose of rcgulat-
! ing the time of starting, which was
agreed on to DE it go minutes after
six O'Clock IN the morning; but we
did not carly thi, morning on
account of being so well drenched
with rain aud hail The animals
need no salt here. The ground is
covered with salt for in many
places. We stopped today at noon
near the head oi Grand Island to
dry our clothing Went on about
g. miles and caupcd Oh the banks
vt the Platte
June 5.-Ihi, day went about
20 miles. l.nclmpcd OH the Platte.
There was another shower OF rain
today, aud the air was cool.
June To-Day We started early.
Travelled bri,kly along the banks of
She Platte until iu the afternoon,
when some oi our men scattered ont
from the Company to hunt ante
lopc. Our ol them being alone,
slipping along 10 set shot at an
antelope WAS surrounded 10y u
baud OF Shiua Cheyenne Indians
and robbed ol hls mule, gun aud
pistol. They tried 90 get his cloth.
ing oft him, but hc tore loose from
them. lie came up with the Com
piuy aud informed the captain of
the Circumstance. Immediately
pat ui thg Company were sent
back To recover the property. The
Indians came, meeting them, The
tclm,lurs hasl,ngd To- put their
wagons IN order battle, Some were
panic struck, They saw the
Indian, coming, go in number
appeared to them hc an army OF
thousands. When, 10! 80 Indians
came and brought the property and
restored !, to the Company. They
were very friendly. They came To
our camp, shook hand, and smoked
the pipe ol peace aud cncimpcd
about SO wards from ~ lhi, night.
June S.-Thi, morning wc sci
uut before ,unrisp. Stopped AT :
O'Clock ior breakfast We seen six
llll bottom boat, land a little below
O., on the river Some oi their
crews came to ~ and informed us
that they were from Fort Laramie,
aud that wc were about 900 miles
from that place, We seen
numcrou, herds OF buffalo tolay on
thc opposite side of the river from
us, and We have killed two ante
lop, today, There came lrcmcn-
lou, hail and rain storm this after
noon The wind blew very hard
where we were, aud on the opposite
side ot the river il blew Tremendous.
We saw trees flying in the air and
water blowing up ont of the river
1o high apparently as the clouds
After the storm had abatcd some
what Nc travelled about a mile
farther AMI found hail stones "a,
large as geese eggs. We made a
very lucky escape not la be IN the
midst at II, hut there were some
large hail where we were. We
went ou and cucimpcd again ON
the bank, of the Platte, We had
not more than got our tent spread
before another storm OF the same
kind came on and lasted until
night leaving the ground covered
with hail II drowned ont all the
fires iu the camp, and wet the most
ol our baggage, and left Us in an
situation,
June oth.-Ihis morning We set
ont early, accompanied hy - In !
lians, who encamped with Us.
They wete of the Chan Cheyennel |
nation they travelled aud encamped |
with Ms perhaps Tor protection from
.hc pIwuvcs This day we killed |
: elk, The weather was cool until |
.welve O'Clock; then il turned |
warm, and rained at night, We
'ncamped this night on the banks
If the Platte, The Indians left to-
lay.
June 7th.-Started at = O'Clock
his morning, Travelled almost 20
niles today and encamped on the
,JnkS OF a small creek. The
hunters killed two huttaloes today.
rhe captain sends ont small party !
II men every day 10y turn for the
purpose of killing meat for the
ompdny, We had another storm
II rain and Wind this evening, but
lot very much rain.
June Sth.-This day we killed
ome -four butialoes and few
abbitS and encamped in the even
ng on the south fork OF the Platte