The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-01

~ Tor portland. where in due time he
vas registered at the Clarendon hotel To
M Noitner and myself he was most pro-
huse IN his expressions of gratitude
l,id,a - Ie" udys AFTER MAUI ; lidl IoI
torney. the victim and the witnesses were
All present in dreadful array and the
big had the case called John II. Gearin
men my attorney and now the honorable
LLited states senator from Oregon,
looked after the culprits interest
Whether X was pOstponement of the
case Indefinitely or a sentence deferred
for the same lirnitIess period to this day
don know. But Maud accompanied
ner rather east on the following day
Where he declared he would place her in
0CHie boarding school. The eccentrlclty OF
SeIIus however. soon manifested itself
/ petWeen father and daughter, for ii was
i i puI very short time after that Maud
joined theatrical company and conun-
ued IN the profession until her death
ABOUT one year ago
About ten years ago looking over the
/ iinorhlnS paper, | happened 10 read an
item now Joaquin Miller's son was ar
tesleu' tried and found guilty for either
/ of the United States mail. This hap
pehed IN the klamath country. near the
Eva oeds where joaquin Miller, with
aOuoc SquaW as wife, lived with the
tribe for some years previous to his
meeting with Minnie Myrtle. After the
Mcdoc war, Joaquin was loud in his de-
hcncldtlCn OF the government. Immedi-
ately after the Modoc war he published
ms Life Among the ModOcs." If that
'OOh Has any IeQeGmlng feature 1t
| mat II is the record of a self-cOnfessed
mCnster OF inSratitude. an animal of I'M
natural dimensions. In this book he tells
us ne lived the life of Indian among
the Indians and far away from the
whites In mystic way he leads us to
suppose that he married an Indian girl
| by whom he had 4 child. He had their
confidence. He was the great apologist
for Captain Jack" and his brave little
band OF heroes. who i'm cold blood shot
down the peace commissioners sent to
make a treaty with them on behalf of
the government. So great was joaquin 5
admiration Tor them that he was going
to rear IA monument of stones where the
/ last Modocs fell and name the place
Thermopylae.'
Sterne could find himself shedding tears
of sympathy upon the sight Of Il dead
humane feeling towards the defUnct dom
key ShriVelled so that il could be en-
tombed in thimble at the mere thought
of his aged father left to Starve in a
garrett Joaquin says he found the In
dams the most peaceable upright and
geElc of beings but one day some hos
tile Indians entered his tent and stole
everything contained. Mr.. Miller ac-
cOTdingly ed a company of whites
ard followed .r the trail Of the plumber
erS. He fOunu them encamped not far
from Castle Lake" a sweet peaceful
place overhung by mountain cypress and
sweeping cedars" He and his COM
Indians, who were armed only with bows
and arrows, and fired in upon them The
I
plundered and burned
/ What mixture of hypocrisy. senti-
men tally and cruelty Here is this great
friend of the Indians. for the loss of a
few portable articles. aVenging their loss
by sacking whole camp and shooting
down the males. He returned to his
camp and was ready to take part in an
other fresh massacre of the Indians An
Indian tribe had killed some white set
tiers. The number of settlers possibly
did not exceed ten, Mr. Miller says pos
sibly it massacre, but the Indian
account of it shows them TO have been
as perfectly justified rs ever one human
being can be for taking the life Of an
other" BY curious train Of events he
/ finds himself leader against these IN
dians Two decisive battles or rather
uassacres. took place and perhaps 800 In
dams persisted" Here Joaquin expresses
repentance for what he did. These are
his words: Most Of the men are dead
now but scattered around somewhere
on earth a few may be found and they
will tell YOU that by my energy, reck-
/ Iessness and knowledge of the country
and Indian customs. l, ard I only mao"
the bloody expedition A success. ] te.'
this III sorrow. II is a thousand times
more to my shame than honor, and /
shall never cease to regret il. Before
/ leaving the valley We surprised camp
! by stealing upon il at night and lying in
wait until dawn 1t was 4 bloody affair
| for the Indians More than hundred
Law heaped together about lodge
where they fell by rifle. pistol / knife
The white butchers scalped ne dead,
! every one
This bloody rUffianism needs no com
ment here
The parties figuring in this story. save
a few, are now no more At Oakland.
| overlooking the bay of San Francisco.
/ there is a hermitage in the shape OF a
/ cottage of primitive construction. The
| place and the surroundings somehow
/ bear the atmosphere of the mountain
| pines, patches of flowers and notified
rocks give reminiscent tinSe of the
/ wildwood. The cottage or cabin is inhab-
/ tied by a keen-eyed. gray-bearded old
man. In its close vicinity there are three
almost newly made graves. They contain
all that is mortal of Grandma Miller
Maud Miller and her second husband. Ed
ward Holden; and there in the rays OF
the setting sun we will now leave alone
/ with his thoughts and with his dead the
1 poet Of the Sierras, Joaquin Miller.