East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-11-28

houses, while we must live like beasts
in the forests" said 10 Lewis, look
ing hack at the peaceful and busy
mission farm.
MANY thousands Of them Will
come and take all our grazing land
and build houses at all our streams"
said Hill "It was so I'm the country
far to the east, and II will be so here"
Hill was a Delaware half breed with
good education. But he was blood
thirsty and always counselled mur-
der.
Before the white men came we
had Sickness" said Tau-it-tau. "Did
not all the Indians at the big falls
die with a fever and there were no
white men here them"
"That was when the fish became
sick in the streams and the Indians
ato them" said Lewis. This sick
ness is much worse. 1t is caused by
the bad medicine OF the white men.
They want our land
Gloomlly they rode down the trails
to where the stricken Pio-pio-mox-
mox was weeping his dead, not
knowing of the fate which had over
taken the chieftain in the night and
not dreaming of the midnight visit OF
Whitman to his lodge.
Lewis had talked with Pio-pio-
mox-mox and on one occasion the
old chieftain was almost won over to
the conspirators by the eloquent
wickedness of the half breed, but
finally the old chief asked for time
to think and study.
The death wall reached their ears
from many of the lonely tepees.
Hear how our people weep for their
dead" said Lewis as they passed the
tepees in which the dead were yet
mourned. what further argument
will Pio-plo-mox-mox need. Is not
this enough?" said Hill.
When the party reached the home
of the chief they found him yet
mourning his dead wife and child. In
the presence of his great grief. even
the murderous half breeds were
awed. Until he had raised himself
and spoke to them they sat stIll and
waited.
"You have come at sad time" he
said to Five Crows, who was the one
man In the party with whom he could
speak OH this occasion.
"See, the dead bodies OF my wife
and child lie here before me. l am
now alone, Five Crows, come and
weep with me. We have long been
friends" said io-pio-mox-mox.
Lewis saw what he thought was
the time to strike telling blow
against the whites Speaking to Five
Crows he said: SHOULD we not
avenge this great grief that the
white man has caused? Why should
we sit here like squaws and our peo-
pie dying like squirrels?"
Lewis speaks WELL" said Talou-
kaikt. "The whites are killing us
and we slay not one in return. They
want our land. We must kill or we
will all be killed. Who knows but
Five Crows wife may be killed
next?"
-pio-mox-mox arose with a
CLEAN In his eye. Lewis was de-
lighted to have made telling
speech. Five Crows" said Pio-
pio-mox-mox. why do you wish to
slay the white men and women at
DR.. Whlt'an's? Tell Plo-pio-mox-mo
your reasons. We have always been
friends"
Five Crows was staggered by the
question. He had come to ask, and
did not expect to be asked questions.
He was a good Indian at heart. The
counsels of the half breeds had poisl
oned his mind. He stood still and
looked at Plo-pio-mox-mox, who
awaited an answer, proudly gazing at
the five men in turn.
II will answer for Five Crows"
said Lewis, "if he will let me. He
loves -pio-mox-mox and would
not injure his heart"
And then the half breed told of
Five Crows efforts to buy a white
wife; he reclted the fatal sickness
that was destroying the tribe; he
pointed ut last to the dead wife and
child of the chief and with loud
voice called on -pio-mox-mox to
declare war and order the butchery
Of the whites.
The old chief staggered under the