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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1885)
250 THE WEST SHORE. tonly, deliberately and cold-bloodedly shot to death. It wan inexcusable, unmitigated, unprovoked murder. It was Indian protest against white settlements on Paget Hound. ' Its first direct consequence was the establish ment of n military post at Fort Stuilucoom. Tim Hnimiiulinifl nnt.inn waii at. flint, tima tlm mnat numerous ana most Indian of the tribes upon this great Miami sea. raiyninum (our people knew him in the Wnr (lllVH (if lHftl-tf Ml .'lltltnnilm . hia hrnthnma innuinn ..... .. .-. ..... aaau i.u.llVia WUD.UD and othnr young men had grown rostloss of the authority if Ilia nl.lni- ..ru Tlm M..iiui. . ..,.., .,:.i n. . f ... ..... v...v... 4vi.u n.iini inviin ija;illj.iil tlm will- lory between the Columbia Itiver and Kocky Mountains. Of tlifl mout wmitnrn trilma nt that vuwou living OI Islo do Pierre and White Bluffs (called by the Yakimas tlm Winn.Mlinnam " ho1 !,: n U- I., u better known now as Moses. He becoming troublesome of hitter days has been duly rewarded under our Indian policy with a reservation, embracing about a ninth part of the whole Territory. In 1848 his father, Skutaleoosira, Veiled Fort N.HnUnllv. niwimr.nnia.1 1... T... Indian. Jourueyiiiff thither that chief wantonly shot a nanus yiium at iviuiuia. iveiurning homeward, Sku tnleoottiin hired a crew of Vium.ullu l.i;..., him and his companion to Hnoqualmie Falls. A white uii accompanied, in the meantime the Yakimas, to avenge the murder of their Voutll. had hired a rmrtv nf ilia M.,, ,.,!..,... i -n m . , ... ' , ""1iiuii WJ Kill OKU- teleooHi.n and his companion. The canoe was waylaid at Avuriil iwiin.ii tint, tlm Unix, I . . . ......... , n uuu,iimuuiH assassins laueu in their purpose. Arrived at the falls, the chief and his companion fled to the woods and escaped. Descending the river on the home-bound trip, the Nisqually crew wore mnroihttwly plundered and poor Hall was subjected to untold annovaiinniL T hio tm..i..,. i . .... ., i I i . 1 . t"'iuiw a rupture oi Uie Ia.fu relation, lietweeu the Nisqiiullies and Suoqual wies. 1 eace was, however, restored by intermarriage of Wyammicli son of the Nisquslly chf.f (Lahalet. and I JL i i TIT" lauBhtor f the royal household. Agreeably to Indian custom, such marriage occasioned frequent rip. of the Suoquahnies to see tfieir relatives who dwelt in the vicinity of Fort Nisqually. On one o such trip, on the bay winch front tin's city, a Snonnnl m put, captured an inUUn boy of the Des Shutes S& SlteS ' I" their rV, . T . ' . """'avemeui () tli0 r youi. i,B Olynipia Indians sought the inxwl m .,f h i? i- ranoe,! the requisite nu,n.H,'o, bfank U with 'whK mn.m the captive from Hnoqualmie slavery How grand theae two sucoeHse. of Patykinum and hia malcontent relatives apixwwl in his ev.-I in 1 1 vl ,5 hi. tribe! IWembolhined htaWlffi5 eicunuona, for further freebooting. Fuaiory Secretly Utfore, but avowedly after tlm Whitmnn m. Mere (Novrber 1847,, the LdK K?ern 0 npreaaml with the desire to exterminate the white aet-tler.-j. Americana Thi. i. proven by warning given by friendly naUve. and the InUmidaUon andTxpul. ion of soliUry aettler. from their homes. Prior to the Whitman massacre Owhi and KamiHkim the . great chief, of the lWr .ud Lower Y.nVnaS while on a visit to Forti Niaqually, ha,l observed to l5 Tol uie that the Hudson'. Iky Company posts, with their white employes, were a great conveniooTto U,e natives but that the ludui of white. (American immigrant, who had for several year, been leasing the Dallei . to Oregon, hd c.ted the alarm and wa. U,e conXS U enia of hoatile convemUon among the interior tribe.. XIm enwtum, in 184H, at Fort IJTually ofT.todlad and block house had also been the subject of angry criti cism by the visiting northern tribes. So insolent and defiant had been their conduct that upon one afternoon, for over an hour, the officers and men of the post had guns pointed through the loopholes at a number of bky wamish Indians, who, with their weapons ready for as sault, had posted themselves under cover of adjacent stumps and trees. Shortly before the shooting of Wallace rumors had reached the fort that the Snoqualmios were coming in force to redress alleged cruel treatment of Why-it, the Snoqualmie wife of the young Nisqually chief. Dr. Tolmie treated such pretext as a mere cloak for a maraud ing expedition of Snoqualmies. Sheep shearing had gathered numbers of extra hands, chiefly Snohomish, who were occupying mat lodges close to the fort, besides un employed stragglers. On Tuesday, May 1, 1849, about noon, numbers of Indian mman and nVii'1.i.on AaA in great alarm from their lodges and sought refuge within wiouuu a ouoquaimie war party, lea Dy ratykinum, approached from the southwestern end of the American Plain. Dr. Tolmie having posted a party of Kanakas in the nortwest bastion, went out to meet them. The Doc tor accrediting thoir motives as free from hostility to the fort, but as an intimidating visit to the Nisquallies, fur nished the Indians the usual tobacco to smoke, enjoined moderate conduct and good behavior, and induced Paty kinum to return with him to the fort, closing the gate after their entrance. The journals kept at Fort Nis qually by the Hudson's Bay Company officials thus detail the incidents which followed: t? Wh7-r"ff.hTh,' m,t loditu w" Varied bj whiU man and an Indian iraiDMlmUlr oarnwl iiuula Uw fort. Tu. dewl LdiiTwai a reun J slniTX who tuul ma.1 th. twill. mMMulriZ.l:'".wt '"''-"-taw ol Juaohin Thiebau Ui. whit finlrrM iS W.S1. .ll Uiair fnna to kill Uiat old and ri U rtiiohurai.h inrurnwra to Dr. Tulmia. Thoai, innlth vl Wa bti aliwuli dima.,r four namaa ol .... ....... . 'r. . ill m !. inOM Juallawuwt, wm attanrarda triad lor u mnu. TTfV.n ilia viuit ff Uah T f mi' q. "'" "V wumn inoniwn, United State. Hub-Indian Agent for Oregon Territory, to Fort Nisqually Dr. olmie reoommended the offering of so many blankets for the d1ivarr 1 .n..6i . derera, and such delivery was the result of his zealous" labors and hm mflnanna k f-.i: it. ,u0 xuuiuua. xi e save: U. b. rU,Bwl and Mkd b, uit'm 7 iTSM H ?d,PI"!''nwH "ar. of th. s.w iik. tJl.V:MdL"" Hon. J. On inn Tl lriPttfj-kM 4la IT? ? II ... auenov in the matter tn r.y fi'rst, our then Territorial Goyernor)TP (Vtn ' orblikJrrlrrd i?aJ,ilLlo.inVnt mi uix aa ulXlaot d lL mlZlLt.i! and to oOar
