Et Orctronmn Round-Up Souvenir Edition
Pendleton, OreytwySaturtlay, September 23, If 18
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These Cayuse Twins Have Been "Good Medicine"
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Ha-hots-mox-nu.x made a speech
to the people. He told them that ht
bad been far aav in the mountain:
so. ihey would have to steal
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Watcluni; their opportunity, they
saw one day the two girls stray in the
woods a short distance from the home
tepee, yuirkly securing their ponies
they rode down upon the maiden
each seized and swung one before him
on his horse and rode away as fas
them j vanced to renew the battle. But na- turn, rode into the Cayuse camp: Hi
lure ami in Intervened. A heavy raln!tok' hem that the Hannock medl
and hail storm began and Pelted the i "e men received a message
on the Little Mine'm hunting deer and their f'wt-footed ponies could
elk. He told them how when night
came he turned his cuitan loose to
graxe upon the tender bunchgrass
and then laid himself downto rest.
While thus lying, he said, there came
t.i h'm a vision that promised him
t'.:u? who were to bring good luck to
th" whole Iribe. j
Indians pay much attention to vis- j
carry them.
The abduction was soon discover
ed, a hasty council was called and 200
warriors, headed by Cougar Shirt, set
nut in pursuit of the young Bannocks.
NVar the summit of the Blue Moun
tains, with the Cayuses but a few-
miles behind, the young iBannockl
came across a party of their own
braves out hunting. The twins were
ioiis and Ha-hotp-mox-mox. knowing;
thin, took advantage of his know- j transferred to extra horses and. by
ledge. His storv impressed the Cav-' 11 sl"""'t cm hrn"K" the mountains,
uses and thev let the little girls live. ! ,hp Issuers were quickly left far be.
They have now grown to woman
hood, being now about 19 years old.
and more beautiful Indian maidens j in,1- cached the tribal home at the
never lived on the VmaUlla reserva-; hon( of ,he Snnkp rivT wlin the
stolen brutes. There was a joyous
, marriage ceremony and the Cavnse
hind.
The
Bannock chieftains, in due
tion.
warriors unmercifully. This rather '
from the llreat Spirit advising them
: tO fipht no hmrn mt to ,.mi i ..ntt tf
umpened their, ardor for the battle! the Cayuses for the twins by a liberal
and they fell apart again. j gift of ponies. The proposition was
Their hostilities having twice been : accented more through fear of the
stopped by natural causes, the super-1 wrath of the Great Spirit than a de
stitlotis Indians Interpreted the oc-jslre for gain.
curence to mean that the Great Splr-i The price having been fixed, the
It was displeased. Each tribe called j 'fad were burled in a common grave,
upon its medicine men to learn the and each tribe went Its way. The
pleasure of the Great Spirit. place of burial may still be seen, the
Before the Cayuse sorcers had ftn-j winds having so shifted the sands that
lshed making "medicine," a horseman ' many of the bones are bared.
was seen approaching from the Ban
nock camp. He held up one hand In
A Sign IYom Hoavon.
The Bannocks departed In peace but
toKen that his mission was friendly! the trail of the Cavuses was darkened
and. when given a like sign in re-, by angry clouds from which forked
lightning shot fiercely athwart the
sky. Thunder rolled ominously.
When the tribal encampment place
was reached the medicine men were
told to learn the meaning of the signs
from the heavens. After a time thev
reported that the Great Spirit was dis
pleased because the Cayuses had per
inltted the twins to live and that had
ordered that all future twins must be
killed at birth, or misfortune would
overtake the tribe again.
During the progress of the battle,
one band of Cayuses was driven so
far away that they pursued their way
across the Cnscades and settled In the
Willamette valley on, the Molalla
Prairie. They became known as the
Molallaa In after years but still speak
the language of the Cayuses.
The Other Twtns.
Once before beautiful twin sisters
grew to womanhood among the Cay
uses and they it was who brought up
on the tribe the displeasure of the
Great Spirit, according to the old le
gend. More than a hundred years ago it
was, before the paleface had come
into this country, when the moun
tains were full of elk and deer and
the rivers teemed with fish and the
native bunchgrass grew kneedeep on
the rolling hills, that Qul-a-mi-som-keen.
chief of the Cayuses, became
the father of twin- girls. As the years
passed these girl grew to maidenhood
and their beauty was so great that all
of the young warriors of their own
tribe sought to win them to wife and
there was fierce rivalry among them.
The fame of their beauty spread be
yond their own tribe. Over the coun
try of the Umatillas, the Walla Wal
las, the Taklmas and the Nei Perces
it was bruited and eventually it cross
ed the Blue Mountains and went be
yond the Grande Ronde valley to
where the fierce and warlike Ban
nocks, heredity foes of the Cayuses,
lived.
The Iwe4orn Bannocks.
There two young chieftains of the
Bannocks heard of the loveliness of
the Cayuse twins and were so im
pressed that they set out to see for
themselves these two maidens and.
perhanee, to win them or steal them
for themselves. .
They reached the land of the Cay
uses and visited that tribe under the
guise of .friendship. When they saw
the beautiful twins, daughters of the
head chief, they knew that their fame
had been justified. They determined
that they would take them back with
them and they soon saw that, to do
twins became the wives of the Ban
nock chiefs.
War Is Declared.
Returning to the Cayuse village
v ithiut Bannocks or maidens! Coti
c.ir Shirr? in accordance with Indian
ustom. registered a solemn vow to
"Gas Horse" is Now the Most
Numerous in Umatilla County
avenge the wrong. He dispatched ! on every side or him the auto
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It was not so many years ago when with the automobile as a pleasure car
the o!d automobile of Dr. G. W. Coleml used only for transportation,
was a curiosity rare to behold in Pen-1 The farmer has his little gas engine
dlcton. Today the Round-Up visitor; to ran his farm machinery.
nmners to the Walla Walla and Vma-
tilla tribes, bidding them come to
great council of war. Soon thereaf
ter a pow-wow was held in the Cay
use council lodge and the chiefs and
headmen of the neighboring tribes
agreed to form an alliance with the
Cayuses against the Bannocks.
The I'matillas and Walla Wallas re
turned to their homes to prepare for
the war. Meanwhile the Bannocks,
learning that the allied tribes had de
clared war against them. took, the
warpath at once. In two days one
thousand Bannock warriors, headed
by the great chief Pi-Egan, were
marching toward the Columbia river.
They swooped down upon the Cay
uses before the TJmatillas and Walla
Wallas had joined them. The Cay
uses, some 700 strong, feared not to
meet them and held their ground.
The two savage forces met where now
stands the town of Umatilla. A des
perate battle followed, the fighting
being hand-to-hand. Many were
killed on each side but the superior
numbers of the Bannocks were win
ning for them the advantage. Still
the Cayuses refused to give ground
and they would undoubtedly have
been exterminated had not a fierce
wind storm arisen suddenly, gather
ing up sand in such quantities that
the sun was obscured. Choking, both
sides retreated for several miles.
Nature Intervened.
When the wind abated and the 'air
had cleared of dust, both sides ad-
nmhile. Indeed it Is the
mode of transportation.
The combined harvester was a
great invention but the heavy ma
chines required too many horses to
a recent statement from the offlco' pull them about over the steel hills,
of Secretary of State Ben OlcottjA gas engine was attached to run the
shows that Umatilla county with an! machinery of the combine, still thre
automobile to every xg persons in the! was the question or keeping horses
county leads Oregon with one excep- and mules to- pull, the combine, and
tion. There are approximately 24,000
people In Umatilla county and of this
number 1500 have automobiles. Far
riers who a few years ago scoffed
at the Idea that they would ever aban
don the litle red wheeled buggy are
now driving large heavy powered
motor cars. Motheh, wife, sister anl
daughter as well as rather and broth
er are also versed in the art of ma
nipulating machines.
But the motor age did not stop
the tractor engines, nave been built.
The tractor is used not only to pull
the combine but is utilized to plow
with. Manufacturers are now making
a self propelled combine which does
away with both tractor engine and
horses. The self-propelled machine '
has been tried out and Is a success
The tractor can now ee used for plow- j
ing and general farm work. The cost;
of feeding stock all during the win-'
ter months Is- eliminated. No longer 1
is it nece.vary to stop the harvest for
rest a,
This year a carload of auto trucks
have been brought to Umatilla coun
ty for distribution among the farm
ers. This is the final step in the mo
tor age with its rotation to the far
mer. The truck will be utilized to
haul the grain from the field to the
warehouse and to do . the general
work of the wagon In a much quick
er time.
The gas engine is everywhere. The
hay Is hoisted to the top of the barn
by the little gas engine. The binder
can be run by a gas engine.
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