m THE WEST SHORE.
tree; tat before going far the prisoner not be followed Two of these were
vu ihot from an ambuscade, when his found to have gone to the Fort Lane
escort tumbled him into a mining shaft, reservation, on Rogue river, and proved
and returned to Deadwood to report pro- to be members of theRogue river tribe,
living on the reservation.
When the news reached Scott river, Here was a difficulty. The fugitives
the rougher element captured Rising were under the sheltering wing of the
San and another peaceable Indian, who United States. The first instinct of an
ere working in a claim, and took them American citizen, when dangers threaten
to Scott bar. Ry this time night had or calamities fall, is to meet and pass
wt in, and the crowd gathered about in resolutions. It is the great safety valve
the darkness to see their champion, Ferd of the nation. Having met and given
Patterson, a noted desperado, who final- vent to his feelings, the American citi
ly met his death in Walla Walla, shoot zen feels that his duty has been nobly
the two prisoners. One of them he done, and retires to his home with quiet
killed, but Rising Sun sprang through satisfaction. The volunteers called a
the crowd, brandishing a huge knife meeting and drew up resolutions, pro
some friend had given him, and rushed ceded by a long " whereas," which stated
down to the river. Ho ran nimbly across their grievances, and wound up with the
the foot-log, and then dropped silently following significant passage: "That if
into the stream and lay under the log at the eipiration of three days, the In
with only his nose and mouth out of the dians and property are not delivered to
water, while his pursuers passed over us, and the permission to seek for them
his head and ranged up and down the is not granted, then we will, on our own
river, firing at every stump and shadow responsibility, go and take them wher
their imagination could torture into the ever they can be found, at all and every
semblance of an Indian. When all was hazards."
quiet, Rising Sun departed for happier A committee of one from each compa
scewa. The next day after this, a large ny was deputed to present these resolu
party of balf-drunken men went from tions to the commandant of Fort Lane.
Humbug City to the mouth of Humbug This individual was "Old Baldy " well
creek, where was a small rancheria of known to the nation as Gen. W. F. Smith,
peaceable Indians, and killed two old To him the committee presented them
bucks, two boys and a squaw, the others selves and made known their errand,
escaping across the Klamath. While placing in his hands the formidable doc
theho twelve innocent Indians were be- ument that was to make the army of the
ing killed, preparations were going on United States quake with fear, and turn
for a pursuit of the guilty ones. About pale the cheek of the brave captain who
tho first of August four companies, one received it He read it, but his checks
from Scott river, under Captain John blanched not; instead, they were suf
Hale, and threo from Humbug, under fused with crimson. The paper trem
Captains Lynch, William Martin and bled in his hand, but it was passion, and
Daniel Ream, loft the Humbug for tho not fear, that shook his frame. He
north side of Klamath river, They num. burst out with an oath, and said he had
biTOl, in all, one hundred and seventy a notion to arrest them all; that the In
men. As tho volunteers approached, dians were under his protection, and
the Indians retre ated toward Oregon, would be delivered up to the proper au
and finely scattered, so that they could thorities when demanded in a legal man-