PACK EIGHT.
DAILY EASTT OBBGOMAS, PENDLETON, ORJEGOK, SATTRDAT. OCTOBER W. 1-
SKETCH OF SHAPLESS, UMftTILU SCOUT
The following Interesting sketch of
the life and career of "Whirlwind.
or Charley Shapless, the well known
Umatilla Indian, haa been written tor
the East Oregontan by EL 8. licCon
as, the pioneer newspaper man and
mining broker of Union. Mr. Mc
Oomas has been a fast friend of
Shapless for 48 years and writes from
personal knowledge of the facta of
history:
It was late In the fall of 18SI that
I first formed the acquaintance of
my old friend. Whirlwind, ex-chief of
the Cayuse tribe of Indians now re
siding on the Umatilla reservation.
The circumstances which lead to
life-long acquaintance was some
what romantic I had been on an -tenuve
search for the "Blue Bucket"
diggings in a section of country which
I now presume Is embraced in Harney
county. Ore. Our little parry of 2i
men had received rough treatment at
the hands of probably old Wlnnemuc
cV band of Bannocks, and as my
PC: tit n I had received a bullet wound
in my left leg and also a painful ar
row wound In my right hand.
Finding It necessary to seek medic
al aid after arriving .at Auburn, the
first mining camp In Baker county, I
managed to reach Umatilla landing
on the Columbia river where I knew
I had a cousin residing. After spend
ing a few days with him I was look
ing around for some means nf evl-rt.
ence when my cousin told me there j M,le8-
was a patch of good timber land
about four miles out on the Umatilla,
which he advised me to take by squat
ter's title.
;-t First Meeting.
He loaned me a tent, bedding and
cooking utensils and I move out to
what was afterward known as the
"Four Mile bouse." and pitched my
tent. That evening old Chief Homily
at the head of some IS stalwart In
dians, rode up to my camp and asked
mr what 1 was doing there. I told
them I was going to make this my
home. He informed me that this was
his place, that he owned "all the land
and all the tipso. (timber), and all
the grass and water," and that I
mum klatawa. or. in other words,
"pull my freight."
We camped together in peace that
Bight, and earl)- In the morning he
was ro-ir.fr.i .a Ly inothei- 1 1 :i,il .jf
Indians making the ml" 7.2 tn
icine the way I tell, then "Injun" be
all right"
He got some roots from his satchel
which I had Mrs. Bell prepare by
boiling down to a thick syrup. After
taking sufficient of this medicine he
went to bed. saying: "Now. pretty
soon "Injun" heap sleep, heap sweat.
then wake -up 'boat t o'clock.'
About t o'clock I woke him and found
him with great drops of sweat stand
ing on his forehead. He got up and
In two or three days was entirely re
covered.
I at once began to ply him with
questions about this wonderful medic
inal root, to ail wbich he was very ret
icent until one morning when I re
ceived a letter from Senator Mitch
ell informing me that the order issued
by Secretary Jones of the Indian de
partment had been modified so far as
it applied to old Indians. This was
glad tidings and brought great Joy to
Whirlwind, and he immediately went
to his satchel and presented me with
some of the medicinal root, which I
Immediately recognised, having seen
much of it grow in some portions of
Idaho.
The Indian name of Whirlwind Is
"6hapless." which means a wihrl
wind. Whirlwind was exalted to the
chieftancy of the Caynse tribe if I
remember correctly, soon after the
Bannock Indian campaign of 18TS. tn
which he took a very prominent part,
under direction of Captain Evan
1
one. I ana walked doi to the
1'n.n'Jlla river with my !lr-n rile.
ar.tf vr bathing my woun I-1 .eg
hn the- Indians all came -.luiru ..it
h'irstliciK. and among the tat'. ur:lv-
ts was Llrlwlnd. who co !.!
Jalrly c. cd English.
ilr giiii me what was the n.a'Ur
with my lig. and I told him Dial I
r.-d been fact by a Snake Ir.Ciai. He
Killing of Egan.
At the time that the Bannocks, un
der Egan swung around by way of
Canyon City and Long Creek and had
the fight on Butter Creek with Cap
tain "perry and his Pendleton volun
teers and killed Charlie Jewell, the
well known cltiien of Pendleton,
Whirlwind and his Umatilla Indian
captured the Bannock chief. Egan.
and Whirlwind turned the custody of
Egan over to Five Crows while he
and his Indians went tp capture other
members of Egan s party.
Soon after their departure Egan.
who had been shot throught the
right arm. drew a knife which he had
concealed in his leggings and Jumped
off his horse and tried to stab Five
Crows, whereupon Five Crows drew
his revolver and shot Egan in the
forehead, killing him instantly.
It so happened that while dictating
this statement to a friend. Whirlwind
and his wife, whose name is "Geese-llt-on-a-ridge."
came to see me and
this statement was read to him.
which he fully corroborated as the
true history of the capture and the
killing of Egan.
Fought tile "Klieop Eaters."
Whirlwind subsequently took some
It of his Umatilla Indians and went
up to Idaho and servi4 under Lieu-
IKm m u at the snake Ir.'ai, wnre tenant Farrow, where, after tht bat
' few ' ' ,-n 1 0UBht ,0 nv l""dltle of Vinegar Hill. he. br a l"er
v of tr.ro. s !ola mm til fixed
about 13 of them.
At this announcement he made a
long talk to the Indians who by their
grunt: and nods of appr: , seemed
to i twlrrte what he was nj'i He
!n told m ! was all rig.', ana
thai i; I would give the Indlins $2.00
ians. '
It is I
piece of strategy, succeeded in crfO-
turlns Warcheck. the renerade chie:
nf the tmnd nf Rannnrlr Indiana t
known as the "Sheap Eaters."
our purpose In this brief sketch I
to rive but a. brief synopsis of this old J
Indian I services which date baca
from the time of Colonel Steptoe's
a cord for cutting the wood that I was , great fight at Steptoe Butte, where
.welcome to stay and we Immediately
struck a bargain to this effect, and
V'hlrlwind and myself have been good
friends ever since.
u Wanted to Save His Hair.
On the evening of the 6th day of
January. 1802. 1 was surprised to se
Whirlwind dash up in front of my of
fice In Union, Ore., on a small, ?a4ed
cayune pony. After greeting me with
his "klahyam six." or how do you do?
he asked me if I had heard the news
that the Indians would have to cut
off their hair or. or before the first
day of March.
My first ImpresRion was that some
body had been trying to scare or
make sport of the old Indian. In the
meantime he had picked up a very,
rich piece of copper gold ore off one I
of the shelves of my cabinet of ores.
He anked me if that was good "money j
stone." and I told him it was very
rich In gold and copper.
He said: "I know where there Is a
whole mountain like that. Mac." 1
asked him bow much he would take
to show me a mountain of ore like
that. He said "you keep me from
getting cut off .hair and I show you."
I said all right. I'll do It. He said
make paper "wawa." I proceeded to
put our agreement In writing, and
after reading It to him. he said, let us
go and get our pictures taken, like
Lee Moorhouse make. Then we be
Just like twin brothers, t-hetj f-d what
I say; you do what jiou say.
We secured the services of an ar
tist and had our pictures taken.. which
is virtually his signature to the com
pact. After making this agreement I real
ised that I had an engagement ' to
meet parties In Muscatine. Iowa, with
whom I was interested )n .dredge min
ing on Snake river, and had promised
to be there on the 22nd dny of Feb
ruary, and realising that It would be ' each
impossible to correspond with author
ities in Washington and get answers
back and forth, I told Whirlwind
that he had better go back East with
me. and then he would not be at home
at "shearing time."
SliapleHH Goes Fast.
by the slaughter of 3500 of the In
dians' ponies, he brought the Colvllle
Indians under subjection.
Whirlwind li "I years old some
time this Comnlf January and from
the time he first Joined Colonel Step
toe, when a very young man. he has
erVtd under Colonel Olney. Major
Wright, Captain Evan Miles. General
O. O. Howard and Lieutenant E. S.
Farrow, and has gained the confi
dence of each of these distinguished
commanders, but in the Nex Perce
campaign, led by Chief Joseph, who
but a few days ago passed to the
"Happy Hunting Ground," Whirlwind
maintained a strict neutrality, saying
Chief Joseph is my cousin, and I can
not fight against him.
Whirlwind owns a valuable tract
of land on Thorn Hollow, about 16
miles from Pendleton, which he has
j leased to Senator Pierce, whom he
i says is an upright, honorable man.
t and his good friend.
I .. E. S. McCOMAS.
GORMAN AND LA MONT.
Both Are Ardent Knpporters of Parker
i. and Davis.
New Torki Oct. 2. There are two
noted democrats whose Influence Is
active and effective in accelerating
the campaign for Parker and Davis,
and yet they are seldom seen by the
every-day visitors to the national
democratic headquarters In this city.
These men are Senator Arthur P.
Gorman of Maryland and ex-Secretary
of War Daniel 8. Lament. Each has
assured Candidate Parker of his be
lief that the chances of democratic
success In the nation at the approach
ing election are fair and each is work
ing his own way to bring about such
success.
Gorman and Lament appreciate
others political qualities, and
to that extent they are friends. La
mont knows perhaps better than
any other man how much Gorman
did toward bringing about Cleve
land s election to the presidency in
1S84, and Senator Gorman knows just
how much Cleveland and the demo
cratic party owe to Lamont's tact and
We soon had an understanding to intuitive knowledge of human nature.
this effect and he came over to Ijnion
and we started east on the evening
of the l&th of February. Immediate
ly after our meeting In Muscatine, I
secured rooms in Iowa City, to attend
881.50 Given Away.
December 24 th. at t p. m., the Peo
ples Warehouse will give away abso
lutely free, no string on It at ail, 27
to the correspondence which I desired i gifts, total value 1881.60. Each per
to carry on with Generals Howard and i son buying a dollar's worth of mer
Mlles and Senator Mitchell of Ore- chandise of any kind whatsoever, will
on- ' .1 receive a ticket. For further partlcu
Jt was during our stay In Iowa 1 lars. see next Issue of .the local Ja-
uty mat nirmina contracted a very pers.
vere coia. ana one morning I found
him with a very high fever and very
severe cough and could not Induce
kirn to eat any breakfast. I told him
I would go lor a doctor. This seemed
to alarm htm very much, and he said:
"No. no. Mack; white man doctor kill
Indian pretty quick. I got some roots
in my satchel, if Mrs. bell make meo-
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