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wi'.hin the wood oil night, firmly
believing they had tilt-ir enemy
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Services will be held follows :
ISA PTIHTM
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ririvillo pruncliinu the second
and fourth Hunduya.
Miibbath school every Sunday
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Prayer mei-ling every Wednes
day evening at 8 o'clock.
Haystack preaching overv third
Surdity.
Bend preaching every firet Sun
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--w.vct. ir.piei panor, residence 'Waled," tin horsemen of the
i.iip.im parnonago rrinevflle Ore. nlaina wm.1,1 An tl, trn
I'HKMIIYTKKIAN in tllB n.nri.incr f t),.ir
I rincville-preaching the first and fr0m the main r.mn. .,,v .,t
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miru ountiayn. vanced cautiously ud to the breist
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nmiuinn sciiool every Hunrlay work of loe. behold I not a buffa-
morning at 10 a. m. lo rkin nor red blanket was seen!
Prayer meeting every Wednes- Through the crevice amonir the
day evening at 8 o'clock. logs wa .een an empty fort. On
Rev It. I,. Alter Residence at making thia diacoverv there wa
McKarland, hotel, much chagrin anion the white
M. K. rumen, trappers, and much lamentation
I rineville preaching the aecond amonu the Indian allies, who had
and fourth Sundaya at 1 la. m. and abandoned the burning of the fort
every .Sunday evening at H o'clock, expressly to save for themselves
Sabbath school every Sunday at the fine blankets and other eoods
IU m. I of their hereditary foea.
Kpworth league everv Sunday From the reluctance displayed
eveiutiH at . p. m. hv the'trannerH. in the becinnin of
v I f a f - - a ry
I rayer meeting every Thursday the battle, to engage with the In
evening at 8 o clock. riiani while under cover of the
Willow Creek preaching first woods, it muit not be inferred that
.Sunday in each month at 11 a. m. they were lacking in courage. They
Uaypool preaching third Sunday were too well informed in Indian
in each month at II t. m. modes of warfaro to venture reck-
Howard preaching the Saturday lessly into the den of death, which
evening preceeding the third Sun- a savage ambush was quite sure to
day in each month. Rev. If. C. be. The very result which attend
LIFE AND ADVENTURES . OF JOE MEEK
BY MRS fKANCKS Kl'I.LKB VICTOR.
KARLY DAYS IN OR KG ON.
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Meantime the trnpp .-rs left to I the trntera had no disposition to
do. While she was entreating
them, end they refuaing, a ball
i.inrn pastor, residence ,M. K. par
sonage, rrmevilie Oregon.
Christian Kndeavor meets at the 1
Union church every Sunday even
ing at 7 p. m.
ed the impetuosity of their leaders,
in the death of Sinclair and the
wounding of Captain Sublalle,
proved them not over cautious.
On entering the fort, the dead
from some vengeful Nez Perce or
flathead put an end to her suffer
ings.
Still remembering the threats of
the Hlackfoot chief, that four hun
dred lodges of hi brethrtn were
advancinf on the valley, all the
companies returned to rendezvous,
and remained for aeveral days, to
aee whether an attack should take
place. But if there had ever been
any such intention on the part of
the Blackfoot nation, the timely
lesson bestowed on their advance
guard had warned them to quit the
neighborhood of the white.
Captain Sublette's wound was
dressed by Mr. Wyelh's physician,
and although it hindered bis de
parture for St. Louis for some time,
it did not prevent his making bis
usual journey later in tho season.
It was as well, perhaps, that he did I
not set out earlier, for of a party of
seven who started for St. Louisa
few days after the battle, three
were killed in Jackson's Hole,
where tbey fsll in with the four
hundred warriors with whom the
Blackfoot chief threatened the
whites at the battle of Pierre's
Hole. From the story of the four
survivors woo escaped and return
ed to camp, there could no longer
bodies of ten Blackfeet were found, be any doubt that the big village
besides others dead outside the; of the Blackfeet bad actually been
fort, and over thirty horses, some i upon the trail of Capt. Sublette,
of which were recogniied as those ! expecting an eisy victory when
stolen from Sublette's night mamp ! they should overtake him. How
E. O. HYDE, M. D.,
(i.'ot'NTr l'nnii'ux)
Physician and Surgeon,
PR I NEVILLE. ORBOON.
Calls promptly attended, dy and night on other side of the mountains, I they were disappointed by th re
ception met with by the advance
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PHYSICIAN AND SUREGON
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Uftit Next !nor to A,1mont Prtif Stor
.riutly titrnitril tu.
besides those abandoned bv Fit-
patrick. Doubtless the rascals had
followed his trail to Pierre's Hole,
not thinking, however, to come up
on so mrge a camp as they round
camp, has already been related
CHAPTER VII.
1S32. On the i'3d of July, Mil
ton Sublette's brigade and the com-
at last. The savage garrison j pany of Mr. Wyeth again set out
which had so cunningly eontrived j for the southwest, and met no more
to elude the guard set upon them, serious interruptions while they
C. A. CI.ISK,
WCNTIST,
I-UINKVI1J.E, OKKtiON.
M. R. BICCS,
Attorney at Law and notary.
Mala BtTMt, PrinTlll, Oregon.
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manager of tho Crook County Ronl Estate una
Abstract Co.. Prineville, Orogon.
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Attorney-at-Law
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carried off some of their wounded,
and, perhaps, alao some of their
dead : for they acknowledged after
wards a much larger loss than ap
peared at the time. Besides Sin
clair, there were five other white
men killed, one halfbreed, and
seven Nez Perces. About the same
number of whites and their Indian
allies were wounded.
An instance of female devotion
is recorded by Bonneville's histor
ian as having occurred at this bat
tle. On the morning following it.
aa the whites were exploring the
thickets about the fort, they dis
covered a Blackfoot woman lean
ing silent and motionless against a
tree. According to Mr. Irving,
whose fine feeling for the sex
would incline him to put faith in
this bit of romance, ''this surprise
at her lingering here alone, to fall
into the hands of her enemies, was
dispelled when they saw the corpse
of a warrior at her feet. Either
ehe was lost in grief as not to per
ceive their approach, or a proud
rpirit kept her silent and motion
less. The Indians set up a yell on
discovering her, and before the
trappers could interfere, her
mnn jled body fell upon the corpse
which she had refused to abandon."
This version is true in the main in
cidents, but untrue in the senti
ment. The woman's leg had been
broken by a ball, and she was un
able to move frem the spot where
she leaned. When the trappers up
preached her, she stretched out her
hands supplieatingly, crying out in
a wailing voic, ''kill me! kill me!
O white men, kill met" but this
traveled in company. On the
head-waters of the Humboldt River
they separated, Wiet'a proceeding
north to the Columbia, and Sub
lette continuing on into a country
hitherto untraversed by American
trappers.
It was the custom of a camp on
the move to depend chiefly on the
men employed aa buotert to sup
ply them with game, the sole sup
port of the mountaineers. When
this failed, the stock on hand was
soon exhausted, and the men re
duced to famine. This was what
happened to Sublette's company in
the country where they now found
themselves, between the Owyhee
and Humboldt Rivers. Owing to
the arid and barren nature of these
plains, the largest game to be
found was the beaver, whose tlesh
proved to be poisonous, from the
creature having eaten of the wild
parsnip in the absence of its favor
ite food. The men were made ill
by eating of beaver flenh, and th
horses were greatly reduced from
the scarcity of grass and the entire
absence of the cotton-wood.
In this plight Sublette found
himself, and finally resolved to
turn north, in the hope of coming
upon some better and more hospi
table country. The sufferings of
the men now became torrible, both
from hunger and thirst. In the ef
fort to appease the former, every
thing was eaten that could be eat
en, and many things at which the
well-fed man would sicken with
disgust. ' I have," says Joe Meek,
''held my hands in an ant-hill un
til they were covered with the ants,
BEST OF ALL, WHISKIES.
KOIt BALK ONLY BY
greedily licked them off. I
taken the soles (T my moc-
caains, cricp them in the fire, and
eaten them. In our extremity, the
large black crickets which are
found in this country were con
sidered game. We u.ed to take a
kettle of hot water, catch ibe crick-
eta and throw them in, and when
they stepped kit king, eat them.
That was not what we called cant'
tickupko haneli, (good meat, my
friend.) but it kept us alive."
Equally abhorrent expedients
were resorted to in order to quench
thirst, some of which would not
bear mention. In this condition,
and exposed to the burning suns
arid the d.y air of the desert, the
men now so nearly exhausted be
gan to prey upon their almost
equally exhausted aniaials. At
night when they made their camp,
by mutual consent a mule was
bled, and a soup nude from its
blood. About a pint was usually
taken, when two or three would
mess together upon this reviving,
but scanty and not very palatable
dish. But this moO? of sub
sistence could not be long depend
ed on, as the poor mules could ill
afford to lose blood in their famish
ing state; nor could the men afford
to lose their mules where there was
a chance of like ; therefore hungry
as they were, the men weie cautious
in this matter; and it generally
caused a quarrel when a man's
mule was (elected for bleeding by
the others.
A few times a mule had been
sacrificed to obtain meat; and in
this case the poorest one was al
ways selected, go as to economise
the chances for life for the whole
band. In this extremity, after
four days of almost total abstinence
and several weeks of famine, the
company reached the Snake Kiver,
about fifty miles above the fishing
fulls, where it bcile and dashes
over the rocks, forming very strong
rapids. Here tho company camp
ed, rejoiced at the sight of the pure
mountain water, but still in want
of food. During the march a
horse's back bad become sore from
some cause ; probably, his rider
thought, because the saddle did not
set well; and, although that par
tiiular animal was selected to be
sacrificed on the morrow, as one
that could best be spared, he set
about taking the stuffing out of his
saddle and re arranging the pad
ding. While engage.! in this con-
S'derate labor, he uttered a cry of
delight and held up to view a large
brass pin, which bad accidentally
got into the stuffing, when the sad
dle was made, and had been the
cauee of all the mischief to his
horse.
The same thought struck all who
saw the pin ; it was soon converted
into a fish hook, line was spun
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from horsehair, and in a short time
thero were trout enough caught to
furnish them a hearty and a most
delicious repast. "In the morn
ing," says Meek, "we went on our
way rejoicing;" each man with the
' Eve fishes" tied to his saddle, if
without any ' loaves." This was
the end of their severest suffering,
as they had now reached a country
where absolute starvation waa not
the normal condition of the inhabit
ants; and which was growing more
and more bountiful, as the neared
the Rocky Mountains, where they
at length joined camp, not having
made a very profitable expedition.
It may seem incredible to the
reader that anv country so poor as
that iu which our trappers starved
could have native inhabitants.
Vet such was the facj And the peo
ple who lived in and who still in
habit this barren waste, were tailed
Diggers, fr"cm their mode of obtain;
ing their food a few edible roots
growing in low grounds, or marshy
places. When these fail them
they subsist as did our trappers,
by buuting crickets and field mice.
Nothing can be more abject thaa ,
the appearance of the Digger In
dian, in the fall, as he roams about,
without food and without weapons,
save pcrhapi a bow and arrows,
with his eyes fixed upon the
ground, looking for crickets ! So
despicable is he, that he ha
neither enemies nor friends ; and
the neighboring tribes do not con
descend to notice his existence,
unless indeed he should come in
their way, when tbey would not
think it more than a mirthful act
to put an end to his miserable ex
istence. And eo it must be con
fessed the trappers regarded him.
When Sublette's party first struck
the Humboldt, Wyeth's being still
with them, Joe Meek one day shot
a Digger who was prowling about a
stream where his traps were set.
"Why did you shoot him?" ask
ed Wyeth.
"To keep him from stealing
traps."
"Had he stolen any?"
"No; but he looked as if he was
gcing to!
This reckleescess of life very
properly distressed the just minded
New Englander. Yet it was hard
for the trappers to drawMiW- of
disiiucion so nice its "'Bu.if . a '
tribe was not knowndlo'he.lrinlyf
it. was a ruis or nevessuj. 10 y,jw
sider it unfiiendly'jSi attjuct-v
ness and cowardice of the Diggers '
was thfl frit of their own helpless
condition. That they had the sav
age instinct, held in check only by
circumstances, waa demonstrated
about the same time that Meek
shot one, by his being pursued by
four oftheju when out trapping
alone, and only escaping at last by
the assistance of one of hiB com
rades who came to the rescue.
They could not fight, like the crows
and Blackfeet, but they could steal
and murder, when they had a safe
opportunity.
It would be an intarestyig study,
no doubt, to tho philanthropist, to
ascertain in hrw grunt a degree the
habit?, ni.u.nerti, ami mor;inofa
people are governed by tne.r re
sources, especially by tho qu.ility
and quantity of their diet. But
when diet and climate ure Innh
taken into consideration, the resul.
is striking.
(To be coutiuued.)
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