The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-02-07
CHALILs, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1923.

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Perces as he thought they could steal
a lot of their enemies horses.
Sure enough, they rounded up about
IS horses and brought them back, and
among them l recognized several that
had been driven OFF from Horse Prai-
RE creek. They back-tracked with the
animals, while the rest of us pushed
on till we came in sight of the Nez
Perces' camp. We lay in the rimrock
above till daylight and watched them
break camp. They went back several
miles looking for their horses, but
finally rounded UP the balance and
pulled out down Birch creek. Then
we went to their camp and found the
remains of Colonel Shoup's wagons.
which had been burned. We found all
sorts of merchandise scattered around.
Murdered Freighters Found
! Soon I found two of the murdered
freighters, who evidently had put up
a hard fight before they died Later
Colonel .Shoup, Dave Woods and Bill
ly Price came along with pack
horse, some grub and a pick and shov-
81. The two men | found were Jim
Hayden and Dan Combs. Dave Wods
found the body of Al Green, another
freighter, in the creek, where he evi-
IDENTIFY fell when shor. Colonel Shoup
saw magpies flying around up The
creek and found a fourth freighter's
body beside that of a dead mule We
never discovered his identity
Hayyden's gun was broken and bent
the barrel still gripped in his hands
Dan Combs had his mule whip lash
wrapped around mis- hand, and The
shot-loaded butt was covered with
blood and hair, which showed that he
had done some work with it.
The only freighter unaccounted fer
was Al. Lyons. We judged that he haS
escaped, and this later proved 20 be
the case. We Were just on the point
of leaving when we found a fifth body
of white man in the brush len feet
from where Gren lay. He had died
fighting with an axe which still was
gripped in his hands and showed that
he had accounted for a. least one H.
dian. He was stranger evidently a
man working his way through with
the outfit. He had $50 in his watch-
fob pocket.
After burying all Of them we started
back to Salmon. There the Cinnamon
were able TO talk more and told US a
bout the massacre. 1t appeared that
so Nez Perces warriors rode onto
the freight outfit and took them to the /
Indian camp. putting the Cinnamon to
work cooking the grub in the wagons. /
The suuaws knocked the head out of 4
a barrel of whiskey and cmptied doz-
ems of cans of food and used the cans
for cups.
Cinnamon Hide in Creek
The Indians then began to abuse
the Cfinr men. They made ono of the
Ch,5lks get dow on Lis hands ard
knees and =. Indian role him witt.
s,,..s Then no squaws began to se'
nasty snd bu.-ae6 sticks IN pro;.del
the freighters T., the neck with them.
Finally Dan Combs said: 'The next
suuaw that touches me is going % get
this bull whip over the ears" Just
then one polzed him in the ear with
hot coal and he let her have theloai-
ed butt end of the whip over the
head. She went down like a beef and
a general fight started. Hayden used
his gun as a club after shooting once,
and everyone ducked for the willows
but the Chinks All the whites but
Lyons were soon killed. He got away
and finally got back to the stage road
at Eagle Rock, (now Idaho Falls), 125
miles from the massacre. The China
men got into the creek and hid until
night in thhe water with only their
noses sticking out. The Indians after
getting over their drunk, finished the
burning of the freight outfit and left
after mutila ting the body of Hayden
l returned to Junction end over the
divide TO Williams Junction, where I
~ap~rted to Towards comlaand. I
STAYED with him as scout until How
srd vas relieved by General Miles on
the YELLOWSTONE. The Nez Perces
were rounded up by General Miles in
the Little Bear Paw mountains in Oc-
tober.
u !ieve that all TIC ms, mentssnei
in tits story are dead exec wing Felix
re- Pat Dempsey. WIN Ives in iha
tIarhead and mvself.--Saimon Recor-
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