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CHEMAWA
AM ERICAN
messenger; and, finally, they were rescued by another government boat
and taken to their respective homes, the men leaving their Indian wives
behind with their own people.
Time passed, and years. Finally, another government vessel hove
in sight. It anchored in the bay and from it many presents "from the
Father in Washington’’ and the white people who had been stranded
there were brought ashore and given to the good chief and relatives.
The government also built Chief Howeattle a house and put a brick
fireplace in it for his saving the people of this vessel. They also fur
nished the house for him. But Mr. Howeattle was not permitted to en
joy his present long. A fire burned it to the ground. He, however,
had the satisfaction of knowing that he had the good will of the people
and that he had done right.
The wreck of the old vessel can still be seen at LaPush. In sum
mer ii is covered with sea wash; but in winter the wav es carry the sand
far out to sea. Then, there exposed to view are the "irons” to re
mind one of the days of the wreck in that long ago and the change
that has come over the country and the aborigines since that time.
TRIBUTE TO PHILIP MINTIIORN
A F R IE N D O F C H R IS T IA N IT Y
ECENTLY there appeared in the Oregon Journal a dis
patch from Pendleton, Oregon, as follows:
At Tutuilla mission, a few miles from Pendleton,
are gathered today many Indians and white men to
pay a last tribute to Philip Minthorn, known to most
people as Kash Kash, and to the Indians as Pe-tin
Mox-Mox (Yellow Hawk), son of a chieftain, and
for many years one of the devout leaders of the Christian religion on
the Umatilla reservation. He died Monday night, after a long illness.
Kash Kash was one of the four sons of Chief Yellow Hawk, one of
the loyal friends and ardent converts of Dr. Marcus Whitman. He is
survived by only one of his brothers, Luke Minthorn, or Ko-va-ma
Ssamp-kin (Cougar Skin Shirt).
His father’s tepee was one of the few in which the Christian faith was
kept burning during the long, dark days between 1847, the year of the
Whitman massacre, and 1882, the year in which the mission was found
ed at Tutuilla, Yellow Hawk refused to participate in the butchery of
the white missionaries, saying to the chiefs who carried the proposal to