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OSCAR HYDE,
Agent, Prineville, Oreqon
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LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOE MEEK
( liiirch lllrrrlnr;.
t?utvi(!c will be lioM an follora :
HAITI HTM
I Miinvillo preaching tho necond
Mllli filllrlll HUM(II)'H.
Hullinth school every Sunduv
nt 2 p. in.
I'rayor meeting ovory Wediied
luy cvimiinf at 8 o'clock.
flnyntiiik prenching every. third
Stiriliiy.
Ilciiii i rcticliinK every firct Hun-
luy. Kiiv. Triilet jmHlor, rexi(len(;o
Ihtitliht mrnoniiKo I'rineville Ore.
lUkMIIVIKIUAN
I iiiieville prviichiiig tba firnt and
third Suiidayo. ,
Huliliiith Rchoul , every SutnUy
luorniiiK at 10 a. in.
i'rnyer ineetitig every W'edneii
ilny ovening lit 8 o'clock.
Hvv It. I,. All'-r Heciilence at
McFarliind, hotul,
U. K. ClIUMi H.
1'iiiiuvillc prenchiuK thu aecotid
ami fourth Su nilu ye at I la. rn. and
every Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
Subbiilh achool every Sunday at
10 a. in.
Kpwnrth league cv-rv Sunday
eveiiinU nt 7. p. in.
Prayer meeting every Thuraday
evening at h o'cKx k. '
Willoiv Creek preaching firit
Sunday in each mould at 11 a. m.
l'lyjool preaching third Sunday
in each month nt 11 a. m.
Howard preaching the Saturday
evening prececding lbs third Sun
day in each month. Knv. H. C.
Clark pHHtor, reitidence M. K. par
ouiirp, I'rinevilia Oregon.
I'brintian Kmleavor mectl at the
Union church every Sunday even
ing at 7 p. m.
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IIY MIIH FIIANi'KH Kl'LLKK VKTUU.
KAUI.V. DAYS IN ORKCION.
left to perceive his danger, and he
gun heating him with pack-saddles
to put out the blaze. Hut between
tiio burning and the beating, the
unhappy wretch nearly los-t his
Abandoning hia iacl.horan,he iul
the other to ita lopmout speed, and
ftuccecdcd in gaining thu moiin
taina, where in a deep and dark
defile he secreted hirum lf unlil he
judged tho Inditing hud left thrt i life, and never recovered from the
I part of the valley. In thia lie wan ! effects of hit baptism by fire.
deceived, for no aoontr did he Heaver being plenty in camp,
emerge again into the open coun-' buKineva was corrof)ondingly live
try, than he was once moie purcu-! ly, there being a great demand for
ed, and had to abandon bin borne, I goodx. When this demand ivaa
to take refuge among I he cliffd of Supplied, an it was in the coume of
the uxtuntaina. Here be remained ; about lliree weeks, (hi different
for several days, without blankets j brigades were set in motion. One
or proviripna, and with only ono of the earliest to move was a (mall
chargo of ammunition, which was i party under Milton Sublette, in
in his rifli-, and kept for self d-' cludinir his con -1 a r, t cornnunion.
fenso. Allengih, however, by fre
quent reconnoilering, be managed
to eludu his enemies, traveling by
night, until ho fortunately met
with the two hunters from camp,
and was conveyed by them to the
rendezvous.
All the parties were now safely
in. The lonely inciintain valley
chief had meant to do by pca;tful
OVdrtun-H, until the warriors of biH
nation camo up. Tho black fuel
immediately betook themselves to
a swamp formed Ly an eld beaver
ddtL, and thickly overgrown with
cotlori-wood and willow, matted to
fc'ither with tough vines. On the
edgo of this difciual covert tlie war
riors ukulked, and shot with their
guns ond arrows, while in its very
iiiidoi tho women employed them-K-lves
in diiiting a trench and
! throwing up a I ronetwork of logs,
and whatever came to band. Such
a defence as the thicket afforded
was one not eaey to attack ; its un
seen but certain dangers being suf
ficient !o appal the ttontet-t heart.
Meantime, an express had been
Kent oil to inform Captain Bublelte
of tho bailie, and tuiumon assibt
ance. Sinclair and his free trap
perd, with Milton Sublette's small
company, were tho only fighting
men at hand. Mr. Wyeih, know
ing the inefficiency of his men in
an Indian light, had them en
tmicbcd behind their packs, and
there left them to tuke care of
THE OLD RELIABLE
Absolutely Pure
THEMIS NO SUBSTITUTE
Meek. With this company, no
more than thirty in number, Sub
lette intended to explora the coun
try to the fouth west, then lin-
kniM'.i in tlia Tur iiiinn,nli. anI
to proceed as far as the Humboldt i ,1,tn'sfclver' eharg,d them not
river in that .lir-rtinn I l'P"ar Pn fio!d- A 'or the
On the 17ll. of July they set out j hth ,ne"' "'7 lati'J"t'(J lhm' I get a view of the fort
l,,-r,l flu. L,,lh ..! nf ll. .,.llu I selves HI n fat.ur. t.ut-io ...
thero, inflicted some wounds on
the party.
The few white "braves" who bad
resolved to enter the swamp, made
their wills as they went, feeling
that they were upon perilous busi
ness. Sublette, Campbell and Sin
clair succeeded in penetrating tho
thicket without alarming the ene
my, and came at length to a more
open space from whence they could
From this
they learned that the women and
populous with the different 1 and having made but about eigla j could occaKI0,iail-v p,tk 'T a lilaL'k' children had retired to the raoun-
E. O. HYDE, M. D..
(Cm-NTV 'll)lt-UN)
Phvslclan and Suriroon,
rUINEVIIXB, OHKOON.
Culls promptly attonJrd, day and night
J. H. ROSENQERC, M. D.,
PKINCVILLB. OBEOON.
Om- Hr.l dour mirth nl Truililrlvn A Sun t
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H. P. BELKNAP, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
PHINSV1LLB. OKEOON.
ofllct I AtHttuuii A W innrk Co'. Urn, Siors
A. D. MORRISON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SUREGON
PrinovlllB. Ornon
Oitu-r Spxi tHMir l Aliuni.ai Prug Hior '
V ll priitnpll) Hllrtiiloil to,
0. A.CUNK,
DKNTIST,
1-ltlNKVll.l.K. UIIKliUN.
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cnuips. Thu ltocky Mounlaiii and j miles the first day, camped that
American companies had thei. pe-, night near a piss in the noun
purnte camps ; Wyeth had his ; a j tains. Wycth's party of raw New
company of free trappers, fifteen in i Englanders, and Sinclair's free
number, Ird by a man named Sin- j trappers, had joined themselves to
clair, from Arkansas, had the; tho company of Milton Sublette,
fourOt ; the Net l'erces And Flat J and swelled the number i-i csmp
heads, tho allies of tho Hocky to abojt sixty men, many of them
Mountain company, and the friends j new to the business of mountain
o: tne wtntes, lisu lueir louges nio,
; tains,
!
i slight
foot, and waited for reinforcements
Great was the astonishment of
the iilakfi-i-t, who believed they
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nsa omy .union ouoieue s camp prving ev Moving glow,v Q (
to fight, when they btheld first one j (Jne ilJgt act.ident betrayed their
party of white men and then an-j vk.ilit - nd tfae next moraent a
other; and not only whites, but i , . 6truck Sinclair, .woundinz
anu riauieais came i
anu mat tne tort was s
affair, covered with buffalo
j robes and blankets to keep eut
Nez
l'erces
along all the streams; so that alto
gether there could not have been
less than one thousand souls, and
two or three thousand horses nnd
mules gathered in this place.
"When the pie was opened the
birds began to sing." When Cap
tain Subh'tlo's goods were opened
and distributed among the trap
pers and Indians, then began the
Just as the men were raising
camp for a start the next morning,
a caravan was observed moving
down tho mountain pars into the
valley. No alarm was at first felt,
as an arrival was daily expected of
one of the American company's
partisans, Mr. Fontcnelle, and his
company, liut on reconnoilering
with a glass, Sublette discovered j
I, i if .
galloping up me van -v. it neiore ( bell) rcque6ting to WUken to hja
" ualue 10 uesiro Ule brother. By this time, some of the
whites, it was now a battle to ue-
' him mortally. He spoke to Camp-"
find themselves. Previous to the
men had come up, and he was giv
en in charge to be taken back to
arrival of Captain Sublette, the op-; camp- gubleUe then pressed for
posing forces had kept up only a j &nd aecing , Indian look
scattering fire, in which nobody on j jng through an aperture) aimed at
the side of the trappers had been ; him with futa, ff , y
either killed or wounded. Hut
when the impetuous captain ar
rived cn the battle field, he prepar-
bud he done fo, and pointed out
the opening to Campbell, than he
was struck with a ball in the
tlxual gay ca'rousal ; and the "fust ! I hem to be a large party of black
young men" of the mountains out-! feet, consisting of a few mounted
vied each other in all manner of j men, and many more, men, women
mad pranks. In the beginning of j and children, on foot. At the in
their spree many feats of horto-jstant they were discovered, they
manship and personal strength
Sera exhibited, which we.o regard
ed with admiring wonder by the
seher and inexperienced New Eng
enders tinder Mr. Wyeth's com
mand. And as nothing stimulat
ed the vanity of the uiouutaiu-.'uco
liLo au audience of ibis soit. the
M. R. BICCS,
Attorney at Law and notary.
Main 8trt, Prtnavllla, Oregon.
Offlrt oil ktrect UaiIIiic to Court Home,
set up the ufual yell of defiance,
nnd rushed down like a mountain
torrent into the valley, flourishing
their weapons, and fluttering their
gay tilankets nnd feathers in the
wind. There was no doubt ns to
the warlike intentions cf lite Black
feet in general, r.or was it for a
fnils they performed were apt to j moment to be supposed that any
AFtonish themselves. In exhi- j peaceable overture on their part
bilious of the kind, the free trap-1 meant anything more than that
pcrs took the lead, and usually car-they wera not prepared to fight at
ried off the palm, like tho privileg-' thnt particular juncture; therefore
ed class that they were. j let not the roader judge too barfh
ed for less guarded warfare. Strip- shoulder, which nearly prostrated
ped as if for tho prizs-ring, andhim anJ lurned him so faint that
armed cap a-pie, he hastened to the : Campbell took him in his arms end
scene of action, accompanied ry ; carried him, assisted by Meek, oat
his intimate friend and associate o tl)e 8Wamp. At the same time"
in business, Hubert Campbell. j one of tho men received a wound
At sight of the reinforcements, !in tile heaJ The battle was now
and their vigorous movements, the cariiej 0 wjth spirit, although
Indians at the edge of the swamp from lhe diflieulty of approaching
fell back within their fort. To dis- j ,,, fort) lbe QriDg waJ vefy ifregu.
lodge them was a dangerous under-' jar
taking, but Cp!ain Sublette was Thn n;mmLiinn . Kn fnllnwp.l
delermiiied to make tiie etl'jrt.
Finding the trappers generally ilis
inclined to enter the thicket, he
set the example, together with
Sublette, took up their station in
the woods on one side of the fort,
and the Nt! Perces, uuder Wyeth,
on the opposite side, which acci-
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v,u.ii,.ucn, ui.u ii.ua 1UUU1.CU j(.ntal brranet Joiit, though it was
of the free trappers, with their j f,ltal Ul m.wy oftbe Blackfeetin
leader, Sinclair, to emulate his ac- j,ufl f., n..,a".d ih m.mn nf
tion. However, the others
looK j 0S3 l0 themselves by the cross-fire.
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Hut the horse-racing, fine riding, ly of an act which under ordinary ! - . , Thmbitrt being constantly rem- ,
uie swamp, ui.ug i r.n.uo.n m forecil by frestl arrivals from the '
V'. A. BELL,
Attornoy-nt-Lnw
NOTARY PUBLIC.
nitli-g ou lri'ol li'odlus lo Coiirl lloux.
PKINKV1I.I.K. OUKfDN.
C. W. BARNES,
AllOUS'KV AT I, A W AND NOTAIIY ITIII.IC
rHIEVlLLK, OHEGON.
Offlce on Wml I'hlnt Slrenl,
M. E. BRINK,
ATTOIINKY ASP eol'XSKUUt AT LAW
A Hli-eot, Btwu Ifput anil Seconil
riUNBVIU.B. OHEUON.
J L McCULLOOH,
Abstracter of Titles
rrinovillc, Oregon.
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wrestling, and all the manlier , circumstances would have been in
sports, soon degenerated into the famous. In Indian fighting, every
baser exhibitions of a "era)' man is his own loader, and the
drunk" condition. Tho vessel in ; bravest take the front rank. On
which the trapper received and
carried about his supply of alcohol
was ono of thu small camp kettles
this occasion there were two of
Sublette's men, ono a hilf-breed
Iroquois, the other a Flathead In-
their invisible fie, who, having the : rendezvous, were soon able to si
advantage of being able to see j lence n,e guns of the enemy, but ,
they were not able to drive them
from their fort, where they remain-
Passing rouud'" this clumsy gob-! dian, who bad wrongs of their own
let very frevly, it was not long ho-, to avenge, and they never let slip a
foro a goodly number wore in the chance of killing a Plackfoot.
condition just named, and ready These two men rode forth alone to
for any mad freak whatever. It is 'meet tho enemy, us if to hold a
reported by several of the moun-j "talk" with the principal chief,!
tain-men that on the occasion nf; who advanced to meet them, bear
one of these "frolics," one of their j ing tho pipe of peace. When thej
number seized a keltlo of alcohol, chief extended his haiul, Antonm
and poured it over the head of a
tall, lank, redheaded follow, repeat
ing ns ho did so the baptismal
ceremony, No sooner had he con
eluded, than another man with a
lighted stbik, touched him with the
bhi.e, when in an instant ho was
enveloped in flames. Luckily some
of tho company had sense enough
lSodin,tho half-breed, took it, but
at the sama moment he ordered
the Flathead to fire, and the chief
foil dead. The two trappers gal
loped back to camp, Antoine bear
ing for a trophy tho scarlet blanket
of his enemy.
This action made it impossible
to postpone the battle, as the dead
THE BEST OF ALL
The recent marriage
of a couple of cripples, '
e-ach having oniy nun
the proper corapic- n
f anna -T.
rVf V iV ami leg, was
muni i't
press as a " eon-
iijS l.;.t Atirinc
"i?.li4it. But who
iote the mnr-
naitea wincn
occur daily in
which both ,mr-
ties are cripples
in heihh.
Cripp!s.l I'.e.ilth
lnrnlM,, as n rule, in
autli ient nutrition,
an t l icl; of mitrition
points to disjnsc of
the sioiia;-li ami di
ce tive and nutritive
tract. Doctor Pierce's
OoUiiii Medieal Dis
covery euros diseases
of the stomach and
other origins of digestion
and nutrit'on. It enables
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ed silent and sullen after their
amniunitton was exhausted.
Seeing that the women oftbe
Xei Perces and Flatheads were
gathering up sticks lo eej fire to
their breastwork -of. logs; , an eld
chief proclaimed MnJoud voice
fiom within, the startling intelH
genet) that there were four hundred
lodges of his people close at handi
who would soon be there to avenge
their deaths, should the whites
choose to reduce' them to ashes.
This harangue, delivered in the
usual high-flown style of Indian
oratory, either was not clearly
understood, or was wrongly inter
preted, and the impression got
abroad that an attack was being
made on the great encampment.
This intelligence occasioned a di
version, and a division of forces;
I for while a small party was left to
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1 h.ive rweiveJ miu-h au.l liistini; frum nr. i . .,,, f ,i, ...;
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1'escriitli.vi.' 1 have t.ikci) twenlv five Uttilw "I , . .. , . ,
all. nut Mlowed the mlvtee of nr. K V ei.-iv.-. C.Ullp. hull .'.he)' arrived, tlley
u.t am happv to MXthat lil'r t twirl l'JS , , .. , T . (i
nave. AthmimuJ thanks luryourlnMimtai." . . tourttl it U,l Off 11 a talSO alarm,
Bo not be cajoled into trading a suh- j i)ut jt v . tiJ0 ja,p ,Q relurn that
maure ior a suanow. -" a..... . . .
olterea n 'Must as rthmi
('.iiiien
Medical Discovery is a shadow of tb.it
medicine There are cures behind every
Claim nude for the Discovery."
The Common Sense Medical Adviser,
looS large vi'Kes, in paper covars. i.-, sent
free on receipt of twentv-one o.ie-cmt
tamps to pay expense of tuailing e.'v.
Address Dr. R. V. fierce, BiiffoJoj N. Y.
night, nnd ttio several camps re-
niaimd where they were until the
next day.
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