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THE .SUNDAY OKEUOSIAIf, Jf UtU'LAA U, J VL.X O, 1913.
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WHITMAN MASSACRE
RECALLED BY SURVIVOR
Mrs. Eliza Sp anlding. Warren, Tirst White Child Born West of Rockies,
Tells of Indian Warfare.
AT LEFT, MRS. MARTHA SPALDING WIGLE, OF PRINEVHLB, OR.
AT RIGHT, MRS. ELIZA SPALDING WARREN THESE AIIK THE
OJfLV SURVIVORS OF" THE SPALDING FAMILY, . - - .
EUGENE, Or.. July 5. (Special.)
Pergonal reminiscences of. the
Whitman massacre - and her own
capture by the Indians were told by Mrs.
Kllza Spalding: Warren, the first white
child born west of the Rocky Moun
tains, while visiting her nieces here.
Her vivid recollection of the stirring
events of those pioneer days makes
the story exceedingly thrilling.
"I was a girl of. 10 at the time of the
Whitman massacre," she says, "and I
was at Dr. Whitman's station to at
tend school when the men of the station
were murdered. There were perhaps a
dozen children, and we were In the
schoolroom, which, was connected with
the main building, when on that awful
Monday we were startled by the war
whoops of the Indians and the shoot
ing. Our school teacher looked out to
learn the cause of the Trouble and he
was seized by two Indians and cut
down In his tracks, and the door was
closed. We children were badly frlgrht
ened and began to -search for a hiding
place. The only place was on some
boards near the roof and we clambered
up there, with the help of the largr
boys.
"We tried to keep quiet when the
Indians called us, but finally we were
compelled to come down, and were led
Into the room where Dr. Whitman lay
on the floor dying. Someway 'I was
not greatly frightened and I demanded
oi a Dig Indian If he intended to kill
the children, but he refused to notice
me. A little later a big chief came
into the room and speaking in the In
dian tongue, which I understood, said
the women and children were not to be
killed. Later I learned that the reason
was the . Indians wished to keep us as
hostages should the soldiers come from
Fort Vancouver.
"The Indians did not take us away.
but kept us prisoners in the station
and it was not until the Hudson Bay
Company factor- from .Vancouver ar
rived with 400 or $500 worth of blan
kets and ammunition and bought our
freedom, that the 59 women and child
ren could leave for the Willamette Valley.
' You wonder how I happened to be
at the doctor's place? My father had
lust brought me there for the second
year at the school that Dr. Whitman
kept in the Winter for the children of
the missionaries and immigrants who
Wintered there. My father escaped
death, however, because he went with
Dr. Whitman to visit the Umatillas 30
miles south of Walla Walla and did not
return with the., doctor, who hurried
back because of sickness In his family.
Daughter Wiru Father.
"He expected to return, bu,t a half
breed Indian carried a warning from
me to him, and, after wandering for six
nights afoot, he succeeded in getting
to our home at Lapwal. . In . the same
party with, the half breed there was an
Indian who was determined to get my
father, but a short time before meeting
him the Indian had accidentally dis
charged his gun when trying to light
his tobacco with a spark from the flint.
While he "was going back to the road
to ambush father, the half breed deliv
ered . my .message.
' "Just before we were rescued, two
Nez Perces. sent by my mother, reached
Walla, Walla. When they told me it
would be Impossible for them to at
tempt to take me back I broke down
and cried for the first time. They
reached home, without me. just about
the time father did. All the whites in
the upper country then hurried down
to the Willamette Valley the Ells and
Walkers coming from Spokane to join
the Spalding party."
.Mrs. ,Wirren - also related Incidents
that followed the flight to Oregon City.
Her father taught school for a time
at Tualatin Plains and later went to
where -Brownsville now stands. Her
mother died there in 1851, and Mrs.
Warren was married in 1854. Five
years later she and her husband took
a band of cattle to the Touchet coun
try in Eastern Washington, but they
returned In 1881. Of late -years she
has been making her home with her
son in the Chelan Lake district in
Eastern Washington. -
Some Indiana ' Frlendtly.
' From the first her father was anx
ious to return to his work among the
Nez Perces, and he did so at the first
opportunity after quiet was restored.
"Father and mother were satisfied
with their home at Lapwal," said Mrs.
Warren. "The Indians there . always
were friendly and were always anxious
to learn. Sometimes there were as
many as 200 - Indians in " the school
which father had established, learning
agriculture and other arts of civiliza
tion. Teaching them was a pleasure.
When Dr. Whitman asked father to
come to the Far West Instead of . go
ing among the Osage Indians, he left
the question to mother, and she de
cided on Oregon.
"The Nez Perces were friendly ' to
the whites all the time we were there
and mother trusted them implicitly.
She sent me, when I was nine years
old, in company of an ftidian woman
to Dr. Whitman's school, 120 miles from
our home. The two of us made the trip
on our packhorses. When night came
we camped and I would become frigh
tened when the gray wolves began to
howl at dark."
' Old Home Visited.
Mrs. Warren returned to Lapwai
two years ago and found many land
marks that were familiar. None of the
old Indians of her girlhood days were
left, but there were several - who. as
children, remembered their playmate of
70 years ago.
"When I compare conditions then
with, the beautiful country - and fine
farms and cities we now have, I cannot
help feeling proud of the part I have
had - In the building up of the great
Pacific Northwest.
Two wild swans have been shot at Ieex
Ins, near Peterborough. Once fairly numer
ous In the fens, such birds have become ex
tremely rare since the drainage of the great
Whittlesey mere.
GIRL EARNS HER WAY AT
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Miss Beatrice. Littlefield Captures" Honors in Debate While Paying for
College Education She Represents Freshmen on Winning Team.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
July. 6. (Special.) To earn a
college education by her own un
aided efforts is the purpose of Miss
Beatrice Littlefleld, of Minam, who en
tered the University of Oregon as a'
freshman last Autumn. And Miss Lit
tlefield's first year has been an earnest
of success in her undertaking, for she
found time not only to earn her own
living, keep up with her studies and
make many friends, but to participate
prominently in student activities. In
debating she was chosen a member of
the women's inter-collegiate team,
which met the debaters of the : Uni
versity of Washington on the platform
and defeated them. She was the only
freshman to make the team.
- When Miss Littlefleld came to the
university nine months ago she had
only the few dollars she- bad got to
gether during the Summer by picking
berries and working about a farm near
Elgin. At the university she earned
her way principally by helping in
housework. This Summer she will
work in berry fields and hop yards and
possibly teach until time to resume her
studies next Fall.
The University of Oregon is one of
the institutions where an ambitious
student can make his or her own way.
A great state university of the Middle
West" has recently sent out notice that
no student must come without money
enough to finance his whole first year,
but at Oregon 53 per cent of the men
earn their way in whole or In part,
and many of the young women go far
toward -paying all their own expenses.
Miss Littlefleld, in fact.' is not the only
"co-ed" who has got on without assist
ance, but her case -is notable for the
prominent part she has - been ' able to
take in student activities. ;
Triplets Named for Wilson Girls.
VALLEY CITT.' N.' V... July. 6. Trip-
Miss Beatrice Littlefleld, Who Is
Earning Way Through University.
lets, born a few days ago to Mr. and
Mrs. -Andrew (Junderson, of this cl
were today christened Margaret. Jessie
and Eleanor, in honor of President Wil
son's three daughters.
Folic Roads- Being Improved.
BUENA VISTA. Or., July 5. (Spe
cial.) Considerable Improvement is
being made in the roads ser Buyer, un.
der the supervision of F. N. Stump. Be
sides grading and gravelling, stumps
are being blasted out of the old road
and bridge improvements are being
made. The highways - are being
widened and the movement throughout
Polk .County this season Is for better
roads.
Every year on the anniversary of his mar
riage Frofessor Palmer ot Harvard gives a
g-ift to Wellesley in memory of his wife.
Alice Freeman Palmer, who was president
of Wellesley.
Mrs.
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