THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 24, 1809.
LOOKING
Second CLap ter of Captain Rinenarts Recollections
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' This. is the second and last installment of Captain W. V.
Rinehart's account of the First Oregon cavalry. The Sunday
Journal of last week published the first tory of this famous or
ganization. The two stories form an article of historic value,
for it comes from the pen of one who. was present during the
happenings that made history in the '60s. ,
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By TV- V. Rlnehart
Y SERVICE f Fort Dalles was
brief but Ions- enouirh. for me
, Drier, put long enougn lor me
to get acquainted with a
yeung lady who became my
1
wue a year later. seingxpro-
tnoted captain, I was assigned to com-
mand of Compan. A. succeeding Cap-
t.7,; w.r-i .liL. i lTt
tain Harris, dismissed at Boise. . I went
to Vancouver and was mustered De-
t-emher ' Br I86J? returning,
rriv.rf .
Walla Walla, January 8, 1S64, where one
of the first duties assigned my com -
pany.was .to march with Company E.
unaer captain Surrey, to renawawa.
where the' Indiana had fired unon some
minora l-urn-vl Ih.lr.iMn mr.A ..rliian
them to seek assistance from the mlll
iirv. .
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Uance in Barracks. ,
It -Februarv 22 and w. were fcav-
ing a bi dance In one of the vacant
barracks . About midnight order came
for 'Companies A and B-tO be in the
saddle at daylight. Some of us had
partner, living miles away in the val
ley.' How they, ever got home has not Absence of Courier..
yet been settled In my mind.: There was
There was
enow on the ground and the weather
wa bitter cold. Weferried acros.
Snake river at the mouth of the Palouse,
nri ..mnai M.n Indiana fin. k-rt into
camp from their camp op the Paloiiss.
anxious to learn our destination. They
were made to understand that we were
-V 1a.a4 re .l.rl 11. wW l. U at
to satisfy their curiosity. Soon after
dark we were again In the saddle and
(on our way up Snake river toward the
' scene of the recent trouble. Near mid-
nirht we eamned on a narrow bar be-
tween a. bluff and the river
.tween diiut ana tne river.
' Indiana Arrested.
xnaiana Arresteo.
During our morning nap the guard
arrested some Indian horsemen
, lng- from the uprlver camp. They
taken with us next day and held
night Before daylight we
eroacbed within a mile of the
camp, where we awaited the
morning in a concealed position
surrounded their camp of about
lodges.' without having seen
inoian. . A. voiiey irom one piatoon or
. . . 1 . . 1 T a...
with hands raised in token of surrender.
In our search for arms we found three
wounded from the effect .Ofour volley,
vve louna inrer ot ine marauaers wno
were recognised by our miners as of
the party who bad fired at them and
ft j .1. 4. ..li. it. i. ,. .v..
; vir Mkltii r,ri "of them, w-
took thsm with ua to Fort Walla. Walla
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and turned them over to the sheriff.
Shortly after our return,. Lieutenant
Colonel English, First Washington ter-
ritory lniantny, tnen in commarja or me
fiosi. sent nis oraeny ror me one morn-
ne and. upon reaching his headauar-
t hi-r.rlv-.npffl.on.i-m.
r' r " " Itiir v7: r": "
ters, he read to me the order Just re-
.d,l.V t'S? "ie. '.etco
L First
post, jrTivate sii,iy or company a,
Oregon cavalry, ehall be shot to
. jaa.u
with musketry.
Spiritual Comfort
As his company commander. I was
directed to inform him of the fact and
olfer-hlm the "benefit of Clergy." He
.h- rati,., woawau .a hi. anirit.i
Chose t ather BOSWell a. hi. Spiritual
dviser. Rev. Boswell was a Methodist;
he was also father-in-law of Captain terward named Camp Henderson, in at Sheep Rock valley, opening out to Crooked river, beginning of the First Oregon Infantry, struct a wagon road over the Cascade Inland empire could be called Indian
Thompson of Company A. First Wash- honor of our then congressman, on a We learned that during our trip to The country wa. very rocky and we laid But for the untimely death of General mountain, to Rogue river to lessen the country.
GEN. CAMERON, THE MAN WHO SHUNNED SOCIETY
Exiled Himself enc Lived Happily Alone for More TLan Half a Century Dies After All Many Miles Away From His Lonely Hut Won' Many Honors as Soldier anc? Pioneer
' Thinking of the terrible wrongs
suffered in behalf of an ungrateful
society and seeing that I had never
gained anything from that society
but vexation of spirit and trouble of
soul; I. concluded to leave it and to
spend my life as the understanding
of my own happiness seemed to dic
tate. General Hugh Cameron.
Atf INTIMATE of Llnooln. Web-
ster, Sumner and Greeley and al
. most the last of the generation
which won the part of the west
v - ' beyond the Missouri, one who
exiled himself from the society that had
eared him and lived happily alone for
more than half a century, died recently
In Topeka, Kan., away from the lonely
hut that had been home since 18S4. And
thereby the last specification of General
Hugh Cameron's wish, "to live and die
cut of the world" h disrespected, came
to be defeated.
Dozen, of time, since Cameron went
to his hermitage on a towering bluff
looking -down on the sluggish Kansas
river where it flows past Lawrence,
Kan., he went back to the world for
brief visits, every one of which attract
ed attention, but the last visit failed to
end in the return to the lonely cabin
above the stream. Cameron had fallen
- vletlm to the wttes he dreaded,
World Nothing to Him.
"The world Is nothing to me. All It
has ever done for me has been to re
ward good with 11L It exalts the bass
and abase, tho.e who would serve it
honorably. I shall die here as I have
lived," he said once not long before his
end. but It happened otherwise.
"I believe in letting my fellow men
live as they will, after their own ideas.
I have never been a reformer, but after
years of encounter with the world I
reached .the conclusion that the only
real soul satisfaction comes 'from sim
ple living and communion with nature
or God, unmarred by the frivolities and
high chimeras of modern society."
There were no chimeras about the old
hermit', bluff. Snow lay about his rude
cabin and the cold wind chilled the vis
itor and whisked the great white beard
of the recluse philosopher till It hid his
keen eyes. But it was warm to him.
Tears of living without more fire than
was needed to cook food or keep off
death ln the coldest nights that swept
down- the river valley had made him .
Immune, with all his 80 years; to what
younger men couldn't bear.
In all save the whlt.non of -.(,
he was as young as the university stu
dents from Lawrence who called occa
sionally to listen to his stories of the
men and events he had known or to
talk over his strange philosophy And
old Cameron knew events and times
It was said of him that he knew more
American history first hand than any
living mam, Ie had watched the clouds
of the cml war roll up; had fought
trallantly enough thtouxh that ..
become a brigadier; had been a figure ?
in trie maxing oi tvanms; naa occupied
a plane of trust with the high figures in
politics Immediately after the war, and,
then, his ambition and fortunes broken
.yvdeiat. had gone back to his oasis
of savagery in a wa.te of new industry
to rf fleet and to hide from the world
that had undone him. ,
Ingratitude of Society. '
"It's a tawdry spectacle, to see a man
f row gray in the trsvall of hi devo
tion to t lie world and then to be cast
BACKWARD
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'nrton territory infantry, then stationed
th n though living in town,
ottfn viUed nl daughter at the post.
and on ,uch occasions visited the men
In their quarters and acted as volun-
teer chaplain, as the time approached
an(j ,,1 Rev Bos we 11 not to come to
aee him, as he had sent for the Catholic
priest. For three days before the fatal
Friday no passes were allowed, even to
viit th tVm nnlv t ml1 nwiv. Cheok
roll call of every company was held
after mldnirtht each nleht. when the
captain and .first sergeant quietly stole
- "om ounx to ounx cnecKing on ine
name, to that every man was in hi.
am. . . , t ...
Believing a respite
iw. or uniiiDiT & r
Brieve. WOUld CO me at the
Colonel Mury. at Fort Dalles,
dered men from Company D tr
-t . . . tirH- Vir11- 1 i
MTC ..fc,V h
1"". 'iVi. i." wT-'","'
176 miles, to serve as couriers to carry
i""" f-"'
forward the looked fororder from Gen-
Am I w 11 rn t at w f n J m fifl bha.
rihw.'W" y la.M.arcn. l?gt, and
. . . .
wMU there was a dally boat rom Tort-
'; ... "u icib-
,. .
.
ine aosence or tne couriers irom com-
pany A mode its allotment for the fir-
, rf hllt - h ,-,' '
In P"y but four, while . Company EJ
furnished six, all under command of
Second Lieutenant Silas Pepoon , of
nnmnanv a TJ,.nnt B-nWn -
-
1 infantry formed the reserve firing
party. As the hour of 3 o'clock p. m-
approached the batallion of tout com.
panles followed by the firing parties
and the cart in which sat Klv on his
lch sat Ely on his
and ridlnx back-
A i?t
rouxh board coffin and ridlnx back-
., j .iih i fu. of mri mlC
lB . . I
either side the cart
corrail which was
suVr!rundeed br a
he T formation there
high board fence. Th
campaign now aneaa or our cavairy,
Mnlll, .ni. M.-. ma. . A V. ...-! rl
My favorite horse, "Charley," was of
"George" stock, a good traveler, and
had been tralm ... 00
t andUe
' tTm:TUoCrl
awav w?S
'JSiii ft
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? c,emf ler,..l1" norm, j
surprised to find that every
dered a charxe. Charley ran
me and could, not be halted until he
..a.j.Ull V- -. a-. -. Ir .e faddk p. a. lnilnnA4
-" '"i
tne cenwary.
', . .
Best In Stable..
nnmij ui iu my men in
. . A, . 1 . i j, . . .1 .
... ....h .h. ,v,iak
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their search tor a horse with which to
beat a 600 rao. offered them, had
found Charley to be the best one
ln
the stables, and without consulting me
thev naa trained ana xroomea mm un.
til his old time traits were fully:
veioped and ha won tne race. Karty w
May we started out for the suniner
campaign. Our force under command
Companies A and B, First Oregon cav -
airy, 20 Umatilla scouts under their
war -chief Umahowiisn, and Captain
Barry's company. First Washington Ter-
i.,f, i.f.ni.. frnm Vnrt n .
Our objective point was what we af-
aside on the heap with the rubbish. I
don't take any such chances here. This
is my. own world. I cannot lose or be
come outyeared here."' he said.
"Yet I cannot lose Interest In the
world, even If I must sner at many
of the things it Insists on doing. Even
if I will not expose myself to Its kicks,
I was ln It too long to forget, and so I
go out occasionally to show what one
who Is removed from it and impartial
thinks of its doings.''
So Cameron went back into the world
again and again, whenever he believed
there was occasion. He was always re
ferred to ln Kansas as the Kansas her
mit. Everyone knew and believed he
understood Cameron, and no one ever
held him as anything else than a note
worthy and perhaps famous, if peculiar,
figure ln Kansas. He was, indeed, the
connecting link between a bloody and
not unherolc past and the new, having
lost none of the boldness of the old
and kept pretty well abreast of the new.
Cameron was horn ln New1 Y6rk state
of parents whose nationality his
name will attest and would prove even
If Byron had forgotten to write:
"And wild and high the 'Cameron Gath
ering rose!"
Young Cameron was 38 years old In
1S54 when he was sent to Kansas al"ng
with other anti-slavery men from Mas
sachusetts and other states where the
movement was gaining ground. Among
r1 M TT 1 "V T-vrr T
rt"- rhTcondeVnedVlVcln up the bVyhee"whenc0-he-had-Joined trough -McCali'. JickeU cmring-"th5 , ;;v,;'r about $1200 were pajd by. me... r.s- lK
were oartles at 10 Daces In the onen fourth ur command. From Camp Henderson, night. Captain Curry marched his Drake's mmminil to r"nrt Dalies then ?um. il-00mn.ana. or ort Klamath July ' r.. nV0. .11 r.uroiV
hd P- can was drawn down over hi. eve. and over the route we had gone .to ,eret their "defeaY; and wtibllshed a tial du tv fo? October 20 ObtklA.; Ai Captain Mc
Indian one volley sent four ball, through hi. ring up the uppne,ccompaniea Dy supply camp whlch he; named , Camp ieave of absence. I went to Oregon City "i lIJj fn 2Z First Oreaon lnfantr were late xeltini
light of heart. His body was carted away by vapiain osrryi jnnirj Cu..,u,. Aivoro, aner our uenera Aiyoro. men wa. marrloa to Amanda S. Gaines .M":.-" "t- .'".: rr,:thai, riia.ant frontl-r ratnns. iiel
It "it & ttoTO. haCS P$ irV we?: &pV cto& & tSt - de .L
a single In preparation for the long summer . ".'"T'. -"" ' "r un -,w" Surgeon .Dumracher was a major in r.1"V"1- - ..-ATi-.H:.- .. nolnt o hn.rd.hln anH severe nrivatlons.
i . v i i mi t un r" nr iihiti. iarr noninri in pnorra o r aniain kb rrv . ... . . . . oecuu iu uvaviia nit m ,iif li ca i v ul - - : ,
liUULU iNU l JLlVli AD JliaUD UiULleveJand Uirl
From the New York World.
THE girls who would live as Jesus
did have given up th. trial.
"You can't live as Jesus would
and be an employe of a large
Cleveland business house," says
Miss Selma McGovern, aged 11, who Is
one of three girls to begin living two
weeks a. she thinks Christ would. Two
days of the experiment convinced her
of Us Impossibility In Cleveland busi
ness Ufe.
"It can't be done by an employe."
she said. "The employer himself might
carry the morality of Jesus into his
business if he chose. The case la not
hopeless. But the employer at least,
my employerdoesn't and it is ui
cldal for the employe to attempt It
"Christ, morality and business tact
clash. An employ. Insisting upon rigid
honesty would be discharged instantly.
I don't mean to say my firm Is dishon
est Along broad lines, it Isn't but the
department managers resort to many
evasions of the truth In order to es
cape unpleasant consequences.
''For instance, a retail store Is writ
ing or wiring in for an explanation of
why a certain order has not been sent.
The reply Is that it is the fault of the
manufacturer. 'We have punched them
up several times already. We will do so
again at once, and no doubt the order
will soon be shipped.' So the letter
runs.
"Perhaps the manufacturer has been
punched up. That may . all be true -out
after writing the letter the depart
ment band nuf nr ma V not nuilr. crtnd
his word, luost always he doean't
"No doubt it 1. tlA..-fU.rv In hualnHI
to tell that kind of lies. But Jesu.
wouldn't And when I type the letter.
I must tell the He, too. if hub wouldn't '
be implicated in the lie. He would re
fuse to write it If I did that. I would
los my position."
W. D. iiee, the leader of the move
5?,ent . hy , which more than 1LO0O of
- - vunj Business men ana
ojnenr trying to live ae Jesus wouK
Id
" y ""I, is navmg nis nanaa
hand.
i..,Lrrnine .'tters and answerihg in-
who win Tto T irJiJ ht ff.J?-PSTP,
have poured irTir ",.1 ZMh Tn'J
neve pourea ln from scores of cltle. and
of .Famous Oregon Organization and Review of
L, ' .V C.
Small Stream W Called GlbbS Creek in
honor of ; our . governor of that name,
re.a-- VLf A Iace'Wher - Jordan creek
jnterfl tne Owyhee, only a few months
h?A'JLA ilJ6160 Chine6
and captured tne team a that wra hurnU
! . a a -w ... a.v we mi J . V J" lUftllVi
fbout
the same time the Chinese were killed
DLiS h 5 stage at
Rock creek .on the - route from The
iT.vfi .i? nyn. ty, ur. Besides
killing tne tage horses and a passen-
,A ,T!Lk ox 'wn'ch they broke
open and ripping open the buckskin
bags emptied the. gold dust on the
tBdd took ' J . ba.
. On account of this and, similar raids
upon -tne settlers at JBurat- Ranch and
ottj V16. a,PK the route, Lleuten-
,; "Jf" . Company D from Fort Dalles
10 "oru f? , remain until the
P$nLn'f ' 'n,' ca.mp,?'vH
lLV.I-'lf.i Cre'W.'i
Chief JPaullna s .band made a raid into
i2 Jrjt?, illfi?i kimng a settler or. two
t " w ;
fouj' Miller's miad ;
ui.Uier. qua.
Lieutfnnt Wmmin w mni tn Aft
last moment. &wajf and Judge Joaquin Miller "" camp- naimn ran inw mn seen s.rixinr tne ciirr iu reet Deiow tne
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hurt orxanlsed . rnmnnnv af CD minora and wnnro m- onaiiw worp nosuies. wnen we nao. Deen linn ror,
.1 organasea a company or o miner, ana . y entrenched against a low cliff of half an hour,-a volley from Company '
tere. ana f a r m .r. .aiiaw th t i .. .,-i t -. . . .... i . ..r i . . .. . ' i i . 4 :
oover the stolen
stock. They set out
expecUng to find
the Indian, in
vallev: 3S milaa
IZ'VJ!" E?m"Z7Z'-2f
just before overtaking the . Indians,
. . . ... . . .
Bieam irom a. not snrinr was miBUKfri
for smoke from a cainnfTre. Lieutenant
Waytnlre sent out Sergeant Casteel and
iwo otners oc nis men 10 oring in a
rfloori .fli tne nronanie Birnn-rin orina
. . . . . . . . .
supposed camp. Shortly after the men
large force of warrior, several hundred
large force of warrior, several hundred
In number, and driven back until night,
ut or. the skillful handling of his
men by Lieutenant Waymire, it wa. said
th- whni forra niiiri .v hean
slaughtered. A. it was, only three were
kW na a few wounded. But it wm t
'?"! To punish these Indians
unaer lamina ana we-ow-we-waw. wno
were supposed also to have killed the
8 0 Chinese, our force was to strike
fr"? one side while Captain J. M. Drake
th Companies D and a, and SO men
of Company-H, under Lieutenant Wat-
ot company , under lieutenant wat-
Bon ax' 20 Warm Bpii.ngs soouts under
' rhief -.t-lrlrwhlt-ev would m a rrh from
on nd to Warm Bpri.ngs scouts under
Cblrf Stockwhltley would march from
Vr-.rt T.o lie- . a.rllr-k th. Tnrllona flfim
oppo-IU di?tTon:"Cap?ain Barry
with his. infantry had been left In
. -
Keportea Attack.
' -
Am
"Upon our return to Camp Henderson
a seUler had Just arrived from Jordan
vaUesr t0 Mk hel" 10 "POrted
attack upon the few whites then in that
v.nev. T .vin r -nnnli.s In charxe
.-.
valley. Leaving our .upplle. in charge
.... .
of Caotaln Barry's infantry Dotn com-
to find that it was a false alarm. In-
formation gained from the settlers, how-
ever, seemed to indicate that tne in-
. . ' - '
nian. were In camp near Three Forks of
nt.h t wa. ani- with romnanv x
,
Owyhee, I was sent, with Company A
to tneJr, location ana V"0 1
watch them while I sent back for more
troops. After, three days, search wlth-
out finding ajy Indiana; we returned to
camp to una it aoanaonea. it was
dark when we ..teached camp and wo
- wereait' nungry, navmg cameo oniy
cooked rations, which usually mean
. only half rations. After a long search
following Jt as best we .could in the
dark we reached their camp after mid-
night, to rina tne inaian ecouts still
engagd In their scalp dance over the
ralm taken frnm t hit if Rn.k. an.mi.a
killed ln Captain Currey's engagement
the men who went with him was D. R.
Anthony, the late Kansas editor, who
waa destined to become as noted a fig
ure &s Cameron in the Kansas territory.
Wing Honors in Early Days.
The party made the usual voyage of
those, days to St. Louis, took a river
steamer . there and made their way lip
the Missouri to Leavenworth, then he
metropolis and only real settlement in
Kansas. Lawrence, afterward the terri
torial capital, also was beginning to be
noticed then as one of the poles about
which free state men might gather, and
Cameron made his way to Lawrence.
There he homesteaded his little quarter
section on 'the bluff overlooking the
Kan as river.
Young Cameron had studied law In
the office of Salmon P. Chase, later
President Lincoln's secretary of state.
He knew men and affairs through his
distinguished employer, and he was a
particular admirer of the Harrisons.
Away out In the Kansas wilderness
Cameron called his home "Camp Ben
Harrison." The biutf later got the name
of Cameron's fBluff, and there, Just a
plea-ant walk from where the buildings
of the University of Kansas came to be
clustered, Hugh Cameron, western pio
TT Tn a -w-r-l r--r -w r- -r.
f " """"TWH" ' J44 v - - . v;
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THREE OP THE CLEVELAND GIRLS WHO TRIED TO LIVE AS CHRIST WOULD. TO H THE LEFT
IS MARGARET HOLCOMBE. STENOGRAPHER; MARION PTOK, GROCERY CLERK, IN THE CEN-
TER; TO THE RIGHT, EDNA-JOHNSON, CASIIItK. . , - C'.
-.
towns, and man are vet unanswered..
. "These letter. In eome Instances-come
rom Pors. who seen, to want to
know the proper way to begin." said Mr.
TO DAYS OF "FIRST OREGON
Thru Fnrlr. it Annliu . --..-. V
arrived from'Fort Boise with dispatches
from headquarters at Vancouver, whlctl
changed the order of our wholtf cam-
PnA Intead of operating as two
lAnaraU. fnrnAa "hh vnt.in r. .
and Captain Drake's oommands were or.
dered to unite at once and. the whole
force" under Captain Currey to proceed
after, and punish-If possible, the In
dlans under Chiefs Paulina and Ws-ow-
we-waw. This change wae brought
of Captain Drake's command under
First-Lieutenant McCall on Crooked
river, above .Ocheco. fltockwhltley e
scouts Spied out a camp of Snakes tin-
der Paulina and reported to Drake that
there were about 40 of the hostiles.
Drake at once detailed Lieutenant Mq-
tenant' Watson with a like number
from Company B, and the 20 Indian
cout to surprise and punish the
Bn.kA , ,,,
Under cover of night McCall's force
approached within a mile of the Snake
caip, wnere,.. awauing aayiignt, iie
planned his a'ttack from three sides.
the Blue mountains forming the fourth
rhrthr.."detacSmnT-nSov.
th nmitinn ..tirr.. n.r.r. rhtM
Jwsk had been built high enough to pro-
rJUrLr. V J- XL1 w'it'
Son annroiiK. rhUrom a
behind the cliff, could not nee their In-
..'hm.n t t , . .
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Withhold .FlrA
T iH.lnn. l.kh.U ..! 4t . ..
a ntutam ivhumciu iuom u-
til Watson', men were
close, then
. , t .'.."
. -- n-
am waison ana live men, ana mrowinii
his .whole force back in confuslQn.'The
then en the flank of the
"Cout... were then en tne ii ,oi tne
hostiles and In position to enfilade their
defenses. Turning from Watson to
gtockwhitlev. the hostiles killed him
.. .. .
Ana wounaea otnert,, causing tne scout,
to fly to McCall -Who had halted t6
capture the horses or the enemy. The
recall was sounded and a courier sent to
Drake for reinforcements. Demoralised
Drake for reiniorcements. Demoraitsea
as the troops were. MoCall attempted to
mrmnnri tha hnatllAa ind hnM than, fin-
as the troops were. McCall attempted to
surround the hostile, and hold them un-
.11 T.r-1.-. .k-...l ., hi. a 1 .1 a n a
but when" "he" did" arrlv. the" hostiles
were all gone, having mutilated and
- rr' V. . ; :.. :: rr' " '
5nd ? '"'an,t.r?. an,.KOUr n2-rch.fg,.!l
for Harney lake, where we
were to
meet Caotaln Drake's command. We
passed over Steins mountain, crossed
erl 'Hg
sno7eonM&e?anrHarl
turning on the north side to the mouth
of .8el?le's river. Here we laid over on
Dlnen
-i. . th. .nih
or se.v.e . m w "7" on
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Drake nad passed the lakes on the
V ."ZT.- Cll
- -" "c "ur -
... tain. tnAiiht.tn Vi . . .nil.)..
WOO MlUb... . W V. . , . . VW.1IGI
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so named by Waymire and Miller and
aiterwara tne permanent site or camp
Harney, on July 8. Here we .pent the
Fourth of July. We then marched as
Bear valley, so named because of our
men killing a large cinnamon bear In
full view of the marching column. From
Bear valley we turned west and crossed
rh. annth f-.l, . TV, T. ,
thence over a high -rldxe to Pauline
neer, made himself a home that wa. to
be a refuge from the world.
Hardly had the camp been built when
the border warfare began. Soon Quan
trell raided Lawreftce.' but forgot Cam
eron's Bluff. There were a few seasons
of cruel border war, a few massacres,
and then civil conflict. Cameron en
listed on the side of the north. He
fought from beginning to 'end in the
war, earned a brigadier general's epau
lets and went back to Camp Ben Har
rison to live in his little border cabin
with a thatched roof, no plaster and
cold breeses.
Backs Greeley for President.
Cameron became a freighter across the
Kansas prairies for the gold and sliver
miners in Colorado. He became interest
ed in Kansas politics and soon drifted
out into national affairs. He had known
Chase, and through him Lincoln, Web
ster and Henry Clay. When he went
back to Washington there was another
set of men. Andrew Johnson was presi
dent. Grant was the looming .tar and
Horace Greeley the r.axt of the constel
lation. Then Camerpn came to know
Carl Bchurs of Missouri and others of
that famous group in the late day. of
the reconstruction, and their influence
-war- - . . .
Price. "Some of the missives have eome
from Caneda am. others from the mid-
die west but the bulk are from Mich-
Igan town."
Wort During tne Sixties--Personal Account of
- . - -
A . Am n .h. lin.a n,.. , T
dlan scouts were sent out to look for
hostilds and about noon one returned re.
porting that thy had been, fired upon
by the Snakes and one of their number
t,nu f nMia. a n .! n v... -
hasty dash upon the hostile about six
miles away, but he ground was so
rocky we could make no speed, and be-
- fore we reached their camp a heavy
smoke ahead was noticed and they were
burning camp and would be gone before
to our camp we prepared tor a long
chase and took their trail at daylight
next day. At noon we, reached the
south fork of John Day at the mouth of
Murderer s creek and were eating a,
hasty lunch when the Indians fired upon
us from a high bluff across the river,
andpack mules were turned over to
Company E and removed down stream,
while Company A was deployed a skir-
mlshers In the open . woods fronting
the Indians. . ,
. -,. ,
KulIetS Strike UllttS. . .
It soon hecam nnimnt that whilst
on. '
flrlnar . them, as . our. bullets Vould Te
.
derei". creek near the Indians. Thl.
??. lSf. . J"""! "
Columbia fell upon him. He romtly
three days, when we. lost the trail
. i. i ... i . i i
ihvur miu ivckb. mi riirfTiar. l avins
scattered. We moved from Pauline val
' ley down Crooked river to a point near
iS... il.- . 2-m -mm --t if s .4 L s J I .
iy uver ine jesiue mounuuii soumw&ra
- - i ' T.i 1 1 1
from where Camp Watson was soon
after established. Here we camped for
iy over ine 5iue mountain ouinwarnv
aDOU ,9 wlth scouting parties
scouring the country in an direction.
Purlng this time I was confined to my
ed front -the effect, of a fall off my
h , d th
hill tthe attack at Murderer1 creek.
was now October and wa crossed the
!"?u5t.aAn ho W?""1?1" Aouse her
we smcciea tne nu mr .pmn wsison
and left Company C with Captain Small
and Lieutenants Hand and,. Nobis to,
build and garrison the por
Retraced March. . t
.
Then Captain Currey retraced hie
.. - . . .
Si wW LUut.-
tner to Fort Walla Walla, Lieutenant
orders from General Alvord and directed
ranx, ana tnougn reguiany aeiauea oy
il ---U-i jT..,. Z.- ..,-.Tia 7. 7--.T-
X.IZI"'.."' r":-' ,"T. r:sr..j IVT"
i 7,t,i .7. i mmm.. h. .rii,.,ii.
ordinal.' "oS th, maVch'to Fort Dalle.
oUr&to0r?,Xt Cap!
?Cn Drake olaced him und? arrest and
lV?TJ?l?l-lV. 2'm,uJldtSJ'N1Ka
W J?Pi?in M f
.. v-" ' v wc...
prefAr,.d charKel ag.a)n.t n,m. colonel
Cfa.IW.-. 3 - J . J.
owuhhw niii--u v"m i
the courtmartlal which consisted of four
staff and five line officers. On account
af sickness Colonel Steinberer was un-
Hlo in An. Trr.m XVallo Walla tL.r.htf
vmg inn court wnn bui w me-ii
, , . . 1.1 i . I 1 . -
.atrlti. th. -mt.r rl t H ., .Ikf M.m.
.-..., ' J
perg. The charges set ud disobedience
i,. tk. nh..r.a ..t . i . - i . - i . -, .
?Srl' ..9.Hr.?t,.M?.,,5-,"obdl'nc
.. ua ..
a. -
Evidence Seemed Conclusive.
.w .
"w.m ov.ueu.- mu toijt ton-
elusive, the doctor was acquitted upon
. ti vatt. tn offlrer. vntln. fo
tle v tn.e "tarr T0. .
hlm na tle line against Returning to
wife we were there barely two week.
when I was ordered to Eugene City to
take charge of a recruiting rendezvous,
Captain Drake wae ordered to Balem.i
..j. P.-.. n.... D i.... . . I I
banv on similar dutv. This was the
made him a follower and friend a of
Greeley.
In 1872 Cameron was editor of the
Homestead Champion, the official Gree
ley organ. Cameron waa a certain quan
tity as a friend. His labor and his money
went into the Greeley campaign, and
when his idol came out defeated It Killed
Greeley and had impoverished Cameron.
The double blow was more than Came
ron could bear. He had plenty of time
for reflection, as he put it himself.
The question was whether to fight again
or to quit the world, and Cameron quit.
Thus, ln 1878 General Hugh Cameron,
Intimate of the nation's great figures
and distinguished soldier and editor, be
came a hermit
For some years Cameron lived a se
cluded kind of a life, tilling his little
farm or as much of It as he cared to
clear of the trees he had known since
the border days. Every four years, how
ever, be came forth regularly- and start
ed on a pedestrian pilgrimage to Wash
ington to see the inauguration ceremo
nies. The peripatetic follower of po
litical events walked there and back nine
times to presidential inaugurations, but
the most famous of his pilgrimages to
the shrine where he 'had known the de
parted great was on tile occasion of the
election of William A. Harris as sena
tor from Kansas.
Harris waa an ex-confederate officer
and a Democrat, and Cameron looked
m . - .
Uives rler Reasons
Although Mr. Price has more letter.
than he can answer, he ha. accepted
Invitations to aid in spreading the
movement over Ohio.
Am... nr.. ...a u .1.1,1.. . .1,.
Brothar. Jonathan ' while on his way
from San Francisco to take command
of the newly created department of th
Columbta, comprising the former dia
7-. u . !..,. ...
try would never have done service wor
thy of being; recorded In history. -"From
the earliest military, occupation of the
Oregon country. It had been the settled
policy of the-war department to send
troops Into the Indian country only in
Walla Walla, The Dalles and Fort Van.
couver for winter quarters. The ex -
cessive cost of transportation of sup-
flies across the Blue mountains from
the Columbia river, about 18 cents per
pound even in summer, had been urged
as the principal reason for auch a
Conditional 'Second Lieutenant Ivan
Applegate was reorultlng for the First
Oregon cavalry and Conditional Second
Lieutenant Stephen Rlgdon for th? First
Oregon infantry, both of whom were re-
porting to me. and I was clothing, feed-
porting to me. at
llltr linri Trillin-
ana ariuing their men.'
fipnernl Clrant txjam afnlihn'in1 llrktlns
General Lee in 1 .the Wllrinrnoam nm.
.,.nr- . r.iT
- - . . - - o
armed on Long Tom and Sluslaw. Secret
service men employed by the provost
marshal. Lieutenant Colonel English,
were reoortinar to m at mv ii.iirnr ..if-
rendevous. Fearing an open outbreak.
Av Sr-.r 5S.VJ' XZ?,"
rjrtth his two companies (B And F) of'
fif .r ' ,. In.antvii t a ..,. .... .
- ' disturbance-which might occur. Then
.'" nu. unur vu auuuifsi any
came the assassination of President!
.Ininnlrv When Uan Uii 1 !- T'tetrf a 1
ar -
. 1 .r.n n.i .. vM .a-..1.. -. y
i l--v. . "t ;.
! and rejoicing over the lassasaina-
tlon ? President Lincoln, thereby dts-
ir .
rhAPlnir rnr .Tuff
couragmg enlistments. -
.
Under Order.'
. TT. . i ' . .. .
-Under order, from nrovost maTshaJ.
Lieutenant Colonel ".English, I sent
Mulkey to Fort-Vancouver, where he re-
m.. 4i. ZMt't.7-7J:Z
--.- ...... ....,.. ,u fu-uu,
when he was .released with all other
civilian prisoner. b order, from the
wa department. . v
..Afii 81i.5aJl!8: 2r ?aI"..srrs!.
lasting nearly. three year, in the civil
courts, gave mm muon puDllo notoriety
; nd me much trouble and cost at a time
WllMl T Wftfl fit Ml Trl in AT to Crot - naur
tt civil lTF.r-"Congr... Anally
: came to my relief In so far as to end
vain Tha .mmrii WVa hmn Vrt..in
c" urove, a lew miies Deiow me post.
na was adjourned to Talnax on
f.P' river, a xew aays' marcn up
t1BWofbM1lffi
?" U'lsTflece.val'pf Sch
Lk ftnd on frl-ndly terms with
the Modocs. This move wa. Intended .to
Snat eam from KlamaVh lake'
).",-bV,a-1" "L""."1"."
VVULIIiatV lUUStlinenaa aIU bSSSVUKIl 111 IU
.,!, n.nt.in T.-ir hia i.r-in.a
."'? . i ...... .!.Avr . I, . I
Ve un thelt - country and accept the
reservation Tea their home
.lanlaln. reservation XS tnCir Home.
..-," Ir " . .! -J.
Tha Tbfrlr-a w.ra ...ml, nr h. Vlam-
...
i u. Ii U(I. nw.v DIltTlIlir. t .11. .l.l .
.th. .n- th r.n- tn .tc th. tr.ic
. " V.rir'l .",," ;".. m
ami
The
lat9ri ln whlch, wAeT fc of c
Oeneral Canby and Dr. Thomas were
assassinated, superintendent A. B.
Meacham scalped, and - Agent Dyer
,,j.j v .h.m , r. ,.-. t.v
Schonehin. Bharnaaty Jim and Scarface
Charley were hanged for this -crime and
th T other Modocs were sent in exile to
Sian Territory. Thus closed the Mo-
' ;...
' ft,. T -i r....-
" ' v'
The treaty over Cantain Snraeua with
xno ireaiy over, v-aptain oprsgue Wlin
most of his company was sent to con-
upon the election as a "divine Interposi-
tlon to heal the breach between Kansas
and Missouri." Cameron had never for-
gotten the days of border warfare, and
Imarlned them as fresh in the minds of
others. On this Journey he walked to
New York, traveled up and down Long
Island visiting old scenes, went then to
Washington- to see Harris take his seat
and turned back to Kansas by the route
he had taken In 1864. He went to St.
Loui. and followed the river to Kansas
City, going thence to Lawrence and
Camp Ben Harrison. -
in j s a a, wnen tne war witn spam be-
,n C'a mrn n r.U.. . T-rvr.-.!- ...a
tendered his services as a volunteer.
uruvf-mur i-ircuy ioiu nim ne nau uone
enough fighting for one life.
Famous as a Walker.'
Early in 1807 Camron appeared for utes." . -another
long migtioii. One chill win-L'wrniteVu up a couple of
ter morning the familiar figure of the times but the temperature isn't. .
hermit in hi. old blue army overcoat "Isn't whatt"
and hi. red tosrobban can. Ma lonir whia.
kers floating about hia venerable head.
appeared in the Kansas senate. - He was
escorted to the rostrum. Eighty year,
had told on the muscle of the man, but
not on the .biasing eye. or the remark
able voice. .
He told the senate that he wa. a bail t
to start on a pilgrimage to Albuquer-
?r 1 tho.hom8 ' or
J-UIIIUIIII TV. RHM III I. I IKS 11. ,i lljlt Hi
- "..iidii-m
Kansan that his state repented It. mixed. You all can't fool me. Di. ain'
rashness and recognised .Ross' -great turday night!" .
ervlce.- , ., .
Edmund G. Ross was a senator from. Tnf.,w'.arr' , orld-dispi.ted man
Kansas when President Andrew JohnT JKT'T H't.0
son's , impeachment trial was hPld In rr,J' f tJ)M?Farla?d' iCan-' ?l J" -congress.
Of the seven famous Repul- ?. kr ?. .mhiJ50riSt ?L? f ..TSj
licans who voted against impeachment. R?rtfir grumbled out that h. guessed
defeating the meaiure " by one voto there was one to be bad. The condun
Ross was the laWt"n the roll cLlVH1. ?' a ',0!.F nd 'bont .f"
vote turned the majority against im- ttlLVtl.1 B,wer " th6
peachment Kansas reviled and ostra- pon?!l h,??. , , ...
gKr.eff:LVorsrt.r-nhe irTnrSijR-K
?eVer8rrrecoveNr frolC.ri.,'.UhtaS2 ''ii the conductor. hiV
of the Kansas outrage. snarne. dy y9U expect to see us doing' this time
Cameron walked all the way to New SJ?5'r;yrBi1ln. a1d .do,n tn,.t;MerrI
Mexico. He .ought Ross out at hi. ,d,T, '-J'if Ti? . COTn to thlnlt of
home. The one time senator and gov- fl.,you 5?1 ,ookin much like merry
ernor. then a peor printer In a news- UtUe . yourself, old scout"
paper office, lay ill with softening of Ta.i. n.iii -. . ,
the brain. His fleeting mentality hard- Ht.tl2Jli-.e.h'irlr lyeeum man
Jy recalled Cameron or Kansas And the ?h? travels with his wife over the large
long Jonrney m the name Justice and I""r.'.,c?uIM ,,rS?,""' w,TO ned
old friendship wa. .In vain. Cameron own ln Missouri for a, nicely
had heard the impeachment trial and wTd room.
sided with Johnson? He was the one .W,hf n, n,frTivd f" reci,?3 nl" "tt,p
man In Kansas who told Ross at the .f . ,R,ndlor'- asked if the room
time that he had done right. " w.vrnC' MTed- a, ... " ...
There was litUe more for old Hurh ' TP. ' "aid the landlord. They ain't
Cameron. He went back to Camp bIS VS. 8tov.' up ,n th" toveplpe from
Harrison and his little thatchSf cot" tb r?ir f"n i , ,Pif x, I1 P th f?" f? ,
tage. Incendiaries had burned his cabin 9wm'ih", A 'kI'V L"bUI : Jel,hr-
and destroyed his library. He built a vfi"1 ther b flr In the .tove
new ..one and put up a ne.t In 1 tall
tree near the new cabin, which realty
ThhV settled doV .She ..0
pie away irom the world a. he had
lived.
Cameron', long hair and hi. strange
garb made him an object of wonder with
all save those who knew him. How haa
oame to leave his hair and beard un- ft gun weighing more than seven pound.
""MS ?riteZtcUt0 a'r burdensome , i gun purchased
the woman suffrage advocate. He re- Arthur Seran, of Wewokg. OkliL,
marxea to her that the Idea that men
should have more rights than women
was a relic of harhnrlam fn.,nri.
the difference in the length of the
balr !. m far a. he wu able to
see.
"And had
- . . .
i worn my nair lonr, I
should not new
nave inia coia," no
added. "I believe I shall let it
UT
women get their rights," said Idle,
Wlllard, and Cameron kept faith. - .:-
At one time th. beard waa, 40 Inches
Border. Day Experiences
- -r : " F.
! nt tRmmnrllnir fnn utnA nthnf
- supplies .from Rogue River (valley to
; the -post.-. Thl road passed J within
short distance of "I-ake Sublfln
- it wafl then called. Annie Gii
h.. Drnun in itmnanv wi tVn
iaKe Huoiimny ' os
ne. ana
fountain
- ' Oliver Applerate and others, VlBlted this
lake and claimed the honor of belngr the
first of their sex to dip their trends Into
its placid waters. The Huaiaaa have
since nanved it Crater lake, f
From his road buildlrJg Captain
a detachment of First Oregon! cavaly to
: establish and. occupy Camp Alvord, and
his company was among tne last of the
volunteers to quit the erilce, being
mustered out in June. 187. ,Our volun-
teer officers had discussed the Indian
problem around their campflres and In
. years, and were now all greed that in
no other way could the hostile be
subdued finally and former excepk- by
occupying their country permanently at
whatever cost. No settlement in their
country eeuld become; permanent so long
- as-tne settlers were jorcea i, 'T,"
kinrv vlnlir trt nma distant Dl&CC for
Mafftfv. --
. "
By the loss of General Wright and the
subsequent muster-out of Colonel Kauiy
-Z r,,.v irst ftrron
Colonel George B. Currey, Jirst Oregon
Infantry, became the ranklng-offlcer and,
h Command of the department .tne
decided to tet bur volunteer theory, of
- . .
M .v inf- .h tiArr t tn irtniRn emin-
"t k , ...ii
try- ana conquering 11 ay poBHja.u.
.! i i 1 fc. .!. k,eHi1 'nlnH.I 11 If-
1 ilurlncr hia hrlef enmmand 'Colonel Cur
, i ,..
" .. .. .. i.4 . .m v...
- l..mr" rantie. dt-
department to the extreme frontier, tit-
rectinr the establishment of camp, in
the Winter home, of the bostiles. , These
r.ihne were established so late in au-
- """P were.esiaousnea so w m u
tumn that they could not be broken up
or the troop, recalled, for the snow on
the Cascades and Blue mountain, had
1 ' - ?. "T-- LJ1
. uu; cm n otiuiuu.iiuiii w..
the, movement was fully . reported and
understood at Washington, D. C.
This bold move of Colonel Currey, for ,
wnloli ne was severely censurea oy
war department, and -resigned from the
service In consequence, was in fact the
"beginning of the end"' of our Indian
troubles. . ' "
Camps Alvord. Wright, Colfax, Cur
rey, Bruneau, Watson, Logan. Three
ever fell to the lot of the Oregon cav
alry. A. evidence that their camps
had been properly selected, namely, in
the Indians' winter homes. Chief Pau
lina, the terror of the whole frontier.
t-3SE
frA.mtVrVumabefore
Th rL.rf I? ib .tJ?;?n
9nJi?.t.m; .Ti!L JLVl JJl1"'
Condition end wefe fed by me from-gov
- . . .
ernment stores, uney never ioox me
war oath acaln. but after Chief Pau-
been killed by Howard Mappin
at Antelope valley, they gave up their
"A i j.' .!ai 11. a
Ufa n.1 v-nhnnf1-ra end set
VI. lag-wuituM. wiu w..v.v.
- ' ' . ' .
Mainour reservation, wnere'as inaian
annt. t fait fnr ax vein th;
these same In
dians whom I had fouxht for four years.
The success attending the vigorous
work of these small garrisons thrust
unexpectedly into the very, heart of
their winter homes not only demoral
ised the Indian, but cdmmanded the fa
vorable attention of ' General George
Crook who followed in command and
was charged with the took of subduing
the hostile Snakes and Plutes. Taking
up the work where we left off, he fol
lowed our plan of campaign and in a
few years strong settlements of hardy
pioneers clustered around each of those
small military camps, until, more than
go year, ago not a spot In all the vast
long and the hair 86. It was warm
and when he worked on the farm the
hermit braided It and stuffed his . hair
into his shirt.
n . i rm i i
Travel Episodes.
From the Chicago News.
A travel-stained man registered at a
Kansas hotel.
"Bathr said the clerk.
Yes," .aid the traveler.
Twenty minute, later the room tele
phone rang up the office and the trav-
.l.r M .if All '
"Say, was that bath" part of It a
;
'No: whvr
"Not a particle of hot water here."
"Well, that's too bad. I'll look after
Jt You'll have hot water in IS mln-
.i"n't "P-
"Well, that's too bad. It'll be ready
in 16 minutes."
. ."That remark begins to Sound remin
iscent I want my bath now or never."
Fifteen minute, later.
"No hot water yet Why don't you
dp as you promise?"
5"Why,. the porter has both furnaces
going, I think here', the porter. Til
send him up."
The porter appears, 'rue traveler ex-
rSS? coherent
,. ":.-.: ;"-. -III. - - -
wny. dubs. tm ail a xni yo- nam
'N-no," said the hotel proprietor, "you
ee, the parlor .tove ain't been put up
irlt e en II m. A, 1 . . i r
but t up" next w..:
Gnn With a lli.tory,
From the" Kansas City Timea ,
lhe modern sportsman who object, to
irom a negro fanner, 80 year. old. who
live, near that dace. The .un a...
L... 'J".",1. p'"?1 ,ln .un wae .
Sall ta hi. mafr In TexiJ "
a double-barreled eight ; Aue Vhotgun! -
leaiiu iliaue, WC1KIIIIIK J POUnfll, tniit
barrels, muui l
remarkable h stsrv. anil th. oii .
master, William Klmhrew. who was one
ma.,. It'lTTI. T I 1 . "
county, niade ma hy . hard fight wit
the gun against the Indian and Mexlna
marluder. la the old Texa. repubflfc
that winter's service exceeded any mat