The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-03-15
Measure Finally Passed Dur
ing Last Hours of
Congress.
SECURE $40 MONTHLY
Survivors in This s e C tion
Have Received Papers
From Smith.

The old Nez Perce Indian war vet
Grams of 1877 are at last going to be
rewarded In measure, for their vol
unteer services through that early day
Indian uprising, according to letters
received the first of this week by a
number of the old boys still on the
turf. Congressman Addison T. Smith,
who with other of our representatives
I'm congress, has interested himself in
getting this pension measure through,
has written all of the remaining vol
unteer Indian fighters I'm this section,
and the widows and heirs of the others,
notifying them of the passage of the
Indian war pension bill during the last
hours of the congress which has just
closed, and enclosing blank upon which
to make application to the pension de-
partment
Once before 1t was reported that this
bin had passed and become law, but
that report was premature, the meas
ure being held up in the senate by a
member or two who insisted that the
bill should include the questionable
claims of a number of Utah citizens,
and this blocked the passage Of the
measure, until the tangle got straight
ened out.
John II. Addison, who was active in
promoting the interests Of the local
Indian fighters while In the Tenth
legislature of Idaho, has passed on TO
his reward, hut Mrs. Adkison and
children are still residents of this
community, and will he beneficiaries
OF the measure A number of the other
old warriors have also crossed the di-
vide since steps We're first taken to
recompense them for their services.
Among those still remaining In this
country are George ID. Smith, A. w.
Talkington Henry Johnson, Frank
Vansise, NJ. 5. Martin, James Buchan-
am John Crea, Thoi.as Crea, G. M.
Day, Joseph Himmensgck, John Rig
gins, J. N. Rice, J. q. Rowton, T ID
SwaTts, Ernest Smith, Fred Noyes,
Perry Il. Sherwin, Thomas Surridge,
Henry Meyer. Charles p. Cone, w. M.
Williams, Samuel Harty, John Byron,
Patrick Curtin and A. ID. BARLEY.
The present bill, il Is understood
provides pension OF $50 per month
to every volunteer whose name ap-
pears on the enlistment roll, or who
can establish his claim to service by
competent witness. This will be
very substantial lift to some of the old
boys upon whom tickle fortune has
ceased to smile In their late years,
and is well merited recognition of
services renderd in a very trying per
iod in the history of this then new and
undeveloped section. A number of the
. volunteers here have already filed out
the blank applications and sent them
ON TO the commissioner of pensions at
Washington.
The list of those seventeen volun-
teers who went from Mt Idaho to the
rescue of the citizens of Cottonwood
when attacked by Chief Joseph and
his warriors, on July 3, 1877, and were
engaged in the hottest of the fight, are
as follows: Captain ID. b. Randall,
Ben Davis. ID. ii. Howser, (these three
were killed in the engagement Eph
Bunker, Charles Case, AL Leland, Chas.
johnson, Henry G. Johnson, George
higgins, James Buchanan, Lew Wilmot
James Cearley, A. ID. BARLEY, Frank
Vansise, Frank Fem, Cash M. Day,
| w. B. (Peter) Beamer.